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Queer Satanic is dead; long live Queer Satanic

It’s official and it’s final: We won. If The Satanic Temple were going to appeal its loss against the defendants it called “Queer Satanic”, the notice of appeal was due in King County Superior Court by 4:30 p.m. today. We have received no electronic notice of a filing, so we are very pleased to say […]

October 24, 2024

edited billboard that says "will the last person leaving satanism turn out the lights?"

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Lawsuits, Lawyers Are Expensive

Hell yes: Washington state court dismisses latest lawsuit by Satanic Temple targeting former members

King County judge determines TST “has no rights to or interest” to Facebook memes page the national for-profit Satanic corporation has been suing to get since 2020 Seattle, Wash. – After almost four and a half years, The Satanic Temple’s infernal litigation against four former members may finally be coming to end. On Tuesday, a […]

September 24, 2024

Satanic Antifascism logo and variants

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Satanic Temple’s lawsuit against Chicago implodes after minister splits org

Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by TST owner “Lucien Greaves” wrecks another legal case, this time over invocations at Chicago City Council A day before a status hearing was set to go before a federal judge for a religious discrimination lawsuit by The Satanic Temple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge […]

July 30, 2024

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Is it dead-naming to refer to “Lucien Greaves” as “Doug Misicko”?

No, it is not. Sometimes well-meaning people ask this question sincerely, but in practice, it usually feels like people raise and deploy the specter of dead-naming as a way to distract from all of the other criticisms of The Satanic Temple and its owners that are completely indefensible. As even these people acknowledge, neither of […]

July 23, 2024

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The Satanic Panic is still alive in Idaho

Satanism is opposed child abuse, but local cops in Idaho want people to think the exact opposite Earlier this week, an Idaho county sheriff’s office published a press release to Facebook about the conclusion of a criminal investigation and prosecution of a 22-year-old man. The man pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of […]

June 26, 2024

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Why You Should (Not) Become a Satanist

(A Case Against) Identifying with Satanism in the Modern World Zine: [Pages in Order][Two-per-page, print front-and-back, flip-on-short-edge] First, let’s make sure there’s no misunderstanding. Most Satanists do not worship or even believe in a literal, supernatural devil. It is absolutely not the norm for Satanists to abuse or ritually harm children or animals; if anything, […]

June 11, 2024

Hail Lucifer The Light Bringer: Archbudzar illustration of blue Baphomet figure with top surgery scars and wings wears a punk battle vest with trans pride flag, trans symbol, and satanic antifascism patches. Floating above one hand is “Queer Ultraviolence” the Bash Back! anthology book while floating above the other hand is a lit Molotov cocktail with a leviathan cross / sulfur symbol on it. Fire also comes from the top of Baphomet’s head like the traditional famous “Sabbatic Goat” illustration

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The Satanic Temple does not care about its members

TST’s own court filings show it is not interested in any structural reform or protections for people in the org, only protecting the Temple’s owners The Satanic Temple has been suing Newsweek since February 2022 over a critical article the magazine published in October 2021 that focused on TST’s SLAPP action against the four of […]

June 6, 2024

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The New Heretics Stream (5/31/24)

Watch Twitch.TV/QueerSatanic(8 p.m. Pacific Fridays / 0300 GMT Saturdays) [INFORMED DISSENT] The Satanic Temple Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC TST’s own evidence reveals how poor its reaction to sexual abuse claims are The Satanic Temple has been suing Newsweek since 2022 over a critical article the magazine published in October 2021 focusing on TST’s SLAPP […]

May 31, 2024

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Lawsuits, The New Heretics

How The Satanic Temple is just like the Catholic Church

Court filings reveal not only does TST pay to get positive news coverage to distract from the bad, it used the same PR guy the Church did — for exactly what you think Background: The Satanic Temple started suing four former members of its Washington State chapter in April 2020, accusing us of, among other […]

May 28, 2024

"corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture"

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The Satanic Temple and its Eternal Nobodies

TST members and local groups begin another mass departure as Lucien Greaves clarifies once again that the “freedom to offend” does not include him as a target 5/31/24: Article updated from original publish date as more information became available and more TST groups and prominent figures publicly exited the org. Additional events after May 31 […]

May 17, 2024

Doug Misicko aka Lucien Greaves on his phone typing with a tweet by him that says “Did the FB chatter not look shittening to you? Certainly looks that way to me.”

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