Watch Twitch.TV/QueerSatanic (Fridays @ 8 p.m. Pacific / 0300 GMT) Good news for TST in Boston invocation appeal, updates on TST HQ arrests, and Spencer Sunshine’s book release 1. [INFORMED DISSENT] Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston The First Circuit Court of Appeals is addressing The Satanic Temple’s appeal of TST’s failure at the federal district […]

This is excerpted from Spencer Sunshine’s book Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. It documents how Siege—the “bible” of aspiring neo-Nazi terrorists like the Atomwaffen Division—was created and disseminated. In particular, the second half deals with the role played by four 1980s and ‘90s countercultural figures: Boyd Rice, Adam Parfrey, Michael Moynihan, and Nikolas Schreck, who in turn collected a group of collaborators which Sunshine calls the “Abraxas Circle.” The end of the book includes a section about the influence of the Abraxas Circle on TST—especially the infamous 2003 “Might is Right” show.

Watch Twitch.TV/QueerSatanic (Fridays @ 8 p.m. Pacific / 0300 GMT) 1. “The Satanic Temple to place ministers in Oklahoma schools if SB 36 becomes law” We talked about this recently in regards to a similar chaplain bill in Florida where Gov. Ron DeSantis picked a fight with The Satanic Temple, specifying “no Satanists” for the […]

TST’s second lawsuit against four former members in Washington State rolls on in King County superior court. Now, as we were able to happily announce in January, The Satanic Temple is no longer suing us in federal court! Apparently TST decided that the Ninth Circuit requiring them to actually specify what and how they claimed […]

UPDATE: AS OF FEB. 5, 2024, TST IS INDEED PURSUING THEIR STATE COURT CASE, BUT THEY HAVE DROPPED THE DEFAMATION CLAIM ENTIRELY, MAKING THEIR NEARLY FOUR-YEAR FEDERAL SLAPP CASE AGAINST US A COMPLETE LOSS

TST started two new lawsuits in 2023, but they lost eight existing cases and seem to have completely abandoned two others Yet again, the legal performance of The Satanic Temple was disappointing and incompetent at best, but just as likely the worse conclusion is true: it was a needless waste of much-needed resources by attention-seeking […]

TST isn’t engaging in “successful trolling” or undermining Dominionists; they are actively fueling a culture war that benefits both reactionaries and corporate Satanists Christmas is a booming season for The Satanic Temple. Submitting winter holiday displays to counter Christian nativity scenes is a tradition for the Temple that goes all the way back to the […]

Federal appellate court affirms that failed cyberpiracy accusations were bogus but grants TST another chance to make defamation claim against four former members Jeremy Roller, attorney for the Defendants, told Law360: My clients are delighted that the Ninth Circuit affirmed Judge Jones’ dismissal of TST’s unfounded Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act claim. While we are disappointed […]

TST’s failure in The Satanic Temple Inc. vs Rokita highlights how ill-equipped and deeply unserious the Temple’s owners are about confronting the Christian right, especially in a post-Dobbs world In late September 2022, TST filed two nearly identical federal lawsuits in Idaho and Indiana, once again in an ostensible attempt to establish a religious exemption […]

In early October, The Atlantic‘s staff writer Helen Lewis finally published a story about the fallout from Doug Misicko a.k.a. “Lucien Greaves” taking a chummy photo with his friend the “anti-woke” sex pest and disgraced atheist “firebrand” David Silverman, most notable now for his anti-trans views. Unfortunately, Lewis is basically your bog-standard TERF Island journalist, […]