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1. [INFORMED DISSENT] Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Todd Rokita (“TST answers state in Indiana abortion-ban appeal”)
2. [INFORMED DISSENT] The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. Young et al (“Ann Doe II” abortion-ban challenge in Texas ends)
3. [INFORMED DISSENT] The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Shelby County Board of Education (“FFRF lawsuit against Kentucky school district appears headed for settlement”)
4. [WE LIVE IN HELL] Update to accused anti-Satanist bomber (“Oklahoma man accused in pipe bomb attack of TST’s Salem HQ pleads not guilty”)
5. [SNAKE OIL] Secular org to throw in support for TST’s children’s club (“The Satanic Temple’s After School Satan Club Partners with Secular Student Alliance”)
6. [PERMANENT SHITTENING] Ongoing recap of TST’s Memegate 2024 schism (“TST DFW 2.0 votes to leave, Elder Mahakla resigns, Dex/Chalice make a fake announcement”)
7. [PERMANENT SHITTENING] Guest interview with ex-TST Minister (“Astra of House of Heretics in Washington State explains what “)

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[INFORMED DISSENT] Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Todd Rokita

TST answers state in Indiana abortion-ban appeal

In the Seventh Circuit, The Satanic Temple’s business lawyer W. James MacNaughton continues to try to find compelling arguments that can reverse TST’s loss at federal district court.

Why did The Satanic Temple lose its Indiana abortion lawsuit?

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[INFORMED DISSENT] The Satanic Temple, Inc., et al v. Young et al

“Ann Doe II” abortion-ban challenge in Texas ends

The Temple’s state-level abortion case appears to have ended after no activity in two years.

As of December 2023, we had confirmed there was no further action on the docket since a June 2022 filing about an attorney vacation. However, this week, it seems like the Travis County District Court finally closed the book on it entirely.

…Or that’s what we would say if it were true.

Now, there still has been no movement in the case in more than two years, but nothing final has actually happened here.

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[INFORMED DISSENT] The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Shelby County Board of Education

FFRF lawsuit against Kentucky school district appears headed for settlement

School District is asking for yet another extension, but this time “parties are confident this matter will be resolved but need additional time to finalize resolution.”

It looks like this case will end on terms that are favorable for The Satanic Temple — which in one way does prove that their strategy can work. On the other hand, it’s yet more evidence that for all of the shortcomings of TST’s strategy to fundamentally challenge Christian Nationalism, what’s really to blame for their court failures is not that they’re Satanists getting mistreated by corrupt judges everywhere but that The Satanic Temple is really bad at court cases.

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[WE LIVE IN HELL] Update to accused anti-Satanist bomber

Oklahoma man accused in pipe bomb attack of TST’s Salem HQ pleads not guilty

Not much new news here. Guy has pleads “not guilty” as expected, is unable to afford counsel so one is getting appointed, and Initial Status Conference set for 7/30/2024.

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[SNAKE OIL] Secular org to throw in support for TST’s children’s club

The Satanic Temple’s After School Satan Club Partners with Secular Student Alliance

“June Everett” is openly friendly with Satanic Colorado but also still serving as TST spokesperson for ASS clubs; however, this is possibly because the Temple’s press release is quoting SSA’s press release from May 23, while Satanic Colorado was still part of TST.

Things are so murky within the Temple at the moment that it’s really hard to get a read on who is still left that has any official positions anymore outside of the small circle that is completely and unendingly sycophantic.

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[PERMANENT SHITTENING] Ongoing recap of TST’s Memegate 2024 schism

TST DFW 2.0 votes to leave, Elder Mahakla resigns, Dex/Chalice make a fake announcement

Permanent Shittening is Permanent.

First, “Citlali Soona” who had already announced on June 6 that the Satanists of Color Coalition had disbanded following its coordinator (and one of its few remaining members) getting summarily “defrocked” as a TST minister. A few days later, the whole Dallas-Fort Worth group as a whole voted to leave.

June 9th, 2024

Ave,

I write to report that a majority of our congregants have voted as a congregation to leave TST’s Society of Congregations. As of the date of this letter, we will officially be leaving the Society of Congregations. Tim and I called a vote and cast our ballot as congregants, as is our right to do so.

I have been honored to serve as a congregation leader since 2020. On Wednesday, June 5th, not only were we booted from our own facebook groups, but also banned. These seem like really drastic measures and affected the rest of the congregation and the community in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, which EM and their team had no consideration over. This to me speaks volumes that the goal to remove us as leadership was not to improve the organization, but rather a mild attempt at a a cheesy political move mentioned by Machiavelli.

All social media handles have already been controlled by Rachel. It would also be appreciated if you could answer some of the questions some of the remaining minsters of DFW have. We will be removing people in the next few days while they decide to join another congregation. Never mind because we got booted from the other facebook group too.

It is done. We are officially out as a congregation from SoC of the date of this letter, 6/9(nice)/2024. Any attempts to represent TST-DFW as a congregation do not abide by the SoC official transformation documents.

Regards,

Citlali Soona
Former Coordinator of SoCC
Former Minister of Satan
Former Congregation Leader of TST-DFW
Former ROC for the Americas Region
Former TST Congregant and Member

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pyR7MO_f8nJn4lKQEF7mp8pO0vI-DDl_hAx7fCOS6Ns/edit?usp=sharing

as Reddit u/sunandmoonstars

The same day (June 9), the person hand-picked to step up and be liaison between TST’s owners and its “Ministry” program announced that he wasn’t willing to do that, either.

Might as well post publically too:

This is a letter to Lucien, the EM team, and anyone and everyone from the greater worldwide TST community. And isn’t that a trip to be able to say that it is worldwide? Which makes this all the much harder to write and all the more necessary.

Obviously, the recent events and the turmoil that it has created have been incredibly stressful, destabilizing, scary, and even maddening for so many of us. There are some fairly different perceptions of what has happened and what IS happening, and I suppose I am more looking at the path ahead…of what could happen, primarily because of the way things are being set up. And then forecasting what the future TST will look like due to the way they are being set up and the way this is all unfolding. Unfortunately, I have experienced this kind of thing before, and it’s all too familiar and predictable.

This points to one key issue I want to address that I do not think is being discussed enough, or maybe even at all: intent vs impact. A particular minister taking screenshots (fucking hell do I detest that term now!) of private minister conversations, which they thought were detrimental to the greater community, then sharing it with EM could possibly be seen as a cautionary and protective measure. Some would also view it as quite unsavory since nobody likes a narc. But that action COULD be seen as something done with a debatably “good” intention. I am being generous here. But then sharing those same screenshots of private conversations, from supposedly secure platforms, in our formerly private and secure Minister Slack, without obscuring any names or identifying pictures, during an EXCEPTIONALLY volatile time where our minister community was already incredibly scared, distrustful, with many entirely in the dark…the IMPACT of that action, regardless of intent, was incredibly harmful. The term adding fuel to a fire just could not be more appropriate here. It completely wrecked whatever trust was left. The level of fear increased drastically. I did not think things could get that much worse, but boy was I wrong!

It boggles my mind that Lilin Levin can’t admit and own the impact that had on our already fragile community. That lack of awareness and humility has also created some negative impacts, and that should be acknowledged as well.

Then let’s add in both Lilin’s, and especially Tommy’s behavior and “communication skills” on said Slack. For sure I can say that Tommy has bullied, accused, name called, and just outright and unmistakably acted in ways that were utterly inappropriate as a minister and undoubtedly breaking our minister code of conduct. All the while other ministers are getting booted for similar and even not as harmful behaviour. Let’s set aside the intentions behind EM for allowing that to happen, but the impact that had just continued to retraumatize us all, continuing to destabilize and also solidifying the perception that Lucien’s movie night inner circle is getting more than special treatment. The fear of saying something “wrong” on our Slack, for fear of getting booted from Ministry, really started to set in.

Then, in maybe an incredible stroke of luck, a 10-day silent meditation retreat that I had scheduled six months ago took me away from this drama. I foolishly thought, or maybe hoped, that there was no way this could all get worse. Ha!

I just came out of retreat to find out Lucien created a Ministry Liaison team of his inner circle movie night friends. The impact of this has now PROVED without a doubt that LG is rewarding poor behavior to his buddies. Since I was previously asked to be the EM Liaison and a member of OrdCo, this all seemed very inappropriate, especially since some of these people aren’t even ministers! And then to give this team Admin access to Slack, especially the NONministers is another significant violation of trust and incredibly inappropriate and unacceptable. This is a Minister Slack, period. No one else admitted, full stop. There is no doubt LG sending his hit squad in to “clean up Slack” was just a thinly veiled mission to gather more screenshots, with the intention of booting more ministers, the ones that spoke negatively of EM, but even ones that simply, and in pretty benign ways, questioned what was going on. Which we just saw with the latest batch of “defrockings”.

The Ministry Slack is so quiet now, and in the little bit of catching up that I have done, ministers have straight out stated that they are afraid to say anything for fear of being fired, booted, or whatever we want to call it. What an impact this all has had on the people who oversee the whole community. There is so much continual trauma and painful suffering. That’s not an environment that I want to be in. I have done enough inner work that one of my most significant intentions in life is to make sure I don’t knowingly put myself in situations that are uncomfortable. And TST Ministry, hell, probably TST as a whole right now, feels very UNcomfortable for me.

I knew I would be wrestling with my relationship to this whole thing while on retreat, and it was really the first or second day that I had a big Captain Obvious inner question ringing through my head: Do I want more stress in my life, or less? It was not a hard choice to make, at all.

But beyond that, and thinking about how this continued harmful impact will potentially affect TST, that is an even bigger thing that I refuse to let myself endure.This LG inner circle Ministry Liaison team, Erin described to me as the one that will be helping rebuild TST Ministry. Well, the fact that some of the members, I’d say 5 conservatively, of this new team, are some of the most inflammatory and disruptive people in all of TST, and in my eyes, also some of the most unhealthy and unskillful as well. TST most certainly needs to get rebuilt, strengthened, and I think most importantly, HEALED. AND that will not be possible with this unqualified team, especially since Tommy and Lilin are the two who have caused some of the most significant harm.

This is another reason I just cannot have anything to do with TST now: if I stayed and tried to help, the perception of the community of ministers would be that I endorsed this team, and that’s something I could not live with. Stated clearly, I DO NOT approve of this Ministry Liaison Team and refuse to lower myself to work with them.

With all this in mind, I quit. I quit it all. Please remove me from all TST spaces and take down and delete all the services I have led and been a part of on TST TV and in the Ministry Archives. I cannot be associated with TST and its current path, especially with the ones steering and guiding the ship.

A warning to EM, you will NOT be able to rebuild something healthy and sustainable with the team you have assembled and the way you’ve been making decisions. Please reconsider, reevaluate, and take your time getting the right people—quality people with emotional intelligence and people skills, ones who have the best interest of TST in mind, not LG or whatever BS agenda they themselves may be holding. I truly hope you can pull out of this, and I wish you the best of luck.

I’m out.

Elder Mahakala

His Facebook profile lists out all his previous titles:

• Facilitator at TST Sober Faction
• Minister of Satan at The Satanic Temple Southern California
• Minister of Satan at Satanic Ministry
• Ordination Council at Satanic Ministry
• Executive Ministry Liaison at The Satanic Temple

And then Dex Desjardins and Chalice Blythe had announced they would talk about their time in The Satanic Temple, and instead did what should be expected of them: Desjardins and Blythe mocked and minimized previous people who had used Medium as an accessible place to share their own stories and be heard.

Because they are awful people who facilitated years of abuse and awful behavior up until they were personally insulted.

They will try to have lives after this and pretend that TST and its worst elements have nothing to do with them, but no one should ever let them forget what they did for years in that horrible organization, and they should find no peace anywhere.

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[PERMANENT SHITTENING] Guest interview with ex-TST Minister

Astra of House of Heretics in Washington State explains why they left TST WA

Our conversation with another former member of The Satanic Temple’s Washington Chapter, this one who arrived after 2020 and did actually split off as part of forming a local satanic group without ties to Salem.

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