#TaliaLavin #ONA #NineAngles

"Earlier this week, a Waukesha, Wisconsin, teenager and devotee of the Order of the Nine Angles, or ONA, was charged with murdering his mother and stepfather and plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump, in order to further the Order’s goals of a world plunged into chaotic violence. 'Jewish occupied governments must fall. The white race cannot survive unless America collapses,' the 17-year-old, Nikita Casap, wrote in a manifesto. 'Huge amounts of violence will be required.'

He called himself a 'niner' (a Nine Angles devotee) and encouraged his imitators to read a variety of extremist books. In doing so, Casap drew on nearly a century of blood-drenched legacy in his pairing of violent death with a potent dose of magical thinking."

https://newrepublic.com/article/193987/neo-nazis-occult-order-nine-angles-wisconsin-parent-killing

#ChristianNationalism #Politics #USPol
#TaliaLavin

Crucial reading so we can understand, and defend against, what Christian Nationals are doing. It's been a goal for over 50 years.
The second they blended religion in to US the political arena, the clock began ticking towards today.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/author-interview-talia-lavin-christian-nationalism-authoritarianism

#survival #TaliaLavin

"It’s the deepest winter I can remember, and I’m not talking about a few light dustings of snow, which are welcome. It’s the completion, yesterday, of the slow-rolling coup that began four years ago, and which was never sufficiently addressed, just left to swell to its ugly completion. In these weeks away from my work I have considered abandoning writing about this polity. After two books and so much staring into dark places, of extending the soredia of my understanding deep into minds where darkness wells and cruelty seeps and justification is vivid and complete—it’s hard not to contemplate laying down that burden. Considering the previous decade and more of my life futile, and walking away. But you can’t walk away from where you’ve grown, and the substrate that sustained you. Such a severing at the root would be fatal."

https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich/archive/on-moss-rock-lichen-and-survival/

Listening to several podcast episodes about Talia Lavin's new book Wild Faith which I pre-ordered and am excited about. It's bizarre to see the private innards of my family-of-origin's gross gender and power dynamics on display in her examination of evangelical family life

#TaliaLavin #AmReading #WildFaith #Podcast

#TaliaLavin from The Sword and the Sandwich, reminds us, as she reads and re reads books on Russian Civil War, and American Civil War, for her own historical fiction writing-
“…most of all, it’s a reinforcement of a lesson I already knew, but which needed to be triple-underlined in fire: Civil war is worth avoiding, if you can.”

Can we please figure out our shit without needing to resort to bloody, devastating, deathly, Civil War people? #CivilWar 💙❤️

Pls read. #TaliaLavin

https://open.substack.com/pub/theswordandthesandwich/p/autocracy-now?r=1j96e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#RollingstoneMagazine

The #BuffaloShooter Isn't a 'Lone Wolf.' He's a #MainstreamRepublican

by #TaliaLavin

The #rightwing #extremists who control the modern #GOP are all gripped by a racist delusion. The shooter is just the latest to act on it

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/buffalo-shooter-white-supremacist-great-replacement-donald-trump-1353509/