Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #economicelites, aggregated by home.social.
“'God chose Ethan for a reason,' one South Carolina mother told the Independent this February after her son was paralyzed by measles encephalitis.
'If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine,' she said, citing the misleading scare line publicly shared by Kennedy and Trump that children today receive too many shots."
#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/9
"The people dragging America’s public health system toward a new dark age are not demonic. Rather, they are morally bankrupt and high on the supply of theocratic self-righteousness, with no regard to how their words and actions affect real people’s wellbeing.
Christian nationalist language gives calculated government neglect the sheen of providence."
#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/8
"Public health’s use of science in the collective interest of all races, faiths and genders clashes with their hierarchical moral order, in which Christians are seen as more virtuous and divinely protected than others."
#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/6
"Sociologists Joseph Baker, Stephen Perry and Andrew Whitehead, who have studied the movement, write that because science provides an 'alternative source of moral authority beyond divine revelation', Christian nationalists perceive institutional science 'as a threat to the supremacy of Christianity'."
#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/5
“'What we’re seeing in the US today is the attempt to use religion and Christian nationalism to erode a scientifically based social contract of trust between government and the people, and replace it with a more authoritarian relationship,' adds [Gary] Gunderson [Baptist minister and professor of public health science at Wake Forest University School of Medicine]."
#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/4
"Terms such as 'spiritual warfare' and ''spiritual attack', [Savannah] Tate says, are central to the movement’s vocabulary – part of a binary, warcentric and mystical rhetoric leveraging fear and disinformation to keep people on their toes against enemies both tangible and spiritual."
#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/3
It's not accidental that RFKJr — the lifelong philander with multiple marriages and affairs — goes around babbling about “spiritual malaise,” "spiritual warfare,” “malevolent forces,” and the “sacred ritual” of family dinner time. In talking this way, he's seeding in public discourse — about health matters — Christian nationalist memes.
#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/2
Adrienne Matei notes what we sometimes miss about RFKJr's attack on public health, science, and research:
"From prescribing spiritual warfare to demonizing health experts, RFK Jr’s health empire has become a dangerous vehicle for a Christian nationalist worldview."
#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/1
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/03/christofascism-rfk-jr-health
"Trump is who he is. He can't win the war. A recession is coming. The bubble seems ready to burst.
The president's illegal and unpopular war against Iran is driving up the cost of gas so much that it seems all but certain that we're going to experience an inflationary recession."
~ John Stoehr
#MayDay #EconomicElites #billionaires #workers #economy #Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #BrentCrude #recession #inflation
/8
https://www.editorialboard.com/trump-is-who-he-is-he-cant-win-the-war-a-recession-is-coming/
"The system we have today is awash in corruption, and absolutely everyone knows it. None of this can be solved through optimistic messaging and can-do spirit. We might as well start thinking about what we replace it with, because the center, as-is, cannot hold much longer."
~ David Karpf
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/18
https://davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/on-institutional-legitimacy-and-phantom-limbs
"Some people have never gotten over it—and six of those people sit on the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts has made it his lifelong crusade to oppose the Voting Rights Act and its democratization of political power. ...
On Wednesday, Roberts and his cabal of ruling Republicans finally completed their quest to suppress the strength of the emerging non-white majority in this country."
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/17
"[The Voting Rights Act] is the law that freed this country from apartheid. ...
The VRA did not remove white supremacy from politics; it opened a door, and Black political power flooded into the whites-only space of the US government. … The story is similar for women.
~ Elie Mystal
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/16
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/supreme-court-demolishes-voting-rights-act/
"In the summer of 2016, during the presidential campaign season, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton warned us about the Supreme Court and the damage that electing Donald Trump would do if he had the chance to nominate SCOTUS justices, and that is exactly what has happened."
~ Pamela Hilliard Owens
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/15
https://www.wearespeaking.net/p/the-death-of-the-1965-voting-rights
"I am no preacher, but what I have learned in my Baptist Church about the Old Testament prophets makes me suspect that God may not look very favorably on being asked to bless a government that is busy slamming its doors to refugees and taking food out of the mouths of hungry people while its corrupt leaders manipulate the system to enrich themselves."
~ Svante Myrick
#WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #Hegseth #Trump #EconomicElites
/4
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5847719-religious-nationalists-trump-america/
"The United States faces a critical decision. If it chooses to escalate the war on Iran, the risk of a global depression rises. The future appears to be grim. At this time, there is an absence of a functioning international mechanism through which countries can solve the current crises cooperatively."
~ Chris Hedges
#MayDay #EconomicElites #billionaires #workers #economy #Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #BrentCrude
/7
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-iran-war-is-accelerating
"Right-wing donors have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over decades to make this happen, attempting to buy America’s entire court system to accomplish their goal. The six right-wing justices sitting on the bench are bought and paid for. They might have the title of Justice, but they’re political operatives first and foremost."
~ Melissa Ryan
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/14
"The map of American politics is about to change more dramatically than at any time since Reconstruction.
This week’s Supreme Court’s decision, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, has unleashed a re-gerrymandering of the House that will eventually extend to state and local political districts across the country."
~ David Kurtz
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/13
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/what-sam-alito-has-wrought-on-the
"Now, the price at the pump has once again spiked to its highest level since the war began, while experts continue to warn that Americans will see elevated energy prices well beyond the summer months."
#MayDay #EconomicElites #billionaires #workers #economy #Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #BrentCrude
/6
"As recently as last week, figures on Fox News and Fox Business pushed the Trump administration’s narrative that gas prices have peaked, could start to decline in time for the summer "driving season, or have stabilized.
~ Allison Fisher
#MayDay #EconomicElites #billionaires #workers #economy #Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #BrentCrude
/5
"It is as cold and cruel as Jim Clark’s determination to defend Jim Crow, even when dressed up in the legalese of James Crow, Esquire."
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/12
"This is the voting rights agenda of America’s authoritarian movement: restrict access to the ballot and rig elections so that reactionary forces can cling to power. It is this long-term strategy that reassures Republicans they can stand by Trump’s most unpopular policies and immoral actions without having to face electoral consequences."
~ William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption
/12
https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/why-authoritarians-fear-moral-resistance
"During the MAGA era we have seen a shameful hesitancy among political elites, the media, and leaders in academia and the business community to confront the sheer audacity of a full-frontal assault on the basic tenets that have allowed our nation to continue its path toward a more just and inclusive polity."
~ Elliot Kirschner
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans #Louisiana
/11
https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-civil-rights-movement
"Gov. Jeff Landry (R) of Louisiana declared a sham state of emergency to suspend an in-process primary so that the Louisiana legislature could redraw congressional boundaries in light of the Supreme Court opinion in Callais v. Louisiana."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans #Louisiana
/10
"Black people and other minority groups are offered fewer protections and less visible political representation. ...
We are living in an era of unprecedented concentration of wealth and power, an era of extraordinary democratic backsliding."
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/9
"…which in turn increased Black economic power by opening up previously barred avenues, like public employment. ...
What has been the impact of the Roberts Court on democracy? Wealthy people have more political power than everyone else. Partisan actors have more power to reduce voter choice."
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/8
"The Voting Right Act of 1965, which removed the ability of governments to put in place facially neutral but clearly discriminatory practices, and in doing so ratcheted up Black registration in Louisiana until it matched White voters. This effect was immediate and enduring across the South.
The VRA increased Black political representation."
~ Don Moynihan
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/7
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-democracy-and-clarity
"Ultimately, the decision in Callais leaves me with a question: Why are conservatives so afraid of democracy? Why are they afraid to let the voters decide elections?"
~ Joyce Vance
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/6
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/what-the-court-did-in-callaisand
"When the Voting Rights Act was passed, White people in the South, and the party they adopted as theirs, the Republican Party, set out to do everything in their power to dilute and destroy the Voting Rights Act. The right of Black people to vote removed White people’s power to discriminate, so they struck back."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/5
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/go-sit-down-and-shut-up-and-do-as
"The Pinkerton men who broke strikes with clubs and rifles were private armies hired by corporations and deputized by a government that had decided labor organizing was a threat to public order."
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/5
"Each tool was built to achieve through the legal loopholes what could no longer be done openly.
Callais is the modern version.
The parallels to the Gilded Age are unmistakable."
~ Nadine Smith
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
/4
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/the-supreme-courts-racist-rerun