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Very happy about every penny I've given to #TST over the years
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“Countercultural Fascism” and “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism”
https://spencersunshine.com/presentations/1 p.m. EST / 10 a.m. PST
April 9 and April 16, 2026
online presentations and discussionSliding scale $10–$100 (covers both)
No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds
To register, send a message here:
https://spencersunshine.com/contact/#SpencerSunshine #TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #AbraxasCircle #JamesMason #Siege #BoydRice #AntonLaVey #ChurchofSatan #CharlesManson #NeoNazis #NeoNaziMovement #NaziSatanism #AntifascistResearch #Antifascism #Antifascist #NOTAFLOF
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“Countercultural Fascism” and “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism”
https://spencersunshine.com/presentations/1 p.m. EST / 10 a.m. PST
April 9 and April 16, 2026
online presentations and discussionSliding scale $10–$100 (covers both)
No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds
To register, send a message here:
https://spencersunshine.com/contact/#SpencerSunshine #TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #AbraxasCircle #JamesMason #Siege #BoydRice #AntonLaVey #ChurchofSatan #CharlesManson #NeoNazis #NeoNaziMovement #NaziSatanism #AntifascistResearch #Antifascism #Antifascist #NOTAFLOF
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“Countercultural Fascism” and “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism”
https://spencersunshine.com/presentations/1 p.m. EST / 10 a.m. PST
April 9 and April 16, 2026
online presentations and discussionSliding scale $10–$100 (covers both)
No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds
To register, send a message here:
https://spencersunshine.com/contact/#SpencerSunshine #TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #AbraxasCircle #JamesMason #Siege #BoydRice #AntonLaVey #ChurchofSatan #CharlesManson #NeoNazis #NeoNaziMovement #NaziSatanism #AntifascistResearch #Antifascism #Antifascist #NOTAFLOF
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“Countercultural Fascism” and “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism”
https://spencersunshine.com/presentations/1 p.m. EST / 10 a.m. PST
April 9 and April 16, 2026
online presentations and discussionSliding scale $10–$100 (covers both)
No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds
To register, send a message here:
https://spencersunshine.com/contact/#SpencerSunshine #TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #AbraxasCircle #JamesMason #Siege #BoydRice #AntonLaVey #ChurchofSatan #CharlesManson #NeoNazis #NeoNaziMovement #NaziSatanism #AntifascistResearch #Antifascism #Antifascist #NOTAFLOF
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“Countercultural Fascism” and “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism”
https://spencersunshine.com/presentations/1 p.m. EST / 10 a.m. PST
April 9 and April 16, 2026
online presentations and discussionSliding scale $10–$100 (covers both)
No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds
To register, send a message here:
https://spencersunshine.com/contact/#SpencerSunshine #TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #AbraxasCircle #JamesMason #Siege #BoydRice #AntonLaVey #ChurchofSatan #CharlesManson #NeoNazis #NeoNaziMovement #NaziSatanism #AntifascistResearch #Antifascism #Antifascist #NOTAFLOF
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Das ist schnell getan!
Je nach Geschmack bzw. #göttlicher Berufung hier drei Vorschläge:
https://www.pastafari.eu/verein/mitglied-werden/
https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/join-us
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_Maradoniana
#FSM #pastafari #TST #TheSatanicTemple #IglesiaMaradoniana #DiegoMaradona #D10S
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"The Satanic Temple leader & cargo cult messiah"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldw0xflMrAk
This video essay by researcher veritas et caritas has been edited and re-uploaded.
> The year is 2014, and Cevin Soling, also known by his pseudonym Malcolm Jarry, one of the leaders of The Satanic Temple in the US, is visiting the tiny Pacific island of Tanna, part of the nation of Vanuatu. According to Soling, “Apparently there was a prophecy I would come”. This video tells the strange story of how Cevin Soling arrived in Vanuatu, convinced that he was the messiah of a cargo cult.
#TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #TST #Satanism #CevinSoling #cargoCults #Vanuatu #cults #videoEssay #VeritasEtCaritas
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It arrived! My 666 Days Sober chip is now happily hanging on a wall in my music space.
#sobriety #sober #TST #thesatanictemple #soberfaction -
Proper version, please to grab and stick on things.
Also, the sticker is recreated because TST stopped selling them and replaced them for this sticker in other colours. And I just want black and white.
Buy your apparel here. https://thesatanictemple.com/collections/new-stickers-magnets
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#CivilRights Office Advances Investigation Into #Discrimination Against #TheSatanicTemple in #Iowa
https://luciengreaves.substack.com/p/civil-rights-office-advances-investigation
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this is bullshit
this is not happening
do not fall for liberal hopegrifts and wishcasting
https://queersatanic.com/does-the-satanic-temple-feed-people-losing-snap-benefits/
The Satanic Temple can take your money, but it cannot feed you. The Satanic Temple can sell you a T-shirt, but it cannot protect you or save you. an email newsletter list for merch and soliciting donations, nationwide 300 active members and two buildings in Massachusetts, is not infrastructure to serve tens of millions in need
no one sharing the claim otherwise can tell you what TST’s budget was last year, how many people they fed last year, or where someone hungry would even need to show up.
dunking on evangelicals (who will actually feed you! but probably also ask prying personal questions) is not a good excuse to ignore these practical, necessary considerations
local food banks need your money. Food Not Bombs and legitimate religious organizations (of your own traditions) need your support for doing more of what they’re already doing. your neighbors need to know you and know y’all can share meals and resources with each other. that is true, and the time for preventative measures is running out
do not let people in your life think TST will feed them come Saturday; that is not real. the real work is much harder
#TheSatanicTemple #TST #SatanicTemple #Satanists #Satanism #SNAP #FoodBank #AI #hopegrift
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The idea that TST has the inclination or infrastructure to feed anyone in need is a lie. This is not happening. The Satanic Temple rarely helps *anyone* but its owners, and certainly won’t help an appreciable number of hungry people even in Salem, Mass., the only physical location that actually exists.
They have like 300 real members nationwide, and no infrastructure.
#TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #TST #Satanists #FoodBank #Foodbanks #Satanism #EBT #SNAP #Misinformation
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TST’S GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE PROTEST
https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/the-satanic-temple-s-guidelines-for-effective-protest1. Protest is an act of free speech, and protesters must respect free speech.
2. Have a clearly articulated position with tenable demands and a practical well-defined statement for what constitutes achieving your goals.
3. Effective protest is founded on a legitimate theory of change that is exemplified by the structure of IF I do X, THEN Y will happen BECAUSE Z.
4. Protest must be based on a principle as opposed to identity politics. Everyone benefits from the pursuit of well-conceived principles.
5. Stay focused on specific issues and do not adopt issues that you think are analogously related.
6. Stand for issues and principles – do not reflexively support the entire agenda of parties, organizations, or individuals.
7. Do not allow narratives to prevail over facts.
8. Restrict your movement to people who believe in the principles of your movement.
9. If your protest calls for the deprivation of rights and liberties of others, intimidates others, harasses or threatens others, silences others, then you are an enemy of freedom no matter what the justification.
10. Engaging in, promoting, inciting, and/or celebrating physical violence that deliberately targets civilians is never justifiable.
#politics #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #satanist #tst #thesatanictemple
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The co-owner of The Satanic Temple has an almost infinite number of “no fucks” to give for all kinds of political violence and victims (the enforced silence on TST re: police brutality and George Floyd’s lynching is well-known internally)
but a white bigot gets killed and he’s johnny on the fucking spot
https://queersatanic.com/why-does-the-satanic-temple-care-so-much-about-charlie-kirk/
when you look closer into it, the pattern is clear and it’s not hard to figure out why this political killing is such a tragedy and vital free speech issue to TST but nothing else is
#TheSatanicTemple #LucienGreaves #TST #CharlieKirk #Satanism #FreeSpeech
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Kinda bummed my piece won't be part of the "Inviolable" exhibition later this year at the Salem Art Gallery. Still, I got to create something awesome, and the exhibit should be fantastic. I'll post details when it's showing, and if you're in or near Salem, you should check it out! #blender3d #greasepencil #salemartgallery #thesatanictemple #inviolable
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@johan Yes, thank you for pointing it out.
Here is an article about the Satanism ban:
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-supreme-court-bans-satanist-movement-labeling-extremist/ #Russia #Satanist #RussianOrthodoxChurch #OrthodoxChurch #Courts #Extremism #Judiciary #Kremlin #roundtable #Safety #thesatanictemple #UnveilingDay #Acceptance #ReligiousEquality #Baphomet #Tolerance #CelebrateDiversity #Kindness #ReligiousFreedom -
#LIVE NOW
Hellmouth #Religious Services "The Body as a #Temple"
Panel: Ministra Melankali Yuga is joined by Ministers Azura Rose and Tabs, as well as Minerva and Šōmrōn.
Description: This is a deliberation about intimate boundaries and the #sacred. The question of who has access to your body can be a matter of #lifeanddeath in many ways. What is the body worth, and its parts?
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CW: Partial nudity, kink, demonic
Entering this into an exhibit call out for the Salem art gallery. The theme is "inviolable". Inspired by a friend's cosplay, to depict the 3rd tenet of The Satanic Temple: One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone." #blender3d #greasepencil #demonic #succubus #kink #thesatanictemple
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The Satanic Temple is very bad at court cases.
A federal district court judge in New York today sided with the online magazine Newsweek against The Satanic Temple, a tax-exempt church, finding there was no basis by the nontheistic religious organization to continue the defamation case against the publisher.
https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-temple-loses-slapp-libel-case-against-newsweek/
This should be the end of a case that started either three or five years ago, depending on what you want to start counting by.
The Satanic Temple sued the Newsweek and its reporter Julia Duin in February 2022 in retaliation for Duin writing and Newsweek publishing a critical article about TST in October 2021; that article centered on TST suing four former Washington State members in April 2020. That is, us. The Temple repeatedly lost their lawsuits against us over the next four-plus, the final one ending in October 2024.
Also, it's not official yet, but "Satanic Temple’s Idaho Abortion Ban Appeal Looks Likely to Fail"
Title comes from this Bloomberg writeup that probably is paywalled, but is pretty negative:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/satanic-temples-idaho-abortion-ban-appeal-looks-likely-to-fail> A panel of Ninth Circuit judges on Wednesday appeared unlikely to give the Satanic Temple another shot at suing Idaho over measures that bar it from providing abortion care to members in the state.
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> Questions of the group’s standing to sue—personal, associational, organizational, or otherwise—dominated the oral arguments, with Judge M. Margaret McKeown asking attorneys for both sides to clarify how the Satanic Temple can proceed when it hasn’t named any member who lives in Idaho, is pregnant, and wants to end the pregnancy.
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> It can’t, state’s attorney Alan Hurst told the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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> But W. James Mac Naughton, a private practitioner in Newton, N.J., representing the Satanic Temple, said there’s a “statistical probability” that such a person exists. In his analysis, at least three people in Idaho currently are being harmed by laws that prevent the Satanic Temple from setting up a clinic or mailing abortion-inducing pills into the state, he said.
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> Without a name, however, there’s no way to show the Satanic Temple’s claimed harm is anything more that pure speculation, Hurst said.
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> Judge John B. Owens didn’t have any substantive questions for the attorneys, while Judge Ronald M. Gould stayed silent.It goes on about some more of the background, but you can also just see all of their cases on The.Satanic.Wiki.
This Courthouse news article should be fully accessible and also characterizes it similarly:
https://www.courthousenews.com/idaho-says-satanic-temple-doesnt-have-standing-in-abortion-challenge/> “This case is about coerced motherhood and money,” James Mac Naughton, an attorney representing the Satanic Temple, told the court.
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> But before Mac Naughton got too far into his argument, U.S. Circuit Judge Mary McKeown questioned him about the Temple’s standing.
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> “Maybe you can explain to me what have you alleged that give you the predicates of associational standing?” Bill Clinton appointee asked.#TheSatanicTemple #Newsweek #NewYork #TST #Satanism #Idaho #SLAPP #SLAPPS #abortion #abortionRights
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According to past filings, the Oklahoman believed he was sent by "Elohim" to "fight crybaby Satan" by attacking Satanic Temple headquarters with an improvised explosive.
https://queersatanic.com/oklahoma-man-accused-of-pipe-bombing-satanic-temple-hq-to-plead-guilty/
Sean Patrick Palmer of Perkins, Okla., is facing up two decades in federal prison after agreeing with prosecutors to plead guilty to a hate-crime attack of The Satanic Temple's Salem HQ in April 2024.
#TheSatanicTemple #Salem #SalemMA #SatanicTemple #TST #SeanPatrickPalmer #PerkinsOkla #Oklahoma #Satanism #HateCrime
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Anti #Christian bias in the US? Really?
Time to join #TheSatanicTemple, I guess.
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The Satanic Temple open call for art, embodying their 3rd tenet: "One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone"
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"Increased Christianity in schools opens the door to Satanic Temple education programs"
by Lexi Lonas Cochran
12/11/24 6:00 AM ET#SatanicTemple #TheSatanicTemple #ReligionInSchools #ReligiousHypocracy #ReligiousEquality
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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 that the case is finally concluded.https://queersatanic.com/queer-satanic-is-dead-long-live-queer-satanic/
The nontheistic religious organization used its for-profit corporation “United Federation of Churches LLC d/b/a ‘The Satanic Temple’ ” to sue four former members of its Washington State chapter from April 2020 till September 2024. They sued us in federal court, the Ninth Circuit Court, dragged us into giving depositions for the Southern District of New York, and sued us in King County Superior Court, but TST has lost everywhere it went. The claims that we always maintained were frivolous and without merit have been found so in every court TST made those claims by every judge who has looked at them. Now, a month after TST’s most recent loss, the deadline for the Temple’s appeal has come and gone, and so we’re done.
Years ago in dark times where it seemed like there would be no end to this and The Satanic Temple and its owners would never stop being vexatious litigants against us, we wrote the bottom section (in the link). The website’s administrator was supposed to add some sort of explainer and then publish it, keeping the site up and running for as long as that was feasible for them since we would be in no position to be involved anymore.
What it talks about has not come to pass — but in other ways, it certainly has. This was not sustainable indefinitely. The machine was breaking down for a long time, grinding metal on metal without pause, but it can be turned off now. “Non serviam” — until further notice, this machine is out of service.
Certainly, there is still research to be done and still other articles to be written about The Satanic Temple, its owners, and how they actually operate in contrast to how they present themselves. But to be done by us? That’s less clear.
We don’t plan to completely disappear, and there is still some tidying up to do, but mostly, there’s some much needed rest. Just as likely, there will be other fights that now we can focus on, given the way the world is going. In either case, this sabbatical may be indefinite.
“Queer Satanic” was never an organization, never a hierarchy, only a vibe. We were Heretical Satanists, heretics of heretics, so in the midst of defending ourselves from a lawsuit, we tried to put forward positive ideas and examples about what a more useful Satanism might look like; we tried to show a radical and rebellious way of approaching and acting in the world beyond just aesthetics of painting it black or upside-down Christianity slapped on bog-standard reactionary and liberal politics.
We didn’t do enough of it, and there is still so much more to be done.
For now at least, we leave you to it.
#QueerSatanic #TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #Satanism #Lawsuits #SLAPP #CourtVictory
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Hell yes: Washington state court dismisses latest lawsuit by Satanic Temple targeting former members
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
#TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #Satanism #WashingtonState #Seattle #KingCounty #QueerSatanic #Lawsuits #SLAPP #Lawfare
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We fuckin' won, y'all
It hasn't fully sunk in yet, but we did just get some truly joyful news.
The Satanic Temple lost AGAIN, and ours is a full victory here
The King County Superior Court just granted our motion for summary judgment in full, dismissing all claims with prejudice and ruling on our declaratory judgment counterclaim we have the right to use "the Memes Page".
https://www.facebook.com/queersatanic
#TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #QueerSatanic #Lawsuits #Satanism #Facebook #MemePage #LegalAnnouncement
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Huge congratulations to our good friends @QueerSatanic who have won yet another case against #TheSatanicTemple who were suing them for using a FB Page:
"It has been 1635 DAYS since The Satanic Temple filed their case against us in federal district court. We got it dismissed there once in February 2021; we got it dismissed again in January 2023 after TST re-filed. The Satanic Temple appealed the second loss to the Ninth Circuit and also re-filed part of the case in state court in April 2023 — notably after the three-year statute of limitations had run out. The Ninth Circuit affirmed most of the lower federal court decision but allowed TST to revive their defamation claims if they could specify what exactly had been said about them that was false and defamatory. Apparently, unable to do so, TST voluntarily dismissed the federal case against us.
Meanwhile, in 2022, TST sued Newsweek for writing about our case back in October 2021. The Satanic Temple dragged us into those proceedings to give depositions. TST sued a woman in Texas for making TikTok videos critical of them. TST has threatened more people than we can make a reliable count of with litigation both before and after us. Their agents have harassed us and our loved ones, and there have been long periods of misery and where it seemed like the courts would let them keep doing this sort of thing indefinitely.
But today we won. TST has lost every step of the way and shown themselves to be a toxic, abusive religious organization to everyone who has bothered to pay attention — tho unfortunately, too few people have. " -
thanks to Left Bank Books Collective for both stocking our zines and stickers and for telling folk about them
you can get the zines in person at the store in Pike Place Market
92 Pike St # B, Seattle, WA 98101or print them yourself from here:
https://queersatanic.com/zines/you can also get stickers and other print-on-demand merch here to support our legal defense from The Satanic Temple’s ongoing lawsuits:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/queersatanic/shop#LeftBankBooks #QueerSatanic #Seattle #PikePlaceMarket #Zines #Satanism #Cults #SatanicAntifascism #TheSatanicTemple
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More filings in #TheSatanicTemple’s #SLAPP action against its #QueerSatanic heretics
https://queersatanic.com/more-filings-in-satanic-temples-slapp-action-against-its-queer-satanic-heretics/
#Salem, Mass.-based religious org #TST continues legal attack begun in 2020, utilizing for-profit corporation to target four former members now in #WashingtonState court -
#TheSatanicTemple's lawsuit against #Chicago implodes after minister splits org
Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by #TST owner Doug “#LucienGreaves” Misicko 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 #TheSatanicTemple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge that that would no longer be necessary, voluntarily ending the case for good.
> Plaintiffs The Satanic Temple and Adam Vavrick and Defendant City of #Chicago, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate that pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 this case should be dismissed without costs or fees to either party.
-Stipulation to Dismiss – Document No. 35The following day, July 24, Judge Joan Lefkow dismissed the cases with prejudice “with each party to bear its own costs and fees.”
#TheSatanicTempleInc. and #AdamVavrick, an ordained minister of the #SatanicTemple and a leader of the #TSTIllinois congregation, sought to deliver an invocation before a #ChicagoCityCouncil meeting. However, they were not invited after, TST claims, more than three years of asking to deliver an invocation and not being given an explanation for why they were not invited.
TST sued the city in federal court on May 3, 2023, alleging violations of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
We wrote about the background of this whole thing in December 2023 and again in May 2024; in the latter, we also made a bit of a prediction there at the very end in reference to the scheduled trial date:
“Given TST’s usual burn-through rate and the ongoing major schism centered on TST Ministry, it will also be interesting to see if ‘Minister of Satan Adam Vavrick’ is even still associated with TST and ordained by the time 2025 rolls around.”
And wouldn’t you know it, a little more than a month after we said that, the plaintiff Vavrick announced he’d left TST's #SatanicMinistry.
Read more:
https://queersatanic.com/satanic-temples-lawsuit-against-chicago-implodes-after-minister-splits-org/ -
#TheSatanicTemple's lawsuit against #Chicago implodes after minister splits org
Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by #TST owner Doug “#LucienGreaves” Misicko 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 #TheSatanicTemple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge that that would no longer be necessary, voluntarily ending the case for good.
> Plaintiffs The Satanic Temple and Adam Vavrick and Defendant City of #Chicago, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate that pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 this case should be dismissed without costs or fees to either party.
-Stipulation to Dismiss – Document No. 35The following day, July 24, Judge Joan Lefkow dismissed the cases with prejudice “with each party to bear its own costs and fees.”
#TheSatanicTempleInc. and #AdamVavrick, an ordained minister of the #SatanicTemple and a leader of the #TSTIllinois congregation, sought to deliver an invocation before a #ChicagoCityCouncil meeting. However, they were not invited after, TST claims, more than three years of asking to deliver an invocation and not being given an explanation for why they were not invited.
TST sued the city in federal court on May 3, 2023, alleging violations of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
We wrote about the background of this whole thing in December 2023 and again in May 2024; in the latter, we also made a bit of a prediction there at the very end in reference to the scheduled trial date:
“Given TST’s usual burn-through rate and the ongoing major schism centered on TST Ministry, it will also be interesting to see if ‘Minister of Satan Adam Vavrick’ is even still associated with TST and ordained by the time 2025 rolls around.”
And wouldn’t you know it, a little more than a month after we said that, the plaintiff Vavrick announced he’d left TST's #SatanicMinistry.
Read more:
https://queersatanic.com/satanic-temples-lawsuit-against-chicago-implodes-after-minister-splits-org/ -
#TheSatanicTemple's lawsuit against #Chicago implodes after minister splits org
Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by #TST owner Doug “#LucienGreaves” Misicko 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 #TheSatanicTemple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge that that would no longer be necessary, voluntarily ending the case for good.
> Plaintiffs The Satanic Temple and Adam Vavrick and Defendant City of #Chicago, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate that pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 this case should be dismissed without costs or fees to either party.
-Stipulation to Dismiss – Document No. 35The following day, July 24, Judge Joan Lefkow dismissed the cases with prejudice “with each party to bear its own costs and fees.”
#TheSatanicTempleInc. and #AdamVavrick, an ordained minister of the #SatanicTemple and a leader of the #TSTIllinois congregation, sought to deliver an invocation before a #ChicagoCityCouncil meeting. However, they were not invited after, TST claims, more than three years of asking to deliver an invocation and not being given an explanation for why they were not invited.
TST sued the city in federal court on May 3, 2023, alleging violations of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
We wrote about the background of this whole thing in December 2023 and again in May 2024; in the latter, we also made a bit of a prediction there at the very end in reference to the scheduled trial date:
“Given TST’s usual burn-through rate and the ongoing major schism centered on TST Ministry, it will also be interesting to see if ‘Minister of Satan Adam Vavrick’ is even still associated with TST and ordained by the time 2025 rolls around.”
And wouldn’t you know it, a little more than a month after we said that, the plaintiff Vavrick announced he’d left TST's #SatanicMinistry.
Read more:
https://queersatanic.com/satanic-temples-lawsuit-against-chicago-implodes-after-minister-splits-org/ -
#TheSatanicTemple's lawsuit against #Chicago implodes after minister splits org
Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by #TST owner Doug “#LucienGreaves” Misicko 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 #TheSatanicTemple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge that that would no longer be necessary, voluntarily ending the case for good.
> Plaintiffs The Satanic Temple and Adam Vavrick and Defendant City of #Chicago, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate that pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 this case should be dismissed without costs or fees to either party.
-Stipulation to Dismiss – Document No. 35The following day, July 24, Judge Joan Lefkow dismissed the cases with prejudice “with each party to bear its own costs and fees.”
#TheSatanicTempleInc. and #AdamVavrick, an ordained minister of the #SatanicTemple and a leader of the #TSTIllinois congregation, sought to deliver an invocation before a #ChicagoCityCouncil meeting. However, they were not invited after, TST claims, more than three years of asking to deliver an invocation and not being given an explanation for why they were not invited.
TST sued the city in federal court on May 3, 2023, alleging violations of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
We wrote about the background of this whole thing in December 2023 and again in May 2024; in the latter, we also made a bit of a prediction there at the very end in reference to the scheduled trial date:
“Given TST’s usual burn-through rate and the ongoing major schism centered on TST Ministry, it will also be interesting to see if ‘Minister of Satan Adam Vavrick’ is even still associated with TST and ordained by the time 2025 rolls around.”
And wouldn’t you know it, a little more than a month after we said that, the plaintiff Vavrick announced he’d left TST's #SatanicMinistry.
Read more:
https://queersatanic.com/satanic-temples-lawsuit-against-chicago-implodes-after-minister-splits-org/ -
#TheSatanicTemple's lawsuit against #Chicago implodes after minister splits org
Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by #TST owner Doug “#LucienGreaves” Misicko 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 #TheSatanicTemple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge that that would no longer be necessary, voluntarily ending the case for good.
> Plaintiffs The Satanic Temple and Adam Vavrick and Defendant City of #Chicago, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate that pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 this case should be dismissed without costs or fees to either party.
-Stipulation to Dismiss – Document No. 35The following day, July 24, Judge Joan Lefkow dismissed the cases with prejudice “with each party to bear its own costs and fees.”
#TheSatanicTempleInc. and #AdamVavrick, an ordained minister of the #SatanicTemple and a leader of the #TSTIllinois congregation, sought to deliver an invocation before a #ChicagoCityCouncil meeting. However, they were not invited after, TST claims, more than three years of asking to deliver an invocation and not being given an explanation for why they were not invited.
TST sued the city in federal court on May 3, 2023, alleging violations of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
We wrote about the background of this whole thing in December 2023 and again in May 2024; in the latter, we also made a bit of a prediction there at the very end in reference to the scheduled trial date:
“Given TST’s usual burn-through rate and the ongoing major schism centered on TST Ministry, it will also be interesting to see if ‘Minister of Satan Adam Vavrick’ is even still associated with TST and ordained by the time 2025 rolls around.”
And wouldn’t you know it, a little more than a month after we said that, the plaintiff Vavrick announced he’d left TST's #SatanicMinistry.
Read more:
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Is it dead-naming to refer to “Lucien Greaves” as “Doug Misicko”?
No, it is not.
https://queersatanic.com/is-it-dead-naming-to-refer-to-lucien-greaves-as-doug-misicko/
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.
He is not calling himself names like “Greaves” or “Doug Mesner” out of a sincere desire to identify differently than his government name but because he is attempting to make it more difficult to hold him accountable as the owner of a collection of for-profit and tax-exempt corporations he solely or jointly controls totally.Moreover, we’re still being sued by #TheSatanicTemple in ̷f̷e̷d̷e̷r̷a̷l̷ ̷c̷o̷u̷r̷t̷ ̷a̷n̷d̷ ̷n̷o̷w̷ King County Superior Court.
#TST is also still suing Newsweek and its reporter (but maybe not her anymore!) for writing about us. In addition, the #SatanicTemple is now suing a TikToker in Texas for talking about our case. Check the profile link for more. -
#InformedDissent The Satanic Temple Inc. v Shelby County Board of Education close to an end
-https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68356813/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-shelby-county-board-of-education/?order_by=desc
-https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68356813/22/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-shelby-county-board-of-education/Looks like the #FreedomFromReligionFoundation is about to get a good settlement for TST in their #ASSclub case.
From the original complaint, the #FFRF is only asking for $1 plus attorney's fees
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68356813/1/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-shelby-county-board-of-education/> Nominal Damages
> 215. The Satanic Temple requests an entry of judgment for nominal damages in the amount of $1 for violations of its constitutional rights.
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> Attorneys’ Fees and Costs
> 216. The Satanic Temple requests an order awarding it the costs of this action, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, under 42 U.S.C. § 1988.It's true that Satanists have an uphill battle in courts, but this is more evidence that The Satanic Temple is to blame for most of its court failures, rather than "corrupt judges"
The FFRF filed a competent complaint with specific quotes/citations rather than bald assertions, and, maybe even more importantly, their legal team seemed to actively be seeking a favorable settlement rather than trying to be the biggest douchebags possible.
(The Satanic Temple is bad at that.)
#Tennessee #ShelbyCounty #Satanism #Lawsuits #TheSatanicTemple
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Some stories we'll try to get to/follow up on next week:
#WeLiveInHell: Newspaper gets clarity from #Idaho sheriff's office about why they mentioned #TheSatanicTemple in a press release about a sex offender's plea deal
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article289748209.htmlOur recap from the week before:
https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-panic-is-still-alive-in-idaho/ -
Some stories we'll try to get to/follow up on next week:
#WeLiveInHell: Newspaper gets clarity from #Idaho sheriff's office about why they mentioned #TheSatanicTemple in a press release about a sex offender's plea deal
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article289748209.htmlOur recap from the week before:
https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-panic-is-still-alive-in-idaho/ -
Some stories we'll try to get to/follow up on next week:
#WeLiveInHell: Newspaper gets clarity from #Idaho sheriff's office about why they mentioned #TheSatanicTemple in a press release about a sex offender's plea deal
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article289748209.htmlOur recap from the week before:
https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-panic-is-still-alive-in-idaho/ -
Some stories we'll try to get to/follow up on next week:
#WeLiveInHell: Newspaper gets clarity from #Idaho sheriff's office about why they mentioned #TheSatanicTemple in a press release about a sex offender's plea deal
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article289748209.htmlOur recap from the week before:
https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-panic-is-still-alive-in-idaho/ -
#Satanism is opposed child abuse, but local cops want people to think the exact opposite because the #SatanicPanic is still alive in #Idaho.
https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-panic-is-still-alive-in-idaho/
Shoutout #SatanicIdaho for all of the completely undeserved bullshit they're having to put up with at the moment.
Moreover, we’re still being sued by #TheSatanicTemple in ̷f̷e̷d̷e̷r̷a̷l̷ ̷c̷o̷u̷r̷t̷ ̷a̷n̷d̷ ̷n̷o̷w̷ King County Superior Court.
#TST is also still suing Newsweek and its reporter (but maybe not her anymore!) for writing about us. In addition, the #SatanicTemple is now suing a TikToker in Texas for talking about our case. Check the profile link for more.
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@AnarchistFederation #SpencerSunshine wrote a good book.
It was also nice to see someone in academia make the connection between #TheSatanicTemple and the alt right, even tho that was not the main thrust of the work.
https://queersatanic.com/neo-nazi-terrorism-and-countercultural-fascism-by-spencer-sunshine/
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@AnarchistFederation #SpencerSunshine wrote a good book.
It was also nice to see someone in academia make the connection between #TheSatanicTemple and the alt right, even tho that was not the main thrust of the work.
https://queersatanic.com/neo-nazi-terrorism-and-countercultural-fascism-by-spencer-sunshine/