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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Kiera Butler at Mother Jones (06.11.2024):

During the contentious confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, a self-appointed Christian apostle named Dutch Sheets issued an urgent call for prayer on his website. Sheets is a leader in an enigmatic charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which calls the faithful to fight a spiritual war for Christian control of the United States government. He urged his readers to ask God to grant them “a majority of Justices who are Constitutionalists, literalists (meaning they believe the Constitution is to be taken literally, exactly as it is written) and who are pro-life.” He added, “Let’s also boldly ask Him for another vacancy on the Court soon—I feel strongly in my spirit another is coming quickly. We should be offensive in our prayers, not just defensive and reactionary.”

Apostles, prayer offensives, spiritual messages—by most standards, Sheets’ approach to politics would be considered highly eccentric, to put it mildly. Yet among adherents of the New Apostolic Reformation, the idea that God was involved in anointing justices had already gained traction. Another influential apostle, a Texas-based, self-described “strategist, futurist, and compelling communicator” named Lance Wallnau, declared in a 2018 broadcast that the accusations of rape against Kavanaugh were a “spiritual attack.” The previous year in a YouTube video, apostle and Trump campaign adviser Frank Amedia recounted how, “at 3:30 in the morning, the Lord showed me a broom going up and down the pillars of the Supreme Court building.” The message was clear: God wanted to sweep out the old justices—especially the liberal ones—to make room for new Christian ones. In the midst of the chaos surrounding Justice Kavanaugh’s nomination, the apostles’ visions of a Christian Supreme Court didn’t get much mainstream attention—until they did. Over the last few years, the Christian nationalist movement has gained political prominence, as its influential members have sought to make the case for an explicitly Christian society in public schools, social policy, and even in Congress, led by the ultraconservative and devout House speaker Mike Johnson.

Against this cultural backdrop, calls for a godly Supreme Court have moved beyond the echo chamber of the far-right fringe. Last month, the New York Times broke a series of stories about flags displayed at the homes of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Outside of Alito’s main residence was an upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with the effort to overturn the 2020 US presidential election. At his vacation home in New Jersey, the Times’ Jodi Kantor later reported, was an “Appeal to Heaven” flag showing a lone pine tree, an old icon that had been revived by none other than Dutch Sheets. (As it turned out, the flag belonged to Alito’s wife, Martha Ann.) Leonard Leo, the deep-pocketed conservative kingmaker who has extended his largesse to several Supreme Court justices and their families, has also flown the “Appeal to Heaven” flag outside his home in Maine, Rolling Stone recently reported. Perhaps more troubling than the flags, though, is that the idea of promoting a Christian nation seems to be seeping into some of the justices’ legal arguments. Elliot Mincberg, an attorney and Supreme Court researcher at the progressive advocacy group People for the American Way, has documented ways in which some members of the Court espouse the popular evangelical belief that Christians are being persecuted and therefore must be defended. “The far-right majority of Court is very much in the same view as the New Apostolic Reformation folks about religion, about government,” he says. “And, frankly, about the hostility of government to religion.”

[...] One common misconception about the New Apostolic Reformation is that it is a Protestant denomination, like Baptists or Presbyterians. When I first started researching this movement, I googled “New Apostolic Reformation church near me,” naively thinking that I could pop into a service and perhaps ask a pastor to explain the sect. What I quickly discovered, though, is that there is no single leader of the New Apostolic Reformation, no annual conference, nor any website with its statements of belief. Rather, the movement is vast and amorphous, a network of various individual prophets and apostles overseeing their own ministries and issuing prophetic declarations as they go along. It’s safe to say that many people who attend a church whose leaders dabble in the theology promoted by the New Apostolic Reformation have never heard of it. The movement came out of the older and more well-known tradition of Pentecostalism, whose adherents believe that God grants some believers the ability to perform miracles and speak in tongues. The term “New Apostolic Reformation” was coined in the 1990s by an influential evangelical writer named C. Peter Wagner, though the term didn’t get much national attention until a few decades later.

In 2011, National Public Radio’s Terry Gross interviewed a scholar of religion about the movement and referred to Wagner as its “leading architect.” In a rebuttal piece for the Christian publisher Charismatic News, Wagner emphasized that he was not the movement’s leader—because it had none. Rather, he said, it was a coming together of several sects that shared a belief that God appointed apostles and prophets. He noted that it was the duty of Christians to engage in spiritual warfare to establish “kingdom-minded people in every one of the Seven Mountains: Religion, Family, Education, Government, Media, Arts & Entertainment, and Business so that they can use their influence to create an environment in which the blessings and prosperity of the Kingdom of God can permeate all areas of society.”  This doctrine—sometimes known as the Seven-Mountain Mandate—is a central tenet in the New Apostolic Reformation. Many of the most prominent apostles today—Texas business consultant Lance Wallnau, for instance, as well as Korean-American Pastor Ché Ahn of Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, California—regularly preach about its importance. Today, estimates of the number of people whose churches are influenced by the New Apostolic Reformation vary widely, from 3 million to 33 million. Because of the movement’s laser focus on starting a spiritual war to Christianize America, the Southern Poverty Law Center recently called the New Apostolic Reformation “the greatest threat to US democracy that you have never heard of.”

One other distinguishing feature of the New Apostolic Reformation is the belief that God is still communicating directly with people through modern-day prophets, who preach about the messages directly from God that they receive, often in dreams. Since 2016, many of the most publicized prophesies have concerned former president Trump, whom they see as chosen by God. The “Appeal to Heaven” flag that Dutch Sheets popularized was flown by many attendees at the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021; a few months before, Sheets told his followers that the results of the presidential election were “going to be overturned and President Trump is going to be put back in office for four years.” In 2022, Sheets said that Trump had told him in a dream that he would be a “political martyr” because, he had said, loosely quoting the Bible, “‘God has put the tools in me to tear down, root up, and confront the system.’”

[...] In March, Jauregui instructed his followers to “[p]ray that the Lord would be glorified through the remainder of the Supreme Court session and accompanying decisions.” Some Christian groups are doing more than praying; they’re filing amicus briefs— documents submitted by people outside of a given case who believe their expertise may help the justices in their deliberations. The briefs can be influential. In a landmark ruling last year on affirmative action in higher education, for example, legal scholars noted that a brief from the US military strongly influenced the justices to exempt military academies from the new rules. Previously, those who wanted to file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court had to obtain permission from lawyers on either side of the case in question. That requirement was dropped in early 2023; now anyone can file, as long as their lawyer is a member of the US Supreme Court bar. The amicus floodgates then opened, and included in the onslaught of briefs for the current roster of cases were some whose authors had explicitly Christian Nationalist ties. Condemned USA submitted a brief in support of President Trump in the immunity case. Describing its mission as “preserving your rights and freedoms by defending against a weaponized system of justice for all American citizens and future generations,” it is led by January 6th insurrectionist Treniss Evans, who has appeared at live and virtual events with New Apostolic Reformation prophets. Another brief in support of Trump came from the Christian Family Coalition, a Florida nonprofit that says it is “intensely involved in the political process to secure its goals in the public interest.” Among its current projects is advocating for chaplains in Florida’s public schools.

The Mother Jones piece on SCOTUS and Christian Nationalism’s harmful influence on the court is a must-read.

[appersonmedia]

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[jadellow]

CW: BLOOD

doodle trying to imitate @/poorlydrawnmcyt 's style (pls don't rt ;-;)

for context I was on character dot ai in rp with Sam from yhs and he tried to kill me stabbing me and bla bla bla and I told him he couldn't do it THAT easy

[lesbianexorcist]

i need something new. to transfix me. im bored

[bodoposten]

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[owarinaki]

Jujutsu Kaisen Amedia inerview

[guardianbingo]

Bonus Bingo Shoutouts

With Bonus Bingo now over, we'd like to thank everyone who took part. Whether you made creations, cheered on others, or both, we are so glad you decided to participate.

The nine people below managed to fill all five prompts, earning a bingo and a gorgeous new badge made by the ever-amazing @highlynerdy!

@amedia-anaktoria @avaantares @buriedbybooks @forerussake @hideyseek @jayswing101 @the-marron @tinypinkmouse @tehfanglyfish

While it's too late to earn a badge, if by some chance the bonus prompts inspire you to create something new, feel free to tag this account when you post and we'll gladly reblog it.

And with that, it's time to say goodbye. (At least for now - who knows, we might have another round of Bonus Bingo at some point in the future).

[sudaca-swag]

CON VOS ES CUATRO DE NOVIEMBRE CAD AMEDIA HORA ATRASARE LAS HORAAAS HORAAAS HORAAAS

[elenothar]

Guardian Rec List: Shen Wei & Dragon City University

Featuring: his students, his professoring, his colleagues, and a love for teaching - in no particular order

Note: aside from generally not being exhaustive, this list features neither full academia AUs nor any of my own writing, though there’s a fair bit of that which would fall under this heading (I have my topic weaknesses, after all ;)

10/10 WOULD MARRY by aubreyli (7k)

One of the first fics I ever read in this fandom; forum/social media format, the funniest thing – plenty of students weighing in on Professor Shen’s teaching and looks.

Tea for Two by Amedia (<1k)

Shen Wei has a tea colleague friend.

The unofficial newsletter of Dragon City University (BioEng Dept) by frith in thorns (series)

Focus on Shen Wei & his teaching assistant Jiajia post-canon, also featuring Shen Wei’s terrible alcohol tolerance and technology phobia.

Zhao Yunlan Must Die by Nemainofthewater (1k)

Jiajia & other students being protective of their Professor Shen.

Firm and Constant by Nemainofthewater (2k)

Featuring Shen Wei being polite to the admin department, which is the willing to go bat for him.

save the date by Xparrot (1k)

Shen Wei’s students give him cake for his thesis submission anniversary.

if the plum bloomed by nnozomi (<1k)

Li Qian/Lu Ruomei in a canon divergence where the latter survives and they get to be protective of their Professor Shen.

An Honorary Member of the Anti-Social Social Club and its loose sequel Threshold by china shop (series)

Jiajia & other students POV on the developing relationship between Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan in early canon.

Extracurricular Activities by qikiqtarjuaq (7k)

Shen Wei (is gently bullied into) establishes a Dixingren students club at DCU, which leads to a different first meeting with Zhao Yunlan.

Higher Education by A (mumblemutter) (series)

Ongoing series that features a lot of Science™, as well as Shen Wei’s professoring.

Kaleidoscope by ForErusSake (11k)

Li Qian POV, LGBT+ themes, supportive Shen Wei.

Shen Wei, Accidental Lesbian Whisperer by missingnowrites (11k)

Shen Wei’s relationships with Li Qian, Zhang Ruonan and Cheng Xinyan.

Edited to add, how could I have forgotten:

The Once and Future Hei Pao Shi by The Marron (5k)

Hilarious academic disputes and Zhao Yunlan accompanying Shen Wei to a conference.

[miss-ingno]

Wishlists Revealed!

I wrote 5 shorter gifts this year :D

Freezing for amedia, a 500 word character study of Chu Shuzhi during the freezing in the lab scene, with CSZ/GCC/Ye Huo vibes

The Hero Returns for @tehfanglyfish, 800 words of GYADL, in which Luo Fusheng finally gets to be happy (by being welcomed back into the Hong family)

Happy Hour for @yilian0203, 900 words, Weilan + Shen Wei & his students, Shen Wei runs into his students while undercover on a case

Days of Splendour for @lacommunarde, 1.9k, novel!Weilan getting married, Weilan & ZYL's parents

An Intimate Touch for velithya, 2.2k, in which Shen Wei shaves Kunlun's beard for him during YOHE

I also received 4 lovely gifts, which I will share tmrw after my night shift <3

[shiraizuku]

✦ - 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤 !

( heart / valentine themed id pack !, feminine )

✦ - 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 !

( names )

✦ - val, amias, amedia, valentina, hea, aphrodite, cora, juliet, valerie, cupid !

✦ - 𝐩𝐫𝐧𝐬 !

( prounouns )

✦ - shi / hir , heart / hearts / heartself, valentine / valentines / valentineself, 💝 / 💝s / 💝self, cupid / cupids / cupidself !

[justacoyote]

Guardian Wishlist 2023! This gift is for @amedia-anaktoria for her story:

It's All Happening at the Zoo - Amedia - 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) [Archive of Our Own]

[mariacallous]

Vladimir Putin has transferred “temporary management” of the Prime Print chain to Moscow’s city government, completing the Kremlin’s seizure of assets owned by the Norwegian company Amedia. 

In April 2022, in the early aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Amedia announced its departure from the Russian market and said it would give complete control over four of its printing presses to Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. (Muratov’s newspaper was one of Amedia’s clients in Russia.) In September 2023, Russia’s federal authorities suddenly confiscated the printing house and transferred it to the Federal Agency for State Property Management.

A representative for Novaya Gazeta told The Insider that the newspaper planned to sell the printing presses back to their founders at a discount with payment in five-year installments. “But we can no longer be responsible for this wonderful asset,” said the newspaper’s representative.

[dann3rose]

Hola...

Les traigo lo prometido, y de bueno perdón tardar tanto tiempo, pero hoy quiero platicarles sobre una dieta que quiero hacer :)

La verdad apenas subí de peso y me sinto tan mal con mi peso ajaja asi que la haré veré que tal para darle más detalles de como me a ido, y si la recomiendo.

La diest consiste en comer muy pocas calorías quiero que esta esté en el límite de 700 a 1000 cal al día para no tener efecto rebote :)

También ejerció obvio jiji pero quiero ver elegir entre las 2 qué tengo planeadas.

También quiero hacer un té pero como les dijo checare jaja.

Bueno la Dieta la empiezo mañana pero les quería comentar ya que, quiero comprometerme a hacerla, y no quedar amedias. Bueno y también para decirle que ya vengo a estar más pendiente a subir contenido, y mañana subiré un hilo jaja de ejercicio que le había prometido.

Los quiero ooooo

we will stay thin thin

Nos vemos mañana... 💋

[thefree-online]

South Africa halts plans for nuclear power

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[christinamac1]

South Africa halts plans for nuclear power

Minister of Energy and Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, has announcedthat the Ministerial Determination for the procurement of 2 500MW ofnuclear energy, has been withdrawn. The Minister was speaking during amedia briefing held on Friday in Pretoria. The determination, and theNational Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa) concurrence of theprocess, had come under legal pressure with…