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Title comes from this Bloomberg writeup by Mary Anne Pazanowski that probably is paywalled, but as you can tell, their reporter’s read was pretty negative: 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...Read the rest

Frivolous libel lawsuit latest in a series for religious org that claims to support “free speech” Update April 7, 2025: True to form, The Satanic Temple has given notice it will appeal this loss and attempt to resume the litigation against the reporter as an individual again. See below. A federal district court judge in...Read the rest

There are people who look at every expression of truly populist, left-wing direct action, and reflexively say, “false flag”. Particularly when it’s illegal, liberals specifically but lots of kinds of people, will want to say, “Well, that’s exactly what the powerful people want to have happen, isn’t it?” This is a pessimism in everyday people...Read the rest

“What did the Catholic Church ever do to you? Mirror from “The Devil of Kansas” Facebook page post by the Satanic Grotto‘s leader Michael Stewart: 6 days until I’m arrested for being a Satanist and practicing my first amendment rights. Please share. (Trigger warning, SA) So today I decided I would do something special, I...Read the rest

The problems you suffer from are too big for you to solve. The steps you can take to push back against these problems are too small and ineffective to actually solve them. You’ll suffer terribly even for trying to push back. Do it anyway. It’s coming regardless. You don’t have to die on every hill,...Read the rest

Anton LaVey , the founder of the Church of Satan, directly lifted passages from the 19th century proto-fascist book Might Is Right by “Ragnar Redbeard” (Arthur Desmond) and did so extensively and without credit to produce a substantial part of LaVey’s most famous and popular work The Satanic Bible, published in 1969. [skip to comparison][skip...Read the rest

According to past filings, the Oklahoman believed he was sent by “Elohim” to “fight crybaby Satan” Sean Patrick Palmer of Perkins, Okla., is facing up two decades in federal prison after agreeing with prosecutors to plead guilty to an April 2024 hate-crime attack of The Satanic Temple’s Salem HQ with an improvised explosive. Federal investigators...Read the rest

(Full Moon Ritual March 14, 2025) Blood Worm (Full Moon Ritual) 10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Pacific, Friday, March 14, 2025 Live debut: https://twitch.tv/queersatanicYouTube: https://youtube.com/@CapitalAreaSatanists Full ritual text Piper: Greetings and welcome to the latest in our cycle of lunar rituals.  Suggested materials are: Though if you lack any of these, you can simply follow along...Read the rest

GOSPod: A Satanic podcast from Global Order of Satan UK. We’ll be talking about about modern progressive Satanism, and themes and topics regarding the place of Satanism in society, as well as generally any aspects of life from a satanic perspective, featuring interviews with members from both the UK and other Orders. We meet Jack...Read the rest

A huge hurdle for anybody trying to do radical work the United States is overcoming the deep-seated belief Americans of all stripes have that bad things only happen to those who did something to deserve it. This sort of “Calvinism persevering” even within secular contexts mainly is so that they (the ones believing it) don’t...Read the rest