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Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith! Today we are discussing what I call "MAGA Nonsense" EOs. Not sure what I mean? I start off with a explanation of what I mean by that nomenclature. Then I briefly talk about a couple of things I got wrong in the last episode. After that, we go through the EOs as usual. I do get a little heated at times because these particular EOs are particularly stup...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith! Today, we are having a special episode which will air on both Queer PoliFaith and Queerly Popular. We are talking about the 1993-1998 sci-fi series, Babylon 5 . It was an awesome series, one of the best in my opinion, and very different from Star Trek , which was in its heyday during this time. I love both, but I believe that Babylon 5 is better. We s...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith! Today, we are going to look at a bunch of executive orders or memoranda about immigration. But before we get to that, I address a couple of other topics. First, I talk about Chuck Schumer and 9 other Democratic Senators betraying the Democratic Party and the country by working with the Republicans on a truly horrific funding bill. I also talk about ho...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith! Today we are going to look at some recent executive orders (EOs) that relate directly to government agencies. First, we name the orders and then we briefly discuss most of them. This is followed up with a more in-depth discussion of the ones I feel are the most important and why. I also take a brief detour to talk about Gov. Newsom's podcast and how I...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith!  Today, we have an introduction to executive orders before we look at ones that the seditious traitor has recently signed. We look at what they are, why they can be used, what they can be used for, and also talk about how they are used now differs from the past. We end by going over the schedule through the beginning of July. You can read my recent su...

Welcome back to Queer PoliFaith! This is the first episode of the new season. Today, I am going to spend some time talking about my plans for this season and then I talk about the 2024 election. I look at some numbers and talk about why the election turned out the way it did. I end with some thoughts about journalists or news sites to follow (go to this thread for links). I mentioned a lot of plac...

Welcome to this special episode of Queer PoliFaith. This special episode is based off of a Substack post by Julia Serano where she asked people with a platform to encourage people to contact politicians at all levels to tell them that we are keeping an eye on them and the queerphobic and transphobic laws they pass. I do have a concern where it comes to voting, so I spend a part of the episode deta...

Welcome to the season finale of Queer PoliFaith! And do we have a special episode for you! Our guest today is Mae Forrest Barnes, who you may remember from our conversation about  Dignitas Infinita in July . As I promised then, she is back on to talk about the 2020/2024 General Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC). Mae Forrest Barnes is a theologian and PhD candidate at the Graduate The...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith. I know I said I was going to do this episode next week, but given everything, I had to talk about this right away. Our next new episode will be, as previously announced, on Thanksgiving and will be my conversation with Mae about the UMC General Conference. In todays episode, I start off with the little bits of good news we have. Then I look at the num...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith! Today, we will start off by talking about the case  Department of State v. Munoz , a case about whether or not a citizen has the right to have their non-citizen spouse become a citizen of the United States. Ultimately, this case is more about our broken immigration system and how the current majority is willing to curtail certain rights for disfavored...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith. Today, we are going to talk about the case  City of Grants Pass v. Johnson et al . This case dealt with how cities or states deal with homeless people and whether barring them from camping in public spaces violated the Cruel and Unusual Puniushment Clause of the Constitution. Next week, we will be talking about the case  Department of State v. Munoz ....

Welcome to Queer PoliFaith! Today, we are talking about the Supreme Court case  SEC v. Jarkesy (2024). This is the last case we will look at that is part of the assault on the administrative state. As a part of this case, we delve into what an adninistrative law judge (ALJ) is because that is an important part of this case. After I discuss the case, I return to a topic I've talked about before: ma...

Welcome to this week's episode of Queer PoliFaith. Today, we'll be talking about the case  Ohio v. EPA . This is actually a consolidation of 4 cases, but generally only the first is ever listed. This case was asking the Supreme Court to issue an emergency stay of an EPA rule. I talk about the rules surrounding the issuance of a stay, some background of the case, and how this case fits into the lar...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith. Today we are talking about the case Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System . This case, when coupled with the  Loper Bright case we talked about last episode, shows how the conservatives on the Supreme Court have decided to use the courts to launch an assault on the administrative state that has been brewing since at lea...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith. Today's episode focuses on the case  Loper Bright v. Raimondo which overruled the 40-year old  Chevron doctrine for the flimisest of reasons. Thae case has ramifications beyond just administrative law because the Court seized power from people who had been granted the power by Congress and I want to place this decision in the context of how the right-...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith. Today, we are starting our look at several SCOTUS decisions from their most recent session. Our first case has to do with Presidential Immunity. It was a doozy of a decision that really made no sense. Roberts tries to cloak his partisanship in high falutin and gauzy language about Consitutional principles. And Thomas writes a particularly bad concurre...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith! Today, I am talking with Mae Forrest Barnes about Dignitas Infinita, the document that the Catholic Church put out a few months ago. I talked about it here . Mae Forrest Barnes is a theologian and PhD candidate at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Her area of focus is in disability studies, science, bioethics, and gender studies....

Welcome back to Queer PoliFaith! Today we are talking about the Biden debate debacle and the assassination attempt on the seditious traitor. I start by talking about my plans for the rest of the season. Then we talk about the assassination attempt on the seditious traitor and the reactions to it. Then I spend most of the episode focused on Biden's dismal debate performance. I talk about some onlin...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith. Today, we are talking about 2 redistricting cases:  Cooper v Harris (2017) and  Alexander v NAACP (2024) . Although only a few years apart, these cases show how important Supreme Court nominations can be because a change of 3 seats allowed Alito to turn his 2017 dissent into a majority opinion in 2024. I also talk a little about corruption on the Supr...

Welcome to Queer PoliFaith. Today, I am going to talk about ideological purity and voting. I was inspired by a friend's Twitter post (which I read without naming them) as well as my own feelings about the subject. I talk about how ideology has damaged the Republican party and why we cannot let it damage the Democratic party and the nation as a whole. We look at a little history and at Senate rules...

Today's episode is on the shorter side. I decided to illuminate my process of choosing who I vote for in the primaries. I talk about how I winnow down my options, words or phrases I look out for, and how I make my final choice. I also talk about my vote in the presidential primary and why I made the choice I did. I also talk about anti-Semitism on the left and how it is somewhere where the far lef...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith. Today we are talking about the recently released document  Dignitas Infinita (On Infinite Dignity) which is about the Catholic Church's view on human dignity and some current threats to that dignity. I start off explaining why I talk about documents from the Catholic Church and then look at the document section by section. We spend a good amount of ti...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer PoliFaith. Today, we are going to talk about Christian hegemony and political tactics of the right using 2 recent pieces from Aaron Rupar 's Substack, entitled Public Notice . The articles are from April 2nd and April 3rd . I've talked extensively in the past about how right-wing religion has affected the GOP and here we continue to look at that. We also look at...

In today's episode, we are going to look at the 14th Amendment and how it is affecting the 2024 election via the case Trump v. Anderson . In addition to briefly looking at the 14th Amendment itself, we break down the decision with the help of Steve Vladeck , or more specifically, an article he published on his Substack page entitled: " 70. The Shoddy Politics of Trump v. Anderson ". In addition to...

Welcome to today's episode of Queer Polifaith! Today, we are looking at the Alabama Supreme Court decision saying that eggs which have been fertilized for IVF implantation are children even if not implanted in a woman's uterus and the pope's statement regarding surrogacy that was a part of a larger speech to ambassadors to the Holy See. I place these in the larger context of the right's restrictio...