Christa Brown
Author of BAPTISTLAND | Exposing the truth about systemic abuse & coverups in the Southern Baptist Convention | retired appellate attorney | #ThisistheSBC #SBCtoo | christabrown.substack.com
- Today the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the US & Russia is set to expire. For the first time in more than 50 years, there will be no limits on the size of US & Russian nuclear arsenals. From @edmarkey.bsky.social ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- While still leaving many victims' names & faces on display, the DOJ's overzealous redactions apparently blacked out even the name of "Joseph" from a photo caption describing a Nativity scene. "A Nativity scene depicting Jesus, Mary and (REDACTED)," it said. #EpsteinFiles apnews.com/article/jeff...
- Reposted by Christa BrownTrump on NBC doesn't slam the door on shredding the Constitution and serving an illegal third term
- "I no longer believe in the moral hierarchy that places forgiveness above fury. I believe in clarity. I believe in the holiness of boundaries. I believe that love, to remain love, must coexist with justice." - Vera Hart MD PhD substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Democrats have a constitutional power they aren’t using to fight back: state resolutions. "Forcing Republican state legislators to vote on ICE would place them in a political vise between the intransigent Maga base & the majority of the electorate." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Christa BrownThe people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated. www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
- Worth remembering: White evangelicals are the only religious group whose majority supports Trump's handling of the controversy over the Epstein files. @prri.org prri.org/spotlight/am...
- "If support for incumbent the president is now a condition of enforcing federal law, Congress should defund DOJ. DOJ should only exist if it’s nonpartisan. Too dangerous to liberty otherwise." - Andy McCarthy, Nat'l Review columnist & former Chief Asst US Attorney
- Reposted by Christa BrownDOJ is apparently taking all this time & violating the Transparency Act deadline in order to protect criminals, not the victims.
- Many #ChurchToo survivors refer to forgiveness as "the F-word." Here's why... and also why forgiveness confers neither healing nor moral superiority. christabrown.substack.com/p/the-f-word...
- The "bad advice" bunk "demonstrates Republicans’ keen awareness of his insecurities and their fear of offending him... 'No, no, there’s no flaw in you, your majesty. It’s that awful, infernal advice.'"
- "To name something unforgiveable is not to cling to hate but to protect the sacred... In this sense, naming the unforgiveable is not bitterness. It is wisdom. It is how civilization preserves its moral core." - Vera Hart substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Career prosecutors are choosing to quit rather than charge anti-ICE protesters on scant evidence. But as senior attorneys leave & the DOJ office is gutted, cases will be left to less experienced attorneys who may be more vulnerable to pressure from above.
- Sit with a bit of hope today.
- Reposted by Christa BrownMAJOR UPSET ALERT: Democrat Taylor Rehmet has just been projected the winner of the Texas SD9 special election — flipping a district that went Trump +17 and hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1991. Trump personally endorsed Leigh Wambsganss and spent days hyping this race… and still lost.
- Good news tonight in Texas. A tectonic shift.
- Reposted by Christa Brown“Children were in the crowd screaming.”
- Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
- In Michigan, lawsuit says leaders at Southern Baptist church KNEW that youth pastor Zach Radcliff had been sexually abusing children, but they prioritized loyalty to the church over the safety of kids. Now eleven kids allege abuse. #TheyKnew #ThisistheSBC #SBCtoo www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
- Love this profile piece about US District Judge Fred Biery, who just ordered the release of 5-yr old Liam & his father. Deeply human.
- Reposted by Christa Brownbrass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
- Here's the whole of Judge Fred Biery's scathing order, compelling the release of 5-yr-old Liam & his father. Well worth a read. Particularly noteworthy that Biery attached a picture & Bible verses at the end... "Suffer the children..." and "Jesus wept."
- US District Judge Fred Biery orders the release of 5-yr-old Liam Ramos & his father. "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency." Classic Biery. Bravo!
- Despite the violence, cruelty, and lawlessness - despite the shredding of democratic values and norms - white evangelicals STILL approve of Trump. They are the curse of this nation.
- "The people who are supposed to be enforcing the law are breaking the law." - Pete Buttigieg
- And... the church is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant faith group, which lends faux-legitimacy to the extremism. It's a faith group that was founded for the preservation of slavery & that has a huge problem with clergy sex abuse. #ThisistheSBC
- The Melania popcorn bucket. Only $12.99. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
- Reposted by Christa BrownThousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
- "Blessed are the damn-givers, for they will right-side the world." - @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
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- Reposted by Christa BrownThere are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
- "The Trump administration lies with such regularity & brazenness that one should presume that it’s being dishonest until we can see with our own eyes the evidence that supports its account." - @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
- Reposted by Christa BrownProtests make MAGA mad. Journalism makes MAGA mad. Accountability makes MAGA mad. And the anger keeps building until a single sentence starts to spread across the length and breadth of Trump’s base: “Invoke the Insurrection Act.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
- Reposted by Christa BrownAs a former pastor, I can’t make this any clearer: White Evangelical Christians are the source of everything afflicting our nation: all of this violence, chaos, dehumanization, and suffering... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-pastors-...
- The whistles. She thinks the whistles are the problem. Not the violence of masked ICE agents Not the killings Not the endless lies Not the detainment of children Not the trauma to families Not ICE's lawless violation of 100 court orders in January Not the chaos inflicted on communities #AbolishICE
- Reposted by Christa BrownAn extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
- BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz cancels contempt hearing Friday where ICE chief Todd Lyons was to be forced to testify, but excoriates ICE for defying almost 100 court orders in last month. "ICE is not a law unto itself," Schiltz writes. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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- Reposted by Christa Brown“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
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- My column today is about how spiritual language is used to bend reality in the #ChurchToo arena. But it's also relevant to understanding the reality-bending effect when spiritual language is used for political ends. Thx to @wademullen.bsky.social. christabrown.substack.com/p/how-realit...
- "No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors." - @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- "I am 5 years old. Let us go."
- Acting ICE director Todd Lyons is ordered to appear IN PERSON & face contempt. "The Court acknowledges that ordering the head of a federal agency to personally appear is an extraordinary step, but the extent of ICE's violations of court orders is likewise extraordinary."
- BREAKING: Chief Judge Schiltz sets a contempt hearing for Friday in one of the hundreds of habeas cases in Minnesota pending as a result of Operation Metro Surge, ordering acting ICE Director Todd Lyons personally to appear in court and face contempt. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- White evangelicals claim they're about sharing the love of Jesus, but many of us have seen up close what they really mean by that. And it dang sure ain't about "love." #ThisistheSBC and more.
- Good NYT headline: "The Trump administration is lying to our faces." And this: They "are lying in defiance of obvious truths. They are lying in the manner of authoritarian regimes that require people to accept lies as a demonstration of power."
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- "Elected Republicans could stop this tonight if they wanted to... Sixteen people could stop this." - @hcrichardson.bsky.social
- “Elected Republicans could stop this TONIGHT … if they wanted to. … Sixteen Republicans could vote to join Dems and put a stop to this right now.” - @hcrichardson.bsky.social baptistnews.com/article/kris...
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- “I don’t care how much they scream. I don’t care how much they cry... I don’t care... I want MY country back... whatever it takes." This is a leader within the Southern Baptist Convention. He's cheering on the violence. Never forget. They championed this. #ThisistheSBC
- Courts are working overtime to try to deal with the lawlessness of ICE & federal authorities. E.g. this case in which they detained a chronically ill 70-yr-old woman for months without sufficient medical care, and then admitted in court that they had no argument to even try to justify their actions.
- Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Christa BrownAlex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him. The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
- The very fact that this order was needed shows how lawless this regime is. I'm grateful to the attorneys who pursued and obtained this order at breakneck speed on the very day of the shooting. Well-done.
- BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by Christa BrownVan Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
- Reposted by Christa BrownPam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
- Reposted by Christa BrownYou have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
- JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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- "The US Department of Justice has slashed funding & training resources for law enforcement working on investigations & prosecutions of sex crimes against children." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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- As Southern Baptist leaders defend the authority of ICE, it resurrects their predecessors "saying the same thing about the slave patrols that hunted down enslaved people who ran away from the legal institution of slavery." - @briankaylor.bsky.social #ThisistheSBC wordandway.org/2026/01/23/t...
- “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children." - Nelson Mandela
- Reposted by Christa BrownI'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.
- When empathy is sin, then "cruelty becomes a form of righteousness." #ThisistheSBC
- Lawsuit says Southern Baptist leaders...should have known that youth minister posed "a grave & foreseeable danger” to kids, that they "created a culture" that enabled sexual abuse, and that the lack of safeguards constituted "willful & wanton" negligence. #ThisistheSBC julieroys.com/arkansas-law...
- This just flat-out made me sit & weep. I'm so grateful for all these people - faith leaders & others - who showed up in sub-zero weather outside the Minneapolis airport to protest ICE. Love showed up and it sounded like "Down to the River."
