Morning Briefing: U.S. Department of State Designates 'Terrorgram Collective' as 'Global Terrorists'

The U.S. Department of State announced that the 'Terrorgram Collective' and the group's leaders have been designated as 'global terrorists.'

Morning Briefing: The U.S. Department of State announced that sanctions have been imposed “on an online network known as the Terrorgram Collective, designating it a ‘terrorist group’ over its promotion of violent white supremacy around the world.” As a result of the designation, “all property and interests in property of those designated today that are subject to U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, and all U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with them.”

A federal court ruled that Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalists group, must pay $2.7 million in “damages for physical and psychological injuries, pain and suffering, lost wages and future earnings, punitive damages” and attorney fees, the judgement was the result of a lawsuit filed by a man who was attacked by the group “during an unpermitted ‘flash march’ in downtown Boston in 2022.”

The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that the state’s Attorney General “misapplied the state’s Civil Rights Act” when sought to charge members of Nationalist Social Club (NSC-131), a neo-Nazi White Supremacists group, for “hanging a racist banner in Portsmouth in 2022.”

Samson Lucas Bariah Fussner allegedly “planned a mass shooting at Yellowstone National Park over the summer and made racist comments before the attack,” according to recently filed court documents. Fussner was killed in a shootout with Yellowstone rangers after “opening fire at the Canyon Lodge dining facility.”

The University of Georgia (UGA) has reportedly completed an investigation that found employee did not violate university policy after he “allowed a neo-Nazi event on his property in Oglethorpe County in 2024 was placed on administrative leave,” and employee apparently “acknowledged that the event had taken place on property that he and his wife co-owned, but he denied direct personal involvement,” according to a statement by the UGA.

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• Stephanie McCrummen writes that “on the Thursday night after Donald Trump won the presidential election, an obscure but telling celebration unfolded inside a converted barn off a highway stretching through the cornfields of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The place was called Gateway House of Prayer, and it was not exactly a church, and did not exactly fit into the paradigms of what American Christianity has typically been. Inside, there were no hymnals, no images of Jesus Christ, no parables fixed in stained glass. Strings of lights hung from the rafters. A huge map of the world covered one wall. On the others were seven framed bulletin boards, each representing a theater of battle between the forces of God and Satan—government, business, education, family, arts, media, and religion itself. Gateway House of Prayer, it turned out, was a kind of war room. And if its patrons are to be believed, at least one person, and at peak times dozens, had been praying every single minute of every single day for more than 15 years for the victory that now seemed at hand. God was winning. The Kingdom was coming.” [The Atlantic]

• Nina Martin writes that “you probably saw the cartoon that went viral before the election: A long line of women enter the voting booth wearing handmaiden-esque robes and bonnets, only to emerge in slinky black dresses and take-no-bullshit pantsuits. Or the ads in which white women accompany their obviously GOP husbands to vote, blinking each other a silent signal of solidarity behind the men’s backs: ‘Actually, I’m with her.’ The disobedient-trad-wives trope reflected Democrats’ conviction that Donald Trump’s misogyny and temperament—not to mention his relentless assaults on reproductive freedom and the rule of law—must be deeply, albeit secretly, alienating to many Christian women. All they needed was a Liz Cheney–size nudge to cast their ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris. Not only did that notion turn out to be utterly deluded, it was ‘a profound misreading’ of how Christian women view themselves and their role in American society, says sociologist Katie Gaddini—a mistake that helped cost Harris the presidency and could resonate throughout US politics and policy for years to come.” [Mother Jones]

• Bob Smietana writes that “millions of Americans made resolutions to start the New Year, hoping to exercise, eat right and otherwise try to be healthier in 2025. For an increasing number of Americans, this includes avoiding seed oils — like corn and canola oil, often used in highly processed foodstuffs and in fast-food restaurants. Touted for years as healthy alternatives to using butter, lard or beef tallow, these vegetable oils have come under fire recently from critics such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine advocate who hopes to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ if confirmed as secretary of Health and Human Services in a new Trump administration. Kennedy and other critics blame what they call the Hateful Eight — canola, corn, soybean, sunflower, cottonseed, safflower, grapeseed and rice bran oils — for causing inflammation, obesity, cancer and other health woes, calling them one of the leading threats to public health in America. Food scientists disagree, saying that eating too much fried or processed food is the issue – not the oils used.” [Religion News Service]

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