Chrissy Stroop
@thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social
Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum
Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum
Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Pinned
Me: I stocked us up on Halloween candy.
Roomie: That’s good, as long as we don’t embezzle it.
Me: Well, um, this one bag “turns out to be” open somehow. I guess we’ll have to inspect every piece
Roomie: By…
Me: Eating them. It’s the only surefire way to protect the children
Roomie: That’s good, as long as we don’t embezzle it.
Me: Well, um, this one bag “turns out to be” open somehow. I guess we’ll have to inspect every piece
Roomie: By…
Me: Eating them. It’s the only surefire way to protect the children
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November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I am personally affected by the ACA subsidy ending and also my health insurance premiums are going way up next year. If you appreciate my work, there's never been a better time to become a paid subscriber. (Patreon gives me a better revenue split) www.patreon.com/posts/what-w...
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Great couple of days in media.
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Great couple of days in media.
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I think Americans need to understand it’s not a choice anymore, the federal government is either in retreat(being stripped for parts) or being used to work as a dictatorial power
the federal government has seceded from all of democracy and it’s trappings already and now is in the physical process
the federal government has seceded from all of democracy and it’s trappings already and now is in the physical process
Do they want blue state secession.
Because enough shit like this is how to get blue state secession
Because enough shit like this is how to get blue state secession
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I think Americans need to understand it’s not a choice anymore, the federal government is either in retreat(being stripped for parts) or being used to work as a dictatorial power
the federal government has seceded from all of democracy and it’s trappings already and now is in the physical process
the federal government has seceded from all of democracy and it’s trappings already and now is in the physical process
Do they want blue state secession.
Because enough shit like this is how to get blue state secession
Because enough shit like this is how to get blue state secession
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Do they want blue state secession.
Because enough shit like this is how to get blue state secession
Because enough shit like this is how to get blue state secession
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Hello im a professional writer for axios home of the axiomizer 5000 a robot that tells me what new trademark axioms to use like “why it matters” which i am unable to do on my own. Before the robot my pitches were “why it good” and “more words say.” The robot is better and married my wife
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hello im a professional writer for axios home of the axiomizer 5000 a robot that tells me what new trademark axioms to use like “why it matters” which i am unable to do on my own. Before the robot my pitches were “why it good” and “more words say.” The robot is better and married my wife
Any suggestions for games that scratch the Stardew Valley itch but are different enough to be interesting in their own right?
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Any suggestions for games that scratch the Stardew Valley itch but are different enough to be interesting in their own right?
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Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
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I rarely talk about the process of getting my work published but this one is a definite exception. I have never experienced this before in my career.
Both of the TV editors working with me on this piece were let go in the middle of the editing process. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Both of the TV editors working with me on this piece were let go in the middle of the editing process. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I rarely talk about the process of getting my work published but this one is a definite exception. I have never experienced this before in my career.
Both of the TV editors working with me on this piece were let go in the middle of the editing process. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Both of the TV editors working with me on this piece were let go in the middle of the editing process. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
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For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
I’ve done all of these except 9 as long as you count it being my grandparents (who I spent a lot of time with) who owned the encyclopedias. And I still own print dictionaries; those things have value don’t @ me
I have never done (9) (it's anti-social), (13) (Blockbuster never operated in my country), or (20) (those things were *expensive*).
I am teh oldz.
I am teh oldz.
November 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’ve done all of these except 9 as long as you count it being my grandparents (who I spent a lot of time with) who owned the encyclopedias. And I still own print dictionaries; those things have value don’t @ me
As a fellow Hoosier, hooray for our team
I have somehow never read Breakfast of Champions and holy hell in three pages Vonnegut sums it all up - colonialism, racism, income inequality, and a guy who owns a car dealership who reads a scifi novel and takes away the wrong idea
November 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
As a fellow Hoosier, hooray for our team
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Found the big protest that I remembered reading about - 200 participants!
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/tran...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/tran...
Trans protesters go topless outside government building to fight anti-trans ruling - LGBTQ Nation
Over 200 protestors went topless amid a new guidance pushing trans people out of sex-segregated spaces.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Found the big protest that I remembered reading about - 200 participants!
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/tran...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/tran...
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Thanks. My research has been pretty US-focused. And yeah, I’m more interested in the phenomenon of topless protest than the one-time viral slogan
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thanks. My research has been pretty US-focused. And yeah, I’m more interested in the phenomenon of topless protest than the one-time viral slogan
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Mostly seeing it in the UK these days, here's a recent example - not seeing too many specific uses of "free the nipple" as a specific phrase, moreso toplessness as a deliberate political statement.
www.out.com/gay-athletes...
www.out.com/gay-athletes...
A trans woman, forced to compete against men, swims topless in protest
Anne Isabella Coombes stood up to Swim England's gender policies in an innovative way.
www.out.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Mostly seeing it in the UK these days, here's a recent example - not seeing too many specific uses of "free the nipple" as a specific phrase, moreso toplessness as a deliberate political statement.
www.out.com/gay-athletes...
www.out.com/gay-athletes...
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If being opposed to hate crimes is “pivoting to the center” you need to do some self reflection
November 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If being opposed to hate crimes is “pivoting to the center” you need to do some self reflection
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It’s technically not illegal in most of the country, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be arrested for that some cop decides is “public lewdness” or something similarly absurd
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It’s technically not illegal in most of the country, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be arrested for that some cop decides is “public lewdness” or something similarly absurd
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I read this as a repost with no other context, and "He's going to wag it so hard it might just fall off" is somehow even funnier in context.
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I read this as a repost with no other context, and "He's going to wag it so hard it might just fall off" is somehow even funnier in context.
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This. 👇
And another thing. I'm tired of hearing "the bad Christians aren't real Christians." They 100% are. Christianity is self-defined and the "moderates" have ceded the identity to the worst people. Evangelicals do it with Catholics and Mormons (not "real Christians!"). But not Nazis? 🙄
And another thing. I'm tired of hearing "the bad Christians aren't real Christians." They 100% are. Christianity is self-defined and the "moderates" have ceded the identity to the worst people. Evangelicals do it with Catholics and Mormons (not "real Christians!"). But not Nazis? 🙄
But seriously folks, these "moderate" evangelicals are the worst enablers of Christofascism and whitewashers of evangelicalism, and the liberal establishment and legacy media just keep painting them as "heroes" for clearing the lowest of low bars
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Seeking Broad Appeal to US Christians, 'God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism' Glosses Over Critical Context
I wanted to like God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, the new Rob Reiner-produced documentary on “the dangerous implications” of Christian nationalism. I wanted to like it in spite of the...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This. 👇
And another thing. I'm tired of hearing "the bad Christians aren't real Christians." They 100% are. Christianity is self-defined and the "moderates" have ceded the identity to the worst people. Evangelicals do it with Catholics and Mormons (not "real Christians!"). But not Nazis? 🙄
And another thing. I'm tired of hearing "the bad Christians aren't real Christians." They 100% are. Christianity is self-defined and the "moderates" have ceded the identity to the worst people. Evangelicals do it with Catholics and Mormons (not "real Christians!"). But not Nazis? 🙄
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November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I just edited this and you do NOT want to miss it, but it's for our paid members only! Subscribe today so you don't miss it (p.s. we have a monthly plan if your budget is a little tight or you want to get a taste before you go in for a full year).
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👀
Remember the #FreeTheNipple movement?
An artifact of a more optimistic time, do you think it’s still relevant and that topless equality is worth fighting for?
As “problematic” and naive as some of the activism of a decade ago could be, I do.
I’ll say more on this soon in @theflytrapmedia.com
An artifact of a more optimistic time, do you think it’s still relevant and that topless equality is worth fighting for?
As “problematic” and naive as some of the activism of a decade ago could be, I do.
I’ll say more on this soon in @theflytrapmedia.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
👀
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Also, the co-discovered has a big asterisk on it because if we are being honest he and Crick stole Rosalind Franklin's work and she never got recognition for the discovery which was a central piece to decoding the double helix structure.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Also, the co-discovered has a big asterisk on it because if we are being honest he and Crick stole Rosalind Franklin's work and she never got recognition for the discovery which was a central piece to decoding the double helix structure.
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He's going to wag it so hard it might just fall off. His fellow evies better start voting for all the not-Nazi Republicans who want to ban all abortions and eliminate all transgender healthcare, right now!
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
He's going to wag it so hard it might just fall off. His fellow evies better start voting for all the not-Nazi Republicans who want to ban all abortions and eliminate all transgender healthcare, right now!
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This time Russell really really means it, you guys!
If regular evangelicals don't get the message he's going to wag his finger even harder
If regular evangelicals don't get the message he's going to wag his finger even harder
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This time Russell really really means it, you guys!
If regular evangelicals don't get the message he's going to wag his finger even harder
If regular evangelicals don't get the message he's going to wag his finger even harder
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From winning the nobel prize for co-discovering the structure of DNA to becoming a pariah for his rank racist views towards Black people and overt sexism towards women. One can only hope before his death that he found time to reflect and change for better.
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA, has died at age 97
James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist remarks that made him an outcast.
www.npr.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
From winning the nobel prize for co-discovering the structure of DNA to becoming a pariah for his rank racist views towards Black people and overt sexism towards women. One can only hope before his death that he found time to reflect and change for better.
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
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"In addition, considering that God & Country highlights figures like French and Moore, we can only conclude that opposing Christian nationalism is perfectly compatible with supporting draconian laws restricting the rights of women and LGBTQ individuals"
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"In addition, considering that God & Country highlights figures like French and Moore, we can only conclude that opposing Christian nationalism is perfectly compatible with supporting draconian laws restricting the rights of women and LGBTQ individuals"