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
It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people.
But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person.
Denial makes things worse
But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person.
Denial makes things worse
After a couple of days of emailing with Ghost support, www.bugbeardispatch.com is back up!
I still have no idea why or how it broke in the first place, but expect a new newsletter soon
I still have no idea why or how it broke in the first place, but expect a new newsletter soon
The Bugbear Dispatch
A Newsletter about Navigating Modern American Moral Panic
www.bugbeardispatch.com
July 30, 2026 at 2:24 PM
After a couple of days of emailing with Ghost support, www.bugbeardispatch.com is back up!
I still have no idea why or how it broke in the first place, but expect a new newsletter soon
I still have no idea why or how it broke in the first place, but expect a new newsletter soon
By the way, I know I've neglected it for way too long, and to all my readers and subscribers, I am sorry. I've been working on some health issues, both physical and mental.
Today I wanted to get back to writing, and now my website is borked. I hope I can get this sorted soon
Today I wanted to get back to writing, and now my website is borked. I hope I can get this sorted soon
So, The Bugbear Dispatch seems to be down, and I'm not at all sure why. The domain www.bugbeardispatch.com is active and paid for. I bought it and maintain it via WordPress.
Other sites on Ghost seem to be working.
Wondering if anyone can help me with this problem? I'd be grateful!
Other sites on Ghost seem to be working.
Wondering if anyone can help me with this problem? I'd be grateful!
July 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
By the way, I know I've neglected it for way too long, and to all my readers and subscribers, I am sorry. I've been working on some health issues, both physical and mental.
Today I wanted to get back to writing, and now my website is borked. I hope I can get this sorted soon
Today I wanted to get back to writing, and now my website is borked. I hope I can get this sorted soon
So, The Bugbear Dispatch seems to be down, and I'm not at all sure why. The domain www.bugbeardispatch.com is active and paid for. I bought it and maintain it via WordPress.
Other sites on Ghost seem to be working.
Wondering if anyone can help me with this problem? I'd be grateful!
Other sites on Ghost seem to be working.
Wondering if anyone can help me with this problem? I'd be grateful!
July 28, 2026 at 4:43 PM
So, The Bugbear Dispatch seems to be down, and I'm not at all sure why. The domain www.bugbeardispatch.com is active and paid for. I bought it and maintain it via WordPress.
Other sites on Ghost seem to be working.
Wondering if anyone can help me with this problem? I'd be grateful!
Other sites on Ghost seem to be working.
Wondering if anyone can help me with this problem? I'd be grateful!
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The Flytrap
Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm
www.theflytrapmedia.com
July 9, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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And here's @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social on why the founding fathers just... sucked:
www.theflytrapmedia.com/the-founding...
www.theflytrapmedia.com/the-founding...
The Founding Fathers Sucked
In honor of America’s 250 birthday, let’s stop lionizing them.
www.theflytrapmedia.com
July 9, 2026 at 6:55 PM
And here's @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social on why the founding fathers just... sucked:
www.theflytrapmedia.com/the-founding...
www.theflytrapmedia.com/the-founding...
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Looking for something to read while you procrastinate? 👀
We got you. Here's a thread of what we've published recently. 🧵
We got you. Here's a thread of what we've published recently. 🧵
July 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Looking for something to read while you procrastinate? 👀
We got you. Here's a thread of what we've published recently. 🧵
We got you. Here's a thread of what we've published recently. 🧵
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Was listening a bit to the @hartmannreport.com on the radio enroute to my psyche appointment and the amount of middle aged men calling in to disparage the accuser against Platner, saying "it's fishy" "why didn't she lock the door"(???) Etc is sickening but unsurprising.
July 9, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Was listening a bit to the @hartmannreport.com on the radio enroute to my psyche appointment and the amount of middle aged men calling in to disparage the accuser against Platner, saying "it's fishy" "why didn't she lock the door"(???) Etc is sickening but unsurprising.
ICYMI I wholeheartedly agree, as I laid out in my latest for @theflytrapmedia.com
The Founding Fathers Sucked share.google/x0uVsFJq9rtP...
The Founding Fathers Sucked share.google/x0uVsFJq9rtP...
July 8, 2026 at 8:11 PM
ICYMI I wholeheartedly agree, as I laid out in my latest for @theflytrapmedia.com
The Founding Fathers Sucked share.google/x0uVsFJq9rtP...
The Founding Fathers Sucked share.google/x0uVsFJq9rtP...
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Few things are more corrosive to democracy and conducive to complacency than the hero worship of a country's founders and the rhetoric of national greatness.
For this semiquincentennial, I want some goddamn iconclasm and irreverence toward our slaveholder constitution
share.google/JCEJtu5PiQDy...
For this semiquincentennial, I want some goddamn iconclasm and irreverence toward our slaveholder constitution
share.google/JCEJtu5PiQDy...
The Founding Fathers Sucked
In honor of America’s 250 birthday, let’s stop lionizing them.
share.google
July 6, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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5. The Faith-Based Militia: When is Terrorism ‘Christian’? by @fredclarkson.bsky.social — bit.ly/4p8OSkE
6. The Patriot and Armed Militia Movements by Chip Berlet and @matthewnlyons.bsky.social — bit.ly/4vhJjBQ
6. The Patriot and Armed Militia Movements by Chip Berlet and @matthewnlyons.bsky.social — bit.ly/4vhJjBQ
July 7, 2026 at 8:13 PM
5. The Faith-Based Militia: When is Terrorism ‘Christian’? by @fredclarkson.bsky.social — bit.ly/4p8OSkE
6. The Patriot and Armed Militia Movements by Chip Berlet and @matthewnlyons.bsky.social — bit.ly/4vhJjBQ
6. The Patriot and Armed Militia Movements by Chip Berlet and @matthewnlyons.bsky.social — bit.ly/4vhJjBQ
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Articles mentioned:
1. County Capture by @cgallaher.bsky.social and Priya Dixit — bit.ly/PEW24CountyC...
2. In a Disturbing Trend, Far-Right Candidates are Getting Crucial Support from Militia Groups and Churches by @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social — bit.ly/4wv9QN5
1. County Capture by @cgallaher.bsky.social and Priya Dixit — bit.ly/PEW24CountyC...
2. In a Disturbing Trend, Far-Right Candidates are Getting Crucial Support from Militia Groups and Churches by @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social — bit.ly/4wv9QN5
July 7, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Articles mentioned:
1. County Capture by @cgallaher.bsky.social and Priya Dixit — bit.ly/PEW24CountyC...
2. In a Disturbing Trend, Far-Right Candidates are Getting Crucial Support from Militia Groups and Churches by @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social — bit.ly/4wv9QN5
1. County Capture by @cgallaher.bsky.social and Priya Dixit — bit.ly/PEW24CountyC...
2. In a Disturbing Trend, Far-Right Candidates are Getting Crucial Support from Militia Groups and Churches by @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social — bit.ly/4wv9QN5
Thread 👇
For years, PRA has examined how far-right militias advance a White nationalist authoritarian agenda. Assembled here are several articles to help you better understand how these militias are deepening authoritarianism in the U.S. Learn more here: politicalresearch.org/research/law....
July 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Thread 👇
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For years, PRA has examined how far-right militias advance a White nationalist authoritarian agenda. Assembled here are several articles to help you better understand how these militias are deepening authoritarianism in the U.S. Learn more here: politicalresearch.org/research/law....
July 7, 2026 at 8:13 PM
For years, PRA has examined how far-right militias advance a White nationalist authoritarian agenda. Assembled here are several articles to help you better understand how these militias are deepening authoritarianism in the U.S. Learn more here: politicalresearch.org/research/law....
Reposted by Chrissy Stroop
I have been in touch with Scarlettah this week. This is part of what she told me this morning that she wants people to know, besides the fact that she is surrounded by love and support:
July 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I have been in touch with Scarlettah this week. This is part of what she told me this morning that she wants people to know, besides the fact that she is surrounded by love and support:
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Chrissy’s whole piece is on point, but these paragraphs deserve special emphasis:
July 4, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Chrissy’s whole piece is on point, but these paragraphs deserve special emphasis:
Reposted by Chrissy Stroop
It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people.
But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person.
Denial makes things worse
But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person.
Denial makes things worse
June 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people.
But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person.
Denial makes things worse
But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person.
Denial makes things worse
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This is all to say that rich people are both creepy and bad at science.
May 22, 2023 at 6:41 PM
This is all to say that rich people are both creepy and bad at science.
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Anyway, if you want a good basic grounding in what evangelicals do/believe, especially as it pertains to politics, I would recommend three books: Jesus and John Wayne by @kkdumez.bsky.social , Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social and Empty the Pews edited by @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social
July 3, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Anyway, if you want a good basic grounding in what evangelicals do/believe, especially as it pertains to politics, I would recommend three books: Jesus and John Wayne by @kkdumez.bsky.social , Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social and Empty the Pews edited by @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social
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Grieving the loss of Ryan Stollar—a kind, brave & deeply intelligent advocate for the overlooked children of fundamentalism, who I met reporting on the movement he helped begin. As the right re-embraces the harmful ideologies Ryan did so much to deconstruct, I'll miss his clear moral voice.
July 1, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Grieving the loss of Ryan Stollar—a kind, brave & deeply intelligent advocate for the overlooked children of fundamentalism, who I met reporting on the movement he helped begin. As the right re-embraces the harmful ideologies Ryan did so much to deconstruct, I'll miss his clear moral voice.
Reposted by Chrissy Stroop
The Founding Fathers Sucked
In honor of America’s 250 birthday, we should stop lionizing them.
by @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social
In honor of America’s 250 birthday, we should stop lionizing them.
by @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social
The Founding Fathers Sucked
In honor of America’s 250 birthday, let’s stop lionizing them.
www.theflytrapmedia.com
July 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
The Founding Fathers Sucked
In honor of America’s 250 birthday, we should stop lionizing them.
by @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social
In honor of America’s 250 birthday, we should stop lionizing them.
by @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social
I'm stuck with her as my rep and she is the WORST
It should also be noted that Glusenkamp Perez is one of the Dems that regularly votes for anti-trans legislation. She voted for a bill that, if enacted, would basically make it illegal to acknowledge the existence of trans people in schools (meaning trans students and trans teachers are SOL)
Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."
July 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I'm stuck with her as my rep and she is the WORST
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It should also be noted that Glusenkamp Perez is one of the Dems that regularly votes for anti-trans legislation. She voted for a bill that, if enacted, would basically make it illegal to acknowledge the existence of trans people in schools (meaning trans students and trans teachers are SOL)
Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."
July 1, 2026 at 5:35 PM
It should also be noted that Glusenkamp Perez is one of the Dems that regularly votes for anti-trans legislation. She voted for a bill that, if enacted, would basically make it illegal to acknowledge the existence of trans people in schools (meaning trans students and trans teachers are SOL)
Really appreciate the discussion and engagement in this thread
This was a great article. I don’t actually agree the Founding Fathers “sucked,” but lionizing anyone that is a human- is bad news - and while these two men did bring about this country that I do love, their slavery thing was inexcusable and horrific and we shouldn’t sugarcoat it.
Constitution too.
Constitution too.
"If we continue treating the founders and founding documents like religious icons to be venerated, we will never be able to delegitimize the power of the unreconstructed."
-- @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social
-- @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social
July 1, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Really appreciate the discussion and engagement in this thread
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It if you haven’t read @agordonreed.bsky.social books on Jefferson, I find her perspective very measured and interesting. She wrote the book on Sally!
July 1, 2026 at 3:30 PM
It if you haven’t read @agordonreed.bsky.social books on Jefferson, I find her perspective very measured and interesting. She wrote the book on Sally!
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The amount to which I have grown to understand early US history was just driven by what we would now call greedy developers….
July 1, 2026 at 3:29 PM
The amount to which I have grown to understand early US history was just driven by what we would now call greedy developers….