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News & Current Events May 13, 2026 at 7:32 PM

Lawsuit accuses secretary of agriculture of proselytizing employees in emails

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Lawsuit accuses agriculture secretary of 'religious coercion' in staff emails
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Lawsuit accuses agriculture secretary of 'religious coercion' in staff emails
A new federal lawsuit accuses Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins of proselytizing federal employees by frequently invoking Jesus Christ in work emails.
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LittleShrub May 13, 2026 +705
Performative Christianity is a lot easier than actually helping people.
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cardboardunderwear May 13, 2026 +164
And the corollary to your already wise comment: Most Christianity you actually see is purely performative.
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Luna__Moonkitty May 13, 2026 +75
The quiet people who are Christian are usually the ones working helping their local communities with little publicity, often without being paid for it. The loud ones are the ones who help with nothing, demand everyone follows rules they themselves don't follow and demand tax-free donations.
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CharcoalGreyWolf May 13, 2026 +25
As said by Jesus, [Matthew 6](https://biblehub.com/nkjv/matthew/6.htm)
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dayvekeem May 13, 2026 +36
Real Christians don't have the time to criticize others. They should be busy criticizing themselves.
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Khaldara May 14, 2026 +19
“let the little children come to me and do not hinder them” Republicans: Oh, they got this all screwed up. “Let me come in the little children’s hinders”
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dontrike May 14, 2026 +3
That's pretty much all Christianity is at this point.
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TheBioethicist87 May 14, 2026 +1
Hey, it’s not like she’s in a position to help feed the poor or anything.
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hilinia May 13, 2026 +512
"In response to the lawsuit, a USDA spokesperson said in a statement, 'While we do not comment on pending litigation, we will keep the plaintiffs in our prayers during this process.'" It's too much 😂
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VorAbaddon May 13, 2026 +166
I have a feeling that will turn up in the suit. Hopefully it gets a judge that isnt corrupt, but no hopes here.
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kraftdinnerwithsalsa May 13, 2026 +42
Justice needs to be blind to not cry She’s the real victim here
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AdevilSboyU May 14, 2026 +11
Even if it does, I’m sure there will be a pardon waiting at the end of the process.
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personalleytea May 13, 2026 +49
I’m going to sacrifice a goat to Gozer and Zuul for ol’ Brookie!
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malthar76 May 13, 2026 +26
Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Slor!
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BaconISgoodSOGOOD May 13, 2026 +5
There is no Gozer, *only* Zuul!
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personalleytea May 13, 2026 +4
There is no Dana, only Zuul!
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RobutNotRobot May 14, 2026 +7
Cool. Another point of evidence in favor of the plaintiffs. Not that this f***** cares. It's taxpayers' money.
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SpiritualB0x3 May 13, 2026 +6
“Praise be to Allah”?
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Yonder_Zach May 14, 2026 +2
Republicans make a mockery of our constitution and the rule of law every chance they get
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ecklesweb May 14, 2026 -2
D1 rage bait. I literally laughed out loud when I read it.
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AudibleNod May 13, 2026 +315
>"Secretary Rollins's practice and policy of subjecting agency employees to proselytizing messages conveys the expectation that USDA employees share in the Secretary's religious beliefs, even when doing so would betray an employee's own beliefs," the lawsuit said. "It is exactly the sort of government-sponsored religious coercion, religious sermonizing, and denominational preference that the Establishment Clause prohibits." Having religion turn up in government emails is utter bullshit.
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Ntroepy May 13, 2026 +120
Not surprising - I was a DoD contractor for a long time and 2 of our DoD clients started every meeting with an extended prayer. (Can’t say much as a contractor). At least they didn’t leave a paper trail via email. Awkward, but there’s a lot of aggressive Christianity in that space - almost as if to challenge you to call them out, although they don’t see it that way.
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tmdblya May 13, 2026 +78
“I’m being persecuted!” 🙄
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CondescendingShitbag May 13, 2026 +43
*"Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"*
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Bart_Yellowbeard May 13, 2026 +3
Bloody peasant!
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UselessInsight May 13, 2026 +48
My money is on your clients being Chair Force. The evangelicals go hard on recruiting in Colorado Springs. And yes, they do want you to challenge them. It feeds into the pseudo-self fulfilling prophecy that they will be persecuted for their faith. That the “persecution” comes in the form of being told to f*** off and keep their religion to themselves doesn’t matter. Same reason they send missionaries where they know they’ll be rejected, often rudely. They’re not trying to win converts. They’re just reinforcing the group identity.
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Ntroepy May 13, 2026 +16
While I agree missionaries bond over rejection as that’s a common cult bonding strategy, I think this was much more about asserting dominance and forcing Christian conformity. Rather like how Trump weaponizes Christianity to force blind obedience rather than him actually being a Christian. I say this because they weren’t bonding over rejection - they were forcing non-Christians to pray to their Christian god.
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UnderABig_W May 13, 2026 +33
I think it would be hilarious to then break out a prayer from a different religion. Bonus points if it’s Catholic, because the evangelical hatred for them is unreal.
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danb1kenobi May 13, 2026 +19
“Greetings, do you have a moment to scream about our lord and savior, Kahless?” [Smiles in Gowron]
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UnderABig_W May 13, 2026 +5
Today is a good day to die.
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InformationHorder May 13, 2026 +5
[Eyeballs in Gowron]
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Runiat May 13, 2026 +18
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
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degggendorf May 14, 2026 +3
Hasa Diga Eebowai
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AudibleNod May 13, 2026 +5
"R'luh'eh Cthulhu fhtagn! ngah'aglui cookies!"
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ATN-Antronach May 14, 2026 +3
You don't even need to be a different denomination, just pray in Spanish and watch them get uncomfortable
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UselessInsight May 13, 2026 +4
They want you to do that. They’ll see it as “persecution”.
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OpheliaRainGalaxy May 13, 2026 +16
I ran into that in fast food! Fella owned half a dozen franchise locations, only promoted folks to upper management if they attended his church. Started every meeting with prayers. He was in the habit of deliberately torturing his employees. The best manager I ever worked with flat out quit eventually, just couldn't cope with all the ways he was demanding she ramp up the abuse.
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OtherUserCharges May 14, 2026 +9
I am a local union president. Our international starts things with prayers. I was pissed cause I’m an atheist and I have a Muslim on my board, so it’s just incredibly inappropriate, even the Christian woman on my board agreed his stupid it was. I complained to our district presidents, but they didn’t do anything.
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c-williams88 May 14, 2026 +5
I have a buddy who works for a defense contractor and he was telling me about an incident at work where one of his employees was writing bible verses on the inner compartments of the vehicles they were building and it was a huge deal
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waffle_iron_maiden May 13, 2026 +14
Separation of church and state has never been so meaningless
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RobutNotRobot May 14, 2026 +1
The Sinister Six will demand that you praise your leader and join their religion.
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AlcibiadesTheCat May 14, 2026 +2
Soon they're going to rule 6-3 that it's the "Sinister Five and Three-Fifths." Thomas will write the opinion of the Court.
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IvoShandor May 13, 2026 +26
*In response to the lawsuit, a USDA spokesperson said in a statement, "While we do not comment on pending litigation, we will keep the plaintiffs in our prayers during this process."* Basically their response is F.U.
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Donna_Schrump May 14, 2026 +2
Please tell me you're kidding. Edit: holy shit, add another claim to the lawsuit.
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Flash_ina_pan May 13, 2026 +45
Forcing themselves upon people is standard practice for evangelicals and this administration.
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ZzBitch May 14, 2026 +2
Maybe people should just hit back and claim **Jedi** as a religion. We can use all the stories and other material created over decades.
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onceinawhile222 May 13, 2026 +108
Wouldn’t it be nice if as much effort really went into helping farmers. Things aren’t looking good down on the farm and prayers for them won’t be enough.
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overthemountain May 13, 2026 +67
Have they considered voting FOR their interests for once? They seem to place social justice issues higher than their own financial well being in voting for Republicans. Until that changes they are getting exactly what they voted for. Not sure why they should get help from others when they refuse to help themselves.
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epidemicsaints May 13, 2026 +42
These farmers are millionaires that get tons of public money in bail outs from Trump and wanted more. They did vote for their interests. They aren't a crew of rag tag waifs from a John Steinbeck story.
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onceinawhile222 May 13, 2026 +12
They seem to forget every time that elections have consequences. Stop digging and the hole won’t keep getting deeper. Just sad that they drink the kool aid.
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Niceromancer May 13, 2026 +10
They help millionaires plenty enough as it is.
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onceinawhile222 May 13, 2026 +7
86% of farms are small farms with gross cash farm income less than $350k.
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Niceromancer May 13, 2026 +2
The majority of farms have millions of dollars in land and assets.
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onceinawhile222 May 13, 2026 +1
Where do you get that info? Average farm size 470 acres median size is 72 acres. Agree most government payments go to corporations but that wasn’t the focus of my post.
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Niceromancer May 13, 2026 +2
His much do you think that 72 acres of land is worth? The average American farm is worth 1.6 million dollars The idea of a poor farmer is fabricated.
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onceinawhile222 May 13, 2026 +3
Average price for American farmland is 4.3 k.
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Niceromancer May 14, 2026 +3
Name me one person you consider poor that owns 1.6 mill in assets.  I'll f****** wait  I'm sick and tired of rich people trying to cosplay as poor people.
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onceinawhile222 May 14, 2026
There is a difference between liquid assets and fixed assets. The farmer has primarily fixed assets used for production. Most of the small farms that I was discussing also depend on non farm income for survival.
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Runiat May 13, 2026 +2
>His much do you think that 72 acres of land is worth? >The average American farm is worth 1.6 million dollars 1.6 million ÷ 450 acres × 72 acres = 245 grand, on the off chance small farms get equally as high value land. And fully half of all farms are smaller than that.
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bigredthesnorer May 13, 2026 +14
“In response to the lawsuit, a USDA spokesperson said in a statement, "While we do not comment on pending litigation, we will keep the plaintiffs in our prayers during this process." Is this The Onion? These people scare me.
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Sedert1882 May 13, 2026 +14
Zealots of any religion get my blood boiling. You do your thing, and I'll do mine, ok.
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Thorse May 13, 2026 +5
Id go one step further and add any strongly held opinion to this. Sharing thoughts and feelings is one thing. Stop trying to change my opinion on subjective matters
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Sedert1882 May 13, 2026 +5
True, very true.
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mmbg78 May 13, 2026 +34
Yeah Brooke I'm sure God just loves that you've successfully gotten vulnerable people thrown off food stamp programs...and brag about it
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PandaJesus May 13, 2026 +6
If their god existed he’d be very upset.
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Ok_Pollution7093 May 13, 2026 +19
Separation of church and state is not a suggestion. It is the whole point.
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cribsaw May 14, 2026 +7
“In response to the lawsuit, a USDA spokesperson said in a statement, ‘While we do not comment on pending litigation, we will keep the plaintiffs in our prayers during this process.’” What a nasty c***.
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I_might_be_weasel May 13, 2026 +6
"All employees are required to pray to the Corn Mother to ensure a bountiful harvest."
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ActualizationStation May 13, 2026 +8
Christianity may be the worst thing humanity has ever invented.
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atarijpb1969 May 14, 2026 +4
What a bunch of assholes.
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0098six May 14, 2026 +3
Meanwhile...in America's grocery stores...gas stations...and retailers...
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ibeerianhamhock May 13, 2026 +7
Inb4 christians being persecuted
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Conflixxion May 13, 2026 +9
the horrors... wait, who did farmers overwhelmingly vote for again? Kamala right?
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steve_ample May 13, 2026 +3
It won't be too far a stretch for her call on the public to start praying for rain in dry times. And most certainly over action that can effectuate change.
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UselessInsight May 13, 2026 +3
Utah is already doing this while watching the Great Salt Lake dry up.
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GreedyNovel May 13, 2026 +3
Reminds me of the memo going around last year urging anyone who felt like they'd been persecuted over their Christian beliefs during the Biden administration to report it. That memo also encouraged that anyone who'd felt persecuted for any other religion was also welcome to report that, but that it would be "handled internally", i.e. buried.
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forcedintothis- May 13, 2026 +4
This woman is a nut bucket.
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Bishopjones2112 May 13, 2026 +5
Whose word of the day calendar did that come from? Seriously what is it like over 50 percent of Americans have a grade 6 or below reading comprehension and ABC decided to use proselytizing as a headline word.
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jedre May 13, 2026 +4
Surely not the first agency to put big propaganda banners on its building. Gasp.
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deviltrombone May 13, 2026 +2
>The complaint listed a series of emails sent by Rollins to commemorate recent holidays, including crediting "gratitude towards a loving God" in her Thanksgiving email, writing that "God gave us the greatest gift possible" in her Christmas email, and describing the story of Jesus' resurrection as the "greatest story ever told" in her Easter email. At least her Easter email was accurate. I think that phrasing is an in-joke among the *real* Christian elites.
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PigFarmer1 May 13, 2026 +2
The scandalous behavior didn't take long to begin... lol
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Easy_Difficulty_7656 May 13, 2026 +2
Feels like more than an accusation when they put it in writing
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th3_st0rm May 13, 2026 +2
Funny. I felt the same way in Catholic high school.
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TheRexRider May 13, 2026 +2
I'd reply to her with Matthew 6:5.
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njman100 May 13, 2026 +3
Fucked Up Trump Administration, America, Wake the F*** Up!
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YellowButterfly7 May 14, 2026 +3
The Christian Nationalists will see the lawsuit as more Christian persecution.
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Rogue_AI_Construct May 14, 2026 +2
Good. Keep your shitty religion out of the government.
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EatinSumGrapes May 13, 2026 +1
Farmers have already gotten massive bailouts from Trump this term. So most likely Trump will give them more bailouts as their farms continue to fail. Farmers tend to take pride in their work and don't enjoy taking handouts instead of producing food, I hope despite the handouts that they will be unhappy with Republicans for taking away their pride. Farmers are used to taking handouts due to weather, pests, or things outside human's control. Taking handouts due to failed political policies and fertilizer shortage (it's going to get really bad, food prices will skyrocket) is just embarassing.
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vankirk May 13, 2026 +1
You gonna' run to the sea But the sea will be boiling When you run to the sea The sea will be boiling When you run to the sea The sea will be boiling All along that day
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ladysadi May 14, 2026 +1
Outlook would be more than happy to filter all Rollins emails straight into the trash.
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Turbulent-Throat9962 May 14, 2026 +1
Which one of her aides is she banging?
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