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Straight White American Jesus

Weekly Roundup: Thoughts & Prayers, But No Vaccines or Safety

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 850-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ This week on Straight White American Jesus, Brad and Dan unpack a heavy news cycle that spans tragedy, politics, and cultural shifts. They begin with the Minnesota mass shooting, examining the familiar “thoughts and prayers” narrative and how political leaders like Jacob Frey, Jen Psaki, and JD Vance framed the conversation. From there, the hosts turn to the shakeup at the CDC, where the removal of its director and the installation of a biotech investor with ties to Peter Thiel signals the increasing replacement of experts with ideologues. They also trace the troubling reemergence of eugenics in public discourse, especially in rhetoric from figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The conversation then shifts to higher education and the military, highlighting the purge of civilian faculty at West Point and the broader attack on the humanities as part of a push toward compliance over critical thought. Despite the grim topics, Brad and Dan close with reflections on resilience, community, and reasons to hold on to hope. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Check out BetterHelp and use my code SWA for a great deal: www.betterhelp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

AXIS Mundi.

0:11.3

Welcome to straight white American Jesus.

0:17.5

My name is Brad O'Nishi, author of Preparing for War,

0:20.2

the extremist history of white

0:21.2

Christian nationalism and what comes next, and the founder of Access Media here with my co-host.

0:27.4

I'm Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Lamarck College, and barely able to string

0:34.4

sentences together, Brad, because there's a lot going on, and the world is not always a great place.

0:39.5

But here we are.

0:41.5

Yeah, this is one of those weeks where we did a bonus episode.

0:44.6

And it's like, oh, I hope we have enough material.

0:46.3

Oh, yeah.

0:46.9

We could probably do a, if we go along today, people, it's because there's so much to talk about.

0:51.4

So we're going to begin with what happened in Minnesota,

0:55.0

a mass shooting that once again marks an American tragedy

1:00.3

and is an auspicious beginning to the school year.

1:03.5

We will then transition into what's going on at the CDC

1:06.1

and how the quote-unquote shakeup there is intricately tied in logic and in policy to what's going

1:14.3

on with Minnesota and the discourse on prayer and thoughts and prayers and mass shootings in this

1:20.9

country. I'm going to talk about Robert F. Kennedy's eugenicism and how the man who is now in charge of the CDC is a Peter

1:29.6

Teal acolyte who comes straight from the world of Silicon Valley technocratic monarchists.

1:36.6

We will then get into what's happening in higher ed and how it's all tied together with the

1:41.4

D.C. federal takeover. Lots to cover today, Dan.

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