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Jane Borden

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Author of Cults Like US: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America (One Signal, 2025); I Totally Meant to Do That (Crown). Vanity Fair, NYT Mag, WashPost. Posts mine
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A Doomsday Leader Died. Could a New Abuse Lawsuit End His Arizona Community? Original

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By Jane Borden
| Rolling Stone Music Now
In 2024, a man calling himself Van of Urantia warned in a Facebook post that Planet Nibiru, a celestial body “seven times the mass of the Earth,” was headed our way. He predicted “mass destruction,” he wrote, “with increased and larger earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tidal waves, and sinkholes.” This was one of the last of many doomsday predictions made by Van, leader of the Global Community Communications Alliance (GCCA), who died in August 2025.
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The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists

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By Jane Borden
| The Nation Verified
Society / November 26, 2025 The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas. Ad Policy The First Thanksgiving, 1621, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930).
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Who Were the Oneida Bible Communists? Inside the 'Free Love' Community in 'Death By Lightning' Original

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By Jane Borden
| Rolling Stone Verified
A topless woman is taken from behind, steadying herself against a hay wagon, as if the couple had paused mid-task. Her late-19th-century garb is half undone, but her sun hat unperturbed. This scene — from Death by Lightning, Netflix‘s new narrative series chronicling the presidency of James Garfield (Michael Shannon) and Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen), the assassin who ended it in 1881 — imagines daily life among the Oneida Bible Communists.
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