I have today's Sunday crossword in @theatlantic.com!
It's my debut there, so please go do it! I get paid for every letter you fill in. I assume. Maybe. I have no idea how this economy works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
www.theatlantic.com/games/daily-...
The Texas Board of Education has green-lit a plan to force Bible stories into K–12 classrooms.
They removed Frederick Douglass from the reading list… but kept Jonah and the Whale.
That tells you everything.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-boar...
It's been a long damn time since we've had this shared feeling of unbridled good news.
Everyone is paying attention to Artemis II and not Trump, which means he's seconds away from saying something insane.
these motherfuckers said it would splashdown at 8:07 and it splashed down at 8:07. after going to the fucking moon. fucking a man. god damn
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins sent out an explicitly Christian message to almost 100,000 USDA employees on Sunday.
We told her to keep her proselytizing out of the workplace.
Read more ➡️ ffrf.us/4murUTF
There is religious drama in the world of professional puppetry.
The Puppeteers of America platformed the anti-LGBTQ Fellowship of Christian Puppeteers at a recent virtual conference.
Now, after backlash, they’re scrambling to explain how that happened.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/national-p...
I'll be going live tonight to talk about the past week in church/state separation!
We'll be talking about Waffle House teleportation, Christians who don't want women voting, and so much more...
youtube.com/live/LN9rMNH...
A 61-year-old man with Parkinson’s drowned during a live-streamed backyard baptism.
The pastor said he got a "glimpse of Heaven" and "didn’t want to come back."
Prosecutors are now charging the pastor with manslaughter.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/pastor-fac...
"One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests... The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.
And they did it with a press release..."
www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...
ICE loves hurting and killing women.
We got an American Empathy Project grant in South Carolina — and we're using it to fight 🩸❤️ period poverty 🩸❤️ alongside our friends the Lowcountry Period Pixies! We're assembling 250+ period packs for students in three counties because 1 in 4 women and girls can't afford period products.
John Kent Tarwater, a professor at a Christian college who built his career policing other people’s sexuality, is now accused of... TAKE A WILD GUESS.
At what point do we admit this pattern isn’t a coincidence?
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/cedarville...
Every election post tonight is like "Wow the Democrats won the mayoralty in Racismville. Trump didn't just win Racismville but all of Klan-Guntruck County by 42."
RESULT: Democrats have flipped this school board seat in Tulsa.
They ousted the conservative board member I wrote about here, who suggested that immigrant children endanger other kids.
I’m telling you, the best way to understand this ceasefire is that Trump, faithless and feckless as always, saw Iran winning the war and wanted to be on the winning side.
So he surrendered to them and switched sides
In just a bit, I'll be chatting live with @katecohen.bsky.social about secular parenting, the Ten Commandments, and more.
Join us!
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A public school district signed a $600,000 contract with an "anti-bullying" group... that was secretly a Christian ministry in disguise.
The leader even told a church it was a "cloak and dagger" operation.
That contract has now been ripped up.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/school-dis...
Christian Nationalists Greg Locke and Tony Perkins are fine with war crimes, but bad language is unacceptable.
Florida’s attorney general claims the First Amendment allows the government to FUND and PROMOTE Christianity.
He also says atheists don’t deserve equal protection.
None of this is about religious freedom.
It’s about religious favoritism.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/florida-at...
These people are plain fucking stupid.
Textbook unethical journalism
it's worth noting that the quote they went out of their way to make look stupid was expressing a reasonable point — a restatement of the long-standing official US policy in fact! — and the quote they clean up and sanitize is expressing a deranged threat of war crimes in an illegal conflict
As I do every Sunday morning, I began my day with Hemant Mehta, the Friendly Atheist.
Great celebratory story about a teen girl who protested the Pledge of Allegiance on political grounds, was bullied by her teacher, sued & WON!
@friendlyatheist.com
A top FEMA official claims he magically teleported to a Waffle House 50 miles away.
This is the person running a billion-dollar disaster response agency and making life-or-death decisions.
Make it make sense.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/trump-appo...
Journalists need to quote this verbatim.
Don’t sanewash it.
Make white evangelicals and conservative Catholics have to hear what the person they voted for is saying on their behalf.
I mean, you don't really need a translator
Jey, a trans man with "trans" written across his chest, holding up a trans flag in front a sign that says "I am a HUMAN not a MARTYR"
"I am a human, not a martyr"
My message for today's #TransDayofVisibility march in Chicago. I have no regrets about transitioning and will not be silent
Follow @beyondxandy.bsky.social for future updates about my org that is going to defend trans rights with science
Stay tuned for April 25 👀🏳️⚧️🧬
Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"There’s no need for multiple votes from a family unit like that because they share a single brain cell. If you don’t think women should have any independent thoughts to begin with, I suppose that makes sense."
Triggered.