Forcing biblical scripture on public schoolchildren infringes on families’ religious freedom. Parents and faith communities, not school boards or government officials, get to decide what role religious doctrine and belief play in children’s lives.

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · 6h ago

The Hamilton County Schools board in TN was warned that putting the Ten Commandments in every school could trigger a costly lawsuit. A majority voted for it anyway. They knew the risk. They chose indoctrination. Now students may pay the price. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-tennesse...

DHS claims the man ran in front of their SUV. You be the judge.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h ago

The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.

If we're going to make Abdul El-Sayed answer for everything Muslims do, then we should ask every Christian politician whether they consider Jeffress a fake Christian or if they agree with him that public executions reflect Christian teaching and ideology

Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress backs livestream of Fort Hood shooter's execution

Jeffress, who leads the 16,000-member First Baptist Dallas and is a Fox News contributor and longtime Trump supporter, expressed his support in a Facebook post.

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Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

The Onion@theonion.com · 4d ago

From The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment

In this week's episode of A brush with..., Cecilia Vicuña talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. buff.ly/R5SpSnX

All branches of SFPL will be closed Monday, October 12th, in observation of #IndigenousPeoplesDay. Regular hours will resume Tuesday, October 13th.

"Greg has his finger on the pulse of radical art." — Dread Scott, artist In "The Radical Unpresent," Greg Sholette explores art activism today, informed by centuries of protest. Out October 20th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205411...

Jacob Lawrence, Another of the social causes of the migrants' leaving was that at times they did not feel safe, or it was not the best thing to be found on the streets late at night. They were arrested on the slightest..., 1940-41 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134631

For years I've been living under the delusion the Miranda July was married to Mike White. She was married to Mike Mills. Uncertain what the implication of this new knowledge will have on my life.

More like this please.

Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸@resistrebelrevolt.net · last wk.

"A dozen orcs stormed the Palantir offices in Seattle this week to apply for jobs at the surveillance tech company. Palantir's militarized AI products attracted the horde of orcs, who hoped that their history of serving the Dark Lords would land them a gig. Unfortunately, Palantir didn't bite." 🤣

Murder and rape are wrong because they cause immense harm and violate the rights and autonomy of other human beings. If you need a god to tell you that murder and rape are wrong, that says a lot more about you than it does about atheists.

this is very cool and also seems like a *huge* swing. www.npr.org/2026/10/03/n...

Theaster Gates bets on fine china

The famed, Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States.

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Lucian Freud (German-British, 1922-2011) "Large Interior, Notting Hill," 1998 Oil on canvas 214 x 178 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The Albuquerque Bernalillo County library lends cake pans, ukeleles, birdwatching kits, and even has a seed library for seeds you can plant in your own garden! abqlibrary.org

dissected@trepanation.bsky.social · 2w ago

highly recommend finding out what resources come for free with your library card. you might be surprised

Victor Brauner, Animal, 1950 #museumarchive #victorbrauner

Henri Matisse, The Moroccans, Issy-les-Moulineaux, late 1915 and fall 1916 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135368

Alberto Giacometti w Roku, photographed by Gordon Parks, 1951

Don't forget your real power peeps✌🏼💙

“Don’t you dare go inside the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts! It’s much too dangerous,” petridishes.bsky.social writes. “If people can understand one another just by scratching a bow across taut strings—perhaps this is a form of witchcraft.”

The Kennedy Center Is the Most Terrifying Building in America

This place is much too dangerous.

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Every accusation a confession.

Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 3w ago

With the midterms just weeks away, Tommy Tuberville set his sights on the furry community. Read ↓

IS THAT @doctorow.pluralistic.net?? Hell yeah I'm excited

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...

George Lucas’s billion-dollar Los Angeles museum promises to showcase ‘the people’s art’, so long as ‘the people’ share the director’s own tastes.

The George Lucas Museum: It’s a Trap!

George Lucas’s billion-dollar Los Angeles museum promises to showcase ‘the people’s art’, so long as ‘the people’ share the director’s own tastes

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Americans apparently think atheists are more than five times as common as we actually are. Imagine what we could accomplish if there really were that many of us.

“That space of vertiginous contingency and mirage-like ambiguity is the true province of de Kooning’s art and can be uniquely accessed through his thousands of extant sketches, tracings, and collages.” —Jarrett Earnest

De Kooning Draws a Picture | Jarrett Earnest

Willem de Kooning's works on paper document his efforts to find ways of retaining both image and abstraction, depth and flatness.

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Referring to the Chinese president, the host asked “If you were president, would you throw him a big dinner?” “I would not be throwing him a dinner,” Trump declared. “I’d get him a McDonald’s hamburger.” 😂 www.mediaite.com/media/tv/jak...

Jake Tapper Digs Up Clip of Trump Mocking Obama-Xi State Dinner: ‘Get Down To Work’

CNN’s Jake Tapper aired an old clip of President Donald Trump blasting then-President Barack Obama for hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner in 2015.

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dinky kong, oric (1983) gamefaqs.gamespot.com/oric1/312806...

I guess I'm a little bit torn. I don't want the triumphal arch built, but then I kinda want the triumphal arch built if we can see tRump hanging from it. #triumph

Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, 1871.⠀ ⠀ One of several hummingbird / orchid paintings by Martin Johnson Heade. www.tumblr.com/publicdomain...