It's so hard for Yoopers. Imagine having to carry around an angelfish just to show people where Munising is.
Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 4h agoNick Fish
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President of @atheists.org. Adopted. Philadelphian by choice, but forever a Midwesterner.
Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 4h agoCongratulations to Congressional Freethought Caucus members Don Beyer (VA-08) and Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) for their primary wins tonight!
BIG: Kansas just rejected a ballot measure that would have required state Supreme Court justices to be elected rather than appointed by the governor — dealing another setback to Republicans trying to overturn a decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
Lemme guess: the law firm is owned by a campaign donor and previously did swimming pool repairs at one of his country clubs?
Politico@politico.com · 19h ago26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
Todd Blanche made more promises during a private call that a faith group inexplicably uploaded to YouTube. Expect to see this story cited in lawsuits against the FDA when it ends telemedicine of mifepristone for no reason other than pills by mail make anti-abortion groups very mad
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW: Amid AG confirmation battle, Todd Blanche assured anti-abortion activists that he's working to make Dobbs 'permanent in every single state.' Admin will act 'soon' to limit mail-order abortion drugs. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
In a conference call hosted by the White House Faith Office on July 30 with thousands of religious leaders around the country, Blanche said he was committed to achieving policy solutions so that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision “becomes permanent in every single state.”
Kelcie Moseley-Morris@kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 21h agoThe recording of Blanche's call with faith leaders hosted by the White House Faith Office was still live as of a few hours ago, but has since been taken down.
Republicans attack people who live in cities as not "real" Americans. They attack gay parents as not "real" families. They attack atheists and the nonreligious as having no "real" morals or ethics. So this isn't particularly surprising. Now we need Democrats to stop buying into that framing.
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 22h agoFun fact: I just published the full story on this topic mere minutes ago. By my count, at least 12 pastors, seminarians & former clergy have launched campaigns for federal office this year, and 5 are already nominees. In response, the GOP is attacking their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...
@masnick.com Out of curiosity, is there a post somewhere on @techdirt.com or from Bluesky discussing the implementation of the very cool new card design I'm seeing on Techdirt articles on here?
the organizations in support of the SCREEN Act say everything you need to know about Mike Lee's latest gambit: www.404media.co/what-is-the-...
The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the arc...
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Ever wonder the difference between atheists & humanists? Well, Fish & Fish (Nick Fish of American Atheists & Fish Stark of American Humanist Association) join us for our 25th episode of How to Humanist to lay it all out on the similarities, the differences, and the overlap. Tune in!
A Mormon Border Patrol agent sexually abused all 6 of his children for years. He confessed as much to his bishop, who did not report it. Instead the bishop told the wife ... who was later sentenced to jail for not reporting it. The bishop? The AZ Supreme Court says he did nothing wrong.
Arizona Supreme Court: clergy don't have to report child abuse
U.S. Border Patrol agent Paul Adams sexually abused all six his children for at least seven years before he was caught. He killed himself after being charged, but not before…
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RFK Jr has no training in any scientific field. He's a history major who got a law degree and worked as an environmental advocate but has never spent any meaningful time doing science, or understanding how science is done. This isn't "an alternative scientific view". It's just kooky opinions.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoBASH: The WSJ reported the president is pressuring you to conduct studies probing the link between vaccines and autism. Is that true? RFK Jr: Did you say 'probing the link'? BASH: I'm just quoting the Wall Street Journal RFK Jr: He certainly does
LO — and I can't stress this enough — L. Ya know, I'm beginning to think the MAGA movement's vision of "religious freedom" is "freedom for white evangelicals to do whatever" and violent retribution for everyone else. If only there was a term for that...
Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.
Boneheaded lack of prosecutorial discretion here.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d agoLAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
People need to start getting disbarred for this shit.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
Weird how the arsonists never seem to stick around for long
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5d agoBreaking News: The Washington Post’s top opinion editor resigned a little over a year after Jeff Bezos, the paper’s owner, hired him under a directive to shift the section toward “personal liberties and free markets.”
A Scout is Brave* (* unless a drunk, racist, sexual predator threatens you)
Scouting America drops diversity initiatives from event after pressure from the Pentagon
One of Scouting America’s biggest gatherings has eliminated dedicated spaces for gay youth, women and scouts of color as the organization faces pressure from the Pentagon to pull back diversity effort...
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Gee, I dunno, y'all. I'm beginning to think they don't actually care about protecting women's sports.
Right-wing pastor says women's basketball causes 'transgenderism'
A right-wing Christian pastor has said that the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) causes “transgenderism”.
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This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
Social Media Lead, InfoWars at Global Tetrahedron
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For about a month last year, every single time I checked Facebook, every 4th post was AI slop cooking content with generated images and incoherent "recipes." There was no category for reporting it and every interaction with the posts only fueled their algorithm to serve up more of it.
The Verge@theverge.com · 6d agoAs part of a series of updates to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform, LinkedIn is introducing an actual button that lets you flag a post as something that “Seems like AI slop.”
Two straight days in which news organizations made uncanny valley image choices where famous people look like Onion stock image illustrations.
The increasingly stark intersection of Christian Nationalism, grifterism, and the Republican Party seems, uh, bad for democracy.
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 7d agoColorado GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx says God has given him a "gift" to uncover people's demons and rid them of evil spirits through a specialized prayer. Marx says you, too, can learn how to do it. The eight-part course is $99. www.9news.com/article/news...
Before even reading this, I would bet this is a result of someone using gAI to create the map graphics.
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 6d agoOfficials within Marco Rubio’s State Department caused major embarrassment after using a map of Africa in a presentation that failed to place a single country in the correct part of the continent.
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
One of the worst things about the Senate’s attempted Fauci show trial is how the supposed evidence against him is early in COVID he considered multiple hypotheses, then increasingly ruled some unlikely as evidence came in. The objection is he did science. Fundamentally that is what’s under attack.
The most predictable progression in the world... Tip to reporters who don't want to look like absolute tools: don't report on what Musk *says* as if it means anything at all.
