What a trash headline. Employees could ALWAYS pray in the workplace. This memo allows coercive proselytizing, potentially creating hostile work environments for rank-and-file staff when their supervisor starts trying to "persuade [them] of the correctness of their own religious views."

Such a bizarre and short-sighted decision. @recoveringfromreligion.org does incredibly valuable work for folks working to heal from very real trauma. It's baffling why St. John's Pride would go out of its way to stigmatize the 50%+ of LGBTQ+ people who are nonreligious. (via @friendlyatheist.com)

249 years ago, the world's first secular democratic republic was founded by freethinking skeptics, its Declaration drafted by a so-called "howling atheist." Today, we remember our roots, and we fight in the great American tradition against the establishment of religion and "tyranny over the mind."

Sick of politicians praying instead of policymaking? Same. We aren't waiting for miracles. Real change happens when regular people show up, stand up, and demand better. Join us! Head to atheists.org/notachuch, become a member for $5/month, and we'll send you stuff 📫

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Visit atheists.org/notachurch TODAY to become a monthly member of #AmericanAtheists for just $5/month and stand with thousands of nonreligious Americans fighting for REAL religious freedom, not Christian Nationalist control. PLUS: We'll send you a copy of Citizen Lobbyist and a #NotAChurch sticker!

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Today's decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor is yet another assault on our nation's education system, part of the White Christian Nationalist Movement's decades-long project to destroy secular public schools.

Make no mistake: this is an all out attack on our nation's public schools, allowing an extreme few to veto any lessons that conflict with their religious beliefs. It won't stop at LGBTQ characters in books.

20+ interfaith, civil rights, and community-based organizations who joined us, @americansunited.bsky.social , and @interfaithalliance.org in denouncing @repmarymiller.bsky.social ’s harmful, anti-Sikh statement from earlier this month.

NEW from me: A deep dive into OMB Director Russell Vought — specifically, how his plan to reshape the government is rooted in a specific ideology: Christian nationalism. Also, his favorite religious quote from an early president may be, uh…not true. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/r...

We stand in solidarity with our friends at @atheists.org & humanists across the globe. It's ridiculous and deeply embarrassing that our home - one of the first countries to constitutionally guarantee the right to free speech - is now considered an unsafe place for religious minorities to gather.

An important announcement about the 2026 World Humanist Congress that American Atheists was scheduled to host in Washington, D.C.

Our president @nickfish.me and director of grassroots organizing @samjmcguire.bsky.social are at today's meeting.

Glad to be here representing @atheists.org alongside friends from @americansunited.bsky.social, @americanhumanist.bsky.social, @ffrf.org, @interfaithalliance.org and other advocates who care about actually protecting religious pluralism.

I'm at the Presidential Commission on Religious Freedom and... Yikes. An assemblage of Christian Nationalism, fake history, slander of nonreligious people, and outright Christian Supremacy.

I spoke to @nickfish.me, president of @atheists.org, about the ordinary Americans coming together to fight white Christian nationalism

NEW: After my last report on the National Prayer Breakfast, America’s biggest secular groups tell me they've had it with members of Congress still involved. Bottom line: They’re calling out participants, even Democrats, as unpatriotic…

Today's split decision allowing the OK Supreme Court's ruling to stand is a stark reminder of the knife's edge that religious freedom — contrasted with exclusionary White Christian Nationalism — and public education are balancing on in America.

The court got it right: It's unconstitutional to fund religious schools with taxpayer dollars. But Christian Nationalists won't stop here, and neither will we. We'll keep fighting to defend the First Amendment against revisionists and religious supremacists. www.atheists.org/2025/05/athe...

A hateful thing to say. People whose approach to life is not faith-based have done enormous good, majority non-religious societies have been some of the strongest proponents of human dignity and solidarity. Why is the BBC just printed this unchallenged? If it's "news", it should be balanced.

Proud of the work of secular advocates and partners in WA who took on this issue and fought to make it happen. We have to fight to stop the bad laws while ALSO working to advance good policy.

No, we really shouldn't.

We're so tired.

Okay this is more blasphemous than anything we could possibly say

More photos from #AACon2025. I look forward to this event every year for good reason. Thank you @atheists.org and everyone that made it such a terrific convention! #community #secular #empathy #separationofchurchandstate

I received an award this weekend, a recognition, alongside some other folks whose activism, organizing, mutual care, and policy work I look to in awe and for inspiration. It's taken a little bit to process this, plus, you know, I still had two days of photography to finish! @atheists.org #AACon2025

Thank you @atheists.org for seeing our work in Houston and in Texas. The fight against #ChristianNationalism continues. #AACon2025

Happening right now. Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison having a discussion with American Atheists President, Nick Fish. #AACON2025

Dominating pub trivia at #AACon2025 is team Bertrand Wrastle. (Thanks to Heath for the name.)

AG Keith Ellison at American Atheists Convention in Minneapolis. Love it. 💜✊ #AACon25

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THERE'S A GIANT DOG AT #AACON2025

1) We don't need god. 2) We don't want god. 3) We don't need any supernatural help to make our nation any of those things.

No, you're not seeing double. We just filed YET ANOTHER Supreme Court brief in a second case that threatens our nation's secular public schools. With the Christian Nationalist movement hell-bent on destroying public education, it's up to all of us to save our schools. And we won't stop fighting.

Yesterday, we led a coalition of secular groups urging the Supreme Court to make it crystal clear that a religious charter school cannot be funded with taxpayer money. Grateful to have @americanhumanist.bsky.social, @secularstudents.bsky.social, Center for Inquiry, and Secular Coalition join us.

If the head of the White House Faith Office can sell supernatural blessings, so can we. ACT NOW, and we'll throw in magical cures* for ANY NUMBER of ailments!! Our faith tell us that together, with your $$$, we will stop bed wetting for good 💦 🛏️ *while supplies last

Here at American Atheists, we're incredibly grateful for the contributions of our trans members, volunteers, staff, and board members—today and every day. And to all of our trans friends and loved ones, we see you and we'll never stop fighting for you.

As we said in our brief in this case, cutting out the countless Americans who work for religious nonprofits from basic safety net programs like unemployment insurance simply because their employer might have a religious reason for doing their work gets the First Amendment disastrously wrong.

He calls protecting the dignity, safety, and lives of millions of people "silly." I call it absolutely necessary in the face of a rising authoritarian movement.

NEW: Noah Weiland spoke to Dr. Marks & we updated the article: “I did everything I possibly could for this administration to work with them in an effort to restore confidence in vaccines,” Dr. Marks said in the interview. “It became clear that’s not what they wanted.”

RFK Jr. has forced out the head of the nation's vaccination program.

Have you registered for our 2025 National Convention, yet? You know who has? 👀 📣 Seth Andrews, creator and host of @thethinkingatheist.com! Meet us (and Seth) in Minneapolis this April 17-20. Register NOW 👇 convention.atheists.org

The Supreme Court’s new religion case could devastate American workers www.vox.com/scotus/40467...

Every word of @imillhiser.bsky.social's introduction to this piece is — infuriatingly — true. And the stakes are high for the millions of Americans who work for religiously-affiliated charities all across the country.

If anyone at Heritage or Alliance Defending Freedom or DOJ wants to loop me in on your plans to destroy the First Amendment my name on Signal is nickfish.20 Thanks in advance

There are multiple elements of this that will shock people: 1) Religious groups teach Bible classes in schools 2) ...during the school day 3) ...in part because Ohio law REQUIRES schools to allow them to do so.

Donald Trump has issued an executive order attempting to shut down the Department of Education. This is just the latest lawless attempt to undermine secular, inclusive, public education by the White Christian Nationalist movement, ripped from the pages of their Project 2025 agenda.

Amen.

A message to Texas politicians: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

The Supreme Court will kill children if they overturn these laws. It's really that simple.