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Atheists support Pope Leo on Iran *way more* than Catholics do.

The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it. A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of

The Trump administration has quietly reopened the door to cyanide bombs on your public lands.

The Trump administration just handed 1.4 million acres of your public lands to the state of Alaska and they didn’t even try to hide why. The Dalton Utility Corridor has been managed by the Bureau of Land Management since the 1970s, originally established as a protected

Prayer didn’t abolish slavery, secure women’s rights, defeat segregation, or expand civil liberties. People did that — through activism, reason, democracy, and constitutional protections. Progress comes from courageous action, not politicians staging prayer circles for cameras.

To slightly adapt Orwell: The Supreme Court told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was its final, most essential command.

“[C]onservative nonprofit Per Aspera Policy Inc. was the largest donor to Justice 4 Democracy, which targeted Black Virginia voters w/ anti-redistricting mailers that likened the referendum to Jim Crow-era voter suppression.” Peter Thiel “previously gave a six-figure donation to Per Aspera…” 4/19/26

I don't think billionaires should be able to buy political office. Unfortunately, we have a system where politicians who are not billionaires must beg billionaires for money. We need to get money out of politics. Until then, do we deal with the billionaire, or with the billionaires' puppets?

New research suggests religion itself may not make people happier — the real driver is feeling that “the world needs me.” Meaning and purpose don’t require religion. They can come from community, activism, caregiving and helping others. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/prim...

Trump's Anti-Christian Bias Task Force is having some big feelings. Really big - like, 565 pages big. If you want to push our lawmakers to pay attention to real, non-hallucinated issues, head to the link in our bio to register for our upcoming advocacy training on May 14th!

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We are calling for a boycott of the White House's Freedom 250 initiative's prayer fest on the National Mall on Sunday, 5/17, to rededicate America as “one nation under God.” BOYCOTT Freedom 250 corporate sponsors: - United Airlines - Mastercard More ➡️ ffrf.us/4uSGdof

In all my years covering this stuff, I have NEVER seen Americans so explicitly labeled terrorists like they are in the newly released national counterterrorism strategy 👇 www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre...

The US should have a mechanism to recall a president, by the people.

On a call today, the CEO of Exxon said gas prices are going to go even higher. Talking about the Iran War, he said "the market hasn't seen the full impact of that yet." And when the war ends, he said it'll take 3-5 years to get back up to speed in some countries, like Qatar.

the only thing government does these days is erase black voters, denounce hasan piker, allow us to be infinitely spied on, and approve of grinding childrens corpses into a paste in the middle east

As the tyrant's popularity waned, his hunger for pomp and honors surged. He even ordered passports redesigned to feature his visage. No public document or building was safe from his ravenous narcissism. —Museum of American Fascism

Palantir wants you to be afraid. But the @purgepalantir.bsky.social campaign is helping people to fight back. The people should not be afraid of the billionaires. The billionaires should be afraid of the people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN7g...

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Oligarchs have always been a threat, but tech oligarchs represent a new level of danger. Their wealth dwarfs historical tycoons and their control over algorithms allows them to curate human reality. They own the digital infrastructure of thought

Contrary to popular belief, children are not resilient, a word that simply means they can return to their original state. They do not “bounce back” from abuse.

"The threat [to our civil liberties] is coming from within… We were supposed to be the ones who were preventing a lot of these abuses. Now we're not preventing them. We seem to be enabling them,” said one former #Palantir employee. Brilliant reporting @makenakelly.bsky.social. 🫡

"When did tech firms turn sociopathic? […] As early as 2009, Thiel declared publicly, 'I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.' And in 2014, he wrote that 'monopoly is … not a pathology or an exception. Monopoly is the condition of every successful business’."

2/ These really capture Noah Hawley's op-ed in @theatlantic.com about billionaire psychosis

1/ This is 100% accurate and darkly funny 🤣 Well done to this artist! via @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social

One religion. So many threats.

Tech Billionaires Want Christians to Believe in AI For Peter Thiel and JD Vance allies, the tech right is framing AI as a moral—even divine—mission. via @kieraevebutler.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The email address they are having anti-trans activists send emails to in order to keep the panel is [email protected]

This weekend, pseudoscience pushers, including Trump’s HHS report author, will be teaching doctors from around the US anti-trans pseudoscience. Now, anti trans activists say as a result of our story, 2k emails have been sent to get them to cancel. They are pointing followers to an email address.

Worth noting that not only are a16z founders Andreessen and Horowitz Dark Enlightenment/Network State-aligned, their media guy/partner Erik Torenberg is also a Balaji and Yarvin fan-boi. So this is definitely an 'anti-Cathedral' undertaking, creating their own media. gizmodo.com/new-a16z-bac...

The SAVE act died in the Senate. As politely as I can, it is hard to overstate how stupid GOP voters are. Anything not GOP is "Marxism and communism" according to them.

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere." tinyurl.com/3ejuyv89

H.R. 1897 is moving fast in the House and could hit the floor for a full vote as soon as tomorrow. This bill would gut the Endangered Species Act forcing economic impact considerations into listing decisions, limiting your ability to challenge bad science in court,

The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.

Our Secular Student Scholarships recognize nonreligious student activists. If you’re organizing events, building community, or speaking up for church-state separation and inclusion, apply today at secularstudents.org/scholarships

The Forest Service just told Congress to go pound sand. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz appeared before the House Appropriations Committee this week and made it clear the agency is moving forward with

We're watching the open web as it existed die in real time.

Federal agencies are drifting into Christian nationalism—from mass religious emails to taxpayer-funded prayer services. That’s not “religious freedom.” It’s government endorsement of religion. And it’s unconstitutional.

This is what Christian Nationalism looks like. More specifically, this is what White Christian Nationalism looks like. A government that belongs to We the People preaching broken theology from a "holy book" while utterly failing to make the lives of those people better. Christian Nationalism fails.

Corporations want you to think they're raising prices because they have to. The truth is that they're also raising prices to the point where they now have the highest profit margins in history.

9-Year-Old Palestinian Girl Shot Dead in Front of Classmates in Gaza’s Beit Lahia

The U.S. military “is run by lunatics – religious fanatic lunatics," to borrow from Marco Rubio.

The USDA just finalized a rule that guts environmental review on our public lands.