You're gonna watch this video about sloths and think you know how it ends.
BUT YOU DO NOT.
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Christian Nationalists like Tony Perkins want to destroy the economy because they believe it’ll benefit them politically.
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The leadership of Republicans in the U.S. House standing strong on debt ceiling negotiations is encouraging to Americans. Hold the line. The outcome will have a significant impact on the 2024 elections.
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Anti-LGBTQ conservatives see reports of children being abused in the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention, the Boy Scouts of America, and by numerous GOP politicians, and they think:
"You know what kids need protection from? Shirts with rainbows on them at Target."
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Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert's son called 911 crying in December, saying say his dad was, "throwing him around."
9 minutes later, the boy made a second call.
He says his dad *wasn't* physical.
Boebert then gets on the call and tells the dispatcher her son, "doesn't need help."
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Conservatives on school shootings:
Nothing we can do.
Conservatives on rainbows in stores:
SAVE THE CHILDREN! HARASS EMPLOYEES! HOLD THE LINE! THIS IS HARMING OUR KIDS AND WE WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO FIGHT BACK!
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Last week, a Florida county celebrated Christian conspiracy theorist and COVID denier Rodney Howard-Browne for how his "community outreach and numerous programs have positively impacted" the area.
Why?!
My piece: friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/why-did-a-fl
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Christian hate-preacher Duncan Urbanek says the Qur'an is the "worst literature" because it was put together by someone who couldn't "read or write."
"It sounds like... a third grader put it together."
Meanwhile, "everything just lines up perfectly" in the Bible.
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No, Gene Bailey, when Thomas Jefferson wrote of "building a wall of separation between Church & State," he did not mean that "the church should infect the state."
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“Many voters” is a hell of a substitute for lazy political journalists.
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Many voters see the Democratic and Republican parties as equally extreme at this moment.
Conversations with two lawmakers who have publicly clashed reveal how the parties regard, and exploit, the other side when it comes to questions of extremism. nyti.ms/43lF1fL
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Today I was doing an author talk at a middle school when a lockdown was called. I asked the girl nearest to me what to do. I explained that I'd never done a lockdown before. She looked at me in disbelief and said, "Did you grow up in America?"
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Wtf.
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Nick Fuentes acolytes Jared Nobel (aka "Woozuh") and Aidan Duncan (aka "Smiley") thought it would be "funny" to prowl around outside Columbine High School last night carrying fake weapons.
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Yes, we all remember that mandatory essay on “gay bathroom sex” from college.
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The Jehovah's Witnesses have quietly removed two videos promoting disfellowshipping (shunning) from their website... but not before copies were saved.
The videos show what a cruel policy should look like in practice.
My piece: friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/these-are-th
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The people who say “woke” are utterly incapable of not saying it over and over.
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what will you do about Ukraine?
I’ll unwoke the military.
Can this guy answer any question without saying woke? twitter.com/atrupar/status…
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Best political joke of the night aside from All Things DeSantis.
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What if the driver is pregnant? Shouldn’t she have to wear a helmet to protect the preborn? Should she be allowed to even drive a motorcycle? Before issuing her a license shouldn’t she at least have to watch a movie of what a crash can do to a preborn? #NELeg
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Another night session at the #NEleg, and now we're hearing an 11th hour attempt by Sen. Ben Hansen to do away with the state's motorcycle helmet law. 'What this is about is freedom,' said Sen. @Erdman4You Doctors say helmets help avoid brain injuries and promote safety.
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We had more people join when I played Among Us 👾
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David Sacks just ludicrously made up that Ron DeSantis' Twitter space was the largest group that "has ever met online." There are 100,000 people in this thing.
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Just the dumbest bill passed by the worst Republican lawmakers in the country.
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#BREAKING Texas lawmakers have OK'd allowing unlicensed religious chaplains to work in mental health roles in schools, despite concerns the bill is a "Trojan horse" for evangelism & will worsen the state's mental health crisis. @TexasTribune #txlege texastribune.org/2023/05/24/tex
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This video of a far-right provocateur haranguing a Target employee is from February, and was roundly criticized as weird and extreme behavior at the time.
It's only three months later, and Target protests are being lionized by Fox News and GOP influencers as a culture war win.
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The drag queen number is appalling!
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1. These were the key numbers in the report against the Catholic Church in Illinois:
- 451 credibly accused predators
- 1,997 victims since 1950
- 100,000 pages of examined documents
- 9,726 years' worth of "abuse opportunities”
- 0 drag queens
friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/the-damning-
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If the anti-trans panic playbook sounds familiar — that's because it is.
Here was the gameplan from the person who created the CRT panic.
He laid this out months before that became a bothsides'd national conversation.
They have just replaced CRT boycotts with trans boycotts.
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Will likely go down as one of the biggest unforced errors in modern politics or will hasten our demise into white evangelical totalitarianism. Not really any other options!
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.@RonDeSantis for President was officially born at 2:24 p.m. on May 24, 2023 per the @FEC.
#FlaPol
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Interesting update!
My earlier article about the license plate change is here: friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/mississippis
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BREAKING: Today we claimed victory in our lawsuit against the state of Mississippi. Government officials have removed "In God We Trust" from the state's new license plate design. Getting everything we wanted and more, we have withdrawn our federal lawsuit. atheists.org/2023/05/missis
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Just amazing this is getting covered as “political back and forth”.
One party is threatening to default if their massive, unpopular agenda isn’t immediately passed into law.
One party doesn’t want to default and will raise the debt ceiling immediately and without condition.
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It’s time for lawmakers to end the drama and come to terms and increase the debt limit. There has been little economic fallout from the political back and forth so far. But that is set to change quickly. twitter.com/cnnthismorning…
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Frost: If we legislated using your logic, women and black folks wouldn’t have the right to vote because it would be unfair to those who never got to vote before them… why do you bring that bigoted logic to this issue as it relates to students but not any other issue
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This is neat: Two of the five members elected to chair the Pennsylvania Progressive Caucus were endorsed last cycle by the Freethought Equality Fund ().
Rep. is "culturally Christian" while is "not religious."
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Mayor Brandon Johnson opens first City Council meeting with a joke that he’s ‘live from Naperville,’ a dig at Fox News
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"We are ready to change this state by just flipping a couple seats to someone who's fucking normal. It doesn't even have to be like liberal hero, does someone's republican dad just wanna come in here and say 'I don't hate gay people.'" -
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On this episode of @FastPoliticsPod we have @JamesCarville
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You voted against an assault weapons ban just 2 months after those 21 souls were taken. Preserving access to a weapon that has no value for self-defense or hunting - unless you’re hunting children - while writing op-eds is neither a commitment to solutions nor public safety.
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On May 24, 2022, 21 souls were taken far too soon.
I am committed to ending violence in our schools through common-sense solutions & helping the Uvalde community rebuild.
We are #UvaldeStrong.
More in my op-ed for @ExpressNews below.
expressnews.com/opinion/commen
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6. Ultimately, the only real consequence the Catholic Church in Illinois will ever face is the exodus of worshipers who call themselves Catholic.
It’s not too late to break ties.
My analysis of the report is here:
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5. There was a MASSIVE gap between the Catholic Church's self-reported number of alleged abusers and what the IL attorney general's team discovered in their own investigation.
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4. The percentage of substantiated sex abusers in the Catholic Church in IL was 4.8% at its peak in 1988. But one diocese was much worse than the others.
In the Diocese of Belleville, the number "remained above 8% from 1991 through 2011, and even exceeded 10% in 2011."
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3. Because of the Church's lax policies (reassigning alleged abusers to different parishes, etc), the predators named in the report had a total of “9,726 years of abuse opportunities for child sex abusers.”
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