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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · 11d

A T-shirt is all it took to send Moroccan activist Ibtissame "Betty" Lachgar to prison.

At the UN, CFI's Kacem El Ghazzali asked: What is her crime?

Tomorrow is Blasphemy Rights Day. Blasphemy laws silence the living.

Free expression keeps us human: centerforinquiry.org/news/cfi-cal...

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · 14d

Betty has been sentenced to two and a half years behind bars for nothing more than posting a photo of herself wearing a t-shirt that read "Allah is Lesbian."

We stand with Ex-Muslims International to demand the release of Ibtissame "Betty" Lachgar.

#FreeBetty → www.change.org/p/lib%C3%A9r...

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · 21d

W.E.B. Du Bois called Dayton, Tennessee “America… capable not simply of mistakes, but of persecution, lynching, murder, and idiotic blundering.”

At the Scopes Centennial, historian Chris Cameron traced how Black secular voices reshaped faith and freedom: youtu.be/0aks8f245jg

Black Secularism in the Scopes Era | Chris Cameron

YouTube video by Center for Inquiry

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · 22d

Charlie Kirk’s murder was appalling. Worse? How the Trump administration has seized on it as a pretext for silencing dissent. Ronald Lindsay traces the playbook back to 1933.

Read the full essay in Free Inquiry: secularhumanism.org/exclusive/th...

The Murder of Kirk—Trump’s Reichstag Fire? | Free Inquiry

As should be obvious coming from the editor of a magazine with the name of “Free Inquiry,” I condemn Charlie Kirk’s murder, which appears to have been polit ...

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · Sep 8

“Christian nationalists often view a woman’s place as domestically focused and in a nurturing role.”

Household voting is a blueprint for erasing women’s rights.

Nicole Scott traces the dystopian logic behind it in Free Inquiry: secularhumanism.org/exclusive/is...

Is Household Voting Another Step toward Gilead? | Free Inquiry

Last month, CNN interviewed Douglas Wilson, the senior pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. During the interview, Wilson stated that he supported votin ...

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · Sep 2

ICYMI, the CDC cut its food safety surveillance from 8 pathogens to just 2.

“If you want to make foodborne disease go away, then don’t look for foodborne disease.”

Translation: less data, fewer regs, more outbreaks.

From @arstechnica.com: arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

CDC slashed food safety surveillance, now tracks only 2 of 8 top infections

“If you want to make foodborne disease go away, then don’t look for foodborne disease.”…

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · Aug 27

A three-hour Cabinet meeting where Trump and RFK Jr. tossed around autism conspiracies like it was bad dinner theater…

Meanwhile, nearly $7M in autism research quietly axed.

Fear is free. Evidence gets defunded. From @the-independent.com: www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

RFK Jr and Trump fearmonger about autism in cabinet meeting but kill research

Kennedy has said he will release his own report on the ‘epidemic’ of autism next month

www.the-independent.com

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · Jun 30

RFK Jr. vowed to “empower the scientists.”

He's doing that by gutting panels, rejecting consensus, and pushing vaccine policy into dangerous territory.

If you want a clear-eyed summary of what’s happening to public health under his watch, this @apnews.com article is it: apnews.com/article/rfk-...

RFK Jr. made promises about vaccines. Here's what he's done as health secretary

The Department of Health and Human Services under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken unprecedented steps to change how vaccines are evaluated, approved and recommended.

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · Jun 25

Join us this July in Chattanooga for the Scopes Trial Centennial. Only a handful of tickets left: centerforinquiry.org/scopes-trial...

Scopes Trial Centennial Conference | Center for Inquiry

Register Today! The Scopes Trial Centennial Conference, hosted by the Center for Inquiry (CFI) and the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), commemorates ...

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · Jun 25

A conversation about evolution, skepticism, and why the #ScopesTrial still matters: youtu.be/gHqBUAUnjMA

@johndelancie.bsky.social and @eugeniescott.bsky.social have spent years defending science from denialism, and here, they ask why that work still matters today.

“Evolution, Education, and a Century of Scopes” | John de Lancie and guest moderator Eugenie Scott

YouTube video by Center for Inquiry

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · Jun 17

From 2010 to 2020, the number of religious “nones” grew by 270 million. Faster than Christians, Hindus, or Buddhists.

“Nones” make up over 24% of the population and are the third-largest group globally.

Read @pewresearch.org's full report: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020

Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated changed, according ...

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · Jun 12

It’s all connected.

And it’s all in our 2024 Progress Report.

Read it here: centerforinquiry.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/u...

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · Jun 12

You deserve a world shaped by evidence, not superstition. That’s what we fight for.

In 2024, CFI…
✔️ Took a homeopathy giant to court
✔️ Protected evolution in public schools
✔️ Fought Christian nationalist policy
✔️ Gave a lifeline to nonbelievers in danger

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · Jun 11

Press Conference:
🕦 June 12 | 11:30am–12:30pm ET
📍 Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902

Contact your senators: centerforinquiry.org/alerts/urge-...

@cnn.com on what's at stake: www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/b...

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · Jun 11

The “Educational Choice for Children Act” is a school voucher bill buried in the budget that would redirect $136 billion in public funds to private, mostly religious schools.

We’re standing with NCPE, @sanders.senate.gov, and @doggett.house.gov on this.

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · Jun 2

$136 billion in public funds on the line.

The “Educational Choice for Children Act” would funnel it into private religious schools.

This isn’t choice. It’s indoctrination.

✊ Tell your senators: centerforinquiry.org/alerts/urge-...
🙌 Support our mission: centerforinquiry.org/support-cfi/...

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · May 28

SB 10: Ten Commandments in every public school classroom
SB 1049: Students leave class for religious instruction

That’s not curriculum. That’s a constitutional violation.

Texans, tell Governor Abbott to veto both: centerforinquiry.org/alerts/texas...

Not in Texas? Share to help us stop it.

On a blurred photo of a preschool classroom, large bold text reads: “SB 10.” Smaller text below: “A state-approved Ten Commandments in every public classroom. A blatant violation of the First Amendment. Full stop.” The Center for Inquiry website appears at the bottom.

Over a blurred image of empty classroom desks, large bold text reads: “SB 1049.” Smaller text below: “Letting kids leave class for religious studies. That’s not harmless. It disrupts learning and undermines secular education.” The Center for Inquiry website appears above.

On a blurred photo of a teacher and student raising hands, bold white text reads: “Public Schools ≠ Sunday Schools.” Below: “This is a coordinated push to inject religion into taxpayer-funded classrooms. We’ve fought it before. We’ll fight it again.” The Center for Inquiry website is at the bottom.

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · May 22

A key (temporary) win: the Supreme Court declined to allow public funds for a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma 👏

No precedent was set. The legal fight will continue. But for now, our constitutional wall of separation stands a little taller.

Learn more: centerforinquiry.org/press_releas...

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · May 20

A new homeopathy doc claims it can cure AIDS, regrow dog kneecaps, and replace real medicine. It’s funded by RFK Jr.'s org and 400K+ in industry cash 🫠

We watched it. You probably shouldn’t.

Here's the scoop from @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social: skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/be...

Be Wary of ‘Introducing Homeopathy,’ an Industry-Supported Propaganda Video | Skeptical Inquirer

I recently learned that Children’s Health Defense (CHD) has endorsed the extraordinarily nonsensical healing system known as homeopathy. CHD, the misinforma ...

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · May 19

A pope from Chicago? CFI's @jamesunderdown.bsky.social has thoughts.

Some are about miracle investigations. Some are about Italian beef wafers.

Mostly, he just wants the Vatican to stop winging it.

Read his open letter here: centerforinquiry.org/blog/leo-xiv...

#Catholicism

Leo XIV : An Offer and Some Predictions | Center for Inquiry

Here’s what we can expect from a Pope who is a true Chicagoan.... Multiple choice penance will be offered for those confessioners who can’t memorize a simpl ...

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · May 13

Michael Scott once defined secular humanism better than half of Congress.

Oh is right.

Learn more: centerforinquiry.org/definitions/...

#TheOffice #SecularHumanism

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · May 12

"When we compare Justice Souter to the religious oppressors who compose the Court's supermajority, we see how crucial it is to have a majority that interprets the Constitution in keeping with its actual purpose."

— Edward Tabash, Center for Inquiry

Read more: centerforinquiry.org/blog/stateme...

Statement on the Death of Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter | Center for Inquiry

The Center for Inquiry mourns the passing of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter. While he was appointed with the plan that he would be a lockste ...

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Free Inquiry @freeinquiry.bsky.social · May 8

In his column this week, Ron Lindsay imagines what Trump would say if, in line with the image he posted of himself, he were actually elected pope. secularhumanism.org/exclusive/ma...

Make Anathema Great Again | Free Inquiry

I’d say “thank you,” but of course you should be thanking me for taking on this job. Only I can make the Catholic Church great again. I am speaking to you i ...

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Virulent: The Vaccine War documentary film @vaxwar.bsky.social · May 3

Now is an especially good time to support @center4inquiry.bsky.social for its long history of promoting science & critical thinking, almost a radical act in the current environment. @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=qzHG...

Virulent - The Vaccine War | Laura Davis & Tjardus Greidanus

YouTube video by Center for Inquiry

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Center for Inquiry @center4inquiry.bsky.social · May 2

Arizona’s about to let religious chaplains act as school counselors—no license, no training, just vibes.

Governor Hobbs hasn’t signed it yet.

If you're in AZ, this is your moment to speak up: centerforinquiry.org/alerts/arizo...

#SecularSchools

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Alt: a man is typing on a computer keyboard while making a face. jim carrey. Arizona’s about to let religious chaplains act as school counselors—no license, no training, just vibes. Governor Hobbs hasn’t signed it yet. If you're in AZ, this is your moment to speak up. #SecularSchools

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