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Since 2010, Secular AZ has protected the constitutional separation of church and state. We are a 501c3 that educates lawmakers and the public to ensure freedom of conscience for Arizonans of all faiths and of none. https://linktr.ee/secularaz
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Hawai’i Supreme Court Upholds Church:State Separation
Unlike the Supreme Cult
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Recent Dr. Hotez article abt scientific v sectarian medicine in the United States.
Trump / RFKjr / #MAHA promote sectarian(ism) to "erode public confidence in scientific medicine" -- to sicken Americans & undermine US medical innovation leadership
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/rea...
Trump / RFKjr / #MAHA promote sectarian(ism) to "erode public confidence in scientific medicine" -- to sicken Americans & undermine US medical innovation leadership
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/rea...
Reaffirming Scientific Medicine Through Physician Leadership in Health Care Technology and Innovation | Baker Institute
Facing funding cuts, rising professional stress, and federal health policy misalignments, physicians are experiencing mounting challenges. In this working paper, Dr. Peter J. Hotez examines the state ...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Recent Dr. Hotez article abt scientific v sectarian medicine in the United States.
Trump / RFKjr / #MAHA promote sectarian(ism) to "erode public confidence in scientific medicine" -- to sicken Americans & undermine US medical innovation leadership
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/rea...
Trump / RFKjr / #MAHA promote sectarian(ism) to "erode public confidence in scientific medicine" -- to sicken Americans & undermine US medical innovation leadership
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/rea...
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Not surprising, but still disgusting: Sinema jumps on the MAHA gravy train
www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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Kyrsten Sinema, psychedelic advocate, now a devotee of RFK's agenda?
Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is cozying up to the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again movement, according to Politico.
www.azcentral.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not surprising, but still disgusting: Sinema jumps on the MAHA gravy train
www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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Hawai’i Supreme Court Upholds Church:State Separation... unlike the Supreme Cult secularaz.beehiiv.com/p/hawaiian-c...
Hawai’i Supreme Court Upholds Church:State Separation
Unlike the Supreme Cult
secularaz.beehiiv.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Hawai’i Supreme Court Upholds Church:State Separation... unlike the Supreme Cult secularaz.beehiiv.com/p/hawaiian-c...
If you wondered why #Arizona Supt. Of Ed and AZGOP go after DEI so hard…
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If you wondered why #Arizona Supt. Of Ed and AZGOP go after DEI so hard…
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Chances are, you've seen one of his recipes online (his hasselback potato gratin for @nytimes.com is having a moment). Author and food scientist J. Kenji Lopez-Alt shares that the secret behind a great Thanksgiving meal is solid chemistry. 🧪🦃
Spice Up Your Thanksgiving With Science
Should you brine your turkey? Why do mashed potatoes get glue-y? Cookbook author Kenji López-Alt tackles the science behind thanksgiving.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Chances are, you've seen one of his recipes online (his hasselback potato gratin for @nytimes.com is having a moment). Author and food scientist J. Kenji Lopez-Alt shares that the secret behind a great Thanksgiving meal is solid chemistry. 🧪🦃
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"Despite efforts by Christian nationalists to grasp for more power and control, they keep breaking on the same rock: Most people — and most Christians — don’t want the state to have an official religion. They don’t want the state to enforce biblical law."
www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/opn-...
www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/opn-...
Christian nationalism can’t win democratically, Moscow election shows | Opinion
“This little town ... has been fighting this idea that the church is going to take over Moscow for decades.” | Opinion
www.idahostatesman.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"Despite efforts by Christian nationalists to grasp for more power and control, they keep breaking on the same rock: Most people — and most Christians — don’t want the state to have an official religion. They don’t want the state to enforce biblical law."
www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/opn-...
www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/opn-...
Putting the AZ in lazy
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Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Putting the AZ in lazy
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Alabama is funneling millions of taxpayer dollars into private schools using textbooks that deny evolution, whitewash history, and attack LGBTQ people.
Kids deserve better than conservative Christian propaganda.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/taxpayer-d...
Kids deserve better than conservative Christian propaganda.
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Taxpayer dollars, Christian lies: What Alabama’s voucher program really buys
Christian textbooks that deny evolution, downplay slavery, and avoid critical thinking are now being subsidized with public funds
www.friendlyatheist.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Alabama is funneling millions of taxpayer dollars into private schools using textbooks that deny evolution, whitewash history, and attack LGBTQ people.
Kids deserve better than conservative Christian propaganda.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/taxpayer-d...
Kids deserve better than conservative Christian propaganda.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/taxpayer-d...
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
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BREAKING: Federal judge rejects DOJ's effort to subpoena the names and medical records of children who have received gender-affirming medical care from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge rejects DOJ's effort to subpoena the names and medical records of children who have received gender-affirming medical care from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Join us at noon (MST) to learn about Unity Rising, a youth-led organization working to build the power of working-class people through grassroots organizing, voter registration, and empowering students to challenge far-right extremist narratives.
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Unity Rising USA: Jacob George - Secular AZ
Join us Friday, November 21, at 12p (MST) to learn more about Unity Rising USA with Executive Director Jacob George.Click here to register for this virtual presentation.Unity Rising is a youth-led org...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Join us at noon (MST) to learn about Unity Rising, a youth-led organization working to build the power of working-class people through grassroots organizing, voter registration, and empowering students to challenge far-right extremist narratives.
RSVP here: secularaz.org/single-event...
RSVP here: secularaz.org/single-event...
Arizona’s congressional delegation voted to release the Epstein files.
But the AZGOP members spent the past year fighting to keep the files hidden.
Don’t forget who they were protecting: predators who preyed on children.
www.arizonaagenda.com/p/remember-w...
But the AZGOP members spent the past year fighting to keep the files hidden.
Don’t forget who they were protecting: predators who preyed on children.
www.arizonaagenda.com/p/remember-w...
Remember who they protected
The selective outrage of the Epstein vote ... Neither verbal nor literal shots fired ... And an OnlyFans custody battle.
www.arizonaagenda.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Arizona’s congressional delegation voted to release the Epstein files.
But the AZGOP members spent the past year fighting to keep the files hidden.
Don’t forget who they were protecting: predators who preyed on children.
www.arizonaagenda.com/p/remember-w...
But the AZGOP members spent the past year fighting to keep the files hidden.
Don’t forget who they were protecting: predators who preyed on children.
www.arizonaagenda.com/p/remember-w...
👀 do you want your tax dollars funneled to religious schools that can discriminate??
New reporting shows the "public Christian school" in Colorado wasn’t a mistake.
It was designed to break church/state boundaries.
A right-wing legal group is treating it as a test case.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/colorados-...
It was designed to break church/state boundaries.
A right-wing legal group is treating it as a test case.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/colorados-...
Colorado’s “first public Christian school” isn't a mistake. It's a test case.
Behind the scenes, a conservative legal group and district leaders crafted a challenge to church-state separation
www.friendlyatheist.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
👀 do you want your tax dollars funneled to religious schools that can discriminate??
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Important piece on how we got here.
Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.
Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.
Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
A Small Texas Think Tank Cultivated Covid Dissidents. Now They’re Running US Health Policy. - KFF Health News
Fueled by covid backlash, a libertarian author created the Brownstone Institute in 2021. In recent months, people with ties to the group have catapulted to the highest levels of U.S. government, exerc...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Important piece on how we got here.
Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.
Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.
Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
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Pushing back against the #MeToo/#TimesUp movement was part of the strategy from the get-go. And who did Bannon designate as critical in his coalition to avoid accountability for powerful men? "Conservative Christians."
Trumpism, impunity for sexual abuse & white evangelicalism. It's all connected.
Trumpism, impunity for sexual abuse & white evangelicalism. It's all connected.
BREAKING: Steve Bannon offered Trump’s MAGA movement as a shield for Jeffrey Epstein - outlining a coalition to “stave off Time’s Up for next decade plus,” in return for strategic and financial support @bylinetimes.bsky.social /1 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Steve Bannon, who told him it could help him “stave off Time’s Up for a decade” in return for str...
bylinetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pushing back against the #MeToo/#TimesUp movement was part of the strategy from the get-go. And who did Bannon designate as critical in his coalition to avoid accountability for powerful men? "Conservative Christians."
Trumpism, impunity for sexual abuse & white evangelicalism. It's all connected.
Trumpism, impunity for sexual abuse & white evangelicalism. It's all connected.
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
The Catholic League jumping on the Megyn Kelly train and justifying child rape because the children weren’t always pre-pubescent is quite…something.
The Catholic League's response to the Epstein files? Arguing technicalities over the ages of the victims.
They're not defending faith. They're enabling harm.
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They're not defending faith. They're enabling harm.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-cathol...
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Catholic League jumping on the Megyn Kelly train and justifying child rape because the children weren’t always pre-pubescent is quite…something.
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This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
Huh.
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Huh.
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
And here we go, folks. Just like clockwork, the AZGOP starts pushing hateful bills. Be sure you’re signed up for our action alerts so you can tell your representatives your thoughts: secularaz.org/about-secula...
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GOP senator to push new bathroom gender restrictions to voters | Arizona Capitol Times
Arizona Senator John Kavanagh plans to bypass Governor Hobbs and take bathroom bill measures directly to voters in the 2026 ballot.
azcapitoltimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
And here we go, folks. Just like clockwork, the AZGOP starts pushing hateful bills. Be sure you’re signed up for our action alerts so you can tell your representatives your thoughts: secularaz.org/about-secula...
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New Gallup data shows a historic shift: only 49% of Americans now say religion is important in their daily lives, down from 66% in 2015.
Fewer Americans identify with religion, fewer attend church, and more embrace secular values every year.
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
Fewer Americans identify with religion, fewer attend church, and more embrace secular values every year.
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
The 17-percentage-point drop in U.S. religiosity over the past decade is among the largest declines measured in the Gallup World Poll.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
New Gallup data shows a historic shift: only 49% of Americans now say religion is important in their daily lives, down from 66% in 2015.
Fewer Americans identify with religion, fewer attend church, and more embrace secular values every year.
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
Fewer Americans identify with religion, fewer attend church, and more embrace secular values every year.
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...