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Secular Humanist Society of New York. A rational, ethical NYC community. Monthly book club, movie nights, and brunches. Newsletter—PIQUE. Great conversations
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Kagan dissent: " Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting." www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supr...
Supreme Court allows Texas to use redistricting map challenged as racially discriminatory
Updated on Dec. 5 at 8:58 a.m. The Supreme Court on Thursday gave the green light to Texas’ efforts to be able to use a new congressional map favorable to […]
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December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Kagan dissent: " Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting." www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supr...
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Last shameless push for birthday & Christmas earnings! I discuss why my friend's series on the #evolution of world #religion is a great survey of expert literature, a must have for any library. At least try volume one, and see how useful you find it!
www.richardcarrier.info/archives/33588
www.richardcarrier.info/archives/33588
My Monthly Recommendation: The Fitzgerald Series on World Religion • Richard Carrier Blogs
Every month I will write about something I recommend buying and why. Still shopping for Christmas? Want to get me a commission for my birthday? Here’s the way! I am an Amazon Associate, so if you clic...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Last shameless push for birthday & Christmas earnings! I discuss why my friend's series on the #evolution of world #religion is a great survey of expert literature, a must have for any library. At least try volume one, and see how useful you find it!
www.richardcarrier.info/archives/33588
www.richardcarrier.info/archives/33588
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Another Place Show, November 3, 2025
Source: 90.9fm WDCB. Chicago journalist and jazz aficionado Andy Pierce hosts "Another Place" Sundays at midnight. The show explores creative music, jazz and the avant-garde, and delves into the longer, more complex compositions and improvisations in jazz.
Source: 90.9fm WDCB. Chicago journalist and jazz aficionado Andy Pierce hosts "Another Place" Sundays at midnight. The show explores creative music, jazz and the avant-garde, and delves into the longer, more complex compositions and improvisations in jazz.
Another Place Show, November 3, 2025
Source: 90.9fm WDCB. Chicago journalist and jazz aficionado Andy Pierce hosts "Another Place" Sundays at midnight. The show explores creative music, jazz and the avant-garde, and delves into the longer, more complex compositions and improvisations in jazz.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Another Place Show, November 3, 2025
Source: 90.9fm WDCB. Chicago journalist and jazz aficionado Andy Pierce hosts "Another Place" Sundays at midnight. The show explores creative music, jazz and the avant-garde, and delves into the longer, more complex compositions and improvisations in jazz.
Source: 90.9fm WDCB. Chicago journalist and jazz aficionado Andy Pierce hosts "Another Place" Sundays at midnight. The show explores creative music, jazz and the avant-garde, and delves into the longer, more complex compositions and improvisations in jazz.
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If “religious freedom” only applies to the groups you like, it’s not freedom. It’s a political shield for discrimination, and people fleeing violence are paying the price.
If we want consistent principles, we have to demand them: americanhumanist.org/nobanact/
If we want consistent principles, we have to demand them: americanhumanist.org/nobanact/
December 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
If “religious freedom” only applies to the groups you like, it’s not freedom. It’s a political shield for discrimination, and people fleeing violence are paying the price.
If we want consistent principles, we have to demand them: americanhumanist.org/nobanact/
If we want consistent principles, we have to demand them: americanhumanist.org/nobanact/
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As a member of Congress, Chip Roy should already know that the First Amendment bars public schools from telling children which religion to follow.
FFRF will keep defending the rights of all students, not just the ones who share his beliefs.
FFRF will keep defending the rights of all students, not just the ones who share his beliefs.
December 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
As a member of Congress, Chip Roy should already know that the First Amendment bars public schools from telling children which religion to follow.
FFRF will keep defending the rights of all students, not just the ones who share his beliefs.
FFRF will keep defending the rights of all students, not just the ones who share his beliefs.
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We're going to assume the University of Oklahoma has more than a few Christian students, and none of them got a zero for this assignment.
The difference is they actually did the work instead of turning in a sermon and running to right wing media.
The difference is they actually did the work instead of turning in a sermon and running to right wing media.
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We're going to assume the University of Oklahoma has more than a few Christian students, and none of them got a zero for this assignment.
The difference is they actually did the work instead of turning in a sermon and running to right wing media.
The difference is they actually did the work instead of turning in a sermon and running to right wing media.
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You met the #GivingTuesday match.
Thank you for backing the work that keeps science in classrooms, religion out of government, and critical thinking in the spotlight.
Reason matters when everything around us encourages people to give up on evidence. We're not letting up.
Thank you for backing the work that keeps science in classrooms, religion out of government, and critical thinking in the spotlight.
Reason matters when everything around us encourages people to give up on evidence. We're not letting up.
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
You met the #GivingTuesday match.
Thank you for backing the work that keeps science in classrooms, religion out of government, and critical thinking in the spotlight.
Reason matters when everything around us encourages people to give up on evidence. We're not letting up.
Thank you for backing the work that keeps science in classrooms, religion out of government, and critical thinking in the spotlight.
Reason matters when everything around us encourages people to give up on evidence. We're not letting up.
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Science doesn’t care who discovers the truth, only whether it's been tested.
Sarma shows how well-intentioned “decolonizing” efforts are drifting from justice into relativism. Respecting cultures ≠ replacing evidence w/ ancestry
Via Skeptical Inquirer: https://ow.ly/iHqj50XBGf6
Sarma shows how well-intentioned “decolonizing” efforts are drifting from justice into relativism. Respecting cultures ≠ replacing evidence w/ ancestry
Via Skeptical Inquirer: https://ow.ly/iHqj50XBGf6
The Global Retreat from Scientific Temper | Skeptical Inquirer
Across much of the academic world, the principles that once defined science—empirical testing, openness to correction, and immunity from authority—are under ...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Science doesn’t care who discovers the truth, only whether it's been tested.
Sarma shows how well-intentioned “decolonizing” efforts are drifting from justice into relativism. Respecting cultures ≠ replacing evidence w/ ancestry
Via Skeptical Inquirer: https://ow.ly/iHqj50XBGf6
Sarma shows how well-intentioned “decolonizing” efforts are drifting from justice into relativism. Respecting cultures ≠ replacing evidence w/ ancestry
Via Skeptical Inquirer: https://ow.ly/iHqj50XBGf6
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“Religion has given the world a tremendous amount of comfort... in a world torn apart by religion.”
Watch Jon Stewart talk about his lack of faith on the The Daily Show after show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSmr...
Watch Jon Stewart talk about his lack of faith on the The Daily Show after show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSmr...
Jon Stewart on His Faith (or Lack Thereof) | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“Religion has given the world a tremendous amount of comfort... in a world torn apart by religion.”
Watch Jon Stewart talk about his lack of faith on the The Daily Show after show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSmr...
Watch Jon Stewart talk about his lack of faith on the The Daily Show after show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSmr...
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This Tuesday, a proposed settlement between Christian churches and the IRS will go before a federal court.
If approved, all future elections in our country would become vulnerable to unprecedented levels of church-driven political interference.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
If approved, all future elections in our country would become vulnerable to unprecedented levels of church-driven political interference.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
The Court Case That Could Blow the Roof Off Political Spending
Christian nationalists are teaming with Trump in a bid to torch a rule preventing churches from donating to campaigns
www.yahoo.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This Tuesday, a proposed settlement between Christian churches and the IRS will go before a federal court.
If approved, all future elections in our country would become vulnerable to unprecedented levels of church-driven political interference.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
If approved, all future elections in our country would become vulnerable to unprecedented levels of church-driven political interference.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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A Fox News host urged Christians to "reclaim their culture" by linking secularists and feminists to communism.
She also complained about "atheist groups that keep suing" — maybe she's talking about our incredible coalition members at the @ffrf.org?
www.alternet.org/send/campos-...
She also complained about "atheist groups that keep suing" — maybe she's talking about our incredible coalition members at the @ffrf.org?
www.alternet.org/send/campos-...
Fox News host urges defense of America’s 'Christian Culture' against communism
A Fox News host is urging viewers to defend America’s “western Christian culture” and to think “communism” whenever they hear about feminism or secularism.Rachel Campos-Duffy, a “Fox & Friends Weekend...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A Fox News host urged Christians to "reclaim their culture" by linking secularists and feminists to communism.
She also complained about "atheist groups that keep suing" — maybe she's talking about our incredible coalition members at the @ffrf.org?
www.alternet.org/send/campos-...
She also complained about "atheist groups that keep suing" — maybe she's talking about our incredible coalition members at the @ffrf.org?
www.alternet.org/send/campos-...
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For myself, it’s mostly the “vulgar ignorance,” etc., that I notice. Jefferson’s New Testament textual criticism is enjoyable.
December 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
For myself, it’s mostly the “vulgar ignorance,” etc., that I notice. Jefferson’s New Testament textual criticism is enjoyable.
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Thomas Jefferson on the gospels:
“We find [in the gospels] . . matter of two distinct descriptions. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications. Intermixed with these, again, are sublime ideas . . .”
(From a letter to John Adams)
“We find [in the gospels] . . matter of two distinct descriptions. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications. Intermixed with these, again, are sublime ideas . . .”
(From a letter to John Adams)
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thomas Jefferson on the gospels:
“We find [in the gospels] . . matter of two distinct descriptions. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications. Intermixed with these, again, are sublime ideas . . .”
(From a letter to John Adams)
“We find [in the gospels] . . matter of two distinct descriptions. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications. Intermixed with these, again, are sublime ideas . . .”
(From a letter to John Adams)
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A 19 yo Reflects on How Her Let Grow/ Free-Range Childhood Made her Strong:
"Now, as someone on the cusp of being an adult, I do not doubt my abilities to travel freely as a young woman..."
letgrow.org/let-grow-suc...
#Occidental @LetGrowOrg
"Now, as someone on the cusp of being an adult, I do not doubt my abilities to travel freely as a young woman..."
letgrow.org/let-grow-suc...
#Occidental @LetGrowOrg
A 19-Year-Old Reflects: How Let Grow Parenting Prepared Me for Life
A 19-year-old shares how childhood independence—riding the DC Metro solo at 8—built confidence for adulthood. A powerful testament to Let Grow parenting.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
A 19 yo Reflects on How Her Let Grow/ Free-Range Childhood Made her Strong:
"Now, as someone on the cusp of being an adult, I do not doubt my abilities to travel freely as a young woman..."
letgrow.org/let-grow-suc...
#Occidental @LetGrowOrg
"Now, as someone on the cusp of being an adult, I do not doubt my abilities to travel freely as a young woman..."
letgrow.org/let-grow-suc...
#Occidental @LetGrowOrg
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In his column today, Ron Lindsay comments on the recent anti-vaccine gathering in Austin and how it united religious fundamentalism with vaccine skepticism--a compounding of ignorance. secularhumanism.org/exclusive/go...
God Is Anti-Vax | Free Inquiry
It’s official. God doesn’t want you to take vaccines. We have this on good authority, namely the solemn assertion of Del Bigtree that “God is an anti-vaxxer ...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In his column today, Ron Lindsay comments on the recent anti-vaccine gathering in Austin and how it united religious fundamentalism with vaccine skepticism--a compounding of ignorance. secularhumanism.org/exclusive/go...
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Religion is not important in most Americans' daily lives.
Over the past decade, the steady decline in religiosity reflects a broader cultural shift. Fewer people identify with any religion, attend church, or see religion as a meaningful part of their lives.
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
Over the past decade, the steady decline in religiosity reflects a broader cultural shift. Fewer people identify with any religion, attend church, or see religion as a meaningful part of their lives.
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Religion is not important in most Americans' daily lives.
Over the past decade, the steady decline in religiosity reflects a broader cultural shift. Fewer people identify with any religion, attend church, or see religion as a meaningful part of their lives.
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
Over the past decade, the steady decline in religiosity reflects a broader cultural shift. Fewer people identify with any religion, attend church, or see religion as a meaningful part of their lives.
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
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Did women ruin restaurants? Did women ruin the gym? Did women ruin libraries and having a place to live? 😂
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Did women ruin restaurants? Did women ruin the gym? Did women ruin libraries and having a place to live? 😂
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Elections for school boards and public service commissions aren’t as sexy as a governor’s race, but they matter — and Democrats swept them everywhere. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
The Wildest Democratic Wins You May Not Have Heard About
Elections for school boards and public service commissions aren’t as sexy as a governor’s race, but they matter — and Democrats swept them everywhere.
www.huffpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Elections for school boards and public service commissions aren’t as sexy as a governor’s race, but they matter — and Democrats swept them everywhere. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
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Worth noting that Davis is repped by Liberty Counsel, whose founder, Matt Staver, authored a 2004 book, Same Sex Marriage: Putting Every Household at Risk
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Worth noting that Davis is repped by Liberty Counsel, whose founder, Matt Staver, authored a 2004 book, Same Sex Marriage: Putting Every Household at Risk
November 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Presumably a % will die and so lose all their body weight 🤷♀️🫣
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Presumably a % will die and so lose all their body weight 🤷♀️🫣
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Dr. Oz claimed that reduced-price obesity drugs will help Americans 135 billion pounds by the midterms. Divided equally, the math is 400 pounds...A PERSON.
Even a sliding scale targeting 100m obese citizens can't make this statement not crazy.
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Even a sliding scale targeting 100m obese citizens can't make this statement not crazy.
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Dr. Oz made a stunning estimate after Trump’s obesity drug deals: ’135 billion’ pounds?!
Dr. Oz's wildly optimistic weight loss projections raise eyebrows.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Dr. Oz claimed that reduced-price obesity drugs will help Americans 135 billion pounds by the midterms. Divided equally, the math is 400 pounds...A PERSON.
Even a sliding scale targeting 100m obese citizens can't make this statement not crazy.
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Even a sliding scale targeting 100m obese citizens can't make this statement not crazy.
sbee.link/y9aujcmt7f
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Jerry Seinfeld has become the saint of the 9.9% — disciplined, apolitical, a lover of comfort, a man for whom the world’s chaos is just material to be gently mocked and filed away in another notebook.
This week in The Humanist:
https://thehumanist.com/commentary/seinfeld-and-the-9-9-percent
This week in The Humanist:
https://thehumanist.com/commentary/seinfeld-and-the-9-9-percent
Seinfeld and the 9.9 Percent - TheHumanist.com
Jerry Seinfeld, both as a character and as a man, perfectly embodies the new American upper-middle class — the 9.9 percent who live well, think of themselves as sensible rather than rich and treat the...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Jerry Seinfeld has become the saint of the 9.9% — disciplined, apolitical, a lover of comfort, a man for whom the world’s chaos is just material to be gently mocked and filed away in another notebook.
This week in The Humanist:
https://thehumanist.com/commentary/seinfeld-and-the-9-9-percent
This week in The Humanist:
https://thehumanist.com/commentary/seinfeld-and-the-9-9-percent
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Listen to our full episode of Freethought Radio featuring Stephen Levitsky, co-author of "How Democracies Die" here ➡️ ffrf.us/47MvQrZ
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Listen to our full episode of Freethought Radio featuring Stephen Levitsky, co-author of "How Democracies Die" here ➡️ ffrf.us/47MvQrZ