Nick Fish
@nickfish
President of @atheists.org. Adopted. Philadelphian by choice, but forever a Midwesterner.
Some, uh, light summer reading just arrived today. Thanks, @realjaredhuffman.bsky.social! Looking forward to diving in.
Chat is it good that your AI agent casually admits that you're violating the law?
Not disclosing that your unsolicited text came from an AI (and was presumably automated) is both sketchy as hell and sure seems like it would be a violation of anti spam laws, no?
"Mixed messages" No. This is an explicitly anti vaccination, anti science administration.
Todd Blanche: "My 'these subpoenas definitely aren't being issued for improper purposes' shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt."
The Trump White House consistently engages in levels of blasphemy that I, a professional atheist, could only aspire to
The only anchor point I found for the ~30% of Americans who are nonreligious is a passing reference in the 2026 essay to Houston Oasis. With the White Christian Nationalist movement writing vast swaths of America out of our history to justify their bigotry, I just don't think that's good enough.
Literally the only uses of it I can find are by Chuck Schumer! He uses it -- attributed to some unnamed "people" but still in quote -- in his presentation of Sonia Sotomayor at her confirmation hearings. Nothing earlier than that that I can find. It's so bizarre!
I'm just baffled at this. He used the phrase to close his remarks in Sotomayor's confirmation hearing, but couches it as something "people felt" (while also putting it in quotes).
It's honestly a little dispiriting to know that, as a professional atheist, there is nothing I could do that would be more blasphemous than what White Christian Nationalists and Evangelical grifters do on a daily basis.
Pretty cool that the DOD is writing policy based on 33 year old (!) Simpsons gags.
Totally agree with @friendlyatheist.com here. This decision is incoherent on its merits. And that's because this is entirely about signaling the Christian Nationalist movement's beliefs about whose beliefs are genuine and worthy of protection and whose are not.
Well thank god we're putting the 10 Commandments on every flat surface in American schools so kids can be instilled with the crucial value that idolatry is bad
Congressional Freethought Caucus co-founder Jamie Raskin will be in Philly on Friday for an event with Chris Rabb, who is running for the seat in Congress representing most of Philly — including my neighborhood. The event is Friday at the Philadelphia Ethical Society at 2:30pm. See you there!
Hoo-boy. A lot going on here. (spotted at DC Union Station leaving @americansunited.bsky.social's Summit for Religious Freedom)
Last night, the Fifth Circuit ruled 9-8 that Texas could enforce its law requiring the Ten Commandments — a specific version of the Ten Commandments — to be plastered on every public school classroom wall. The court would have you believe it's about history. Bluntly, that's bullshit.
Because the Christian Nationalist ideology doesn't allow for any dissent or criticism. They don't care about the principle of separation. They care that he disagrees with them.
1) I don't have "followers". 2) There's nothing "respectful" about telling a person, unsolicited, that a myth from your religion is the most important thing in life to understand. 3) It's profoundly arrogant to think a low-effort email is what's going to convince a person to change their beliefs.
Remember when conservatives argued that a city government official telling Catholic Social Services that their anti-LGBTQ policies were out of step with the new Pope's teachings was definitely evidence of anti-Catholic animosity? Anyway, just thinking about that for no reason in particular.