Nick Fish
@nickfish.me
President of @atheists.org. Adopted. Philadelphian by choice, but forever a Midwesterner.
Your regular reminder that there is no cosmic justice awaiting these fascists. The "moral arc of the universe" only bends toward justice if we make it so. And make it we must.
McIver: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
Lyons: Yes
McIver: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? Do you think you’re going to hell?
Lyons: Yes
McIver: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? Do you think you’re going to hell?
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Your regular reminder that there is no cosmic justice awaiting these fascists. The "moral arc of the universe" only bends toward justice if we make it so. And make it we must.
"My 'I left Epstein's island with ALL of my children' shirt is raising a lot of questions previously answered by the shirt."
VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island?
LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
February 10, 2026 at 3:15 PM
"My 'I left Epstein's island with ALL of my children' shirt is raising a lot of questions previously answered by the shirt."
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You don't fight this hard to hide nothing
BREAKING: On February 2, Sec. Noem issued a memo asserting the lapse in appropriations for DHS meant there is no Sec. 527 — the provision protecting congressional oversight visits to immigration detention facilities — and she was issuing a new (third) policy requiring seven-day notice for visits.
February 10, 2026 at 1:10 AM
You don't fight this hard to hide nothing
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Prosecutors have dropped charges against nearly two dozen people arrested during a clergy-led protest outside the Broadview ICE facility last fall.
Cook County prosecutors drop charges against 19 arrested during clergy-led protest at Broadview ICE facility
chicago.suntimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Prosecutors have dropped charges against nearly two dozen people arrested during a clergy-led protest outside the Broadview ICE facility last fall.
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This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?
Jeff Bezos' statement, his first since last week's layoffs: "The Post has an essential journalistic mission and an extraordinary opportunity. Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus."
February 8, 2026 at 12:39 AM
This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?
Thanks for posting this John
February 7, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Thanks for posting this John
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AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 AM
AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
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Oh, were there other, less racist things, senator?
February 6, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Oh, were there other, less racist things, senator?
I guess I'd rather see him posting this than threatening to nuke Denmark or whatever
February 6, 2026 at 4:38 AM
I guess I'd rather see him posting this than threatening to nuke Denmark or whatever
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Trump’s a fascist, but no he didn’t disgrace the National Prayer Breakfast. It *is* a disgrace. Yes it’s “bi-partisan,” if GOP dominated. It is also a private Christian nationalist event produced by an organization tied to 1/2 the dictators of the last 80 years. & literal Nazis.
February 5, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Trump’s a fascist, but no he didn’t disgrace the National Prayer Breakfast. It *is* a disgrace. Yes it’s “bi-partisan,” if GOP dominated. It is also a private Christian nationalist event produced by an organization tied to 1/2 the dictators of the last 80 years. & literal Nazis.
At an event a couple years ago, an older gentleman approached the American Atheists table — which was full of a number of volunteers and community leaders, myself included — to bemoan the lack of "big names" for us to elevate as "leaders".
Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined).
daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...
daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...
February 5, 2026 at 10:49 PM
At an event a couple years ago, an older gentleman approached the American Atheists table — which was full of a number of volunteers and community leaders, myself included — to bemoan the lack of "big names" for us to elevate as "leaders".
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*reads the White House post*
*chuckles at folks questioning whether Christian nationalism exists*
*chuckles at folks questioning whether Christian nationalism exists*
February 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
*reads the White House post*
*chuckles at folks questioning whether Christian nationalism exists*
*chuckles at folks questioning whether Christian nationalism exists*
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Hegseth falsely claims at National Prayer Breakfast that "America was founded as a Christian nation." Also says elected officials have duty to glorify God, which he says he does with monthly Pentagon worship services (I've been tracking those services: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/government...)
February 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Hegseth falsely claims at National Prayer Breakfast that "America was founded as a Christian nation." Also says elected officials have duty to glorify God, which he says he does with monthly Pentagon worship services (I've been tracking those services: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/government...)
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wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
February 5, 2026 at 3:24 PM
wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
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Bukele warming up the crowd for Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast really captures this era's caustic cocktail of racism, Christian nationalism, and authoritarianism.
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-trump...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-trump...
February 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Bukele warming up the crowd for Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast really captures this era's caustic cocktail of racism, Christian nationalism, and authoritarianism.
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-trump...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-trump...
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and coming up next at the national prayer breakfast we have this golden calf that we’re all worshiping now, lets get those hands in the air for the golden calf everybody
February 5, 2026 at 2:39 PM
and coming up next at the national prayer breakfast we have this golden calf that we’re all worshiping now, lets get those hands in the air for the golden calf everybody
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Religious tests from the president.
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "I don't know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat. I really don't. *crowd groans* I know we have some here today. I don't know why they're here, because they certainly don't give us their vote ... they cheat."
February 5, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Religious tests from the president.
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Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.
Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"
February 5, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.
This must be the "spirit of love and reconciliation" the Prayer Breakfast is all about, yeah?
Trump at Natl Prayer Breakfst: "We prefer somebody that's a strong, powerful person w/extremely good vision that can shoot a rifle very well to a person that's extremely weak, non-muscular, can't shoot a rifle, has no idea where the hell he is. We have a military where they all look like Tom Cruise"
February 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
This must be the "spirit of love and reconciliation" the Prayer Breakfast is all about, yeah?
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Your reminder that the National Prayer Breakfast, like the entire Christian Nationalist project it is part of, is in fact a real form of Christianity. It is one (very powerful!) branch of a diverse family of religious traditions.
Saying that it is "fake Christianity" is theology, not description.
Saying that it is "fake Christianity" is theology, not description.
Rep. Ben Cline at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We are reminded that leadership is not only about policy and power, but about character, conscience, and the recognition that all authority that all authority is ultimately accountable to God. We are honored to welcome President Bukele."
February 5, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Your reminder that the National Prayer Breakfast, like the entire Christian Nationalist project it is part of, is in fact a real form of Christianity. It is one (very powerful!) branch of a diverse family of religious traditions.
Saying that it is "fake Christianity" is theology, not description.
Saying that it is "fake Christianity" is theology, not description.
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Hard to imagine an event more effective at discrediting organized religion
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "I don't know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat. I really don't. *crowd groans* I know we have some here today. I don't know why they're here, because they certainly don't give us their vote ... they cheat."
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Hard to imagine an event more effective at discrediting organized religion