SecularAZ
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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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Save the Date: join us on January 10at 1-4 pm for an afternoon of education, inspiration and community building with secular supporters from round the state.This year, our focus is on mutual aid... be...
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It's time... for the Secular Summit! Join us on January 10 for a day of activism, inspiration and community. Lunch included with tickets! Details and RSVP at the link below.
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Secular Summit 2026 - Secular AZ
Save the Date: join us on January 10at 1-4 pm for an afternoon of education, inspiration and community building with secular supporters from round the state.This year, our focus is on mutual aid... be...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
It's time... for the Secular Summit! Join us on January 10 for a day of activism, inspiration and community. Lunch included with tickets! Details and RSVP at the link below.
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Dec. 18: Trump asks, “What ever happened to separation of Church and State?”
Dec. 21: Vance says the U.S. is a “Christian nation.”
Dec. 25: DHS insists that Americans “share a nation and a Savior.”
Maybe Trump’s team can answer his original question? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Dec. 21: Vance says the U.S. is a “Christian nation.”
Dec. 25: DHS insists that Americans “share a nation and a Savior.”
Maybe Trump’s team can answer his original question? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
After Trump claimed to care about church-state separation, his team drops the pretense
The week before Christmas, the president asked, “What ever happened to separation of church and state?” It was a question better left to his own team.
www.ms.now
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Dec. 18: Trump asks, “What ever happened to separation of Church and State?”
Dec. 21: Vance says the U.S. is a “Christian nation.”
Dec. 25: DHS insists that Americans “share a nation and a Savior.”
Maybe Trump’s team can answer his original question? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Dec. 21: Vance says the U.S. is a “Christian nation.”
Dec. 25: DHS insists that Americans “share a nation and a Savior.”
Maybe Trump’s team can answer his original question? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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If you're not already aware, look up what the Christian crusaders did when they reached Jerusalem in 1099 (the first crusade).
Far-right groups are co-opting the aesthetics of the Crusades for their own objectives, transforming an obsession with feudal justice into a campaign for a White Christian nation.
Why We Should All Be Worried About "Crusadercore"
This online trend equips young, White men with a historically bastardized visual lexicon — one that gives new credence and religious authority to far-right bigotry.
hyperallergic.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If you're not already aware, look up what the Christian crusaders did when they reached Jerusalem in 1099 (the first crusade).
It's time... for the Secular Summit! Join us on January 10 for a day of activism, inspiration and community. Lunch included with tickets! Details and RSVP at the link below.
secularaz.org/single-event...
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Secular Summit 2026 - Secular AZ
Save the Date: join us on January 10at 1-4 pm for an afternoon of education, inspiration and community building with secular supporters from round the state.This year, our focus is on mutual aid... be...
secularaz.org
December 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
It's time... for the Secular Summit! Join us on January 10 for a day of activism, inspiration and community. Lunch included with tickets! Details and RSVP at the link below.
secularaz.org/single-event...
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This is one of those moments where public comments actually matter!! The federal government is proposing rules that could block gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. You can submit a supportive comment now — it takes minutes.
#ProtectTransKids #TransRights
act.hrc.org/page/183931/...
#ProtectTransKids #TransRights
act.hrc.org/page/183931/...
Submit Public Comments
act.hrc.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is one of those moments where public comments actually matter!! The federal government is proposing rules that could block gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. You can submit a supportive comment now — it takes minutes.
#ProtectTransKids #TransRights
act.hrc.org/page/183931/...
#ProtectTransKids #TransRights
act.hrc.org/page/183931/...
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On Jan 20 at 2 PM local time, people across the country are walking out together. You can step away from work, school, or home and gather locally as part of the Free America Walkout. Hosts are still needed.
#FreeAmericaWalkout #50501 #WomensMarch
www.freeameri.ca
#FreeAmericaWalkout #50501 #WomensMarch
www.freeameri.ca
FREE AMERICA WALKOUT Jan 20, 2026
On Jan 20, 2026 we will walk out because a Free America is the only America worth calling great.
www.freeameri.ca
December 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
On Jan 20 at 2 PM local time, people across the country are walking out together. You can step away from work, school, or home and gather locally as part of the Free America Walkout. Hosts are still needed.
#FreeAmericaWalkout #50501 #WomensMarch
www.freeameri.ca
#FreeAmericaWalkout #50501 #WomensMarch
www.freeameri.ca
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Cancel culture warriors should be up in arms over a college student demanding that a college instructor be fired because she taught things the student found offensive, but as I discuss in my new essay, Little Fascists Everywhere, their outrage is highly selective: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
![Excerpt from article: "The praise heaped upon a student who interrupted a class lecture to announce that she was personally offended by the instructor’s views on gender and who then proceeded to push to have that instructor fired is an illuminating contrast to the widespread vilification and punishment of college and graduate students who have protested external speakers on the basis of their views on gender. For example, students who protested a speech by a lawyer from the extreme anti-LGBTQ+ organization Alliance Defending Freedom at Yale Law School were accused of imposing a “heckler’s veto”; they were mocked, denounced, and “canceled” from consideration as clerks by several prominent, conservative federal judges. Stanford Law School students who disrupted a speech by a far-right conservative federal judge, Kyle Duncan, were similarly lambasted for their “intolerance” and similarly excluded for consideration for federal clerkships by conservative judges. These incidents have been frequently cited as examples of “snowflake students” trying to shut down discussion of topics they find personally offensive or unpleasant. In 2016, the founder of the Heritage Foundation described liberal students who protested conservative speakers as both “little snowflakes demand[ing] ‘safe spaces’ where they can be protected from words” and the “little dictators” of the campus. No one, however, has accused the anonymous Texas A&M student of being a “little dictator,” despite her hysterical and erroneous assertion that a viewpoint she found offensive—presented in a classroom setting by an expert on the subject being taught— was “illegal” and her announcement that she would be reporting the professor to the administration for that reason. None of the conservative cancel culture warriors ... have characterized her successful campaign to have an instructor fired for speech they didn’t like as “cancel culture.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uabrjr5kme2wfaskk56o2ais/bafkreifndk43t4q5zm6em756n4mspeislfiknhdk24tptqjcxp5lfkrlri@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Cancel culture warriors should be up in arms over a college student demanding that a college instructor be fired because she taught things the student found offensive, but as I discuss in my new essay, Little Fascists Everywhere, their outrage is highly selective: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The U.S. is undergoing its fastest religious shift in modern history, marked by a rapid increase in the religiously unaffiliated and numerous church closures nationwide.
The great unchurching of America
A seismic shift in religion is upon U.S.
www.axios.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The U.S. is undergoing its fastest religious shift in modern history, marked by a rapid increase in the religiously unaffiliated and numerous church closures nationwide.
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In case you need a positive reminder:
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
In case you need a positive reminder:
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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It's almost time... Save your seat at the Festival of Pies! December 27 at the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix in Mesa #Arizona. RSVP today! secularaz.org/single-event...
Because a little slice keeps our secular democracy nice.
Because a little slice keeps our secular democracy nice.
December 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It's almost time... Save your seat at the Festival of Pies! December 27 at the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix in Mesa #Arizona. RSVP today! secularaz.org/single-event...
Because a little slice keeps our secular democracy nice.
Because a little slice keeps our secular democracy nice.
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“We are blessed to share a nation and a savior”. Through the official messaging channels of a Cabinet-level department. Christian Nationalism 101.
December 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“We are blessed to share a nation and a savior”. Through the official messaging channels of a Cabinet-level department. Christian Nationalism 101.
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
Heritage Foundation killed by MAGA
Antisemitism in the GOP? The devil you say!
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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LET US BEGIN THE AIRING OF GRIEVANCES. HAPPY FESTIVUS TO ALL!
two men standing in front of an american video store
ALT: two men standing in front of an american video store
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
LET US BEGIN THE AIRING OF GRIEVANCES. HAPPY FESTIVUS TO ALL!
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Amid the Trump administration's assault on vaccines and cuts to the CDC, there are now more than 2,000 confirmed cases — and counting — of measles nationwide.
"We’re still dealing with things that First World nations shouldn’t even be talking about," a health commissioner tells Rolling Stone.
"We’re still dealing with things that First World nations shouldn’t even be talking about," a health commissioner tells Rolling Stone.
'More Kids Will Die': Measles Is on the Rise -- and Doctors Say There's No End in Sight
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Amid the Trump administration's assault on vaccines and cuts to the CDC, there are now more than 2,000 confirmed cases — and counting — of measles nationwide.
"We’re still dealing with things that First World nations shouldn’t even be talking about," a health commissioner tells Rolling Stone.
"We’re still dealing with things that First World nations shouldn’t even be talking about," a health commissioner tells Rolling Stone.
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RNS’ Most-Read Stories of 2025:
The Episcopal Church announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by Trump.
religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
The Episcopal Church announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by Trump.
religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government
(RNS) — 'In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,' the…
religionnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
RNS’ Most-Read Stories of 2025:
The Episcopal Church announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by Trump.
religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
The Episcopal Church announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by Trump.
religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
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At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is
December 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is
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It appears baby Jesus was stolen from the Chicago-area Nativity scene that's critical of ICE.
The church has added a new sign that reads: "Where are Mary, Joseph, and Jesus? We don't know: They are being detained in a labyrinthian hellscape where their loves ones are unable to locate them."
The church has added a new sign that reads: "Where are Mary, Joseph, and Jesus? We don't know: They are being detained in a labyrinthian hellscape where their loves ones are unable to locate them."
Sad news: someone stole baby Jesus from our anti-ICE nativity. But vandalism cannot stop us. We just adapt and keep on critiquing this administration’s cruelty on immigration. Where’s baby Jesus? We don’t know. He is being detained in a labyrinthian hellscape where his loved ones cannot find him.
December 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It appears baby Jesus was stolen from the Chicago-area Nativity scene that's critical of ICE.
The church has added a new sign that reads: "Where are Mary, Joseph, and Jesus? We don't know: They are being detained in a labyrinthian hellscape where their loves ones are unable to locate them."
The church has added a new sign that reads: "Where are Mary, Joseph, and Jesus? We don't know: They are being detained in a labyrinthian hellscape where their loves ones are unable to locate them."
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Public school closures in AZ are accelerating at an alarming rate, with 28 since universal voucher expansion & 4 more closures expected in Amphi. Make no mistake: this is a part of the voucher lobby’s plan to destroy public education as laid out in Project 2025 — Defund > Discredit > Dismantle 😡
December 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Public school closures in AZ are accelerating at an alarming rate, with 28 since universal voucher expansion & 4 more closures expected in Amphi. Make no mistake: this is a part of the voucher lobby’s plan to destroy public education as laid out in Project 2025 — Defund > Discredit > Dismantle 😡
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It was. @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published this in 02/2025, just before he was confirmed.
tucson.com/opinion/colu...
tucson.com/opinion/colu...
December 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It was. @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published this in 02/2025, just before he was confirmed.
tucson.com/opinion/colu...
tucson.com/opinion/colu...
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"To be an obedient child of God, you learn to suppress doubts, keep your mouth shut, and do what the divine emissary tells you to do."
This conditioning explains so much.
This conditioning explains so much.
They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.
Why evangelicals couldn't care less about Trump's Epstein scandal
They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.
www.motherjones.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"To be an obedient child of God, you learn to suppress doubts, keep your mouth shut, and do what the divine emissary tells you to do."
This conditioning explains so much.
This conditioning explains so much.
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It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn