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Atheists Helping the Homeless DC
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A non-profit organization with one mission: to help people experiencing homelessness in the DC region

https://atheistshelping.org/
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Everyone is born an atheist.

Religion is taught.
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social
This means every week, millions more atheists are created.
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Everyone is born #atheist
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Been away a bit. Wanted to get up to date. Has any evidence for the existence of anything supernatural come out over the past few weeks? Any reason to believe in anything we can't observe?

#atheistsky
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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/...
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.
news.gallup.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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royalpratt.bsky.social
For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’
The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social
Telling children Hell exists is child abuse.
taliabhatt.itch.io Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12d
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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🍼In a social experiment series, TikToker Nakalie Monore is testing how mega churches, including Lakewood Church, respond to people in need.
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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#Atheism #FirstAmendment
atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social Atheists Helping the Homeless DC @atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social · 15d
It is often claimed that atheists, (which is just another term for people without religion) don't have anything uniting them beyond a lack of belief in supernatural things.

This is misguided. At the very least, they all face a movement that wants to force religion on them.
fortworthreport.bsky.social Fort Worth Report @fortworthreport.bsky.social · 16d
A Texas church’s online class trains Christians to run for office. Now it may go national
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social
It is often claimed that atheists, (which is just another term for people without religion) don't have anything uniting them beyond a lack of belief in supernatural things.

This is misguided. At the very least, they all face a movement that wants to force religion on them.
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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A Texas church’s online class trains Christians to run for office. Now it may go national
A Texas church’s online class trains Christians to run for office. Now it may go national
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fortworthreport.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social
Check out our registry for items to donate:
www.walmart.com/registry/RR/...
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social
"Still, stepping back, any observer can see that the era of 'strict sep-
aration' between church and state is over."

One of the best parts of non-belief and #atheism is the ability to recognize that meaning does not excuse, the future is not written, and that therefore nothing is ever over.
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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micahschwartzman.bsky.social
The Supreme Court had three religious freedom cases last Term. With @richschragger.bsky.social and @nelsontebbe.bsky.social, our latest comments on them, extending our analysis of religious preferentialism under the First Amendment.

harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
The Structure of Religious Preference - Harvard Law Review
A revolution has occurred in the law of religious freedom. At this point, the picture is reasonably clear. The Supreme Court has greatly expanded the scope of the Free Exercise Clause.
harvardlawreview.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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atheistshelping.org/2025/11/11/f...

This Saturday, as a fight was being waged by religious people to keep food from the needy, Atheists Helping the Homeless DC met up for our monthly distribution event. If you are interested in secular community, contact us.

#Atheism
#NoGods
#NoKings
Fall is here and so are we - Atheists Helping the Homeless DC, Secular Charity
After a few quiet months, our November distribution event was busy. We had four volunteers, and an estimate of 80 - 100 friends show up looking for items. We were able to hand out flashlights, socks, ...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social
"Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization."

Samuel Johnson
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social
Scientific literacy of the public.
copaceticbunsz.com Maybe: Bunny Bunsz 🤭 @copaceticbunsz.com · 16d
What’s something random you feel like science should be more focused on ?

I feel like they shoulda figured out a way to perfect bug proof houses by now 😭
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I like this piece a lot about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving the structure of DNA. It really respects her as a full scientist - what she saw, what she didn’t appreciate, what could have been if she’d had true peers to support her, or had not died so young.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social
On what apparently now needs to be an almost daily reminder, limitations to reproductive rights can only be justified through religion.

Strictly secular governance is necessary to protect these rights. With religion present in politics, these rights will always be threatened.

#atheism
#AtheistSky
wyden.senate.gov Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18d
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social
More apt today than two days ago. Oh bother....

#AtheistSky
atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social Atheists Helping the Homeless DC @atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social · 21d
Limitations or incursions on reproductive rights or LGBT rights can only be justified through religious reasoning.

For example, Someone may claim to be an atheist, but if they profess anti-trans views, they have left atheism behind and the label doesn't fully apply to them any longer.

#atheism
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Once again, it must be pointed out that without religion, there is no justification to limit trans rights.

Any such limits are unquestionable violations of the first amendment.

#atheism
#nokings
#nogods
#seculargovernment
stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 20d
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants yet another stay to the Trump administration, putting back into place a new State Department policy requiring passports to display their bearers' biological sex at birth.

Justice Jackson (joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan) once again dissents.
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Again, trans discrimination is founded solely on religious grounds. Without religion, there is no "debate" as described in this ruling. This is the court clearly violating Americans free exercise of religion. #atheism
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19d
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.

Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
OPINION MURPHY, Circuit Judge. An Ohio public school district bars its students from referring to transgender and nonbinary classmates using the pronouns that match their biological sex if the classmates prefer to go by different pronouns. The plaintiff in this case has parent and student members who believe that a person's sex is immutable. The members want to express this view by using biological pronouns. And they believe that they would convey a falsehood —that a person's gender is fluid—if they use preferred pronouns. So the plaintiff challenged the school district's speech ban on behalf of its members under the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause. This case about pronouns pits two important interests against each other. On the one hand, the school district has prohibited speech (biological pronouns) that expresses a message on a matter of pressing public concern. And because the district requires other speech (preferred pronouns) that expresses a competing view, it has discriminated based on its students' viewpoints. Its approach thus raises serious free-speech concerns. On the other hand, the school district rightly responds that it has a duty to protect all students- including transgender and nonbinary students— from bullying and harassment. And this protection, while necessarily restricting speech, does not violate the Free Speech Clause. So which of these competing concerns should prevail in this case? The Supreme Court's cases provide a clear answer. A school district may not restrict personal speech on matters of public concern unless the speech would "materially and substantially disrupt" school activities or infringe the legal "rights of others" in the school community. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969). In this case's current posture, the school district has fallen far short of meeting this demanding standard. It introduced no evidence that the use of biological pronouns would disrupt school functions or qualify as harassment under Ohio law. Our society continues to debate whether biological pronouns are appropriate or offensive just as it continues to debate many other issues surrounding transgender rights. The school district may not skew this debate by forcing one side to change the way it conveys its message or by compelling it to express a different view. We thus reverse and remand Case: 23-3630 Document: 253-2 Filed: 11/06/2025 Page: 4 No. 23-3630 Defending Educ. v. Olentangy Loc. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., et al. Page 4 for the entry of an appropriately tailored preliminary injunction barring the district from punishing students for the commonplace use of biological pronouns. Yet nothing we say here forecloses the district from enforcing its anti-harassment policies against the abuse of transgender students just as it enforces those policies against the abuse of all other students.
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
atheistshelpingdc.bsky.social
Again, trans discrimination is founded solely on religious grounds. Without religion, there is no "debate" as described in this ruling. This is the court clearly violating Americans free exercise of religion. #atheism
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19d
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.

Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
OPINION MURPHY, Circuit Judge. An Ohio public school district bars its students from referring to transgender and nonbinary classmates using the pronouns that match their biological sex if the classmates prefer to go by different pronouns. The plaintiff in this case has parent and student members who believe that a person's sex is immutable. The members want to express this view by using biological pronouns. And they believe that they would convey a falsehood —that a person's gender is fluid—if they use preferred pronouns. So the plaintiff challenged the school district's speech ban on behalf of its members under the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause. This case about pronouns pits two important interests against each other. On the one hand, the school district has prohibited speech (biological pronouns) that expresses a message on a matter of pressing public concern. And because the district requires other speech (preferred pronouns) that expresses a competing view, it has discriminated based on its students' viewpoints. Its approach thus raises serious free-speech concerns. On the other hand, the school district rightly responds that it has a duty to protect all students- including transgender and nonbinary students— from bullying and harassment. And this protection, while necessarily restricting speech, does not violate the Free Speech Clause. So which of these competing concerns should prevail in this case? The Supreme Court's cases provide a clear answer. A school district may not restrict personal speech on matters of public concern unless the speech would "materially and substantially disrupt" school activities or infringe the legal "rights of others" in the school community. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969). In this case's current posture, the school district has fallen far short of meeting this demanding standard. It introduced no evidence that the use of biological pronouns would disrupt school functions or qualify as harassment under Ohio law. Our society continues to debate whether biological pronouns are appropriate or offensive just as it continues to debate many other issues surrounding transgender rights. The school district may not skew this debate by forcing one side to change the way it conveys its message or by compelling it to express a different view. We thus reverse and remand Case: 23-3630 Document: 253-2 Filed: 11/06/2025 Page: 4 No. 23-3630 Defending Educ. v. Olentangy Loc. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., et al. Page 4 for the entry of an appropriately tailored preliminary injunction barring the district from punishing students for the commonplace use of biological pronouns. Yet nothing we say here forecloses the district from enforcing its anti-harassment policies against the abuse of transgender students just as it enforces those policies against the abuse of all other students.
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.

Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
OPINION MURPHY, Circuit Judge. An Ohio public school district bars its students from referring to transgender and nonbinary classmates using the pronouns that match their biological sex if the classmates prefer to go by different pronouns. The plaintiff in this case has parent and student members who believe that a person's sex is immutable. The members want to express this view by using biological pronouns. And they believe that they would convey a falsehood —that a person's gender is fluid—if they use preferred pronouns. So the plaintiff challenged the school district's speech ban on behalf of its members under the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause. This case about pronouns pits two important interests against each other. On the one hand, the school district has prohibited speech (biological pronouns) that expresses a message on a matter of pressing public concern. And because the district requires other speech (preferred pronouns) that expresses a competing view, it has discriminated based on its students' viewpoints. Its approach thus raises serious free-speech concerns. On the other hand, the school district rightly responds that it has a duty to protect all students- including transgender and nonbinary students— from bullying and harassment. And this protection, while necessarily restricting speech, does not violate the Free Speech Clause. So which of these competing concerns should prevail in this case? The Supreme Court's cases provide a clear answer. A school district may not restrict personal speech on matters of public concern unless the speech would "materially and substantially disrupt" school activities or infringe the legal "rights of others" in the school community. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969). In this case's current posture, the school district has fallen far short of meeting this demanding standard. It introduced no evidence that the use of biological pronouns would disrupt school functions or qualify as harassment under Ohio law. Our society continues to debate whether biological pronouns are appropriate or offensive just as it continues to debate many other issues surrounding transgender rights. The school district may not skew this debate by forcing one side to change the way it conveys its message or by compelling it to express a different view. We thus reverse and remand Case: 23-3630 Document: 253-2 Filed: 11/06/2025 Page: 4 No. 23-3630 Defending Educ. v. Olentangy Loc. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., et al. Page 4 for the entry of an appropriately tailored preliminary injunction barring the district from punishing students for the commonplace use of biological pronouns. Yet nothing we say here forecloses the district from enforcing its anti-harassment policies against the abuse of transgender students just as it enforces those policies against the abuse of all other students.
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM