Nick Fish
President of @atheists.org. Adopted. Philadelphian by choice, but forever a Midwesterner.
- Reposted by Nick FishA hateful thing to say. People whose approach to life is not faith-based have done enormous good, majority non-religious societies have been some of the strongest proponents of human dignity and solidarity. Why is the BBC just printed this unchallenged? If it's "news", it should be balanced.
- Reposted by Nick FishNEW: @nbcnews.com confirmed last night that the Trump admin almost sent a dozen men from Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Mexico to Libya, a country described as a “hellscape” for migrants where some have been SOLD INTO SLAVERY and many have been subjected to extraordinary horrors.
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New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-... - What the hell is this trash headline? How about: "New Law Closes Loophole That Allowed Church to Hide and Enable Child Abusers for Decades"
- Really holding out hope that the Archbishop of Newark got elected Pope if for no other reason than ensuring Jeff Garlin will continue to get work
- I'm always grateful to Chrissy's (@www.bugbeardispatch.com) deep, nuanced, and thoughtful reporting on our community and this moment — and the clarity of her values. Give this piece a read and then, if you can, subscribe to @theflytrapmedia.com.
- The Party of Free Speech™
- Proud of the work of secular advocates and partners in WA who took on this issue and fought to make it happen. We have to fight to stop the bad laws while ALSO working to advance good policy.
- It's official! Clergy members are now mandated reporters in Washington... even if they learn about abuse through Confession. The Catholic Church fought hard against that last part. They lost. My earlier article: www.friendlyatheist.com/p/washington... washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/05/02/n...
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- Reposted by Nick Fish“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”
- These people belong in the Hague.
- I swear. The worst and dumbest people in the world — generally the ones who rattle on about how much they love free speech but then sue people who say unflattering things about them — think the term "tortious interference" means "when you say unflattering things about me."
- Reposted by Nick FishTRUMP: He had MS-13 on his knuckles, tattooed! MORAN: That was photoshopped TRUMP: Terry, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. I picked you. But you're not being very nice. (Can't post the clip here because of @bsky.app's daily video limit but the text tells you what you need to know)
- Reposted by Nick FishOkay this is more blasphemous than anything we could possibly say
- The Party of Free Speech™
- Summing up @profsamperry.bsky.social and Philip Gorski's "Flag and the Cross": White Christian Nationalism is all about freedom, order, and violence. The freedom they mean is only for people like us — “us” being, above all, straight, white, native-born Christian men. So certainly not Rev. Barber.
- Hey Christian Nationalists: don't mess with Texas
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- Such a shame the media didn't have access to this step by step guide to what a Trump Administration would do with power before the election. [presses ear] I apologize, I'm being told it was published like a year beforehand and the media inexplicably believed Trump when he "disavowed" it.
- “After Donald Trump won in November, I sat down to read all 922 pages of Project 2025,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily. “What I discovered was more radical and more interesting than I’d expected.”
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- We're working on getting all of the sessions up ASAP, but you should definitely check out @theardenhart.bsky.social's great talk at #AACON2025 about confronting transphobia in secular spaces. Important topic from a great speaker — and person. So glad to have her.
- The hell they can.
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- Reposted by Nick FishNEW: In a SCATHING decision, Judge Briones of the Western District of Texas absolutely SAVAGED the government over this case, tearing to shreds ICE’s hearsay “evidence” that this husband and wife were in Tren de Aragua as “completely and wholly unsubstantiated” — and ordered their immediate release!
- 200 trade deals no one knows about? time.com/7280114/dona...
- This is a flashing red warning light that corporate media is going to accede to fascism by explicitly bribing a strongman so the owners of their parent companies can get even richer.
- Reposted by Nick Fishfor alito especially, racism is fake, anti-LGBT bigotry is fake, and the only real discrimination is against conservative christians who can't make public school curriculum by decree
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- Reposted by Nick FishAG Keith Ellison at American Atheists Convention in Minneapolis. Love it. 💜✊ #AACon25
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- Reposted by Nick FishThe harper's letter crowd is pretending the real threat to free speech is the same as the fake one they spent years panicking about. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- Reposted by Nick FishOh wow great @haleaziz.bsky.social piece on a 2018 case in which Trump’s ICE screwed up and erroneously deported a guy. AND THEY BROUGHT HIM BACK because why wouldn’t they? We’re in a much darker place now. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
- Reposted by Nick FishOne of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
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- Reposted by Nick FishWhat we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Probably worth noting that authoritarian regimes around the world also class religious dissent and "blasphemy" as terrorism.
- Reposted by Nick FishThese two posts: * “We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations,” said Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead counter-terrorism efforts. * Trump to Bukele (president of El Salvador): “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough.” 1/
- Reposted by Nick FishFor transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
- Reposted by Nick FishThe president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
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- Reposted by Nick FishWe are beyond a constitutional crisis at this point. Roberts #SCOTUS needs to clearly spell out how the Trump regime must put on a full court press to bring back Garcia. Otherwise, we are looking at a constitutional collapse in the United States.
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- The Party of Due Process™
- Trump says he'd like to deport US citizens to El Salvador: "I'd like to go a step further. I don't know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get out of the country"
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- Reposted by Nick FishThe president is conducting a press event with the primary purpose of flouting the decisions of the courts and the letter and spirit of U.S. law. It is a press event to celebrate the Constitutional crisis and serial violation of human rights he has set in motion.
- These people have to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. It's that simple.
- Reposted by Nick FishI want them all unmasked. I want Noem, Homan, and Miller to someday be tried for their crimes against humanity. Ditto for the ICE agents and other officers who abuse innocent tourists, college students, and refugees When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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- Reposted by Nick FishSolicitor General D. John Sauer to the Supreme Court:
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- Reposted by Nick FishStephen Miller is a liar and a propagandist and while there is clear value in understanding what he's saying as a means of understanding what the administration is doing, not a single fact out of his mouth can be trusted.
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- Reposted by Nick FishYou don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
- The Party of Religious Freedom™
- Reposted by Nick FishMEBN, its peer networks Radio Free Asia & Rado Free Europe/Liberty, the Open Tech Fund as well as a bunch of suspended staffers and director of the Voice of America, are suing Lake & admin. Here’s announcement from Middle East Broadcasting Networks
- Reposted by Nick FishNEWS: Middle East Broadcasting Networks CEO Jeffrey Gedmin cuts 90% of staff, appeals to Congress & courts “As [Kari] Lake declines to meet or speak with us, we’re left to conclude that she intends to starve us of the money we need to pay our hard-working staff.” /more
- Reposted by Nick FishI hate to be that guy, but this is the five-alarm fire, and every elected Democrat and frankly, every Washington reporter should be ringing the bell. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. Nobody with a voice should give this administration a moment’s peace about it.
- Reposted by Nick FishGoing on @ayman.msnbc.com in 45 minutes or so to talk about this nightmare filing. Please remember that if the Trump administration succeeds in establishing this precedent, nothing will stop it from whisking away innocent American *citizens* to rot in an El Salvador prison forever.
- Modern day book burning from the "facts don't care about your feelings" crowd.
- What a joke. Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs committee has spent the past three years slandering the vital and lifesaving work of Humanists International as a way to attack the Biden Administration for, for the first time, actually including atheists and humanists in FoRB programs.
- Huh you mean the guy with the Neo Nazi tattoos might be a Neo Nazi? Weird.
- If it crosses the U.S. border illegally, it’s our job to STOP IT. - forbidden objects from places men fear to tread - evil clown dolls - cursed frozen yogurt - toppings containing potassium benzoate
- Ah yes, the two forms of "religious bias" — anti-Christian and other.
- Reposted by Nick FishLet's speak plainly about what is happening. The First Amendment has been terminated for immigrants.
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- Reposted by Nick FishNo, you're not seeing double. We just filed YET ANOTHER Supreme Court brief in a second case that threatens our nation's secular public schools. With the Christian Nationalist movement hell-bent on destroying public education, it's up to all of us to save our schools. And we won't stop fighting.
- Reposted by Nick FishThe lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.
- Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
- Reposted by Nick FishWhat a summary of the anti-trans movement: March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000
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- While asking for 10x the resources to abduct and detain people. "Just do it the right way if you're going to come here" they say.
- Asylum! He *still* absolutely thinks asylum involves people who were committed.
- Reposted by Nick FishUPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
- Almost a million people.
- Trump has revoked the status of everyone currently in the US under the CBP One app’s parole status, a program through which 900,000 have been admitted since 2023. apnews.com/article/immi...
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- Reposted by Nick FishSo the Supreme Court’s strategy seems pretty clearly to be forestall admitting we have a constitutional crisis by giving Trump huge victories on narrow procedural grounds. This is akin to having engineers move the Rubicon River closer and closer to Rome to avoid Caesar crossing it.
