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What people “hate even more is to be patronized” Andrew L Seidel (“The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American“) notes that the framers of the U.S. Constitution were for the most part not religious men. At least, not in the evangelicals’ sense. Where they referenced morality and religion as necessary to an orderly society, the two were separate things. For men such as themselves, morality was the product of their elite educations and deep inquiry. For the masses, religion was a pale substitute and ripe for abuse and exploitation by the unscrupulous.* To guard against the latter, the framers revered almost as secular saints were elitists in a groundbreaking way by wisely separating church and state. Thus, they wrote “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States” into the U.S. Constitution even before the First Amendment was added. On that note, Tom Nichols in his The Atlantic newsletter addresses the very different elitism of Fox personalities.

Four of the AWOL Trump supporters remain at large.

The post Two More Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters Have Fled Charges, Bringing Total to Six appeared first on The Intercept.

Tunisia's populism and racially-charged purges offers chilling context for the UK's migration clampdown, writes Simon Speakman Cordall

Below, please find the definitive right-of-way regulations for New York City’s bike lanes. Any lower-ranked item must yield to any higher-ranked item.

1. Marked NYPD vehicles

2. Unmarked NYPD vehicles

3. Vehicles with a Thin Blue Line flag bumper sticker

4. A dumpster with the Punisher logo on it

5. Film crews for Blue Bloods

6. Vehicles whose owner’s cousin used to work for the city (any city is fine)

7. Amazon delivery trucks

8. Pedestrians walking against traffic

9. Any double-parked motorized vehicle

10. Regular film crews

11. Any motorized vehicle whose driver “just needs to check something”

12. Tourists waiting to cross the street who might not realize they are standing in the bike lane

13. Abandoned vehicles

14. Pizza Rat

15. Revelers and merrymakers

16. Bearded men screaming, “The End is near!”

17. Currently on-fire vehicles

18. Calzone Mouse

19. Street preachers

America's youth: Jaded with education?

In a democracy one might, naively, imagine that political deliberation would involve the presentation of the arguments that people think bear on the question at hand. That is, if someone is in favour of a policy they would present the arguments that they believe support it and if someone is against it they they would […]

By Austin Sarat / The Conversation In January 2023 two Democratic representatives, Judith Garcia and Carlos Gonzalez, proposed a bill that would offer prisoners in Massachusetts a new way to win reduction in their sentences: by donating their bone marrow or vital organs. The bill stated that the commissioner of the Department of Corrections should establish both […]

The post Prisoners Donating Organs to Get Time Off Raises Thorny Ethical Questions appeared first on scheerpost.com.

"We will not allow any foreign government to intervene in our territory, much less with armed forces," AMLO told US neocons.

Silicon Valley Bank: ultimately a Fed victim?

"Though we are living in a moment of increased confrontation and militarization, one fundamental truth remains unchanged: The only way to eliminate nuclear risk is to eliminate nuclear weapons."

The post UN Disarmament Official Lays Out Path to Reverse ‘Dangerous’ Nuclear Trends appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Former Ambassador Robert Ford urges Congress to pull U.S. troops out of Syria.

The post Ending the Hidden Occupation appeared first on The Intercept.

Public employees’ retirement savings have funded the private equity takeovers of companies that used child labor in dangerous factories.

Under the state law, performing publicly in drag is a misdemeanor, and “repeat offenders” could be charged with a felony.

The post Tennessee’s New Anti-Drag Law Could Subject Performers to Up to 6 Years in Jail appeared first on scheerpost.com.

By showing us a new cosmos, the discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our moral universe

- by Claire Isabel Webb

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We are living under a deeply cruel, ideologically-driven government. Since coming to power in 2010, the Conservative’s austerity programme has caused over 330,000 deaths, and the mishandling of the pandemic saw a further 200,000 deaths, many of them avoidable. Currently, an estimated 500 people are dying each week because of delays in emergency care, while […]