If you’re between the ages of 18-65 and are interested in decreasing your alcohol use, get in touch with researchers at Washington State University about the ZARRA study.

We know about 70,000 kids are using ESAs under Arizona’s new universal voucher program. But we don’t know much about them. A committee is supposed to get to the bottom of all the data we DON'T have about ESAs. They’re meeting today for the second and likely final time. 🔗 Bio.

“School choice” rhetoric was first used after Brown v. Board of Education by those who wanted to maintain segregated schools. Freedom of choice meant segregation. “We can kill” school desegregation explained a MS county GOP chairman by “growing a freedom of choice system.”

A sad story of abortion for me, but not for thee… usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

I was glad to be intrvwd by Susan Davis NPR Politics for her newest article on Speaker Mike Johnson's ties to Christian extremism & the New Apostolic Reformation. This is a very important story, & I'm glad to see it getting coverage in mainstream media. 🧵 npr.org/2023/11/15/121…

Sharing this not because anyone should be subjected to the banal apologia (always) served up by Douthat, but for the comments (which are a lot of fun). nytimes.com/2023/11/15/opi…

How does militarization affect climate change? Learn more Friday, 11/17, at noon AZ time when we're joined by Dr. Andrew Jorgenson, Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Climate & Society Lab at UBC. secularaz.org/single-event/d…

I’ve been working on my book on child liberation theology, “The Kingdom of Children,” since 2015—almost a decade ago now. As of yesterday, November 14, it is officially published! rlstollar.com/2023/11/15/the…

Tom Horne is violating students' rights and promoting Islamophobia, critics say azmirror.com/blog/tom-horne… via Arizona Mirror || bsky @azmirror.com

Is anyone else tired of this era in which we ALL KNOW THAT NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL, but we're too polite to say anything about it? The Christian nationalists are certainly saying the quiet part out loud... so should we. open.substack.com/pub/secularaz/…

Arizona's ESA voucher program has become a cautionary tale for the entire country.

By now, many people know about the ties between Moms for Liberty & the Proud Boys. Fewer know about the ties between Moms for Liberty and dominionists. You cannot understand what is happening to our country without understanding dominionist involvement. 1/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/11/moms-f…

It's beyond outrageous that a mother would use taxpayer money to buy her kid a $500 Lego set. And even more outrageous? Our leaders don't seem to have a problem with that. azcentral.com/story/opinion/… via azcentral

The Saucon Valley School District illegally blocked Satanists from meeting. They learned their lesson the hard way. *Religious discrimination costs tax payers.* friendlyatheist.com/p/pa-school-di…

Secular AZ’s Substack is officially a Substack Bestseller! (Why? Because people are tired of pretending that all this is normal!) Subscribe here: secularaz.substack.com/?bestsellerCar…

This week a young woman took to the airwaves. Her name is Riley Gaines. What she said put me in mind of the Nazis who invaded Charlottesville, and corrosive rage that demolishes even those who channel it, among other things. Read on: armoxon.substack.com/p/channels-of-…

Who's grooming who, ad nauseam