Live from the Rotunda, a sing-a-long with new band Sean and the Senators. Here they are rehearsing some new material which they will perform in churches around the country as they sing to their fans about a past they never had. I think Josh Hawley is only in the band for all the purity it will get him.
GOP’s 2024 platform mirrors extremist Project 2025’s roadmap to theocracy as a threat to women, LGBTQ+ people, and minorities.
Will the Supreme Court watch the death of democracy?
A Christian group instructs public school children during the school day. They don’t want you to see the shit they indoctrinate them with. Some even admit that it is indoctrination.
Lawyers for megachurch pastor and Trump advisor blame 12-year-old for ‘initiating’ sexual contact.
Satanists in Florida offer to fill school counselor roles after DeSantis law.
World of Woo: On using prayer instead of medicine.
Environment: Alaska glaciers may hit irreversible melting point sooner than expected.
Has life on Earth survived several mass extinction events?
The search for the random numbers that run our lives.
Study suggests Life on Earth emerged 4.2 billion years ago.
Was agriculture the greatest invention of human civilization?
Why consciousness may have evolved to benefit society rather than individuals. We would have no way of knowing if AI’s were to become conscious.
Long Reads: Project 2025: The myths and the facts. Are we all living in Conspiracyland? The search for the random numbers that run our lives. Why is Spotify making me to listen to Sabrina Carpenter? In praise of Magical Thinking. One person’s DNA became the centerpiece of a genetic sequence used by biologists the world over. Did he agree to that?
Podcast: Microplastics in Your Lungs? The new Public Health Bogeyman.
Sunday Book Club: This Earthly Globe.
Some photographs taken last week.
While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……
Coffee Break Videos: The overpopulation myth, debunked. Macroevolution HAS been observed. Arguments for Atheism tier list.