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Insufficiently Apologetic Edition

In this week’s episode, the Supreme Court establishes “la la la I can’t hear you” as a parental right, the "Tuck Your Face" segment is about Tucker Carlson but also Ted Cruz's skin mask, and Ross Douthat will ask how a universe that wasn’t divinely ordered by a brilliant deity could create Ross Douthat.

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Headlines:

SCOTUS opens door to religious veto of public school lessons, starting with LGBTQ books: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/supreme-court-opens-door-to-religious

SCOTUS ends term by ruling that Christianity: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/27/g-s1-74738/scotus-decisions-birthright-aca

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/supreme-court-ruling-obamacare-rfk-science

Armenia's PM offers to expose himself in escalating Church row: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gk0nw2nn0o

Tucker Carlson vs Ted Cruz on Iran, the bible, and anti-semitism: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/politics/ted-cruz-tucker-carlson-exchange-analysis

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/tucker-carlson-clashes-sen-ted-cruz-dont-know-anything-iran-rcna213697

Orban tells people no gay pride parades. People have other plans:
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/200000-march-in-budapest-pride-refusing

Comments

I went to work and shared what happened, and promptly shut down the engineering department with arguments about the Monty Hall problem. Those that understood she was right were sorely outnumbered, but managed to change a few minds. One way to show it is by expanding the number of doors to ten.

Richard Bennett

The newspaper where I lived ran an article about Marilyn vow Savant and the Monty Hall problem. I wrote a mathematical model that showed she was wrong (oops). I contacted the reporter who ran the story, and they wanted to quote me. He said that a lot of people said she was wrong, but no one said why. A day before the article ran, I reran the simulation, and noticed a small error. Seemed of little consequence, so as I reran the corrected version, I was astonished to discover she was right. I called the reporter, and he changed the article so that I was quoted as saying she was right. 😅

Richard Bennett

Oh lord please go watch Ted Cruz Simpson Impressions on YouTube 😂

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