625: Bursting at the Seams Edition

In this week’s extended-edition episode, we’ll search Amazon for theocracy stopping backpacks, JD Vance goes to Germany and says what he will about the tenets of national socialism, and we’ll watch a Christian grift video that Oral Roberts would say is a little much.
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Headlines:
Trio of terrifying stories about religion in schools: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/alabama-schools-could-lose-funding and https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-lawmaker-i-dont-want-pink and https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/north-dakota-republicans-push-bill
Christian post loses their minds over “Trans Sanctuary City” Meeting: https://www.christianpost.com/news/lesbian-pastor-blasphemes-jesus-as-drag-queen-at-council-meeting.html
Ted Cruz's list of "woke" science includes self-driving cars and solar eclipses: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5295043/sen-ted-cruzs-list-of-woke-science-includes-self-driving-cars-solar-eclipses
National Science Foundation has to deal with giant list of absurd "banned words":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/02/04/national-science-foundation-trump-executive-orders-words/
Australia refuses to fix the religion question on their census: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/australia-will-keep-screwing-up-the
Ken Ham give us his tips for Valentine's Day: https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2025/02/14/ken-hams-dating-tips-valentines-day/
JD Vance rebukes anti-free speech, anti-Christian discrimination in Munich speech:
https://www.christianpost.com/news/jd-vance-rebukes-anti-free-speech-anti-christian-discrimination.html
Trump Officials Attack a German Consensus on Nazis and Speech: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/world/europe/vance-musk-nazis-afd-munich.html
The video from this week’s Mini: 
https://youtu.be/zfWJifqSM6E?si=iwe42fbDktc5ZTbf