Blackstone invests $50M into compliance agent-focused Norm Ai, which is launching an independent law firm offering "AI-native legal services" (Norm Ai)
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/n<…
Religion Clause: Top 10 Religious Liberty and Church-State Developments of 2025
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/top-10-religious-liberty-and-church.html
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon releases statement in response to U.S. AG Pam Bondi letter (Ryan Paris/KTTC-TV)
https://www.kttc.com/2026/01/25/minnesota-secretary-state-steve-simon-releases-statement-response-us-ag-pam-bondi-letter/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p18#a260126p18
The world’s mountains are warming faster than anyone expected #Mountains
Future of Privacy Forum to Honor Top Scholarship at Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Event
https://fpf.org/press-releases/future-of-privacy-forum-to-honor-top-scholarship-at-annual-privacy-papers-for-policy…
Estimates suggest that hundreds of ⭐️psychedelic churches operate illegally in the US.
As court interpretations evolve, religious freedom claims expand and more Americans drift away from traditional religion,
these groups are increasingly emerging from the underground to push boundaries over which substances – and beliefs – deserve protection.
The Church of Gaia recently became the first psychedelic church to win government recognition by petition rather than suing.
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US 'unchurching' marks the 'fastest religious shift in modern history' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/axios-religious-affiliation-prri/
Anthropic says Claude can now keep a chat going indefinitely, automatically summarizing earlier context when it hits its context window (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/anthropic-releases-opus-4-5-with-new-ch…
Landmark commission unanimously approves church's rainbow steps: “This is religious expression" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/landmark-commission-unanimously-approves-churchs-rainbow-steps-this-is-religious-expression/?utm_campaign=good-news-newsletter