Today, NY Mag published an excerpt of my book, in which I talk about the past 50 years of the abusive evangelical "biblical parenting" movement, how "parental rights" entered the political lexicon, and why you shouldn't hit your kids: www.thecut.com/article/the-...
The Evangelical family’s twisted obsession with corporal punishment.
There are three statewide races in Oregon this cycle. In two of them, the GOP has nominated extremists who have zero chance of winning. But the attorney general race might be close, because the GOP candidate’s weirdness is less immediately apparent . www.portlandtribune.com/news/politic...
A BBC documentary from 2023 claims a single-minded focus on setting and meeting targets resulted in Lathrop’s team working with police to effectively kidnap some children and take them from
I fucking hate how this entire country is being held hostage to a small group of mostly idiot white men who are too stupid to learn from literally anything. Most of us are capable of understanding why government and regulations exist. Yet we’re trapped here with powerful vermin like Trump and Musk.
I miss my older kid like crazy, but we haven’t run out of clean bath towels since the day he left for college.
After thirty years in Texas I think of this as being held hostage. Minority ruled by hook and by crook against all laws of demographics and abandoned/squeezed for cash by the national Dems. Imagine decades of Trump rule. GENERATIONS. And yet people are still organizing.
The next time I get the urge to wade back into twitter, please remind me that I always emerge feeling like I’ve bathed in actual shit.
Both cats and the dog have the zoomies at the same time and I am just a wee human caught up in the maelstrom.
hearing a NC sheriff in an interview telling people not to "panic" (about the very real difficulties in getting food, water, and fuel), then telling them that they will come out of this "better" than before—why are you doing that to people, is this going to be the cop line on climate emergency
They are simply farther down the timeline of the attack that all the rest of us are fighting. Solidarity now or we all lose later
Current status: waiting for my husband’s D&D game to end so he can solve my dinner problem for me, because I’ve lost the will to feed myself.