I wasted so much time on Twitter not blocking people who annoyed me Not anymore, Iâm throwing more blocks than a kid with separation anxiety in a church nursery
âI was spanked as a kid, and Iâm fine!â No, you think itâs ok to use violence against a child. Youâre not fine.
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 familyâs twisted obsession with corporal punishment.
"As a worker-run newsroom that will rely heavily on audience input to shape our coverage of the city, weâre providing information WITH representation (put that on a license plate)." The 51st News is live! 51st.news/dc-local-new...
Introducing The 51st, local news by and for D.C. residents.
Genuinely helpful advice from my therapist, for when i am stuck in optimization mode: âDo it wrong!â
I research and teach on the apocalypse and part of that is case studies of disasters and the thing my students learn almost immediately is that the first thing that happens when disaster strikes is that other people look for ways to help the trope of immediate anarchy is historically untenable
Oh wow! (Insert âtake my moneyâ gif)
been saying this for a decade: buy hard copies of anything you love, even if all that's available is a dvd or a cd or something, because you cannot fucking trust a landlord
"Weâre living through an age of mass deletion, a moment when entertainment and media corporations see themselves not as custodians of valuable cultural history, once freely available, but as ruthless maximisers of profit." @zachschonfeld.bsky.social
The amount of media being wiped from the internet is worrying for viewers, and industry workers who need the exposure, says journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld
every poll right now is like: Swing State (n=2,343) Prop 2 (Abortion rights) Approve 71% Reject 25% âDonald Trump has called people like me 'vermin' in the past month" Yes 65% No 29% đľ Harris: 47% (+1) đ´ Trump: 46%