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-...

Breaking a Child’s Will

The Evangelical family’s twisted obsession with corporal punishment.

If I ever said anything like this I would simply retreat deep into the boreal forest, never to return

this is a pretty good case for Americans to make "enough noise" that nazi SCOTUS members CAN'T ignore the vast majority of their fellow citizens... clearly it is incumbent upon regular Americans to make it impossible for the court to sit this session

Man shot in the head by NYPD cops aiming at a guy who didn't pay the $2.90 fare is suing the city for $80 million. gothamist.com/news/family-...

Family of bystander shot in Brooklyn subway station files $80M claim against NYC

An attorney said the legal claim is the first step toward filing a lawsuit on behalf of the 49-year-old bystander injured in the shooting.

Not getting into it here but the name James Dobson is a curse to me. This was hard to read. It’s hard for me to describe some of the insanity of growing up in this world to my friends who were raised differently. Happy to at least not be passing any of this shit on to my kids.

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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-...

Breaking a Child’s Will

The Evangelical family’s twisted obsession with corporal punishment.

[3 weeks later] I have blogged it ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

Someone should really just stomp on the guy until he disappears permanently from public life.

I found this on Threads. This is a best practice.

Cool, Cornell isn’t just deporting protesters, they are also happily admitting to generally surveilling and punishing student anti-genocide activists and “scrutinizing” the behavior of faculty in class. Healthy university, you’ve got there! cornellsun.com/2024/10/02/a...

fun fact: you don’t need to “hear them out.” a bad take is a bad take. a racism is a racism. a bigotry is a bigotry. nobody in their right fucking mind should even entertain the notion that anything is more than the ugly surface of any belief, statement, or sentiment from the right