We investigated the witness list from Illinois' homeschool bill and identified at least nine registered child sex offenders submitted testimony against it

Here's the block list

12 year old homeschooled child's remains found in Connecticut home. The parents pulled Mimi from school in August 2024. According to police, she has been dead for over a year

In my Patrick Bateman era (bought a $15 face moisturizer and reallocated my 401k)

God this is every Homeschool mom. They really love posting whatever educational neglect they’re doing to their kids, then reveling in the responses asking if that’s a good idea

Where my Gobblers at on here

A truly cruel twist of the knife of the educational neglect and missed opportunities of an Evangelical homeschooling upbringing is spending years feeling like reality itself is punishing you for something you had zero control over

Some people get annoyed by stupid comments to their work and they should really learn to embrace it

i wonder if a sufficient number of viable democrats have it in them to effectively counter a narrative of "i am tanking the economy, firing everyone i can, and sending soldiers to push you around if i dont like the way you think, and also lee greenwood is the only music allowed"

"We identified a registered child sex offender currently participating in a local homeschool group. They are a lifetime member of the HSLDA as well as a lifetime member of the national sex offender registry for forcible sexual abuse of a seven-year-old."

The homeschool lobby is absolutely out of control. It’s been shocking to me how hard they will fight against minor, common-sense changes in state laws to protect kids and make sure they are actually being educated. All in the name of “parents’ rights.” Just shameful.

We investigated the witness list from Illinois' homeschool bill and identified at least nine registered child sex offenders submitted testimony against it

Evangelical and Homeschool leader Voddie Baucham Jr died earlier today after an “emergency medical incident”

bluesky is missing this

Another memelord who thought it would be funny for the news to announce anti-ICE messages on the casings and the message is literally “Anti-ICE”

You’ll never guess who Kash is referring to being shot Also “ANTI ICE”

Think it’s really fucked up people are comparing Charlie Kirk to a Klansman. He’s more akin to the White Citizens’ Council than the Klan. Hope Virginia Tech issues the correction soon

a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"

"There is no inherent virtue in caring about your own children; that is the bare minimum requirement for effective parenting. Virtue lies in caring about the safety and well-being of children you don’t know."

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

So is it good that right wing channels are live streaming their collection of names of people who said mean things about Charlie Kirk?

Why would you fucking publish this

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

Surreal. There is no other video capable of capturing the current moment like this does

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

“The birthday book is not just a test of Trump’s influence but also a test of the power of our current, broken media ecosystem, as well as a rare look at what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they want.”

Inevitable conclusion you pick up on from Homeschoolers is that education is a sham because knowledge & intelligence is innate. Those of pure stock will naturally become enlightened by their inherent virtue

Cool that every 14 year old now has their own personal Grima Wormtongue

First glance about half of these are charter schools & from spot checking most are in districts that mass shuttered schools under conservative management. We’ve had 35 years of “school choice” in Chicago and school choice freaks are using it to push for more school choice

A blackhole sucking in everything in its presence until it folds in on itself

So if you were a reactionary freak who wanted to destroy public education, what incentive is there for you to stop school shootings?

“Dobson served tyranny all his life, and over time, he sought to enshrine it in the highest seats of power. To him and his heirs, the American home is a laboratory; they inflict suffering in private to better reproduce it in public.”

HSLDA used to put their clients names in their write ups, but stopped because too many of them would be arrested for child abuse after publication. Fun privacy disclaimer though

Going to start a political action group committed against principles

Jesus CHRIST

Utah just removed restrictions on child sex offenders from homeschooling earlier this year. Only two states now have the restriction

This kind of travesty is made possible through extremely lax homeschool laws, which allow abuse parents like these to disappear their kids and cut off their access to any official or professional who could spot a problem and intervene.

refusing to accept this isn’t just about “purity” or whatever, it’s about effective politics. someone who thinks it’s practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they don’t recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance

It’s funny that Cuomo used “unhoused” in his big callout post, while Zohran uses “homeless”

People relishing parts of their coalition being put in camps either don’t realize they too will be put in camps, or are preemptively planning to join the side that puts people in camps

In recognition of James Dobson's all too delayed death, we republished an account of his legacy -- a three part series about evangelical child abuse, a culture Dobson disseminated and propagandized. buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Homeschooling is about replacing the public as the governing body of education with a nationalist overseer; education at home is secondary. Driving people unaligned with their ideology out of public schools and then seeking to prevent them from creating their own space

And a $2 million shortfall the same day 🙏 God is good

Oklahoma is already facing serious teacher shortages. These "exams" will make those gaps harder to fill. And in the process, they'll erode the state's public education system, achieving the real goal of pushing families into private and charter options and into homeschooling instead.