Just hours after Gov. Sherrill said ICE would step aside outside Delaney Hall to allow NJ state police to “protect protesters,” ICE is armed and back out in full force. Per Mercado Media stream: www.youtube.com/live/GixFCom...

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Typing up a revised outline for the book I am almost done writing and damn. I love it. I would definitely want to read this book (which is probably why I wrote it lol)

I just watched Superman (2025) again and Eve Teschmacher is to Lex Luther what Ashley St. Clair is to Elon Musk.

Being the adult child of white evangelicals is just realizing how easily grifted your "elders" are, time and time again.

If your parent believed babies are born selfish, manipulative, and sinful and need to be disciplined -- and that a baby needs to quickly fit into their role in a patriarchal home -- of course this will have big impacts on you later in life.

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

The thing is I want to write very hinged books and also be extremely unhinged on social media.

my favorite thing is when people think it's weird how much I obsess about James Dobson until they slowly get just as obsessed and then they are like MOAR DO MOAR

Whoever first came up with the phrase "AI slop" truly deserves a medal, or perhaps a parade named after them. It's just perfection.

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

You can find all the work I have done on the subject here: www.strongwilledproject.com/purity-cultu...

It's really nice to see so much of my research on Dobson in one piece (for Religion Dispatches). If you want to check out my original reporting on the Meese Commission and more, check out my STRONGWILLED project. religiondispatches.org/2026/05/07/n...

Yes I wrote about it a few years ago: www.strongwilledproject.com/chapter-9-ch...

I was on the ex-homeshoolers podcast! I talked about being homeschooled up until 11th grade, why James Dobson is the worst (and worked for a Nazi for ten years before starting FotF) and I ruin Adventures in Odyssey for the kids who listened to it daily: exhomeschoolers.transistor.fm/episodes/rui...

i am not surprised he's in there. he was a terrible human who treated children as a theory to be exploited for harm. burn it all down. #Exvangelical #religiousabuse #childhoodtrauma #traumasurvivor

Excellent article, pointing to multiple books I would like to read.

This is incredible work that, if you’re unfamiliar with purity culture and corporal punishment as bases of a society, will help you understand the warped mindset we’re living under

Hey guess what the guy who wrote the book on brainwashing thought Dr. James Dobson was a sadist who targeted children

My skills for the coming revolutionary period: 1). I will never forgive OR forget White Evangelical Men and what they have done to so many children 2). I can bake really good pies 3). Cats like me

It's really nice to see so much of my research on Dobson in one piece (for Religion Dispatches). If you want to check out my original reporting on the Meese Commission and more, check out my STRONGWILLED project. religiondispatches.org/2026/05/07/n...

I'm having that strange experience of publishers telling me books unpacking Christian nationalism don't sell while my social media accounts are popping off with people wanting to engage deeply on this topic on a personal level.

preparing to pivot once again *sighs in freelance writer since 2010*

Don't you think it's a big deal that the Christian psychologist obsessed with getting parents to spank their children wrote this about dads? This is from James Dobson's 2010 book and it normalizes some very creepy shit:

Ooooh part of my thesis got published in a (very good) article on the connections between James Dobson and Jeffrey Epstein: therevealer.org/jeffrey-epst...

My content on how purity culture is pdfile culture is popping off on Instagram and Threads and it is very clear to me that no one read or listened to my very carefully researched articles and podcasts on the topic lol.

As @dlmayfield.bsky.social says: there’s a reason pedophilia thrives in Christian spaces!

My thesis is that serial child predators are drawn to conservative Christian communities for several reasons. One of the biggest ones is that these communities normalize viewing children and teenagers as sexually appealing.

After a long hiatus from doing any public speaking I am dipping my toes back into the water and doing a panel on Dorothy Day!

i always wondered, but i had no proof. burn it all down.

I'm sorry but I think it is an extremely big deal that the best-selling author and conservative political lobbyist Dr. James Dobson spent an entire year learning about serial child predators and then went and refused to share any of that information with his wide audience of parents. I wonder why?

Looking for a deep dive this week? I uncovered how powerful conservative Christian men have ALWAYS known about the problem of serial child predators in their midst and instead of tackling that problem, they actually created materials that made it easier for these men to get away with their crimes.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is . . . good? Like, confronts-the-nihilism-of-the-billionaire-class-funding-AI-and-gutting-human-institutions level good?

What are your favorite youtube video essays? I'll drop mine in the comments :)

Happy May Day. They can’t kill us all.

I just took a 6 hour class on how to use Final Cut Pro you all are not READY for the youtube videos I am about to make

The word for this is "coup."

I am an autistic white person who can hold a grudge and I will never, ever stop making content that reveals how shitty and selfish conservatives truly are.

Hey I'm writing a follow-up piece on why I coined the term "religious authoritarian parenting methods" to describe James Dobson and the Christian fascist approach to ritualized physical and emotional abuse . . . and I'm curious. Do you think there is already a term that encompasses this movement?

American Christians do not seem to know that people around the world are increasingly viewing them as a threat to the survival of the species/planet. Is this because American Christians had the beliefs that their religion was good and loving beaten into their bodies as children?

Oh wait yeah we also had an episode come out today. The Strong-Willed Child Part 4. The end of an era (and good riddance)

some of the best advice I personally got in therapy for religious trauma, was to simply disengage with people who hold that kind of rhetoric. boundary-setting is so so SO important !!!!!!!!!

Best/hardest thing to go no contact with toxic religious family members!!!

they like to think their beliefs come out of love & in a bubble of non consequence. when we finally say no more, they are shocked, shocked, shocked. they are allowed to cut us off, but we're not allowed to. i cut mine off for reasons. #Exvangelical #religiousabuse #childhoodtrauma #traumasurvivor

“I can’t believe you would go no-contact over political or religious beliefs!” Yeah, well, you’ve never had an evangelical parent/grandparent who truly believes it’s better for you to be dead than gay/non-binary/trans/divorced/liberal/non-Christian etc.

If only the surveillance state would actually identify and apprehend serial child predators. instead they want to lock up folks for being anti-genocide and protect the creeps at the very top.

I regret to inform you that I did indeed read the 2021 Rod Dreher piece where he is incredibly racist and bizzare and writing about his favorite part of the body. The theobros are getting everything they deserve -- their "intellectual" heroes are not only pathetic, they are absolutely bonkers?

So the Benedict Option is not actually about withdrawing from modern society . . . it's about making money hating queer people internationally. Who could have predicted this?!?!?!

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

Have you taken the STRONGWILLED reader/listener survey yet? So far my favorite response has been "please don't die" because guess what? That's the plan! I will never die and I will never stop writing about the harms of religious authoritarianism :) www.strongwilledproject.com/the-2026-str...