THIS. This is a critical facet to the intersection of narcissistic people with religion. And it thrives in religions like Christianity where the trespassers seek forgiveness from a deity rather than having to engage in meaningful restorative justice toward those they trespass against.

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i... Once again incredible work by @moiradonegan.bsky.social A thorough, nuanced review of the growing malicious, grifty, regressive attacks on birth control. People on social media are being exposed to harmful misinformation and this episode helps debunk the garbage!

This is the trust trap, and we have seen it play out again and again in institutions like media, higher ed and govt. The right feeds distrust, use that distrust as a justification to take control, and then undermine the core competencies that everyone else actually values, further eroding trust.

We're fighting Iran to protect our culture from Sharia Law. Here’s why women should leave the workforce and become tradwives. by Mike Johnson

Narc bullshit #7: When narcs who happen to be eldest daughters get ahold of the pop psychology Eldest Daughter trend. Sure, lots of eldest daughters were parentified & held to impossible expectations, and became high achieving, hyper competent adults. But not the narc eldest daughter.

No book is going to turn kids into someone else. But books will regularly show kids other people like them and show those kids they're not alone. And they'll show kids other types of people who also exist. There is a large proportion of the population who are terrified of this.

Standard fash/narc/bully bullshit: refuse to define rules and parameters so that they can continually redefine “winning” as whatever they’re already doing. This is known as “moving the goalposts.” They look at the outcome of their actions and then retcon their objectives.

This is all so fucking predictable. We told you they are fascists, and this is what fascists do. The “distraction” discourse is irrelevant. You’re distracting yourself by talking about it. Instead of focusing on that, focus on removing this regime.

Not that we need any more evidence that Trump is doing ethnic cleansing, but the way this regime keeps pushing for random changes in green card processes, asylum, and TPS to suddenly make people undocumented drives home that none of this is about someone's legal status.

I was raised in a non-evangelical church and this persecution delusion was a big thing they talked about decades ago (80s and 90s). It is ridiculous. These people are free to believe as they choose, worship as they choose; their houses of worship are not taxed; their religious holidays are honoured.

Charges against Former Prince Andrew must be dropped if it’s determined that raping teenagers was an official act. by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett)

Narc bullshit #71: when they profess to be a Christian. It’s abundantly obvious how this religion fits their persecution complex as well as their moral superiority/favored by God complex. They feel entitled to behave badly because they’ll be forgiven, while judging and condemning non believers.

Narc bullshit #306: When she believes she’s a special #riseandgrind #haveitall #strongwoman pivoting into her power but she’s obviously just another #gaslight #gatekeep wannabe #girlboss 😂

Narc bullshit #32: using the phrase “memory is fallible” to try to discredit people who disagree with you. Yes, memory is imperfect. But when 4 people have roughly identical memories of something and 1 person has a different memory, I trust the 4 people. Narcs can’t distinguish truth and delusion.

Narc Bullshit #873: being in a family group chat that includes a narcissist means having to read through their pointless “look at me” texts in order to look for information relevant to the purpose of the chat. This text group has a purpose, and that purpose is not giving you attention.

I say this about sociology ALL THE TIME. And FYI Gender studies is (or can be) a part of sociology.

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

My three-year-old was reading the Epstein emails when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why is the nice orange man joking with the sex offender on his computer?" And when I told her "Because women made it impossible to joke in the workplace," she started crying.

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

“Reach across the aisle and talk to Republicans. Find common ground and build consensus…” absolutely horseshit advice & expectation. I have no common ground with willfully ignorant, racist, misogynistic, Christ-fascist bullies.

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Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Everyone needs to understand this. Cults CAN AND DO survive the death of their charismatic leader. MAGA will not end when Trump dies; it won’t even meaningfully change.

May James Dobson burn and rot below for all eternity. A cruel, venal man who caused grave harm with every breath he took.

anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.

Just thinking about how gender conformity bullies are happy to misgender people/use the “wrong” pronouns when the intention is to be malicious, mocking, or mean.

why destroy the department of education? would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it? today's column: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Is this the “socially liberal but fiscally conservative” ideal that people keep voting for?

Ok whoever chooses the music for The Bear, I adore your taste in music. Using REM’s Strange Currencies and Love & Rockets’ Haunted While the Minutes Drag as the background for Carmie & Claire scenes is absolute *chef’s kiss*

Whether it's Republicans behaving like autocrats or Democrats pointing out that Republicans are behaving like autocrats, both parties have contributed to the sense that America is backsliding into autocracy.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i... This is a compilation of 5 episodes exploring the current situation with the anti-vax movement in North America. Extremely informative and well done. Highly recommend.

Annoying thing re dealing w/narcissists: not being able to point out how funny their self-contradictory behaviors are. Person bullied me my entire life about not being correctly feminine-I need a boob job, tighter clothes, more submissive attitude, to lose weight, to gain weight, different hair, etc

so much of the fascist movement country is supported by the belief that parents own their children and have a right to ensure they turn out a specific way

the best part is none of Trump's base will ever ever ever doubt themselves or him. they are fundamentally ruined as people. he could execute their children in front of them and they'd still vote for him.

This @cnn.com interview w/ the inimitable @kkdumez.bsky.social is worth the read as we head toward Trump's inauguration. If you're not a Christian nationalist & are standing quietly by while the far-right takes over, Kristin has a strong dose of smelling salts for you. www.cnn.com/2025/01/12/u...

Whether it's right-wing outlets reporting things that are not true or liberal outlets reporting things that are true, both sides have a reporting problem.

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. — Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

by Tom Toro

I keep getting hung up on the "but that's not true" of it all and I genuinely don't know how to function in a world where that's increasingly irrelevant the higher up the power chain you go.