someone in IG comments said this has been called sane washing and that does feel correct

You would think I would be incredibly depressed since my special interest has been James Dobson for the past few years. But you know what? I have met the coolest exvangelicals -- and their courage and bravery as they discover and share their true selves after decades of indoctrination gives me hope.

When I started publishing my series on how Purity Culture is Pedophile Culture (after 2 years of research) back in September I got the feedback it was too extreme and I was way out on a limb. But now it feels like we are finally ready to talk about this? www.strongwilledproject.com/purity-cultu...

“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.” — Tupac said it years ago… and here we are. The Pentagon is now asking for an additional $200 BILLION for this war. We always find the money for war. But when it comes to housing, healthcare, or feeding people? Suddenly it’s crickets.

hello Bluesky! For the past few years my partner and I have published a free book-length project aimed at helping people understand (and heal from) the modern American religious authoritarian parenting movement. We called it STRONGWILLED, which is a nod to a book by James Dobson published in 1977.

People on awards shows don't "make it political." The world is political. Our lives are political. Our choices are political. The only decision is whether to acknowledge it.

This might be the best way to describe my politics ever. Damn.

Little hiccup = kidnapping, maiming, and killing people in an inhumane Christian nationalist crusade motivated by ethnonationalism, greed, and sadism.

Kids grow fast, and so do we. This fall, we're adding more than 1,000 seats for universal 3-K in 56 zip codes. Childcare will be more accessible and affordable across all five boroughs.

10/10 take. no notes

Three things to do today: 1. Pay women 2. Believe women 3. Arrest everyone in the files Happy International Women’s Day. Love, Women’s Personal Finance, not WomenSPF

So if the Bible is infallible and inerrant and never changing, then explain to me how rapture theology can even be a thing if it’s only 200 years old?

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One of the most powerful things I've read in years, and a real dropping of the scales moment for something vile that has been insidiously poisoning everything for decades jameelajamil.substack.com/p/ah-shit-we...

THIS. Ugh. 😑

More like this, please! 🙌🙌 An Epstein Walk of Shame has popped up in a DC park, featuring Donald Trump (not pictured—ahem, WaPo), Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Larry Summers, Ghislain Maxwell, and many others. We 👏🏼 will 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 let 👏🏼 this 👏🏼 go. Repost from @washingtonpost.com

This is an ESSENTIAL thread here.

An important listen (and I agree with the ending that listeners will be both “enlightened and mortified”) 🥴

✨ happy 4th Women’s History Month since we lost Roe ✨ Don’t let anyone tell you that you’re overreacting this month.

Women's history includes ALL women's history. This month, despite the seemingly relentless attacks from those in power who are trying to disempower us, let us remember that our struggle is shared, and our future will be built together.

#OTD we recognize Zero Discrimination Day. Discrimination still limits access to housing, education, health care and the ballot. Zero discrimination requires systemic change. #TheMarchContinues

LET THEM. About time they read some scripture for a change. A

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

Oversight Democrats are not backing down. If Les Wexner claims he doesn’t remember, then he needs to turn over his financial records and let the money tell the story. Survivors deserve justice. It’s time for the cover-up to end.

I also use the “e for example” cue. But for ie I use “i for ‘in other words’” Maybe a top three thing I learned from five years of Latin classes…

You don’t need a new shirt today. You don’t need a new purse today. You don’t need a new necklace today. You don’t need a new hat today. You don’t need a new pair of shoes today. What you already have is plenty. More than enough, probably. 🫶

Many American Christians sold their souls to prop up this boastful sexual abuser. They did incredible harm, even enabling ethnic cleansing. We are facing a severe reckoning in our nation. All that trauma, for a pervert.

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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.

Gorgeous set. This is just awesome.

You may think you are apolitical but you will definitely be remembered for your politics.

NO SAFE SPACES FOR WHITE SUPREMACY 🐅🥊

Every woman was Kaitlan Collins yesterday, standing in that room as a belligerent, misogynist old white man, enraged by her audacity to demand accountability, hurled insults intended to remind her that her value is in her willingness to look pleasing to belligerent men. Destroy patriarchy.

The CDC changed the universal vaccine schedule & no longer recommends Rotavirus Hepatitis A & B Meningitis Influenza RSV I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis. We all are going to be caring for a lot more now. In our already overflowing hospitals

Just as the Nazis successfully rewrote the history of their failed putsch, so Trump is feverishly recrafting the history of Jan 6, using all the levers of power to do so. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

About that NYT op-ed title… “You don’t look balanced. You look like beta men who swallowed a fat red pill and washed it down with wine to earn the patriarch’s favor. The “pick me” energy is exhausting.”

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

Went to our local No Kings event and my kid came home to make his own! 🚫 👑 #nokings

We hear about Head Start, and what recent attacks, delayed grants, and reduced staff means for this vital early education program. #MomSky Listen: momsrising.org/bt06oct25 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=o4EEI0hkJN4

A moment of autumn calm #deepbreaths

What about this is untrue or controversial?

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Reading @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s Letters from an American today from a voters perspective, I might consider $45M for an Army parade and $134M LA deployment of national guard and marines—waste, fraud, and abuse. People need economic relief not more fear or burden open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...