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Chapter 3: The Beginnings of the Religious Authoritarian Parenting Movement How the 1960s and social progress movements sparked a long-term backlash that continues on to the present day.

James Dobson is finally dead and I have been trying to besmirch his legacy for the past few years! If you want to understand how he targeted strategic developmental stages in childhood to create people ripe for authoritarian abuse, start here: strongwilled.substack.com/p/chapter-3-...

Obsessed with @dlmayfield.bsky.social lighting a copy of The Strong Willed Child on fire on TikTok live this morning lol

happy James Dobson Is Dead day to all who celebrate

here's gavin newsom personally and purposefully destroying the few things a homeless person has on camera because he's proud of doing it

Everything is shit and fascism is here and we're not going to be saved; we have to fight it together. Go volunteer at a local food bank or library or something, joining existing networks will save you time and energy and show you how those connections look and feel if you need to rebuild them later

Photo of a log with a hole in it that looks very much like the shape of a little winged fairy.

I stumbled on an old photo I took in my local park of a fairy crash site. It's not there any more - the log's rotted - but I think about that fairy often.

there’s an old cowboy who loves going to my neighborhood coffee shop and sitting at the bar like it’s the local saloon

spiritually i am a new yorker when it comes to going places

help i said yes to a social event 😢

not interested in how much horsepower an engine has. only interested in how many horse powers. can it open a stall door with its lips. can it whiffle as it delicately takes a carrot from your palm. can it enchant eight year old girls the world over. CAN IT

The Blue-State Hospitals Carrying Out Trump’s Anti-Trans Agenda In states where gender-affirming care remains legal, some hospitals have nonetheless stopped providing it. What gives?

Contrary to Trump’s grotesque, self-congratulatory press releases, he has not ended gender-affirming care for young people; rather, as the health care workers I spoke to this week made clear, hospital management, boards, and their legal advisers have ended it for him. My new story:

a long silver blade with a wrapped hilt is held in the hand with the point down

a long silver blade is on top of a black scabbard on a yellow couch

my partner heard about the Finnish tradition of getting swords with PhDs and got me a motherfucking sword 😍⚔️

also hoping to find a Star Trek inspired signet ring

i looked at horse-themed jewelry on Etsy the other day. i need to honor my inner horse girl

one of my most precious dreams is to have an ancient tortoise living in my backyard

when you ask someone how they're doing and they say "can't complain" ???? girl I can

I think it's really worth noting that this concentration camp was opened one month and three days ago.

This woman saw enough horror in that time to quit and tell the public what she saw.

Which suggests that it's not as bad as we think, or as bad as we can envision from her description—it's worse.

have a new journal but i’m scared to start it. afraid to feel

i regularly feel guilty buying snacks or slightly fancier groceries these days

just had to explain to the kid, head tilted in confusion, completely not understanding the concept, what a spanking is.

"why would mamas and dadas do that? if I break a rule, I just try again"

quite possibly have never felt like a better parent than this moment

saw the most beautiful illustrated copy of dinotopia at half price books the other day

saw an article yesterday about whales not singing anymore cuz they’re starving…. i think it’s time for humanity to call it quits

years ago i met a woman studied the impact of corporeal punishment and never forgot what she said: “whenever i show parents the evidence against spanking they always ask ‘ok but what do studies say about the *benefits* of spanking?’ and they don’t believe me when i tell them there just aren’t any.”

been hyperfixating on my adult coloring book lately to fend off the horrors. prismacolor pencils ily

my cat has started screaming at me for her patio time

this may literally be the one subject on the planet on which everyone is aligned in this way

I’m not sure you could get these poll numbers with “the sky is blue” or “two plus two equals four”

the first time i watched Star Trek with my 6-year-old he said the USS Enterprise was covered in "ghost oil" and i was like um those are deflector shields dipshit

BRONTOSAURUS: roar

STEGOSAURUS: roar

TYRANNOSAURUS: roar

THESAURUS: bellow