Best way to celebrate America250 is to remind everyone you know that the confederacy lost the civil war

Sign in CLT airport that reads “independence was won in South Carolina”

This sign in Charlotte airport has, um, ambiguous meaning, to say the very least

Gas pump with $3.45/gallon gas with a sticker featuring President Joe Biden over the phrase “I did that!”

I’m old enough to remember stickers on gas pumps with Pres. Biden that said “I did that!”

(It was 18 months ago)

The issue is intentionally genealogical and critical in its approach to identities. Articles will explore how proximity, connection, and belonging operate as sites of both care and coercion.

Full call for papers: www.mdpi.com/journal/gene...

Send us your work!

Gwen and I are political scientists writing about family in American political development.

This special issue will theorize links between family and the state, thinking expansively about family and kinship sites of care and control over time.

The issue is intentionally genealogical and critical in its approach to identities. Articles will explore how proximity, connection, and belonging operate as sites of both care and coercion.

Full call for papers: www.mdpi.com/journal/gene...

Send us your work!

Gwen and I are political scientists writing about family in American political development.

This special issue will theorize links between family and the state, thinking expansively about family and kinship sites of care and control over time.

I'm guest editing (w. Gwen Alphonso) an issue for Genealogy titled "Kinship, Care, and Coercion: Historical Narratives of Family and Power in U.S. and Global Contexts"

Feat. interdisciplinary assessments of family, care, and kinship as sites of control and/or support

"Parental Rights" and the Authoritarian Family For advocates of "parental rights," family autonomy becomes both reward and weapon, extended to those who conform and withdrawn from those who do not.

"This movement is not new, but the COVID-19 pandemic provided the ideal accelerant for advancing its goals." www.liberalcurrents.com/parental-rig...

In my book (out Aug!) I call cultural panics about absent fatherhood “patriarchal anxieties.”

Patriarchal anxieties being so prevalent on screen this year is yet another data point that we are living through a moment of profound political crisis.

Fatherless Behavior It's every man for himself where I come from. That's just how I grew up.

New Substack post: this year’s Oscar nominees are about either absent fathers, and democratic backsliding. So I thought: why not do the annual Oscars roundup about the two themes? This is part two, about the "crisis of fathers".

someunpleasant.substack.com/p/fatherless...

tastes better the longer it simmers

Congrats AJ! So glad to see this project generating scholarship.

potential next project: participant observation in the cult of mother god

renewing my passport...state dept says this is an example of an unacceptably digitally altered image. laying off the colloidal silver for a while just to be safe.

travel.state.gov/content/trav...

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

Five years ago.

I'm a NSSR Politics PhD, would love to collaborate on an alum response if you hear anything

Very sad to hear of major restructuring (decimation) taking place at my alma mater NSSR. They’ve given faculty 12 days to decide whether to uproot their lives and voluntarily leave the university (before, presumably, they are pushed out)

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

All bad things lead back to Reagan chart

Randomly caught 60 Minutes tonight, first watch post-Weiss appointment at CBS…

Story 1: Drum beating war with Venezuela

Story 2: Anti-science MAHA “longevity medicine” promo

Story 3: Supernatural mind reader who guessed Joe Rogan’s PIN code

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

Underside of round modernist building

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Round modernist office building in Stamford CT

Side view of round modernist office building in Stamford

Interior of modernist office building featuring skylight

Office building in front of pool in Stamford CT

Modernist beauties in Stamford CT designed by architect Victor H. Bisharat

Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies

A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I loved it

During a lightning round at an event tonight, Bari Weiss asked Amy Coney Barrett to describe each of her colleagues with one word.

Answers:

Roberts: Chief
Thomas: Laugh
Alito: Grandfather
Sotomayor: Lively
Kagan: Analytical
Gorsuch: Out West
Kavanaugh: Sports
Jackson: (long pause) Actor … Broadway

"I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag"....absolutely grim

Toxic masculinity quite literally killing this country.

Okay, for those of you who can't do the scavenger hunt, I'm gonna take you with me via video lol