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Sunday, May 3, 2026
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Sunday, September 21, 2025
“Social Justice Is Justice, Pt. 2” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) It’s in the Code ep 162
In this episode, Dan considers his look at why Allie Beth Stuckey rejects calls for social justice.
He shows how she denies the existence of systemic racism and of racial privilege, and the ways in which she ignores the multiple dimensions of social justice to invalidate the experience of racism by millions of Americans.
He also argues that people like Stuckey carefully cultivate their ignorance of the dynamics of race and privilege in America to protect and preserve their own social privilege. Check out this week’s episode to hear more!
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
From the pandemic to porn, here's how norms around sex are shifting for Gen Z (Tonya Mosley; Fresh Air podcast)
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade in 2022, the ruling didn't just eliminate the federal right to abortion; it also ushered in "a generational change in the way that people approach sex," journalist Carter Sherman says.
Sherman is a reproductive health and justice reporter at The Guardian where she's covered the real-world results of abortion bans, access to healthcare for trans people, and how technology is reshaping our view of our bodies and our choices. In her new book, The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over its Future, Sherman writes that Gen Z — which the Pew Research Center defines as people born between 1997 and 2012 — are having less sex than previous generations.
Sherman conducted more than 100 interviews with teenagers, young adults and experts for the book. She says the decline of interest in sex goes beyond the issue of abortion rights.
"We have the rise of the internet, smartphones, social media, porn. We have Me Too, we have the pandemic," she says. "Oftentimes, we think about sex as a thing that happens between two or more people in a bedroom. But in reality, the terms of our sex lives are often set for us in schools and school boards and courtrooms and legislatures in Congress and in the White House."
Sherman notes that during the pandemic, many sex education classes were conducted over Zoom or eliminated completely: "The emerging studies that we have on this topic show that teachers became very nervous, that parents would hear what was going on and that they would object to it," Sherman says. "And indeed, it is true that parents got incredibly incensed over sex ed over the course of the pandemic. And we really see that take shape after the pandemic."
Sherman says that much of the sex ed that now exists in American public schools focuses on abstinence only, rather than offering a more comprehensive take on issues of consent and sexual health. But, she adds, "I don't think you can really roll back the clock at all given the technological inventions that we've seen since the 1950s, birth control, the internet, women's rights in many ways. ... Instead, I really hope that people can look ahead towards the future and see what it is that we're living in now, as opposed to trying to do what I call sexual conservatism."
Interview:
Sherman is a reproductive health and justice reporter at The Guardian where she's covered the real-world results of abortion bans, access to healthcare for trans people, and how technology is reshaping our view of our bodies and our choices. In her new book, The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over its Future, Sherman writes that Gen Z — which the Pew Research Center defines as people born between 1997 and 2012 — are having less sex than previous generations.
Sherman conducted more than 100 interviews with teenagers, young adults and experts for the book. She says the decline of interest in sex goes beyond the issue of abortion rights.
"We have the rise of the internet, smartphones, social media, porn. We have Me Too, we have the pandemic," she says. "Oftentimes, we think about sex as a thing that happens between two or more people in a bedroom. But in reality, the terms of our sex lives are often set for us in schools and school boards and courtrooms and legislatures in Congress and in the White House."
Sherman notes that during the pandemic, many sex education classes were conducted over Zoom or eliminated completely: "The emerging studies that we have on this topic show that teachers became very nervous, that parents would hear what was going on and that they would object to it," Sherman says. "And indeed, it is true that parents got incredibly incensed over sex ed over the course of the pandemic. And we really see that take shape after the pandemic."
Sherman says that much of the sex ed that now exists in American public schools focuses on abstinence only, rather than offering a more comprehensive take on issues of consent and sexual health. But, she adds, "I don't think you can really roll back the clock at all given the technological inventions that we've seen since the 1950s, birth control, the internet, women's rights in many ways. ... Instead, I really hope that people can look ahead towards the future and see what it is that we're living in now, as opposed to trying to do what I call sexual conservatism."
Interview:
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Does Anyone at the White House Know What’s Going on? - The Atlantic
"…Some of this disengagement stems from Trump's tendency to approach the presidency not as an executive but rather as a pundit. He'd prefer to watch from the sidelines and comment than actually get into the messy work of governance. Like a witness conspicuously unable to recall things, Trump and his aides may also sometimes find it easier to claim they don't know what's happening than to accept responsibility…"
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Republican yells at Native American candidate to 'go back to where you came from': report (RawStory)
The dispute began when Foreman categorically proclaimed discrimination did not exist in Idaho, reported Boise State Public Radio on Thursday.
Carter-Goodheart took issue with this, pointing out that there is an extensive and painful history of white supremacist organizations in northern Idaho. The state GOP has on multiple occasions had to fight off takeovers by those white supremacist groups.
https://www.rawstory.com/dan-foreman/
Carter-Goodheart took issue with this, pointing out that there is an extensive and painful history of white supremacist organizations in northern Idaho. The state GOP has on multiple occasions had to fight off takeovers by those white supremacist groups.
https://www.rawstory.com/dan-foreman/
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Confusion over how pregnancy dates are measured is widespread – and makes for uninformed debate over abortion limits
Some anti-abortion lawmakers have demonstrated their ignorance about pregnancy before.
There is, for example, a long history of some anti-abortion politicians saying, incorrectly, that it is extremely rare for a person who is raped to get pregnant. Our survey shows that a large swath of those opposing abortion lack knowledge about the basics of pregnancy...
Friday, May 10, 2024
Tucker Carlson says We Understand Way Less than people of the past (Brian Dalton/Mr. Deity/WOTM)
Tucker Carlson says we understand way less today compared with the people who wrote the Bible. LOL!!!
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Sunday, March 24, 2024
An 'exvangelical' on loving, leaving and reporting on the culture of Christianity (Tonya Mosley; Fresh Air podcast)
Those questions came to a head for McCammon on Jan. 6, 2021, when she saw people with crosses and "Jesus saves" signs participating in the insurrection on the Capitol. "That was the moment that I really wanted and needed to say something," she says.
McCammon's new book, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church, is a deep dive into the social movement of young people — including herself — who have grown disillusioned with the church.
"We know that white evangelicalism as a movement is on the decline," she says. "According to the Public Religion Research Institute, about 14% of the population is now a white evangelical. If you look at data from the early '90s, around that time when I was entering youth group, it was close to one in four Americans were white evangelicals. ... So we know that the numbers have dropped dramatically."
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McCammon's new book, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church, is a deep dive into the social movement of young people — including herself — who have grown disillusioned with the church.
"We know that white evangelicalism as a movement is on the decline," she says. "According to the Public Religion Research Institute, about 14% of the population is now a white evangelical. If you look at data from the early '90s, around that time when I was entering youth group, it was close to one in four Americans were white evangelicals. ... So we know that the numbers have dropped dramatically."
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Saturday, February 3, 2024
Most Republicans aren’t aware of Trump’s various legal issues - The Washington Post
At most, 45 percent of Republicans said they knew about legal issues: specifically, the documents case and his being found liable for assaulting the writer E. Jean Carroll. Only a quarter knew about the value-inflation suit, and only 4 in 10 knew about the criminal charges in Manhattan related to the hush money payments to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Kevin McCarthy shows his ignorance about American history in new video
"In his own odd way, McCarthy is recapitulating one of the central tenets of nineteenth century Manifest Destiny: that everyone wanted to be part of the US, so any US military action was not a hostile invasion but rather a liberation," Jacoby wrote. "President Polk and others in the 1840s, for example, spoke of taking 'bloodless possession' of California and New Mexico rather than admit that the U.S. seized these territories by force."
Correcting McCarthy's falsehoods is not just a matter of getting the historical record right. It's crucial to counter the way that many on the right — and some liberals — downplay or whitewash America's history of expansionism and imperialism in order to foster a dangerous brand of American chauvinism…
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Sunday, May 14, 2023
An Asian American Apostate Tells All (Bradley Onishi; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
Brad interviews writer Scott Okamoto, author of Asian American Apostate, his wry and ironic story of leaving religion while teaching at an evangelical university. Okamoto’s often-chilling accounts reveal that such schools, where prayer and trite theological debate erupt in any lecture, demonstrate anything but higher education.
Stories range from a classroom declaration against interracial marriage because it causes painful pregnancies, to grading a paper entitled, “Why Obama Is a Nazi,” and to the times Okamoto, a popular teacher, was disciplined by school officials for keeping standards for writing.
Okamoto’s personal reporting gives you the inside story of how America’s evangelical schools encourage not a life of the mind but White cultural power. More than that, you’ll see how Okamoto found clarity about who he was not, and who he was coming to be.
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Friday, May 12, 2023
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Makes Her Most Ignorant Vaccine Claim Yet | HuffPost Latest News
The thing she has "never seen" is right out where everyone can see it…
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Glenn Youngkin’s victory proves white ignorance is a powerful weapon
…Critical race theory is a college-level field of study that's not taught in Virginia K-12 schools, but it's become a catchall phrase for intellectually lazy people — many of them white — who want to stigmatize any discussion about American racism…
Friday, October 8, 2021
Opinion | How dumb can a nation get and still survive? - The Washington Post
… The GOP has become the party of White racial grievance, and this battle against an imaginary enemy stirs the base. But the whole charade involves Republican officials — many of them educated at the nation's top schools — betting that their constituents are too dumb to know they're being lied to.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Opinion | The Right Goes All In on Ignorance - The New York Times
… The U.S. military has traditionally leaned Republican, but the modern officer corps is highly educated, open-minded and, dare I say it, even a bit intellectual — because those are attributes that help win wars. Unfortunately, they are also attributes the modern G.O.P. finds intolerable…https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/28/opinion/tucker-carlson-general-milley-republicans.html
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Opinion | Republican Leaders Couldn’t Care Less About the Unemployed - The New York Times
The cruelty and ignorance of Trump and his allies are creating another gratuitous disaster. ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/opinion/republicans-unemployed-coronavirus.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/opinion/republicans-unemployed-coronavirus.html
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