R.L. Stollar

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Child liberation theologian, child and survivor advocate. Learn more about my work: www.rlstollar.com.

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"Most children are abused by people they know, often those in their own homes. The nuclear family is only rightly named because it blows up so many lives."

The kids are not all rightbaptistnews.com A 20-year old tried to assassinate a presidential candidate this weekend. Now I know that, technically, we consider 20-year-olds adults. But I teach 20-year-olds. I know they’re still somewhere...

Libs of TikTok goes full Transformed Wife. Never go full Transformed Wife.

Transformed Wife days ago:

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J.D. Vance once compared Trump to Hitler. Now they are running mateswww.reuters.com Eight years ago, in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, J.D. Vance was a bitter critic of Donald Trump.

"...but... but... the leopards weren't supposed to eat MY face!"

McConnell drowned out by boos during RNC roll callwww.axios.com Mitch McConnell was booed as he spoke on behalf of Kentucky's delegates during Monday's RNC roll call.

"Pharmaceutical companies need to prove to the Food and Drug Administration that risky psychiatric medications are safe and effective before marketing them. The same should be true for residential therapy regimens for kids."

Opinion | These Teenagers Needed Help, and What They Got Was a Nightmarewww.nytimes.com We need a safer, kinder and more effective approach to treating troubled teenagers.

Senior House Democrat: "We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency."

Trump rally shooting upends congressional Democrats' crisis over Biden's candidacywww.axios.com Rep. Dean Phillips said it would be "unpatriotic and unprincipled" to focus on anything besides the shooting.

"Many of the deaths, amputations and life changing wounds to children [in Gaza]... came from the firing of [Israeli] missiles and shells – in areas crowded with civilians – packed with additional metal designed to fragment into tiny pieces of shrapnel."

Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors saywww.theguardian.com Surgeons who worked in European and al-Aqsa hospitals describe extensive wounds caused by ‘fragmentation’ shrapnel experts say is designed to maximize casualties

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"Crooks registered to vote as a Republican. And he had left his affiliation unchanged when he voted in the November 2022 midterm elections... The rifle the gunman fired on Saturday had been purchased legally by the suspect’s father."

Trump rally shooting: what we know about the suspected gunmanwww.theguardian.com The 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was a registered Republican who donated to a progressive PAC

"There is a zero percent chance of a free and fair election in the United States of America." ~Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation, the organization behind Project 2025

The GOP group behind Project 2025 floats conspiracy theory that Biden will use 'force' to keep powerapnews.com A conservative think tank that is planning a complete overhaul of the federal government in the event of a Republican presidential win is suggesting that President Joe Biden might try to hold the Whit...

"Earlier this month, an artist’s sculpture of the Virgin Mary on view in an Austrian cathedral was also beheaded by an unknown vandal following protests by conservative religious groups."

Artist's Monument to Women Beheaded at University of Houstonhyperallergic.com It’s unclear whether the attack on Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture is related to protests by anti-abortion groups, which previously denounced it as “satanic.”

"The radical anti-labor agenda from Project 2025 -- led by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation -- calls for allowing employers to eviscerate overtime regulations and potentially withhold pay."

Project 2025 would roll back protections for overtime pay — a longtime right-wing media prioritywww.mediamatters.org Right-wing media have long railed against rules requiring corporations to pay overtime to workers for work done in excess of regular working hours. Project 2025 reflects this fixation, pushing for reg...

While portions of the American Right have begun to embrace the language of children’s rights, they are using that language to promote their anti-child agenda.

The American Right Hasn't Adopted Children’s Rights — They've Redefined and Weaponized Themreligiondispatches.org For decades, the American Right has claimed children's rights are anathema. They undermine the family, they threaten parents, they could destroy the United States and cause the downfall of Western Civ...

Project 2025 is basically every evangelical homeschool teenager's first debate case: abolish the federal government to create funding for some Heritage Foundation idea. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣🙃

Speak out against bigotry and violence against transgender people. Silence and looking away bears such evil fruit.

Suspect charged in grisly murder of dismembered transgender girlwww.nbcnews.com The district attorney said it’s “one of the most heinous crimes” he has seen in his nearly 50-year career.

By destroying the meaning of grooming, by making it more difficult to identify grooming, conservatives are becoming abusers’ wingmen. They are directly setting up abusers for success.

I Have a Master’s in Child Protection. Here is Why You Shouldn’t Abuse the Word Grooming.rlstollar.com Conservatives are freely giving child molesters every tool they need just to spite liberals and progressives.

Despite a decade of personal pleading, professional advocacy, and political lobbying by homeschool alumni, the homeschooling movement in the United States is—by and large—still completely disinterested in listening to alumni voices.

The Sad State of Homeschool Child Protection Policiesrlstollar.com Links to the Home School Legal Defense Association are not a child protection policy.

Homeschool researcher Brian D. Ray is no neutral academic trying to let the evidence about homeschooling lead wherever it may. He is, rather, a far-right extremist who is accused of child abuse by his own child.

Homeschool Researcher Brian D. Ray Promotes Books Linked to Child Abuse, Deathsrlstollar.com It is beyond time that the Christian Homeschooling Movement takes Brian D. Ray to task for continuing to promote books linked to so many cases of child abuse and deaths.

Extending 14th Amendment rights to fetuses is not "softening" one's stance on abortion. It would criminalize abortion nationwide in the United States. This is a change in rhetoric, not a change of heart.

RNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF19thnews.org Republicans have adopted a slate of policy positions ahead of next week’s convention that does not call for a federal legislative abortion ban, but opens the door to establishing fetal personhood.

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Make Homeschool Safe Act - Coalition for Responsible Home Educationresponsiblehomeschooling.org Make Homeschool Safe Act Take a stand for homeschooled children’s right to be safe, to learn, and to access resources. JOIN US It’s time to make homeschool safe. Our nation has laws that ensure childr...

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Where Christofascists are leading the United States... "Child-hating, people-hating ideologies – particularly child-free – must be banned and equated with extremism since they are destroying our future, our children.”

Russian Government Moves To Stigmatize 'Extremist' Idea Of Not Having Childrenwww.rferl.org Faced with a deepening demographic crisis aggravated by mounting war casualties and mass emigration, the Russian government is moving to label the nonexistent “international child-free movement” an ex...

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Shopping for metal flowers in Santa Fe.

Santa Fe has the coolest doors.

Believe survivors... ...unless they accuse your favorite person. In that case, put on your amateur detective hat and prove those hussies are liars!

I haven't tried acid but Meow Wolf in Santa Fe feels close to it.

Aren't we all.