Steve Kennedy
@skennedy2504.myatproto.social
Parent of four, Organizing & Network Director at People's Parity Project, UU lay preacher, former structural biologist and airborne infantry, fake lawyer. He/him
I have been waiting decades for a smart person to trace right-wing evangelical Christianity to the Second Great Awakening. That piece is finally here: newrepublic.com/article/2143...
MAGA Christianity and the Return of Religious Coercion
The right is increasingly embracing an anti-social version of the Christian faith that favors restrictive control with none of the underlying moral obligations.
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One thing I remember and hardly anyone seems to is that there's a sort of sexual revolution interregnum when all sex was good (seen from the adult male perspective, which it mostly was) including sex with children, which was publicly defended. Feminism, mostly, is what changed that.
Social control with no moral obligations newrepublic.com/article/2143...
MAGA Christianity and the Return of Religious Coercion
The right is increasingly embracing an anti-social version of the Christian faith that embraces restrictive control with none of the underlying moral obligations.
newrepublic.com
Can't say what I'm feeling right now without getting banned holy shit
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w agoBabies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)
Under Biden, the Supreme Court loved invoking the "major questions" doctrine to strike down key elements of his agenda. Under Trump, the Court has a very different approach.
How the Supreme Court Uses Its Executive Power Cases to Reserve Power For Itself
In its applications of the major questions doctrine and unitary executive theory, the Court has placed itself above its ostensibly co-equal branches of government.
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"Survivors deserve equal access to the courts, regardless of who employed the person who harmed them."
Judges Shouldn’t Give States a Pass On Sexual Abuse
Lawmakers create “revival windows” to hold abusers accountable. But by interpreting these laws narrowly, courts can lock survivors out of court.
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As a survivor of sexual assault by a priest, writing about revival windows was especially personal for me. The idea that survivors abused by public employees could be barred from the same accountability that we got is such an insult. It's hard to believe ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Judges Shouldn’t Give States a Pass On Sexual Abuse
Lawmakers create “revival windows” to hold abusers accountable. But by interpreting these laws narrowly, courts can lock survivors out of court.
ballsandstrikes.org
"Revival windows" are supposed to help survivors hold their abusers accountable. But by reading these laws narrowly, courts deny survivors the chance to seek justice.
Judges Shouldn’t Give States a Pass On Sexual Abuse
Lawmakers create “revival windows” to hold abusers accountable. But by interpreting these laws narrowly, courts can lock survivors out of court.
ballsandstrikes.org
My 12-year-old just finished Let This Radicalize You and made this for me ❤️ @prisonculture.bsky.social
I wrote about the hotass mess that hundreds of recent law grads in Washington are going through for no good reason! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Wi-Fi Fiasco Transforms Washington Bar Exam Into an Even Bigger Waste of Time Than Usual
Yet another reason to move beyond the legal profession’s annual hazing ritual.
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This should be obvious, but there is no such thing as the GOP wanting to change a judicial selection mechanism or election rule for anything other than partisan advantage, from the presidency down to your local school board talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-rea...
The Real Logic Behind the GOP’s New Push for Judicial Elections
This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....
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The differences in where Republicans want partisan elections for judges and where they do not give the game away.
The Real Logic Behind the GOP’s New Push for Judicial Elections
This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....
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It's pretty telling that they had to go to the captured Department of Education on this. Even our judiciary stacked with right-wing nutjobs wouldn't strike this down www.liberalcurrents.com/parental-rig...
"Parental Rights" Conservatives Smear Connecticut's Attempt to Prevent Child Abuse
Today’s “parental rights” absolutism is actually a departure from the country’s constitutional history and tradition.
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Hartford Courant@hartfordcourant.bsky.social · last mo.Will Estrada, senior counsel at the Home School Legal Defense Association, said the U.S. Department of Education received its complaint and was “taking it seriously.”
What if education were something we built in community rather than a product handed down to us? We’re building community around the idea that learning can be a practice of democracy, inclusion, and solidarity. Any support is appreciated as we get off the ground! bankingcrowded.com/collect-hub/...
What a great piece of writing and analysis. I really appreciate this article by Steve Kennedy about retrogressive attacks on affinity spaces of all kinds that help marginalized people build solidarity.
Steve Kennedy@skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 2mo agoThey are not as bloody as in the past, but the right-wing attacks on affinity spaces continue a long history of the forces of white supremacy destroying spaces where marginalized people can build solidarity and collective power newrepublic.com/article/2132...
our operations structure is actually the perfect counterpoint to the suit- Storrs administration maintains massive staffing inequality at UConn Hartford, the proportions of full time faculty to part time are far lower than Storrs. in effect a learning community that gets less for the same tuition
They are not as bloody as in the past, but the right-wing attacks on affinity spaces continue a long history of the forces of white supremacy destroying spaces where marginalized people can build solidarity and collective power newrepublic.com/article/2132...
The Right-Wing War on Solidarity Comes to Campus
A recent civil rights complaint against the University of Connecticut is the latest in a long line of attempts to dismantle the ability of ordinary people to manifest collective political power.
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"meeting people where they are" means you have to accept that they sincerely believe what they believe. It does NOT mean that you have to pretend to agree with their beliefs. In fact, you must be honest when you don't. Grown ups have to deal with people who don't agree with them all of the time.
the far rights focus on low T and high T is kind of amazing because its the first time we’ve seen middle aged men give themselves a new ingroup mental illness
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTalarico: "When I first heard this low T thing, I had to look it up. Guys my age aren't really worried about that kind of thing."
we really need to go back to calling these people weirdos
Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 2mo agoHegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting
No "social experiments about gender" apparently meant only *science experiments* about gender
Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 2mo agoHegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting
The entire credibility of judicial review rests on the fact that there's a reasoning behind orders that can be applied going forward. Otherwise it's just arbitrary rule by ayatollahs, which happens to be what the Supreme Court is right now.
Alex Aronson@alexaronson.bsky.social · 2mo agoAmy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.
Good on Judge Williams. Hoping to see more of this because it's certainly not the only Trump suit where it could apply ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How Trump Is Abusing the Legal System to Bypass Lawmakers and Enrich Himself
Judges have the power to reject “settlements” that are not in the public interest. The question is whether they choose to exercise it.
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Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
Mamdani should declare a random Sunday Sacco and Vanzetti day just because.
Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 2mo agoRupert Murdoch's C-tier having a very normal one
