It was actually macroeconomic. We outsourced and automated all the stable, high paying jobs for which low-education, low-skill men qualified and didn’t end the male breadwinner norm, creating a vacuum
If being a 'TRAD WIFE' was so natural and amazing… why did it CRUMBLE in just two generations? Because every mother who lived it told her daughters: Go. Get. A. BETTER. Life.
Somehow, despite washing machines and Roombas, the total number of hours moms and dads of young children spend on "obligatory activities" has risen by about 7 or 8 hours a week over the last two generations.
On average, combining market work, education, childcare, housework, eldercare, all combined, married dads do about 30 minutes *more* of work per week than married moms.
But total work burden has steadily risen for both!
Father's Day is around the corner and guess what?
American dads help out at home more than they ever have before.
Modern dads today help out at home approximately 300% as much as dads in the 1960s did.
Just sat down with this piece and…whew.
“Inside the White House, Mr. Miller, the influential deputy chief of staff, saw an opening for an idea he had raised previously: What if Mr. Trump simply claimed the power to suspend habeas corpus?
Then the locked-up immigrants would be blocked from receiving hearings or even from seeking court orders to prevent their removal from the country. This was an opportunity for Mr. Trump not only to speed up deportations, but also to assert vastly expanded power over a legal system that was getting in his way.”
nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/po… via @NYTimes
saying things like this bc they ignore/the cultural context of the time and just how dark and evil it was to women. being mildly overweight was an excuse for public ridicule and mockery. people make fun of the body positivity movement but they have no idea how much it saved us
1. Axios doesn't quite get it but there are two scandals here: (1) reporters (seemingly) having access to tapes from Situation Room and (2) Situation Room repeatedly used as place to plot out covering up Epstein case. Scandal (1) would be serious enough in normal times but Scandal (2) is the real real outrage
SCOOP: Top White House officials believe NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their new book.
Such a taped leak would be a shocking breach of one of the most secure settings on Earth. axios.com/2026/06/14/trump-s…
Um: preamble to 2015 JCPOA that Trump tore up: "Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop, or acquire any nuclear weapons." Literally the same.
Pretty solid that "Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons."
documentcloud.org/documents/…
As always, your regular reminder that despite having every law enforcement agency of the federal government and billions of dollars worth of surveillance tools available to them, the Trump admin has managed to find a grand total of zero (0) "paid agitators."
"Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send — that paid agitators could not get away with disrupting ICE operations — would make sure no one tried it again. (There was no evidence that either Mr. Pretti or Ms. Good had been paid activists.)" nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/po…
After $60 billion in extra fuel costs for Americans, a more extreme Iranian regime in place, and extreme depletion of our military assets… what did Donald Trump really achieve in his costly Iran War?
New paper relates exposure to Christian "purity" culture to greater sexual shame. Viewing sex positive messaging increased inspiration and decreased distress relative to a "purity" vid.
(Full disclosure, I helped the student with her analysis in my role as dissertation director.)