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Left-wing politics
fromBuzzFeed
1 week ago

29 Brutally Honest Confessions From Democrats Who Live In Red States

Left-leaning Americans living in deeply conservative areas face social isolation, limited safe spaces, and emotional distress from political ostracism.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

He Escaped a Pious Cult-Then Found College to Be a New One

Appel grew up in the Lamb of God, a patriarchal Christian covenant community. As he recounts in his newly released memoir, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic, members "pledge[d] fealty to a small group of self-appointed leaders," men served as "coordinators," women as "handmaids" (yes, that is what they were called), and wives were required to obey their "husband-masters."
Philosophy
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