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It can be challenging to raise children with someone who insists you have no role in raising children.

Yes, those children are your siblings, and you yourself are a child, and your co-parent is someone who has successfully cleaned your butt on several occasions.

But your siblings’ survival—the world’s entire future—depends upon you. How can you get your co-parent to accept that you alone can fix the ways they’re screwing up this whole child-rearing thing?

And not just a little bit—like, oh my GOD.

Tip No. 1: Repeat all instructions

Your parent barks out a dizzying array of commands all day, every day. Most of them are stupid. Some of them are wrong. All of them are clearly meant for other, non-you kids.

And it is incumbent upon you, as a co-parent, to restate them.

Loudly and repeatedly.

Dan Pasternack grew up in Los Angeles in the 1970s and ’80s, voraciously consuming Looney Tunes cartoons, Marx Brothers’ movies, old-time radio shows, the Dr. Demento radio show, and stand-up comedians on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He went on to become a stand-up comic before embarking on a career in writing, producing, and programming. Dan has been collecting autographed comedy records for most of his life. This is his collection, and these are his stories.

In 2006, I took my father to see Billy Crystal’s balletic one-man show 700 Sundays. It was an extremely significant experience in my life, for many reasons.

The same Democratic minority staff that trashed the First Amendment in last week's Twitter Files hearings put something amazing in writing in a parallel case.

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The U.S. does not want to experience what Britain experienced in Suez in 1956: a watershed moment signaling its global decline.

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After seeing firsthand how the juvenile justice system affected their relatives, advocates are pushing for alternatives to youth incarceration and working to raise awareness.Growing up, Tamia Cenance could not fully understand the reason behind her father’s absence from her life. His contact with the juvenile legal system at a young age had sparked a cycle of incarceration spanning from adolescence into his adult years — something she would realize as she got older.
Now 17, Cenance wanted to advocate for incarcerated youth after becoming aware of the juvenile legal system’s long-term effects on the trajectory of her father’s life. She became a leader with Black Girls Rising (BGR), working alongside other girls and young women in Louisiana to end youth incarceration. While they advocate for incarcerated young people broadly, they have an emphasis on young Black women and girls in detention.

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The Bureau of Prisons proposal would automatically deduct three quarters of money sent to prisoners—today is the last day to submit a public comment opposing this measure.

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A growing body of evidence suggests that the US would blow up the global economy to prevent China from laying claim to Taiwan’s semiconductor factories. Former White House National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien has hinted at a sinister US contingency plan in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Rather than see Taiwan’s semiconductor factories fall into the hands of the Communist Party of China, the US and its allies would simply pull a Nordstream. “The United States […]

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