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“We talk about systemic racism, misogyny, and LGBTQ rights, but we don’t talk enough about how, for fifty years now, this strange evangelical-slash-Catholic movement has been trying to infiltrate the government and turn our country into a religious nation,” Mason said. “We’ve never faced it in any kind of organized way or even said out loud that it exists!”
― Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

“Deaths of despair are disproportionately concentrated in places where misinformation spreads rampantly—in high-poverty communities with low college education attainment, scarce access to local doctors, and scant local news. Small Ohio cities like the Springfields, Urbanas, and Marysvilles are places that tend to be the most overlooked by the Democratic Party and urban elites. “Emerging neurological research has shown clear links between despair and vulnerability to misinformation, right-wing radicalization, and violence,” noted a Brookings Institution study Chad shared with me.[”
― Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

“Boundaries can save, yes, but also boundaries suck.”
― Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

“Every great story seems to begin with a snake.” –Nicholas Cage”
― David Jensen, The Only Good Snake . . .: Tales from a Rattlesnake Whisperer