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Sep 9, 2020 • 20 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
Folks we return from hiatus with a couple of bonus episodes from our Converts Edition starting Friday, and then we’re back with a NEW THEME, looking at another aspect of the complicated relationship between Friends Like These. Catch up on what you missed in this thread...
In this edition of WFLT, we’ve tried to answer that trickiest question: what makes someone change their mind? I spoke to a cop-turned-activist, psychologists, science writers, and former elected officials about times they did and didn’t start thinking differently.
In the first episode of this edition, psychologist Carol Tavris shared a sad truth: after we decide what we believe, we ignore evidence that contradicts ourselves and seek out information that affirms our beliefs. crooked.com/podcast/why-mo…
It turns out our brains have a defense mechanism built in to stop us from changing our minds: when our core beliefs are challenged, we feel scared or uncomfortable. Psychologist @Jonas_Kaplan joined me to talk about how our brains fight back. crooked.com/podcast/why-yo…
If argumentation and reasoned debate can’t change someone’s mind, what about doing it forcibly? Science writer Kathleen Turner is next up in “WFLT: Converts Edition” to talk all things MIND CONTROL. crooked.com/podcast/when-y…
You don’t have to look hard to find them. Get away from bad-faith tweets predicting that BLM protests will re-elect Trump and listen to what @owasow told me about the impact of Civil Rights protests on electoral politics and public opinion in the 1960s. crooked.com/podcast/when-p…
A VERY important follow-up to our conversation from @owasow:
@RDerekBlack used to host a white supremacist radio show. Now he’s an anti-racist activist. How did he get from Point A to B? Two hints: there were a lot of steps in between, and he realized that white supremacy is all around us. crooked.com/podcast/when-d…
Have you ever had a moment of clarity that meant you could never look at the world the same way? They're called "white light moments," and Neurotheologian Andrew Newberg studies them. He joined me to talk about what those moments do to us when they happen. crooked.com/podcast/how-wh…
When his son told Tea Partier @bobinglis he couldn’t vote for a climate change denier, Bob had a moment of clarity. Today, he’s trying to convert other conservatives to the imperative for climate action. crooked.com/podcast/the-he…
In retirement, @NormStamper had a realization: during his 34-year career as a police officer, he’d been one of the bad apples. In this episode, how you go from tear-gassing protesters at the Battle of Seattle to calling for a reset of American policing. crooked.com/podcast/the-co…
One thing we’ve learned on “WFLT: Converts Edition” is that conversion stories don’t always move from the dark to the light. Cordelia Scaife May embraced the dark. How she – and her $ – went from supporting Planned Parenthood to white nationalists. crooked.com/podcast/from-f…
White liberals across the country have shared similar conversion experiences this summer while watching police violence from Portland to Rochester. For @BetsyHodges, that moment came 28 years ago while watching LAPD officers assault Rodney King. crooked.com/podcast/the-mo…
Religious conversion stories are as American as apple pie, and their history dates back to before the founding of the country. I talked to historian Thomas Kidd about that history, as well as the impact the past has on the present. crooked.com/podcast/americ…
@julierehmeyer is a science writer with chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition that many doctors don’t treat as the disease that it is. To get better, she had to trust the ideas of others with CFS rather than those of medical professionals. crooked.com/podcast/the-sc…
Sometimes trying to convert others doesn’t end the way you want it to. In this episode, we delve into the book “Left Behind,” which tried to scare unbelievers into becoming fervent disciples of Christ. That’s… not what happened. crooked.com/podcast/scared…
The people who believed in conversion therapy weren’t all religious. How do you get secular, mainstream psychologists who believed in it deeply to give that up? That and more, on this episode of “WFLT: Converts Edition.” crooked.com/podcast/can-yo…
And last but MOST CERTAINLY not least, a round-up episode touching on what we have learned so far from “With Friends Like These: Converts Edition.” What can make a person change their mind? Can we reach those who won’t? And, where do we go from here? crooked.com/podcast/what-w…
I’ll be back to (start) answering that question THIS Friday with a new episode of “With Friends Like These: Converts Edition.” I talked with @TheRickWilson and @SteveSchmidtSES, co-founders of @ProjectLincoln, as part of @TexasTribune’s #TribFest20.
Subscribe to @crooked_friends wherever you get your podcasts and the new episode will show up right in your feed AS SOON as it comes out. Talk to you then.

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One of the many things that’s become clear in this hideous Ohio case is that there are a lot of “pro-life” folks out there who have really not thought through or DO NOT UNDERSTAND what the laws THEY WANTED PASSED *do.* /1
Some forced-birth advocates do understand their laws and are ghoulishly ok with them. But I think a lot of conservatives just assume, “Oh, exception for rape and incest, that means I will never have to hear a story that makes me uncomfortable!” /2
They haven’t thought about the real life circumstance of a 10yo needing an abortion, or any situation involving rape or incest, really. Like, should a 10yo girl have to PROVE they were raped? And then, if a 10yo doesn’t have to, why should a 16yo? 29yo? What level of proof? /2
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Jul 14, 2022
What IS the pregnancy rate for those under 18? 16? 14? I’ve been searching for data but a lot of it is 8y or more old, and youth pregnancy rates have been falling for years now. I’ve found some recent data at the state level but nothing national. /1
In what I have found, we could get horror stories like the one out of Ohio almost every week. For instance, in Mississippi in 2019, 53 girls 10-14 were raped and *reported* pregnant. (Miss. age of consent is 16.) 42 gave birth. 11 were permitted abortions. 1 one of them died. /2
*Reported* I think is a real key word here. Remember, Mississippi is the state that gave us Dobbs. msdh.ms.gov/phs/2019/Summa… /3
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Feb 23, 2021
Mental health PSA: You can tell yourself “I’m fine” all you want, and you can maybe even *feel* “fine” but your body has a way of telling you when you are not. Today, I cried at the Home Depot bc I couldn’t find my credit card. Yesterday, I cried bc I think my dog is lonely. /1
Sometimes I feel a tight band around my chest, and I tell myself it’s asthma. I do not think it is. Sometimes my heart races. I tell myself maybe I’m out of shape. Probably not. I forget things (credit card), work stuff. I want to be fine. But my body knows better. /2
Ystday I called a friend, crying about money this time (not great!), who reminded me I have 1) just moved, literally the most stressful thing someone can do 2) just lived thru a once-in-a-century-natural-disaster and 3) Pandemic! A now year-long exercise in isolation & grief. 3/
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Oct 4, 2020
I mention my time in psych wards occasionally, I’m not ashamed of it and it’s definitely something changed my life and ways of thinking in extremely positive ways. But I have never thought of it as relevant to my punditry. Until this cycle. /1
Mostly, I’ve been reminding people to not reflexively call racists and conspiracy theorists “crazy,” because a) they probably aren’t b) most of the people I know with mental illnesses not racist and c) people with mental illnesses are usually the *target* of bigotry. /2
But today I’ve been thinking about the experience of being hospitalized against your will, of the arrogance that infects (sorry) you when you think you don’t really need to be there. /3
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Sep 29, 2020
Pennsylvania, you’re home to no shortage of American heroes, most importantly Gritty, everyone’s favorite anti-fascist. In November, you could all be heroes, because according to the talking heads, you are THE *tipping point* in this election. Image
American democracy might hinge on you. So, fittingly, your state has some dumb rules about voting. One especially dumb rule is about “naked ballots,” or ballots that aren’t returned in the secrecy envelope, which is labeled "official election ballot" here. Image
Allegedly to enhance election privacy and security, it could disenfranchise you! For your ballot to count, you must place it in the secrecy envelope, then in the return envelope, which you sign and date. Not in the secrecy envelope? It WILL NOT COUNT.
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Sep 24, 2020
Michigan, you peach of the Midwest, you just might decide the whole thing. And guess what? You can start voting early, in-person at your county clerk’s office today! Find everything you need to know with the @votesaveamerica guide here. votesaveamerica.com/state/michigan/
In 2016, Trump won here by just over 10,000 votes. Yes, you read that right. That’s less than 10% of the Big House. Your 16 electoral votes are well and truly up for grabs, so please, pretty please do everything you can to be sure your vote gets counted. Image
Starting today, 9/24, you can vote absentee early, in-person at the office of your county clerk. Not sure where that is? Head over here: mvic.sos.state.mi.us/Voter/Index
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