Christopher Pepper (He/Him)
@mrpepper.bsky.social
Award-winning educator and writer, with bylines in the NY Times, SF Chronicle, and Edutopia. Co-author of the national bestseller "TALK TO YOUR BOYS” (2025 - Workman Publishing).
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SO THRILLED to tell you about this new book, which is now available to preorder
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@jfschroeder.bsky.social and I are thrilled to introduce our new book, TALK TO YOUR BOYS. Read all about it, and find out why we really really want you to preorder it today: open.substack.com/pub/teenheal...
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In 2023, the Education Department launched investigations into a Texas school district after several alleged incidents of racial bullying, and an investigator was planning to visit.
Then the 2024 presidential election happened — and the visit didn’t.
Then the 2024 presidential election happened — and the visit didn’t.
Epithets and accusations: Probes into racism in schools stall under Trump
Parents say incidents are going unchecked after the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights retreated from investigating schools in Lubbock, Texas.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
In 2023, the Education Department launched investigations into a Texas school district after several alleged incidents of racial bullying, and an investigator was planning to visit.
Then the 2024 presidential election happened — and the visit didn’t.
Then the 2024 presidential election happened — and the visit didn’t.
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It's worth reading through the whole thing, not just these horrific excerpts. Most important: not a single person -- with the exception of a guy who says he'll turn on CNN if he's out of other options -- gets their news from actual journalists. It's all RW podcasts, YouTubers and TikTok.
From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It's worth reading through the whole thing, not just these horrific excerpts. Most important: not a single person -- with the exception of a guy who says he'll turn on CNN if he's out of other options -- gets their news from actual journalists. It's all RW podcasts, YouTubers and TikTok.
Trump’s New Marijuana Policy Offers an Opportunity
"Marijuana has been tied to psychosis and other health problems. I still think it’s safer than alcohol."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
"Marijuana has been tied to psychosis and other health problems. I still think it’s safer than alcohol."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Trump’s New Marijuana Policy Offers an Opportunity
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Trump’s New Marijuana Policy Offers an Opportunity
"Marijuana has been tied to psychosis and other health problems. I still think it’s safer than alcohol."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
"Marijuana has been tied to psychosis and other health problems. I still think it’s safer than alcohol."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
‘It broke me’: Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die
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‘It broke me’: Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die
The suicide of a 13-year-old from Washington state set off a years-long global investigation to find an elusive online user called “White Tiger.”
wapo.st
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
‘It broke me’: Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die
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wapo.st/49lKx7a
Inside the PSL Scale: The Looksmaxxer Rating System That All the Teenagers Are Referencing
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Inside the PSL Scale: The Looksmaxxer Rating System That All the Teenagers Are Referencing
Are you a mid high-tier normie or subhuman? Explaining the guide to attractiveness that’s blowing up on TikTok.
www.gq.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Inside the PSL Scale: The Looksmaxxer Rating System That All the Teenagers Are Referencing
www.gq.com/story/inside...
www.gq.com/story/inside...
FDA approves first new antibiotics to treat gonorrhea in decades, with hope to combat drug resistance
www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/h...
FDA approves first new antibiotics to treat gonorrhea in decades, with hope to combat drug resistance | CNN
For the first time in decades, the US Food and Drug Administration has signed off on new antibiotics to fight gonorrhea. The approvals come at a critical moment: The sexually transmitted infection is ...
www.cnn.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
FDA approves first new antibiotics to treat gonorrhea in decades, with hope to combat drug resistance
www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/h...
12th grade girls are less likely than boys to say they want to get married someday
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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12th grade girls are less likely than boys to say they want to get married someday
67% of 12th graders say they’ll likely choose to get married someday, down from 80% in 1993. The decline reflects shifting views among girls.
www.pewresearch.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
12th grade girls are less likely than boys to say they want to get married someday
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Trump signs executive order fast-tracking reclassification of marijuana
The move doesn't legalize marijuana, but the reclassification would allow the FDA to study it for medical purposes.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The move doesn't legalize marijuana, but the reclassification would allow the FDA to study it for medical purposes.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump signs executive order fast-tracking reclassification of marijuana
The move doesn't legalize marijuana, but the reclassification would allow the FDA to study it for medical purposes.
www.nbcnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Trump signs executive order fast-tracking reclassification of marijuana
The move doesn't legalize marijuana, but the reclassification would allow the FDA to study it for medical purposes.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The move doesn't legalize marijuana, but the reclassification would allow the FDA to study it for medical purposes.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Deepfake Porn Crisis Is Here
Women have almost no protection in the US—but there is hope on the horizon. Glamour takes you inside the fight against deepfake porn www.glamour.com/story/the-de...
Women have almost no protection in the US—but there is hope on the horizon. Glamour takes you inside the fight against deepfake porn www.glamour.com/story/the-de...
The Deepfake Porn Crisis Is Here
Women have almost no protection in the US—but there is hope on the horizon. Glamour takes you inside the fight against deepfake porn.
www.glamour.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Deepfake Porn Crisis Is Here
Women have almost no protection in the US—but there is hope on the horizon. Glamour takes you inside the fight against deepfake porn www.glamour.com/story/the-de...
Women have almost no protection in the US—but there is hope on the horizon. Glamour takes you inside the fight against deepfake porn www.glamour.com/story/the-de...
What 200 Gen Z Women Told Me About Birth Control Should Alarm Every Woman in America
A survey of young women reveals how online misinformation, not politics, is quietly dismantling trust in contraception. msmagazine.com/2025/12/17/y...
A survey of young women reveals how online misinformation, not politics, is quietly dismantling trust in contraception. msmagazine.com/2025/12/17/y...
What 200 Gen Z Women Told Me About Birth Control Should Alarm Every Woman in America
Young, educated women, across party lines, opt out of birth control, not because of religion or politics, but misinformation on social media.
msmagazine.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
What 200 Gen Z Women Told Me About Birth Control Should Alarm Every Woman in America
A survey of young women reveals how online misinformation, not politics, is quietly dismantling trust in contraception. msmagazine.com/2025/12/17/y...
A survey of young women reveals how online misinformation, not politics, is quietly dismantling trust in contraception. msmagazine.com/2025/12/17/y...
How the Phone Ban Saved High School
Since the bell-to-bell device lockup, teens have rediscovered the simple pleasures of conversation and poker. nymag.com/intelligence...
Since the bell-to-bell device lockup, teens have rediscovered the simple pleasures of conversation and poker. nymag.com/intelligence...
How the Phone Ban Saved High School
Since the bell-to-bell device lockup, teens in New York have rediscovered the simple pleasures of conversation, board games, and poker.
nymag.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
How the Phone Ban Saved High School
Since the bell-to-bell device lockup, teens have rediscovered the simple pleasures of conversation and poker. nymag.com/intelligence...
Since the bell-to-bell device lockup, teens have rediscovered the simple pleasures of conversation and poker. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Boys as young as 11 will be sent on anti-misogyny courses designed to stamp out violence against women and girls, under government plans.
Pupils who show harmful behaviour will be signed up to “behaviour change programmes” in schools
Pupils who show harmful behaviour will be signed up to “behaviour change programmes” in schools
Boys aged 11 to be sent on anti-misogyny courses
www.thetimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Boys as young as 11 will be sent on anti-misogyny courses designed to stamp out violence against women and girls, under government plans.
Pupils who show harmful behaviour will be signed up to “behaviour change programmes” in schools
Pupils who show harmful behaviour will be signed up to “behaviour change programmes” in schools
THRILLED to see "TALK TO YOUR BOYS" on this list!!!
Our Favorite Parenting Books of 2025 greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
Our Favorite Parenting Books of 2025 greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
Our Favorite Parenting Books of 2025
Greater Good picks our favorite books to nurture resilience, open-heartedness, awe, play, and empowerment in parents and their children.
greatergood.berkeley.edu
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
THRILLED to see "TALK TO YOUR BOYS" on this list!!!
Our Favorite Parenting Books of 2025 greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
Our Favorite Parenting Books of 2025 greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
A Mental Health First Aid Training Helps Address Growing Rural Mental Health Crisis
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A Mental Health First Aid Training Helps Address Growing Rural Mental Health Crisis | The Daily Yonder
While rural residents are facing a growing mental health crisis, an initiative to direct them to the help they need is seeing success across the country.
dailyyonder.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A Mental Health First Aid Training Helps Address Growing Rural Mental Health Crisis
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dailyyonder.com/a-mental-hea...
Millions of Children and Teens Lose Access to Accounts as Australia’s World-First Social Media Ban Begins
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia’s world-first social media ban begins as millions of children and teens lose access to accounts
Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under ban
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Millions of Children and Teens Lose Access to Accounts as Australia’s World-First Social Media Ban Begins
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
December 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
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As of June 2024, WaPo estimated that, since 1999, over 300,000 kids in the United States have been impacted by gun violence at school. Not even counting the untold millions exposed to our ambient level of societal gun violence each year.
December 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
As of June 2024, WaPo estimated that, since 1999, over 300,000 kids in the United States have been impacted by gun violence at school. Not even counting the untold millions exposed to our ambient level of societal gun violence each year.
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“The U.S. is becoming a tale of two countries in terms of abortion access and abortion policy,” said @ushma.bsky.social. But, she added, “All of this legislation will never take away from the fact that women will continue to need abortion care, and continue to get abortion care."
Three Years After Dobbs, ‘the Reality Is People Are Getting Abortions’
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
“The U.S. is becoming a tale of two countries in terms of abortion access and abortion policy,” said @ushma.bsky.social. But, she added, “All of this legislation will never take away from the fact that women will continue to need abortion care, and continue to get abortion care."
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This recent study found learning management systems sold to schools since the 2010s as time-savers (e.g. Google Classroom, Canvas) tend to be burdensome and contribute to burnout.
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This recent study found learning management systems sold to schools since the 2010s as time-savers (e.g. Google Classroom, Canvas) tend to be burdensome and contribute to burnout.
On the day the brothers left Romania for Florida, The Times asked their lawyer whether the Trump administration had aided in their release: “Do the math,” he said. “These guys are on the plane.”
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
On the day the brothers left Romania for Florida, The Times asked their lawyer whether the Trump administration had aided in their release: “Do the math,” he said. “These guys are on the plane.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...