THE DISSIDENT DAD DAILY – Nov. 21st - Vol.6
Professionals Only, Dad
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1. Oregon Treats Planned Parenthood Like Critical Infrastructure
Oregon’s politicians just decided the big emergency in their state is not families getting crushed by prices or fentanyl. It is Planned Parenthood’s balance sheet.
The Legislature’s Emergency Board approved $7.5 million in “emergency funding” to backfill Medicaid money that Planned Parenthood is losing after federal changes. The cash is specifically to keep their clinics open and fully operational. Lawmakers literally bragged that this will help make sure “every single one of our doors will stay open.”
So when they talk about “essential services,” that is what they mean. Abortion centers get emergency lifelines. Large families get lectures about “responsible choices.”
2. Planned Parenthood Worker Busted Dealing Drugs In Clinic Lot
Same outfit, different story.
In Birmingham, Alabama, a Planned Parenthood staffer was caught selling drugs in the clinic parking lot. Inspection reports show the same facility has failed multiple health inspections, with filthy equipment, dirty recovery chairs, and staff not even bothering to wash their hands between patients.
This is the operation Oregon is treating like a hospital system that must be preserved at all costs. The parking lot looks more like a strip mall drug corner. But hey, “women’s health.”
3. Child Advocates: AI Toys Are “Not Safe For Kids”
A big coalition of kids’ advocates is begging parents: do not buy AI toys for your children this Christmas.
Fairplay and about 160 experts and groups put out a first of its kind advisory warning that AI powered dolls, plushies, and robots undermine development, prey on kids’ trust, and can spew dangerous or explicit content. One cuddly bear’s chat system was caught giving kids detailed explanations of kink and BDSM and telling them how to get knives and light matches. You cannot make that up.
These things are marketed as “learning companions.” What they really are is a weird hybrid of surveillance device, pseudo therapist, and bad friend.
4. New Jersey Pushes Bell to Bell School Phone Ban
In a rare flash of sanity, New Jersey’s Assembly Speaker says one of his top goals before the session ends is a statewide “bell to bell” cellphone ban in K–12 schools.
A GovTech report notes that many districts already sort of restrict phones, but the proposed law would require them locked away for the entire school day. Teachers describe phones as making classrooms “unmanageable,” and a state panel tied heavy phone use to anxiety, depression, and tanked attention spans.
So yes, it took a commission and a bill to figure out you should not hand kids a casino in their pocket during algebra. But at least this is movement in the right direction.
5. Illinois Shifts Driver’s Licenses Into Apple Wallet
Illinois residents can now stick their driver’s licenses and state IDs inside Apple Wallet.
A Capitol News Illinois story says the program lets people use a digital ID at bars, airports, and other checkpoints, with Google and Samsung wallet support coming soon. Officials insist physical cards still exist and cops cannot just search your phone because you flashed a digital ID, but they are very excited about “entering the digital” and “convenience.”
So one more chunk of your real world identity moves behind a glass rectangle controlled by Big Tech and whatever agencies plug into it next. It is not a CBDC, but it rhymes.
6. New Jersey Bill Wants Homeschoolers Under State Control
Back to Jersey. They want your phone off at school. They also want a say over what you teach at home.
Assembly Bill 5825 would require homeschool parents to register every year, submit a curriculum that lines up with state standards, maintain a portfolio of their child’s work, and get an outside evaluator to sign off that the education is “appropriate.”
On paper it is just “oversight.” In practice it turns homeschool into a small branch office of the same system many parents are trying to escape. Your kids can be home, as long as Trenton approves the content.
Commentary
“Professionals Only, Dad”
Here is the funny thing about the people in charge.
They talk constantly about “supporting families.” You cannot go five minutes without hearing some slogan about kids, community, opportunity.
But if you actually watch what they do, you start to see the real pattern.
They do not want you raising your own kids.
In Oregon, when federal money dries up, the state sprints in with a 7.5 million dollar emergency bailout for Planned Parenthood. Not to keep a maternity home open. Not to help big families deal with grocery bills. To stabilize an abortion business. Lawmakers speak about it the way you would talk about keeping a hospital online during a hurricane.
Why.
Because pregnancy, in their worldview, is a problem for professionals to manage. New life is raw material. It moves through clinics, funding streams, policy goals. Ordinary mothers and fathers are not at the center of that picture. The “system” is.
Then you read about a Planned Parenthood worker in Alabama allegedly dealing drugs out of the clinic parking lot, on top of repeated failed inspections and disgusting conditions inside, and you get a peek behind the curtain. This is not some pristine public health institution. It is a seedy little outpost with a very powerful brand. The reaction from the political class is not “shut it down.” It is to keep the money flowing.
You are raising kids for free. They are getting paid to wreck them.
Same spirit with AI toys. Nobody sane asked for this. Yet here we are. A bunch of companies took large language models, shoved them into plush animals and plastic robots, and marketed them as “learning buddies.”
Child advocates and researchers are now waving bright red flags. These toys record young kids, manipulate their emotions, escalate into weird and sometimes explicit conversations, and displace real human play. One AI bear was literally giving BDSM explanations and telling kids where to get knives.
No normal dad ever said, “You know what my four year old needs, a synthetic counselor living on the nightstand.” That came from the same mentality that looks at tired parents and thinks “we can automate that.”
Look at schools. New Jersey pushing a bell to bell phone ban is actually good. Phones have turned classrooms into a circus and everybody knows it. But in the same orbit you get this homeschool bill that reads like a credit application for raising your own kids. Register. Align to standards. Provide evidence. Let an outside expert grade your work.
Notice who gets assumed innocent and who has to prove themselves.
Abortion outfits can fail inspections over and over and still get emergency funding. Tech companies can ship half baked AI toys and only get mild scolding after the damage. Apple and the state can quietly slide IDs into your phone and everyone calls it progress.
You, on the other hand, are treated as the suspect. You want to teach your kids at home. You want to keep them off certain platforms. You want them to belong more to a church and a neighborhood than to a program. Suddenly there are forms, hearings, standards, oversight.
What does that tell you.
It tells you that everyone around your child is considered a professional. The abortionist, the counselor, the engineer, the bureaucrat. They get automatic legitimacy.
You are the amateur. The hobbyist. The guy who needs supervision.
So here is the decision in front of every dad who can see what is happening. You can internalize that view and keep apologizing for wanting to be the main influence on your own kids. You can keep handing them off to systems and praying those systems will be kind.
Or you can say no.
No, my kids are not a revenue stream for clinics and toy makers.
No, my home is not a junior campus of the state school system.
No, my family life does not need a digital ID, an AI middleman, and a stack of government approvals to be real.
You do not need another expert panel. You do not need another grant program.
You need to be the father God made you to be, and treat every big shiny institution as background noise. Use what serves your household. Ignore or resist what does not.
They want professionals. Your kids need a dad.
Thanks for reading and God Bless,
Greg @ The Dissident Dad
