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What every CPS worker, responding officer, and family court professional needs to know about traumatic brain injury, coercive control, and the behaviors they cause — before drawing conclusions about a survivor's credibility, stability, or fitness as a parent.

A plain-language breakdown of the doctrine that shields government actors from accountability — including real cases where courts protected officials who stole, shot children, and attacked surrendered suspects.

Following the money in the foster care system — why the federal funding structure rewards removal over reunification, and how poverty is being treated as neglect at scale.

How parents with ADHD, autism, and trauma histories are disproportionately targeted, misread, and penalized — and how federal law requires accommodation that almost no agency provides.

Understanding Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender — the documented tactic that flips accountability onto survivors — and why family court is its most effective arena.

The first Kill the Precedent progress report — 37 site files, 20 blog posts, 7 training briefs, a 28-entry research database, a live website, and a podcast launching in one month. Full inventory, honest context, and what comes next. Transparency is the work.

Toni Bones and Kristan T. Harris of The Rundown Live are launching the podcast. Full credentials, show segments, launch timeline, and how to submit your story or pitch a collaboration before episode one drops.

$713M appropriated. $200M+ unspent while programs turned away survivors. Batterer intervention programs: "insufficient evidence" after 40 years. Survivors ordered into compliance checklists while the money meant for them funds administration. Riverside County. Who profits — and who doesn't.

A solution-based direct address to the courts, agencies, and practitioners who want to do this right — on funding reform, perjury accountability, protecting good practitioners from being run off, restoring trust, and building systems that reward accuracy over throughput.

How family court's "high conflict" framing erases domestic abuse, treats victim and abuser as equally responsible for conflict they didn't create, and hands abusers a legal structure perfectly engineered for post-separation control.

Phoenix Rising Cooperative Living — what it is, where it came from, and why a trauma-informed housing cooperative that keeps mothers and children together might be one of the most important things built from this work. Miss Bones on building the alternative that should already exist.

The story of CopBlock — Pete Eyre's decentralized vision, the voluntaryist principles that made it spread internationally, why reputation is the only real currency in a voluntary community, and the direct through-line from Ferguson 2014 to Kill the Precedent today.

The community advocacy movement connected to Empowerment Online — combining family court reform advocacy, co-parenting legal tools, CEU practitioner training, and expressive arts recovery into one integrated ecosystem built by and for people who have lived through the system.

84% of removals involve no physical harm. Sexual abuse is 28× more common in group homes than in the general population. The federal government spends 54 dollars on separation for every dollar on prevention. Foster care produces PTSD at twice the rate of combat veterans. The sourced data behind everything the system refuses to be accountable for.

Preemptive narrative control — how abusers shape the story before survivors speak, why law enforcement DV rates are 2–4× the general population, and how mandatory arrest laws are arresting the wrong people.

Dark Triad personalities in child welfare and legal systems — how narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism exploit the specific gaps that make systems fail survivors. What practitioners are not trained to see — and how to start seeing it.

A direct note to the CPS workers and law enforcement officers who got into this work for the right reasons — you are seen, the system needs you, and here is what one person can actually do.

Elopement affects 49% of autistic children. Mouthing objects is a DSM-5-TR diagnostic criterion. Both have ICD-10 codes. Neither can be prevented by watching more carefully. What every mandated reporter, CPS worker, and family court professional must understand before drawing any conclusion.

Eight documented reasons leaving is structurally impossible. How "failure to protect" holds survivors responsible for their abuser's conduct. How CPS becomes a weapon in the hands of abusers. Where the billions in DV funding actually go. And the precedent that must be killed.

Two intersecting civil liberties crises — parental rights to make medical decisions for children in state custody, and the federal statute that removed civil liability from manufacturers of mandated products. Both are accountability failures. Both are within our scope.

One of the most misread dynamics in coercive control — when survivors finally react, their reaction becomes the only moment examined. Understanding why changes everything about how practitioners assess and decide.

The D's, E's, F's, and I's — a complete framework for understanding how domination is built, why victims cannot simply leave, and why "why didn't they just leave?" reveals everything wrong with how we were trained.