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Watch what you say, or they’ll be calling you a radical, a liberal…Roger Hodgson of Supertramp 1979

If you’re going to go to a protest, turn off the facial recognition unlock feature on your phone. Come up with a random alphanumeric passcode to u lick your phone and be sure to lock your phone before law enforcement or those pretending to be law enforcement approach you. Fun fact #1: your phone will continue recording from your camera ap even if you lock your phone. Try it out before you go.

At no time in history did a government using the military against the citizens of the nation work out well for that government.

the balloon goes up once more loose the dogs of war how can this be peace I don’t recognize so much about my country right now, but is that because my country has changed or have my eyes simply been opened?….

In my never-ending need to make sure billionaires have sufficient extra capital to purchase the essentials—like penis-shaped rocket ships—I found myself this morning buying what I like to think of as stupid shit online. These things were not completely without value; I have an office to decorate and a team to draw together and motivate. But my purchases were by no means things I required in a…

I have noticed lately that people have been asking me—because I’m a psychologist—what I think about “the homeless problem.” The question is almost always followed by a sidebar like, “It’s a lot of mental illness stuff, right?” Depending on who is asking, I’ll sometimes give what I call the simple answer: “Not as much as you’d think.” But sometimes (including yesterday) I’ll offer a fuller and,…

I got up at 3:30 a.m. the other day, mostly as a result of the traumatic year I’ve had and the fact that I’ve taken over a part of a mental health program I lovingly refer to as a dumpster fire. Instead of my usual middle-of-the-night doomscrolling, I pulled out my laptop. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do—probably try to channel my middle-of-the-night angst into an essay I could post on my…

As a general rule I don’t participate in the comment sections of the various social media platforms I peruse as I drink my morning coffee. My opinion is they have become a bastion of hate and division and I really don’t need any of that in my life. I do know occasion make an exception to my general rule, and troll the repub posts as the irony and blatant falsehoods are too much for me to pass…

Anyone else wondering, now that the right has their martyr, what is coming next?

Carl Jung

The Mother Archetype (both nurturing and devouring) The Shadow Beneath the Beauty H.R. 1, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, is more than legislation. It is a symbolic event in the psyche of America. On its surface, it promises “big” and “beautiful” reforms. Beneath, however, it exposes the archetypal shadow of the nation—a collective split between care and control, between nurturance and…

Returns to Reddit All the cool names are taken By accounts I closed

I’ve written before about my weekend morning ritual of checking the email (mostly junk) and light doom scrolling (completely junk) while I drink my coffee.  Today I was confronted by an email which by its existence proves a point I have also made before—we need to focus on improving education in this country with even more energy, even more fervor than was used to destroy it. The email was an ad…