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Andy Rose LPC
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High volume and streaky. Couple, play, trauma therapist. Director, Medicaid mental health clinic in Colorado's front range.

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We're requesting gov't regulation of the term of art "therapy" and "counseling" as AI pushes into our practice spaces.

CC House Health Chair Brown, Senate Health Chair Mullica, JBC member Senator Amabile, Rep. Joseph,

Dear Assistant Attorney General Morrison, DORA Sbarbaro Gordon, BHA Templeton,
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As someone who myself doesn’t know the intricacies of our history with Venezuela I’ve been reading and watching to help inform myself, and instead finding few questions answered amid a general acceptance of the U.S. narrative and that is deeply frustrating to witness my profession’s abdication.
January 4, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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Orban's "...governmental actors have gained control of universities, galleries and popular media outlets. The national cultural fund, chaired by the culture and innovation minister, has redirected money from independent unions and periodicals to pro-government journalists and writers."
‘It has become difficult to live’: Hungarian writers bemoan country’s hostile environment
Nobel prize for László Krasznahorkai provides a rare glimpse of unity in a nation divided on party lines
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Imperialism and Colonialism is bad
January 4, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Venezuela’s military has declared support for Delcy Rodríguez as interim leader following the capture of Maduro by US forces. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino confirmed Maduro’s security team suffered heavy losses during the operation. Armed forces across the country have been placed on high alert.
January 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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I will leave it to @wmarybeard.bsky.social (who wrote the book on it), but I am deeply disturbed by this.
January 4, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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The more I ponder the pics of Maduro, the more I’ve begun to see the White House’s Twitter as the modern-day equivalent of the Roman triumphal procession. Publicly humiliating any captive—whether Vercingetorix, Zenobia, Jewish Captives taken under Vespasian, or a modern leader—is cruel and inhumane.
January 4, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Colorarizona
Denver just hit 60° for the 22nd time in the last 27 days (and 5th-straight).

In the last 27 days, Denver has more 60°+ days than:

🏝️ Las Vegas, NV
🏝️ Atlanta, GA
🏝️ Birmingham, AL

#COwx
January 4, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Reupping these posts.

The indictment against Maduro is designed to serve several purposes.

One is to get legal sanction (in form of probable cause finding from GJ) for Stephen Miller's debunked claim that Venezuela = TdA.

He will presumably now try using it to mass deport again.
Another point I made in this post comparing the 2020 and 2025 Maduro indictments is that Tren de Aragua is added (including its head as co-conspirator), but his inclusion is really thin.

Effectively DOJ used indictment to ham-sandwich TdA claim IC disavowed.

www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/04/d...
January 4, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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The amount of money we're spending to terrorize neighborhoods and snatch tamale vendors should radicalize anyone.
January 4, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Jay Sexton has a good book on the malleable Monroe Doctrine.
us.macmillan.com/books/978080...
The Monroe Doctrine
A Concise History of the (In)Famous Doctrine that Gave Rise to the American EmpirePresident James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to E...
us.macmillan.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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A workforce development program inside prison has helped many people in Oregon find good-paying work after their release. But the program could end soon, since state lawmakers this summer failed to renew funding for it.
Budget Cuts Threaten Oregon Program for Helping People Get Jobs After Prison
The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and support for people after release.
boltsmag.org
January 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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As the article points out, the entire supposed point of REAL ID was that it would prove you were who you said you were, and that you were a citizen or legal immigrant.

It's invasive, requires A LOT of documentation & admin burden on both people & states, and is apparently... worthless to DHS.
January 4, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Studying the contemporary histories of Angola, Sierra Leone and Liberia will make you incapable of looking at diamonds with anything but hatred and contempt.
January 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Impeach, convict, remove.
January 3, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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Wow.
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather.

“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”

“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Just gonna rest this here one more time for the skyline
I read this poem again when I woke up. It helped.
January 3, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Today is the precise 36th anniversary of the last time the United States used force to remove a Latin American head of state, in case you’re keeping score.
January 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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The US unilaterally and illegally using state violence in South America to achieve the goals of capital is a long-standing tradition
January 3, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM