Andy Rose LPC
@andyrose12.bsky.social
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,
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
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.
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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
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."
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Imperialism and Colonialism is bad
January 4, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Imperialism and Colonialism is bad
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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
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.
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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
I will leave it to @wmarybeard.bsky.social (who wrote the book on it), but I am deeply disturbed by this.
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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
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.
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
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
Colorarizona
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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.
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...
Effectively DOJ used indictment to ham-sandwich TdA claim IC disavowed.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/04/d...
![f. Between approximately 2006 and 2008, HECTOR RUSTHENFORD GUERRERO FLORES, a/k/a “Nifio Guerrero,” the defendant, worked with one of the largest drug traffickers in Venezuela, Walid Makled. Members of the Venezuelan regime helped protect Makled’s cocaine shipments that were transported from San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela, to Valencia, Venezuela, and were then sent by plane from the Valencia international airport to Mexico and other locations in Central America for eventual distribution to the United States. Between in or about 2008 and in or about 2009, GUERRERO FLORES also provided another major Venezuelan drug trafficker with protection for cocaine shipments moving through Venezuela, including by providing armed men who carried, among other automatic weapons, AK47s, MP5s, and AR-15s, as well as grenades. At times, GUERRERO FLORES personally accompanied large cocaine loads as they were guarded by the teams of armed men, en route to airports or airstrips for transport north and eventual distribution to the United States. GUERRERO FLORES was paid a fee per kilogram of cocaine transported or received and he sometimes received an interest in portions of these massive cocaine shipments in lieu of payment. The traffickers that GUERRERO FLORES worked with moved thousands of kilograms per shipment, multiple times per month, resulting in the distribution of hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States. In or about 2009, Makled was charged with narcotics offenses in this District and is a fugitive.
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o. In or about 2019, TdA’s leader, GUERRERO FLORES, discussed drug trafficking with an individual he understood to be working with the Venezuelan regime. Over multiple calls, GUERRERO FLORES offered to provide escort services for drug loads, explaining that GUERRERO FLORES and TdA had control of the coastlines of Venezuela’s Aragua State. GUERRERO FLORES, speaking from TdA’s base of operations in Tocor6n Prison, explained that TdA could handle the logistics of ever…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreicg2zrssmx6kodqn3vjafhz7ooaujn6vyjqudnczwwnnyaylfrsdi@jpeg)
January 4, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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.
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.
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The amount of money we're spending to terrorize neighborhoods and snatch tamale vendors should radicalize anyone.
The @chicagotribune.com did back of the envelope math and conservatively found that Operation Midway Blitz cost the taxpayer $59 million. Good reporting from @danvock.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...
Cost of Operation Midway Blitz: $59M and counting
A Tribune review of court filings, databases and other public records detailing the scope of the incursion and typical costs shows how much the federal government has spent since September.
www.chicagotribune.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:55 PM
The amount of money we're spending to terrorize neighborhoods and snatch tamale vendors should radicalize anyone.
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Jay Sexton has a good book on the malleable Monroe Doctrine.
us.macmillan.com/books/978080...
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
Jay Sexton has a good book on the malleable Monroe Doctrine.
us.macmillan.com/books/978080...
us.macmillan.com/books/978080...
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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
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.
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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.
It's invasive, requires A LOT of documentation & admin burden on both people & states, and is apparently... worthless to DHS.
the latest example of ICE claiming a previously recognized government ID (issued by its own agency no less) is no longer valid
DHS says REAL ID, which DHS certifies, is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship
It's the punch line to a bad joke that started 20 years ago when Congress passed the REAL ID Act.
reason.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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.
It's invasive, requires A LOT of documentation & admin burden on both people & states, and is apparently... worthless to DHS.
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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
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
trib.al
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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
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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
Studying the contemporary histories of Angola, Sierra Leone and Liberia will make you incapable of looking at diamonds with anything but hatred and contempt.
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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
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.
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Once again.
No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?
Contrary to what he would have you believe, President Bush’s plans to invade Iraq have nothing to do with such high-minded goals as liberating the Iraqi people or saving the world from terrorism. His ...
theonion.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Once again.
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Impeach, convict, remove.
January 3, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Impeach, convict, remove.
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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
Wow.
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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!”
“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
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!”
“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!”
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Just gonna rest this here one more time for the skyline
January 3, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Just gonna rest this here one more time for the skyline
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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
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.
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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
The US unilaterally and illegally using state violence in South America to achieve the goals of capital is a long-standing tradition
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