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LCSW • Psychotherapist • Child of immigrants • Elder millennial • Perpetual work in progress • "The personal is political." •📍SoCal
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Lotta dumb white people look at privilege as a point of shame instead of what it really is: leveraging social cache responsibly, such as hurling a hoagie at a cop and not getting murdered.
August 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Lotta dumb white people look at privilege as a point of shame instead of what it really is: leveraging social cache responsibly, such as hurling a hoagie at a cop and not getting murdered.
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whites supremacy isn’t mostly people in white hoods or proud boys. it’s mostly this belief that the mere act of being white imbues superiority upon you; that white people should have first, best or only access to every good, opportunity & privilege has to offer before anybody else gets anything.
July 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
whites supremacy isn’t mostly people in white hoods or proud boys. it’s mostly this belief that the mere act of being white imbues superiority upon you; that white people should have first, best or only access to every good, opportunity & privilege has to offer before anybody else gets anything.
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Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms.
But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.
Remember this.
But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.
Remember this.
July 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms.
But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.
Remember this.
But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.
Remember this.
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the great mistake we made after WW2 was letting way way too many Nazi party members live.
July 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
the great mistake we made after WW2 was letting way way too many Nazi party members live.
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Feeling overwhelmed at the lawlessness? Get involved locally. Concrete, real-world resistance to fascism in your own community is better for you than doomscrolling.
June 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Feeling overwhelmed at the lawlessness? Get involved locally. Concrete, real-world resistance to fascism in your own community is better for you than doomscrolling.
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Psychology students, if you are looking for an example of conflicts of interest in research and theory development, look no further.
Maria A Oquendo, the new Chair of DSM-6 (yes it's coming) has received unrestricted educational grants and/or lecture fees form AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Otsuka, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, and Shire. She receives royalties from the commercial use of....
June 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Psychology students, if you are looking for an example of conflicts of interest in research and theory development, look no further.
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Your enemies are people in actual power not some random person on the internet.
June 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Your enemies are people in actual power not some random person on the internet.
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They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
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A 🧵thread on why increasing numbers of young people (especially men) are being captured by the right, by being wooed away from conventional career paths in favour of fast-track wealth schemes that claim to offer an escape from the 'matrix.'
June 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A 🧵thread on why increasing numbers of young people (especially men) are being captured by the right, by being wooed away from conventional career paths in favour of fast-track wealth schemes that claim to offer an escape from the 'matrix.'
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and if you can't do street protest due to disability or other reasons there are lots of other ways to contribute!!! a bunch are in this nifty zine spencersunshine.com/wp-content/u...
June 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
and if you can't do street protest due to disability or other reasons there are lots of other ways to contribute!!! a bunch are in this nifty zine spencersunshine.com/wp-content/u...
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Some people truly have no idea how anything happens in the streets. They see photos and they approve or disapprove of the aesthetics. But they understand NOTHING.
June 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Some people truly have no idea how anything happens in the streets. They see photos and they approve or disapprove of the aesthetics. But they understand NOTHING.
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As someone who lives in Los Angeles, don’t let social or mainstream media gaslight you into thinking there’s a violent uprising taking place here. The Trump administration is trying to punish this state and this city. He’s also setting a precedent to unleash troops on Democratic cities.
June 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
As someone who lives in Los Angeles, don’t let social or mainstream media gaslight you into thinking there’s a violent uprising taking place here. The Trump administration is trying to punish this state and this city. He’s also setting a precedent to unleash troops on Democratic cities.
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I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
April 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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They only have to detain, deport, or disappear a quite small critical mass of people for the chilling effects of authoritarianism to spread throughout the entire population.
It doesn’t have to happen to you to change your behavior and your world entirely.
It doesn’t have to happen to you to change your behavior and your world entirely.
April 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
They only have to detain, deport, or disappear a quite small critical mass of people for the chilling effects of authoritarianism to spread throughout the entire population.
It doesn’t have to happen to you to change your behavior and your world entirely.
It doesn’t have to happen to you to change your behavior and your world entirely.
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Second, the ‘threat’ of wokeness was a media fiction. Conservative and centrist publications spent years promoting ‘free speech on campus’ and ‘cancel culture’ as threats equivalent to the right’s assaults on democracy and minority rights.
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Second, the ‘threat’ of wokeness was a media fiction. Conservative and centrist publications spent years promoting ‘free speech on campus’ and ‘cancel culture’ as threats equivalent to the right’s assaults on democracy and minority rights.
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First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
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Mona Eltahawy always walks about the trifecta of misogyny: the street, the state and the home. So where is this purported escape that we can just turn off?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uZ...
The Trifecta of Misogyny: State, Street, Home
YouTube video by Mona Eltahawy
www.youtube.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Mona Eltahawy always walks about the trifecta of misogyny: the street, the state and the home. So where is this purported escape that we can just turn off?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uZ...
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This Autism Acceptance Month I would love for everyone to accept when people openly stim because self-regulation rocks!
I understand the initial discomfort if there's hand flapping at the grocery store because it isn't often witnessed & hasn't been culturally acceptable...until now.
accept it plz!
I understand the initial discomfort if there's hand flapping at the grocery store because it isn't often witnessed & hasn't been culturally acceptable...until now.
accept it plz!
“Stimming had a SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE impact on autistic adults’ self-rated self-efficacy”
“Results CONTRADICT the negative view often expressed suggesting that stimming should be eradicated”
“Stimming has a POSITIVE effect and SUPPORTS autistic individuals’ ability to COPE with difficulties”
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“Results CONTRADICT the negative view often expressed suggesting that stimming should be eradicated”
“Stimming has a POSITIVE effect and SUPPORTS autistic individuals’ ability to COPE with difficulties”
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Repetitive Behaviours in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults: Associations with Sensory Sensitivity and Impact on Self-Efficacy - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Purpose: Restricted and repetitive behaviours are a core feature of autism diagnoses but have not been widely studied in adulthood. This study examined the rates of and associations between repetitive...
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April 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This Autism Acceptance Month I would love for everyone to accept when people openly stim because self-regulation rocks!
I understand the initial discomfort if there's hand flapping at the grocery store because it isn't often witnessed & hasn't been culturally acceptable...until now.
accept it plz!
I understand the initial discomfort if there's hand flapping at the grocery store because it isn't often witnessed & hasn't been culturally acceptable...until now.
accept it plz!
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A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.
April 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.
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have you been lusting after #BadBunny in the #CalvinKlein ad? His [REDACTED] caused quite a stir in out Slack channels this week. And it reminded us to share our piece on Bad Bunny's lates album (NO PAYWALL!!!):
“DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” is Bad Bunny’s Latest Decolonial Text
Bad Bunny’s new album places loss at the center of tropical paradise, elucidating vacation spots as colonial constructs.
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March 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
have you been lusting after #BadBunny in the #CalvinKlein ad? His [REDACTED] caused quite a stir in out Slack channels this week. And it reminded us to share our piece on Bad Bunny's lates album (NO PAYWALL!!!):
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we believe we are special and we simply are not
March 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
we believe we are special and we simply are not