Brain Witch
@britneeji.bsky.social
Left, not liberal. Pro-LGBTQIA psychoanalyst. Childless cat lady, literal sun-worshipper, desert witch, eco-gardener. Runs Everyday Psychoanalysis@bsky.social.
Pro-Solidarity. Anti-racist, anti-fascist. ACAB. Free Palestine.
Pro-Solidarity. Anti-racist, anti-fascist. ACAB. Free Palestine.
ICE *is* the Gestapo. They can and do kidnap anyone, even highly privileged people. That's the point: there's no safety, no rules.
A fascinating detail in this account is the victim's desire to humanize some of the ICE agents who kidnap and torture. Humanizing Nazis is a grave moral error.
A fascinating detail in this account is the victim's desire to humanize some of the ICE agents who kidnap and torture. Humanizing Nazis is a grave moral error.
"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
ICE *is* the Gestapo. They can and do kidnap anyone, even highly privileged people. That's the point: there's no safety, no rules.
A fascinating detail in this account is the victim's desire to humanize some of the ICE agents who kidnap and torture. Humanizing Nazis is a grave moral error.
A fascinating detail in this account is the victim's desire to humanize some of the ICE agents who kidnap and torture. Humanizing Nazis is a grave moral error.
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JUST FYI EVERYONE, IF YOU SEE A POST THAT SAYS IT LINKS TO LUIGI MANGIONE'S SEX TAPE DON'T CLICK ON IT!! THERE'S A VIRUS THAT PUTS EVERYTHING YOU TYPE IN CAPITAL LETTERS
March 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
JUST FYI EVERYONE, IF YOU SEE A POST THAT SAYS IT LINKS TO LUIGI MANGIONE'S SEX TAPE DON'T CLICK ON IT!! THERE'S A VIRUS THAT PUTS EVERYTHING YOU TYPE IN CAPITAL LETTERS
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Frowning while at the Brownshirt rally I’m attending so that people know I disagree with it
March 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Frowning while at the Brownshirt rally I’m attending so that people know I disagree with it
Rare moment of principled behavior from Senate Dems.
1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster.
Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.
S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.
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Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.
S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.
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Senate Dems Show Spine, And National Sports Ban Bill Dies
The failed legislation reflects a wider effort to disallow trans women (or anyone suspected of being a trans woman) from women’s sports and spaces.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Rare moment of principled behavior from Senate Dems.
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Losing faith in every single public figure and institution has done wonders for my Impostor Syndrome
March 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Losing faith in every single public figure and institution has done wonders for my Impostor Syndrome
The Vichy NY Times. Fuck that disgusting, collaborationist rag.
March 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The Vichy NY Times. Fuck that disgusting, collaborationist rag.
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A race see which happens first: hurting so many people including their own voters that there’s a massive public backlash or dismantling democratic institutions to the point they can keep power despite public discontent.
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A race see which happens first: hurting so many people including their own voters that there’s a massive public backlash or dismantling democratic institutions to the point they can keep power despite public discontent.
I've worked in Medicaid-funded facilities & w/ lots of low-income clients. It's true - many of them (1) don't know they're on Medicaid (2) how Medicaid is paid for and (3) have been so poor-shamed and lied to they call other folks "welfare queens." Abject, inexcusable failure by generations of Dems.
people also don't realize--and the media is doing nothing to teach them--that a hell of a lot of hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes depend on Medicaid to stay open. Cuts of this magnitude will kill local health care for lots of people on private insurance who still think this doesn't affect them
February 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I've worked in Medicaid-funded facilities & w/ lots of low-income clients. It's true - many of them (1) don't know they're on Medicaid (2) how Medicaid is paid for and (3) have been so poor-shamed and lied to they call other folks "welfare queens." Abject, inexcusable failure by generations of Dems.
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people also don't realize--and the media is doing nothing to teach them--that a hell of a lot of hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes depend on Medicaid to stay open. Cuts of this magnitude will kill local health care for lots of people on private insurance who still think this doesn't affect them
February 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
people also don't realize--and the media is doing nothing to teach them--that a hell of a lot of hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes depend on Medicaid to stay open. Cuts of this magnitude will kill local health care for lots of people on private insurance who still think this doesn't affect them
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I don't think you can look at what is brewing in Washington right now and just assume that the US will still be a functioning geopolitical actor this time next year
February 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I don't think you can look at what is brewing in Washington right now and just assume that the US will still be a functioning geopolitical actor this time next year
We love the Gritty City. 🏳️⚧️💜
February 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
We love the Gritty City. 🏳️⚧️💜
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This is what academic colleagues and educational leaders need to understand — *now* is the time for offense, not defense, because playing defense will only accelerate our collapse into total fascism.
In "They Thought They Were Free," Milton Mayer illustrates how Germans initially dismissed or adapted to changes under Nazi rule, thinking they were temporary. By the time they decided to resist, the regime had consolidated power, making effective resistance nearly impossible.
February 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is what academic colleagues and educational leaders need to understand — *now* is the time for offense, not defense, because playing defense will only accelerate our collapse into total fascism.
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Sometimes you get high and start waxing idiotic about how The Simpsons is about the journey from Judaism ("Abraham" Simpson) to Hellenism ("Homer" Simpson) and then finally to Christianity ("Bartholomew" Simpson) and then someone tells you to shut the fuck up, and they’re right to do so.
November 18, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Sometimes you get high and start waxing idiotic about how The Simpsons is about the journey from Judaism ("Abraham" Simpson) to Hellenism ("Homer" Simpson) and then finally to Christianity ("Bartholomew" Simpson) and then someone tells you to shut the fuck up, and they’re right to do so.
No quiet parts anymore. Just shouting.
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
February 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
No quiet parts anymore. Just shouting.
“A counter-purge becomes necessary…”
February 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“A counter-purge becomes necessary…”
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100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again
Prediction: the Nаzi salute will become common within 2 years. RWers will half-аss it for plausible deniability, memeify the backlash, then start fully doing it "as a joke" "to troll the libs" "for being hysterical enough to think we were doing it in the first place"
February 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again
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makes you wonder what position we'd be in if democrats weren't congenitally terrified of admitting the government does things to help people and government jobs are good and there should be more of them
February 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
makes you wonder what position we'd be in if democrats weren't congenitally terrified of admitting the government does things to help people and government jobs are good and there should be more of them
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When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
February 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
We can’t help but be moral creatures…
I've said before that the core storyline of film noir is "an amoral person meets an immoral person and must, reluctantly, make a moral choice."
Europe got ravaged by two wars. People wondered if classical morality meant anything in a modern era.
Noir said, "Yes, it does."
Europe got ravaged by two wars. People wondered if classical morality meant anything in a modern era.
Noir said, "Yes, it does."
Here's a mind-twister for some people. Noir is optimistic. I'm serious. Doomed protagonists, horrible options, bad choices, devastating consequences. All that and they keep going. Yeah, they're horrible people. They do horrible things. But in spite of all evidence they still think they can succeed.
February 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
We can’t help but be moral creatures…
Awesome. Didn’t know this was an option.
Really grateful to the folks who told me to reach out to my state department of insurance re: United Healthcare's refusal to pay my medical bills. It worked! They have reprocessed the claims and paid the outstanding balances. This is such a relief. Really grateful for the advice I received here. ❤️
February 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Awesome. Didn’t know this was an option.
Mercy and kindness towards the needy are virtues. Kill the cop in your mind. As Lynch said, we must fix our hearts or die.
Her job is to remove homeless people from SF's parks. Her methods are extraordinary
Instead of forcing people out of Golden Gate Park, ranger Amanda Barrows helps them find housing.
sfstandard.com
February 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Mercy and kindness towards the needy are virtues. Kill the cop in your mind. As Lynch said, we must fix our hearts or die.
Maybe if the US had a Marshall plan for the USSR after 1989, the US wouldn’t be undergoing a Russian-supported autogolpe. But capitalists’ looting and gloating were too important. And now we’re reaping what the thieves of the late 80s & early 90s sowed.
February 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Maybe if the US had a Marshall plan for the USSR after 1989, the US wouldn’t be undergoing a Russian-supported autogolpe. But capitalists’ looting and gloating were too important. And now we’re reaping what the thieves of the late 80s & early 90s sowed.
Not The Onion.
Are we even gonna make it till the meteor hits us? www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
www.cnn.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Not The Onion.