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The thing that will protect you and get you free is not whether you are a citizen or not a criminal, but whether you are part of something much bigger called us. Full piece here. www.liberationtoolbox.io/citizens-and...

"That even from a self-preservation standpoint you should advocate for disability justice?" sadly that's all that generally motivates most people and depending on circumstance most people will put this off until they themselves are geriatric & it's too late. the disabled are everyone's throwaways

It should not be a moral priority to appear “reasonable” in this morally insane moment. Protecting the people and our neighbors and ourselves at all costs and in any way we can is the only moral imperative Missed the target again completely Chuck.

youtu.be/hvt5ScfjpDo?... "I sat down face to face with white nationalists and neo-Nazis, men who see people like me a Muslim woman and daughter of immigrants, as their enemy. I wanted to understand: what drives their anger? Why do they believe in hate and division? -- Deeyah Khan

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A corrupt world is built brick by brick by individual acts of shame and silence.Can we break the silence that protects misconduct even while it means being exposed ourselves? Psychiatry mental health system are failing,but they are also just sets of human relationships beyondmeds.com/2018/12/06/s...

following the release of the Epstein files several countries have taken actions against individuals named in the files. The UK, France, Lithuania, Slovakia, Turkey and Norway...people have resigned and legal actions are being taken etc. In the US, on the other hand no one is hardly batting an eye

COMMON SENSE??!?!?! This man has not one single bone in his body. I am so deeply disgusted by the complete lack of moral courage and moral reasoning in this political party run by milquetoast craven panderers.

Race, self-censorship and fear of “legislative cabals” arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Grieving& praising life are twins.Grief is not a feeling it's a skill. The twin of grief is the skill of praising/loving life. If you find one skillfully done the other's there. Grief & the ability to love life are clinking their glasses saying "live well! -SJenkinson beyondmeds.com/2013/06/05/g...

Healing and life…it’s never what we expect…expectations actually get in the way… Ideology is the other thing that gets in the way of living…you can’t be in the moment if you’ve got it all figured out ahead of time. More on continuous healing: beyondmeds.com/2023/10/09/h...

When this Epstein stuff is active I am struck by how normal this was culturally in 1960 & 70’s How negotiating a sea of adult men, teachers, clergy Daddies, and Funny Uncles was an actual minefield girls had to learn to negotiate or be destroyed by

Remember: inflammation, when not gone awry, helps the body heal. The healthy body wants a healthy inflammatory response. Everything has it’s place and time. ( more musings on such) beyondmeds.com/2017/05/04/t...

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Come on. Clarity really isn't difficult right now.

I forgot about this piece. Somber reality. The sort I really like to find by accident when I'm doing upkeep. My favorite work has never been the most popular. from 2018 Does the mourning ever end? beyondmeds.com/2018/08/05/m...

It’s critical that we all learn to unfreeze. Look/feel within and follow your heart. Your heart knows the way out of freeze. Your journey out of freeze will be your own. Trust/feel your body and respond. Be creative. The body is the way back to humanity.

Americans feel helpless. Learned helplessness can be a trauma freeze response. Become aware of the potential for freezing. Once you recognize it you can start listening to the freeze and responding to your own body and how it needs to unfreeze.

Healthy spirituality doesn't by-pass the horrors of injustice it provides courage and fuel to stand for justice.

The razor's edge. Paradox. When one really exists on that edge everything and nothing converge into one. Can you imagine?

#Zazen is not about trying to stop our thoughts, but about being clearly awake to them. -Maurine Stuart #zen

I feel like I want to convene a circle of people to just sit with in a circle and think silently about this poem together.

The second command of the fascist state is that caring for those persons it finds disposable is weak and perverse.

Understanding Dukkha ~~ My brother gave me a book written by Ajahn Chah ~ this Buddhist teacher before he (my brother) died. this article clearly influenced a foundational piece of my view of the world...I've returned to it many times over the years... beyondmeds.com/2008/02/17/d...

Maybe madness is more like wilderness, with a mix of dangers and possibilities....https://recoveryfrompsychosis.org/2026/01/a-conversation-about-madness-mysticism-and-the-reenchantment-of-psychology/

our current dominant culture denies the reality of death as a wholly natural part of life and obscures and minimizes our relationships with the dead with @sheainthecatskills.com Saturday, January 24 11:00am Pacific 12pm Mountain, 1pm Central, 2pm Eastern

They have reached into their calcified hateful hearts to enact all this. We have to reach into our healthy, beating, loving hearts and care for each other through this.

Nothing about what is happening is reasonable, rational or logical. It is primal, unthinking, irrational, impulsive, manipulative, destructive. You aren't going to challenge it with reason.

70% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.

The history of this country cannot be erased. It's in our cells. We can pretend otherwise but it will come get us. That's how karma works. It's biological. Because our bodies have interacted with the sickness that is patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism since the beginning of this country.

Here's the issue with so-called progressives. You still support capitalism. If you don't understand that capitalism is white supremacy is fascism you're still part of the problem. Break down the economics, living in exchange and gift economies is the only way forward. I challenge you to the future.

Weird for the whole world to understand how violent Border & immigration police are when I’ve been terrified my whole life.

me too. David Whyte says it too...and he's riffing off of Dante apparently www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNH... :

Dolly Sen dismantles psychiatric authority through art activism, exposing the politics of diagnosis and reclaiming the narrative of madness. thepolyphony.org/2026/01/02/d...

That’s right the line between psychosis and spiritual emergence does not exist... there is only spectrum of manifestation and none of it is better or worse. It simply is what is arising in that individual at the moment they are met and unfortunately diagnosed .. beyondmeds.com/2019/01/06/t...

Obsequious, flattering, sycophantic chat bots built by manipulative profiteers kill, harm and sicken people

The body does not attack itself. This way of explaining autoimmune disease is a blasphomy against nature. We, however, attack our bodies. Capitalism, the patriarchy and white supremacy has divided us from our bodies. Cooperation with the body, and thus healing will take the rest of our lives.

thread... and so it's been for a long time...more people are noticing now. be one of them. care must happen in community and everyone must be part of the structure of care now the question is how do we develop community in the midst of dystopia?