Yes, tears will fill your eyes and your stomach will turn over as you read this litany. Each item more shocking and frightening than the previous one. But read it we must! Share it we must! Every day more horrendous and dangerous actions are done to create a solid fascist state.

I wrote this two years ago. I don’t know what would have happened to my family without the social safety net that helped us. I found it so difficult to sleep last night thinking of all the people, that will loose access to support they need if the BBB passes. open.substack.com/pub/mmtmsw/p...

This is not compartmentalization. This is not denial. This is the radical act of remaining fully human while living through historical darkness. open.substack.com/pub/mmtmsw/p...

Thank you so much for sharing my work @ebelluomini.bsky.social . I hope it resonates with many. Click on the link below to read this one 💜

The Murphy Girls and Democracy. Some thoughts open.substack.com/pub/mmtmsw/p...

I wrote about the role, the debt, white folks owe when it comes to fighting hard collectively. Many needed the shock Senator Booker provided. But again white folks have to do more of the work of civil disobedience now. Thats part of what tomorrow is all about… open.substack.com/pub/mmtmsw/p...

Viewer submission: Empty Chair Town Hall for Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson in Madison WI on Friday, March 21st.

Here’s today’s essay. Writing is still here. Let’s enjoy good works together. Join me? open.substack.com/pub/mmtmsw/p...

We’re launching Fight Back With Friends, a new national program to help you activate your community. Using our new Empower app, we’ll give you the tools to connect with friends, family and neighbors who need YOUR voice to get civically engaged. Join us on Thursday to get started: indivisi.org/FBWF

Some advice on activism and feeling less helpless: You probably cannot make a big change by yourself. That's okay. Find a thing you can do--either joining an existing thing or starting something small that you can sustain with resources you have--and start there.

BREAKING: Aggressively mediocre men who have never watched a game of women's basketball are suddenly experts on women's basketball.

Anyone else remove all these devices from their home?

📚 Support Local, Share the Story! 📚 Want to see Shattered Paths on the shelves of your favorite bookstore or library? You can request it! Just ask for: 📖 Shattered Paths by Daniel Rolph 📚 ISBN: 978-1-7638400-1-0 Or grab your copy here 👉 geni.us/OEi75Gh

Pissed off at MSNBC for canceling Yhe Reid Out? Show @joyannereid some love and buy her book from @bookshop_org bookshop.org/p/books/medg...

@bookshop-org.bsky.social - do you carry this new release ?

The Radical Act of Needing. Finally - some clear thoughts amidst the chaos. Please read & share 🦋💙 open.substack.com/pub/mmtmsw/p...

@nathaliejp.bsky.social welcome to 🦋! Glad you are here. Social work colleagues- do give Dr. Jones a follow and let’s get her in some starter packs !

Advocacy Update from APA Services and Practical Tips for Navigating the Policy Landscape Webinar apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... < Feb 25 at 7pm EST #socialworksky #academicsky #advocacy

“It was a matter of fighting and suppressing everything in the contemporary world which had destroyed the old world, and thus, in the words of certain writers, “repairing the chain of time.” - How The Nazis Viewed History

“Develop a Worksite Enforcement Response Plan. Supervisors and key personnel should be trained on how to handle an ICE raid. A clear chain of communication must be established, including legal counsel and senior management, and employees should be informed of their rights and obligations.”

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. ❤️

The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.

THIS GOES FOR ACADEMICS!

Alt text: A burgundy red book cover by Omar El Akkad titled “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

📢 Register now: tinyurl.com/AdolSUDTx Join us for the Adolescent Treatment for SUD Virtual Town Hall on March 25 at 3 PM PT. Hosted by ASU Opioid Initiatives & PSATTC, this event covers key insights on adolescent SUD treatment with expert discussions. Panelists announced soon! 👥✨ #AdolescentSUD

Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.

By erasing critical CDC data on sexual/gender identity, race, and ethnicity, the Trump Administration robbed Americans of information they’ve already paid for—and hindered lifesaving efforts to address emerging crises. Thankfully, @trevorproject.bsky.social 2024 survey is still online and 1/3

Spencer Foundation Large Research Grant Proposal submitted! Ending Practicum Poverty in Social Work is a participatory action research project that will test: Impact of # hrs in field on wellness & basic needs. Student conceptualizations of practicum poverty Field manual policies & labor rights

Hospitals that can afford Super Bowl ads shouldn’t be sending their patients to collections

If you have space to grow food this summer, please consider doing that, either for yourself or your community. If you have space and a black thumb, or are disabled, ask community to help you grow and share the output. If you don’t have space, offer to help with watering and weeding for trade.

“Friday night, there wasn’t much more than a whimper from the public. Americans didn’t take to the streets. Nothing like the pink pussy hats of 2016 was evident. Some people talked about how horrible it was, but for the most part Americans went about their business.”

Though the Justice Dept has deleted information about its Jan 6 prosecutions from its website, a federal judge has issued an order listing and chronicling all of the cases and prison terms Here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

Hi, we’re Everyday Activist. 👋 We believe change happens when regular people get involved, even in small ways. Let’s work together to make a difference. #progressives

SLU Health Law Symposium - Skrmetti and the Future of Gender Affirming Care: Law, Policy, & Public Health Perils Friday 3/28. Free to attend & available in person or via Zoom. We welcome academics, practitioners, & community members to join us in this important conversation. Registration info below!

Not all heros wear capes , some wear their faith , it takes great courage to speak truth to power And Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Did just that.

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Hi you don’t have to post it. And you don’t have to re-post it. And you can think about the fact that Jewish people are gonna be traumatized every single time you make us see it over and over and over and over. You can just not post it.

Every family and child deserves to feel safe and secure in the place they call home. Every resident of Illinois should know their rights. I intend to protect those rights and ensure our state laws are followed.

“Grades take psychological safety away putting [students] into states of anxiety or apathy, neither of which allow for learning.” YES - they cannot attain physiological (nervous system) safety only sympathetic activation or shut down. #safety #connection #PolyvagalTheory #ungrading ⬇️⬇️

Well done !

Social workers - Join me on February 4, noon-1pm CT, for a dynamic and interactive webinar "Chat Bots and AI Image Generators: Practical Tools for Today’s Social Work Practice" @jcreswellbaez.bsky.social @laurigoldkind.bsky.social naswwi.socialworkers.org/Events/NASW-...

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So grateful to @cjdenial.bsky.social for sharing this learning community experience and resources we can all use with our students!

New and important research about NSSI and suicidal ideation. ⬇️

My shoot-from-the-hip response is that university education has, following the culture at large, become so committed to "making" that the reading, absorbing, thinking part is seen as trivial. "students are using AI to read for them as much as, if not more than, they are using it to write for them."

This is accompaniment & trauma informed teaching are must haves in our toolkit. Students come to college to succeed and we must meet them where they are at. No shame - much gain for both the student and faculty! www.chronicle.com/article/some...