This is @ritaksf.bsky.social's weekly blog. It has #spiritual dimensions, along with occasional #political reflections. Check it out. It's short. You may want to read it #twice😍

I don’t know why this is hard for folks to understand. The layoffs aren’t just about probationary employees. They are going beyond that. It won’t stop. It’s all about making agencies non-functional.

Did Daines, Sheehy, Zinke or Downing hold public town halls around Montana?

President Trump deployed thousands of active-duty soldiers to the border. What are they all doing? “A whole lot of nothing,” one South Texas National Guard soldier said.

Our research group at the University of Montana has another publication out, this time in the Journal of Adult Development (JADE). The JADE editor and reviewers were marvelously helpful. You can read the whole article at this link: rdcu.be/eaz2y

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I did a #psychotherapy demo for a Chinese company. It was fun . . . and I had to watch, reflect, and comment on my performance. Not easy . . . but good in many ways! johnsommersflanagan.com/2025/02/02/t...

This meta-analysis found that both direct and indirect psychotherapy interventions led to significant reductions in suicidal ideation and suicide attempts jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Please share this opportunity with your #Montana #educator friends. johnsommersflanagan.com/2025/01/06/t...

Here's info on a workshop for mental health professionals, coming this Friday: johnsommersflanagan.com/2025/01/05/c...

Because I'm obsessed with the #science of #prediction, here are my Predictions for 2025. johnsommersflanagan.com/2024/12/30/m...

It's a wildly popular book that's really quite destructive in many ways. Thanks for writing this article.

Big win for Oregon State MBB, as it knocks off previously unbeaten UC Irvine in convincing fashion www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024...

The MBB season is still early, but Oregon State is on pace for one of its best defenses in nearly 30 years following Saturday's win over UC Irvine. www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024...

Oregon State's 67-55 win over UC Irvine resulted in a bump to No. 42 from 51 in NCAA NET rankings. That might be the best-ever NET ranking in program history. As a comparison, Beavers were 50 in the final 2020-21 NET, the year they last went to NCAAs.

NET rankings for WCC MBB 4. Gonzaga 42. Oregon State 43. Saint Mary’s 52. San Francisco 66. Washington State 79. Santa Clara 212. Loyola Marymount 228. Pepperdine 257. Pacific 333. Portland 336. San Diego

Absolutely! I asked ChatGPT to write up something about me. It was interesting, but not true. But, at least AI spelled my name correctly. That's something.😎

We have a name for people who take privileged U.S. government information and share it with foreign adversaries: A spy. They suspect Tulsi Gabbard is a spy.

Of Trolls, Types, and Turning the Tide: A further conversation with @drcaroljasper.bsky.social and @jonathanstea.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/paulmwil...

Elections do not—cannot—act as a substitute for criminal prosecution of a single person. That’s not what they’re meant to do. A campaign is not the same as an evidence- and rules-bound trial. The voters are an electorate, not a jury, and someone who runs a law blog should know the difference.

A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people. It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1886...

Workshop tomorrow. Here are the ppts. johnsommersflanagan.com/2024/12/05/s...

Oregon State MBB makes a splash as NCAA NET rankings make their 2024-25 debut. www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024...

First one I saw had Oregon at 10. Actually 15. 33. Arizona State

Trump has now appointed the fathers-in-law of both of his daughters to hugely influential government jobs they aren’t qualified for, but something something “Hunter Biden.”

Oregon State shoots 60 percent and runs UC Davis out of Gill Coliseum www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024...

@rksf2.bsky.social I thought you would appreciate this😎

The Gratitude Holiday johnsommersflanagan.com/2024/11/27/o...

If you work with youth in #counseling or #psychotherapy and need or want some end of the year CEUs, check out this all-day workshop coming to you virtually on December 6: johnsommersflanagan.com/2024/11/26/t...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

Bill Clinton: He's interested in people who are loyal to him 100% of the time no matter who gets hurt. He believes that his supporters have no confidence whatever in the federal government. And Lord knows he's done everything he could to destroy that confidence.

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“Taken together, these appointments suggest an attempt to make our government dysfunctional, to make it fall apart, to pervert it, until it’s not capable of doing anything at all.” They’re not just unqualified but “anti-qualified.” www.huffpost.com/entry/timoth... www.huffpost.com/entry/timoth...

so is anybody even going to bother to go through the motions of calling for Trump to divest from his businesses this time around, or did we just give up on that one too?

Oregon State's MBB non-conference schedule turns decidedly tougher as Beavers try to improve on a 4-0 start www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024...