Reminder from a therapist that you can’t “coping skills” your way out of a systemic crisis

Therapist advice of the day: activism is healing

Also FYI, the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, a government document for citizens to harass, demoralize, and obstruct fascist systems, with advice that includes making irrelevant speeches and acting stupid. It’s free. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

Not enough of you have appreciated this gem of a clip and it shows.

Anyway. So my dog is a time traveler slash vampire

New awareness campaign

FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.

It’s open enrollment which is a great time to reflect on how, in addition to being responsible for all my medical bills, I have to pay for a weekly fancy sushi lunch for the team over at BCBS with the dim hope that *someday* they might do me a solid and not let me die.

Also everyone would get a free puppy and a rad haircut.

Summer Ilsa signed up for a bunch of stuff that Winter Ilsa doesn’t wanna do

This butthead ate a bag of oats today because she was bored but I still love her

Same energy

No body of medical literature stands a chance against the dumbest asshole you know saying he heard there’s chemicals in there

I dunno, I feel like if a mom can get away with cyber bullying her own daughter for two years we can also find alternate ways to keep free speech flowing. The president barely knows what a computer does.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

"The Professor Watchlist is a straightforward intimidation campaign, and you can draw a line directly from Kirk’s work attacking academics to the Trump administration's all-out war on American higher education, an assault on the right to speak freely and dissent." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Therapeutic alliance is actually everything.

Reactions like this are why I wrote my article. I presented his comments IN CONTEXT, and provided tons of receipts. Charlie Kirk was not a civil person. www.erininthemorning.com/p/we-must-no...

Some people debate to learn and some people debate to dominate

Donald Trump’s signature looks like a failed polygraph

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Oh HELL yes

Your occasional reminder that the positive effects of UBI have been tested and validated hundreds of times more often than the murderous Musk robotaxis or LLM’s we’re rushing to put into our schools and streets.

Anyway. So my dog is a time traveler slash vampire

FYI you can still book a Covid shot online if you check the box saying you have a higher risk condition. (Anxiety counts, and everyone I know has anxiety right now anyway.)

Do we want to reduce crime or do we want to punish people because those are not the same thing.

The only worthwhile commentary I’m hearing today

Actually would be so honored if one of my clients wore this glhfmerch.myspreadshop.com/my+therapist...

Called it.

I hear you’re feeling hopeless, but have you even tried giving up?

Not for nothing, but I put a lot of work into psych assessments and do research to give clients resources and hope and write in accessible language and what I’m getting back from people is utter devastation that they don’t have autism… #TherapistSky

Never underestimate the therapeutic effect of standing your ground.

How many fart machines should I have (as a therapist)?

This kind of happened finally youtu.be/RxO2VzN-Ywk?...

Like seriously. Most people get very few chances. Some people get to make no mistakes without being crucified. Then there are people who actually get to do whatever they want forever

Every time I hear about a new example of a predator getting zero consequences

Just trying to live a deviled egg life with egg salad talent

Special mention to the toddler behind me at my local #NoKings protest who, in a quiet moment, screamed “stop being mean!”

I know it’s totally outside the bounds of broadcast journalism, but I’m still amazed every single time this happens that the interviewer never has the natural human response and asks, “Sir, are you fucking stupid?”

The first posy in a thimble I made, to lift my mood during the pandemic. The flowers are all real. When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains. Zoom in if you're strung out🌿

Cakes with masks: yea or nay

One of the young people told me yesterday that my outfit was giving “modern Victorian England” and I think I love it

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620 for a 700 sqft 1 bedroom in Oregon. It was 2/3rds of my income at the time but I loved it.

once again, "having rizz" is paying homage to rizzo the rat. not many people know this