Jack Register

Bears repeating right now

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social, you are my Senator and Im proud to call you my senator. I stand with you in defiance of facism

John, GenX therapist and researcher here. I actually recommend Velvet Rage to all my clients because.... 1) every movement has context. We lost so many gay men in the 70s-early 90s because there were no meds; 2) that collective loss created a backlash of need for freedom folks experience now

Hooooman, stop click click on glowing box and pay attention to me. Im cuter

Well good grief, supposed to be criticize yourself. Lol

Ya know there are days that just suck. When they happen you gotta love on yourself more than you citizens yourself. The world will critize you more than enough. But, the world won't love you how you need to be loved when it really counts. So begin with self love and pick yourself up, go get em!

Be A King @BerniceKing Now, do the Epstein files. [photo of MLK Jr giving side eye] 6:01 PM • 7/21/25 • 136K Views

MLK Jr’s daughter responds to the partial release of files related to her father:

Intentionally limiting how much I take in from news or social media is a way to control what is feeding my anxiety. No one can stay tuned in 24/7 without loosing their self in the process. Silence is sorting though what I have held onto to see if it fits or not

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

The space between impulse and action can be small but the consequences are life altering

Thoughts and feelings are the traffic jams of being a living being. We are not our thoughts. We are not our feelings. We are not our worst day. We are not our best day. We are a collection and compliation of all that has happened and what we have learned from it.

The Pulitzer Prizes Explanatory Reporting finalists: Alexia Campbell, April Simpson and Pratheek Rebala of the Center for Public Integrity; Nadia Hamdan of Reveal; and Roy Hurst, contributor, Mother Jones. Azam Ahmed, Christina Goldbaum of The New York Times and Matthieu Aikins, contributing writer. Annie Waldman, Duaa Eldeib, Max Blau and Maya Miller of ProPublica.

Our “America’s Mental Barrier” series, which examines how insurance companies interfere with access to necessary mental health care across the United States, was also named a finalist in the explanatory reporting category: www.propublica.org/series/ameri...

Via @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social

On this May 4th...I choose the side of the Jedi - not the side of the stormtroopers and the Imperalists. May the Force Be With You

Cohn: "Tariffs are highly regressive. Meaning that poorer people end up paying a disproportionate percentage of the tariffs."

As a mentor has said many times to me - scattered fingers means scattered energy. Trying to do everything will cause you to do nothing. Remembering to focus is a continued lesson for me

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

YouTube video by Jack Register April 16, 2025

NASW friends in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico, I am running for the National NASW Board Region XI Representative. Ive made a short video to tell you a bit about myself. #NASW

youtu.be/u2lUSKnrqcc?...

@irspm.bsky.social enjoying my first experience at IRSPM and Bologna. Being amongst so many talented scholars is rejuvenating to my soul

Commodifying mental health: apps, care and profitability rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

Apps claim to improve our mental health – but maybe their business models should be making us anxious all over again. Eoin Fullam looks behind the scenes. revsoc21.uk/2025/04/08/c...

Facing the Civic Love Gap: James Baldwin's Civic Education for Interpersonal Solidarity In this essay John Fantuzzo critiques civic education's current focus on power and turns to James Baldwin's conception of love as offering an alternative approach. Fantuzzo's argument is that Baldwin...

I am never going to apologize for having empathy. I will never concede the rhetorical stupidity of arguing about too much empathy. Caring about people is fundamental to a functioning society. Highly recommend this piece on Baldwin and the "civic love gap." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

This will be an unmitigated disaster. Millions of people could find themselves suddenly not receiving their social security checks.

www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement AOC, solidarity, and people power.

"The Democratic party has more to learn from Alexei Navalny or the protesters in Serbia than it does from Chuck Schumer or strategists obsessing over message-testing crosstabs."

Important @jvl.bsky.social

www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

The tsunami of negative news has started to get to me. It's like sandpaper to my heart. The country I know we can be has all but disappeared. Yet, it is vitally important for me to never give up and let the nihilism win. The minute I surrender "they" win. Friend, I join in today to fight again.

GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at.

A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.

HAIRCUTS.

This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

Dems gotta get a backbone and start swinging back. As much as I want the stateswoman approach to politics we are in a brawl. These folk want to destroy the country then ask why we are mad at them. Yall this requires a level of big person pants from us all. #fightdamnit

I'm a survivor of conversion torture. It isn't therapy. I'm also a clinician now and will die on this hill. It is torture - nothing more