Leanah Olander

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:

"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

It’s Sundowning in America A presidential mind is a dangerous thing to lose

It’s Sundowning in America

“How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia? “

Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become 1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...

Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

<chef's kiss>

Maybe it makes perfect sense that you'd be irritable & exhausted after carrying what you've been carrying for as long as you've been carrying it. Maybe that's not a "mood disorder"-- maybe that's the normal human response to long term complex traumatic stress, not "pathology."

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

a mother otter is holding a baby otter in her arms while floating in the water . ALT: a mother otter is holding a baby otter in her arms while floating in the water .

typo of the day: “the healing effects of the stable internalisation of a benevolent otter”. well, why not.

The word is, and it’s a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone. These are people with absolutely NO TALENT, who were paid Millions of Dollars for, in all cases, destroying what used to be GREAT Television. It’s really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!

Trump on getting Colbert, Kimmel, and Fallon fired: "It's really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!"

“Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.”

2. This is also what Jimmy Kimmel said the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated:

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.

If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.

Russians are monsters.

Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”

LOL, don’t you just love Newsom.

In our post-truth world:

Steampunk style 'book dress' by contemporary French designer Sylvie Facon #WomensArt

”Any therapist becomes impressed over time with how hard it is to find a way to talk with someone that avoids getting subsumed into that person’s preexisting personal schemas.” - Nancy mcWilliams

The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check.

That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year.

If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.

The act of “signing” for anything is purely performative at this point. Like I have no idea what I just scribbled on that pad, I don’t even know what you’re comparing it to anymore and I probably can’t even convincingly even forge my own signature but sure let’s keep on doing this forever I guess

How Your ‘Crazy’ is the Key to Your Psychological Freedom Each of us has our own unique kind of freak-out. Instead of letting it get you down, find out how it to use your freak-out to free yourself from its grip.

Did you know that the very thing that makes you spin out is the ticket to your freedom from it? In today’s Substack post I'll be discussing how to learn that within your own personal crazy lay the keys to finding peace with it.

open.substack.com/pub/appliedp...

Americans and Iranians have a lot in common, such as that in both countries supreme power actually rests with a small group of unaccountable theocrats appointed for life.

It is particularly important to deal with negative transferences in the earliest sessions; otherwise, the patient may not come back. Clients often need a sense of permission to put words to what may seem “impolite” or “inappropriate” to say in other contexts.
- Nancy McWilliams

Low-quality papers are surging by exploiting public data sets and AI Paper mills are also likely contributing to “false discoveries”

This is about NHANES, a great openly available study, the same dynamic is seen with Mendelian Randomization. I am reminded of the line: “Strange game, the only way to win is not to play”… the game being rigged is “peer reviewed publications” and we don’t have a consensus on abandoning those….

This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

"Integration" in trauma recovery is not about making "parts" disappear. It's about our parts developing the capacity & willingness to work w/ & support each other, so we're not violently & unpredictably slamming in & out of self-states like we often were pre-recovery.

Clinical work correlates poorly with the analyst’s theoretical orientation. The character traits of the analyst are better indicators of how that analyst actually works.
- Lee Grossman