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The longer dems stay silent on corruption (@jeff-merkley.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @repdexteror.bsky.social) the more we can draw the inference that they don't mind corruption so long as its benefitting them too

And yes this includes Tina "I'd rather cut pre-K and transit than make any of my wealthy friends who bribe me pay a single cent more in taxes" Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social

All Oregon Democrats that run in future elections must address this if they want the votes of left leaning Oregonians.

"He tells me his focus remains on spreading the gospel of the practice he created more than 30 years ago, which is still evolving. His new book, his 11th, is No Bad Parts! for children, and in December he’s publishing Releasing Our Burdens with Hübl, an IFS approach to ancestral trauma. And earlier this year, Schwartz launched a video course on the spiritual, shamanic, and psychedelic dimensions of the self (available on sale for $297). On Instagram last month, he announced a new development in the evolution of IFS: Parts are actually “spirits.” Schwartz knows this, he said, because he personally was “picked to bring this model” to the world. And these spirits don’t only live in a patient’s inner world but can enter in from the outside. Perhaps they are “the ancestors,” he said. Or perhaps they are the invention of an ambitious therapist. There is one more initiative Schwartz brings up, a collaboration with a group called the Compassion Prison Project. “We’re bringing IFS materials to prisoners all over the country,” he says."

So it's just repackaged demons / satanic panic all along

"Richard Schwartz now finds himself among a caste of New Age influencers, self-help authors, and academic outcasts with enormous social-media platforms. He regularly speaks around the world at tropical island retreats; next year, he is co-hosting an $8,700 ketamine-fueled “theradelic” week near Santa Cruz, California. His IFS Institute offers a lucrative suite of coursework for aspiring parts therapists, including workshops, retreats, and three levels of training — costing upwards of $11,000 for about three weeks of classes — as well as certification ($400 up front, then $150 every two years). The annual conference sells $860 two-day passes."

RAHHHHHHHHH

"Celebrity acolytes joined the chorus, too [about IFS]. “The whole parts thing is really ferosh,” Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness wrote in his memoir."

I'm gonna say a slur

The Truth About IFS, the Therapy That Can Break You Internal Family Systems is a widely popular trauma treatment. Some patients say it’s destroyed their lives.

Strong, well researched article. Also worth adding, IFS is very frequently used in MDMA therapy protocols.

Schwartz saw himself as a disrupter of the academic Establishment that shunned him. He started writing books and training clinicians independently and, in 2000, he founded the Center for Self-Leadership (later renamed the IFS Institute) in Oak Park, Illinois. “Initially, we would take people who weren’t licensed therapists, so we would take coaches in the trainings or teachers or massage people,” he says. Richard Schwartz in a video introduction to Internal Family Systems. Photo: Internal Family Systems/YouTube

Show me a "disrupter" and I'll show you a piece of shit

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"The Therapy That Can Break You Internal Family Systems is a widely popular trauma treatment. Some patients say it’s destroyed their lives."

This man is New York’s Dad

The thing is, even if that were true (it isn’t), so what? Literally, so fucking what? Are you not supposed to get your nails and hair done cause your poor? We live amongst so many sociopaths

Man arrested with body armor and a suitcase filled with ammunition after threatening multiple synagogues, officials say | CNN In the latest antisemitic incident to rock a community, threatened attacks on synagogues in Alabama and surrounding states were thwarted when a person was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, ...

A person in Alabama was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, body armor, and other items, intending to attack synagogues across the US South. www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/u...

And as SNAP benefits and food pantries are either shut off or massively underfunded.

Courts, homeless service providers await answers as Portland camping ban enforcement looms The ban is set to be enforced starting Nov. 1, but some key players say they are in the dark.

There is no good time to sweep or arrest homeless folks for existing in public space, but it is truly sickening that @mayorkwilson.bsky.social wants to start enforcing a camping ban as the weather takes a turn to dark, wet and cold. And to think the courts will take care of them!? Dear lord.

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

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The way we solve pedestrian/cyclist deaths is by making alternative forms of transport (sidewalks, bike paths, public transit) more accessible AND by making driving cars less accessible.

This comes as business "leaders" are trying to roll back existing protected bike lanes and traffic calming measures or reverse planned protections for non-drivers, AND TriMet is cutting services.

Respectfully (and yes he does call on city agencies to take action) but the problem of pedestrian deaths *cannot* be solved by telling people to drive better.

you see this happen a lot in "streetwear." people who co-opt a streetwear aesthetic frozen in time while making cities more hostile to the people who gave that aesthetic meaning — less affordable housing, more crackdown on noise, more policing, etc.

i dk if i were u i'd be embarrassed to put this out here as if her repeatedly saying she didn't want to talk about ongoing litigation is the same as the republicans who dodge questions about *policy* but i suppose your bosses at new york post and washington examiner didn't review that with u.

wow you're telling me kat is smart enough to not discuss ongoing criminal litigation

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Guy who just woke up from a coma (probably due to brain injury) after not seeing the same pattern play out re: compromise with Nazis:

It's the other way around. What helps the far right is "compromising" on immigration. It serves to further centre far-right narratives. Just look at how badly it's gone for Labour.

30 to go today!

Some — if not much — of the problem we face today is in not believing Republicans are cruel — when they have been demonstrating in deeds and words otherwise for many years.

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ML King was jailed 29 times in his lifetime for civil disobedience and also for such offenses as driving at 30 miles per hour in a 25 mile lane...

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.