@heymmt.bsky.social
Social Worker on a Mission* Award Winning Professor* Trauma Informed Practitioner *Voracious Reader * Mental Health Advocate * 🏅* Runner * Writer *Always learning, Always Growing
Yes, tears will fill your eyes and your stomach will turn over as you read this litany. Each item more shocking and frightening than the previous one. But read it we must! Share it we must!
Every day more horrendous and dangerous actions are done to create a solid fascist state.
I wrote this two years ago. I don’t know what would have happened to my family without the social safety net that helped us.
I found it so difficult to sleep last night thinking of all the people, that will loose access to support they need if the BBB passes.
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This is not compartmentalization. This is not denial. This is the radical act of remaining fully human while living through historical darkness.
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Thank you so much for sharing my work @ebelluomini.bsky.social . I hope it resonates with many. Click on the link below to read this one 💜
24.06.2025 12:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Murphy Girls and Democracy.
Some thoughts
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I wrote about the role, the debt, white folks owe when it comes to fighting hard collectively. Many needed the shock Senator Booker provided. But again white folks have to do more of the work of civil disobedience now. Thats part of what tomorrow is all about…
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Viewer submission: Empty Chair Town Hall for Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson in Madison WI on Friday, March 21st.
24.03.2025 22:55 — 👍 429 🔁 116 💬 22 📌 5
Here’s today’s essay.
Writing is still here. Let’s enjoy good works together. Join me?
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Source ?
19.03.2025 21:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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18.03.2025 22:03 — 👍 906 🔁 306 💬 20 📌 17Paywall is up
18.03.2025 01:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Some advice on activism and feeling less helpless:
You probably cannot make a big change by yourself. That's okay. Find a thing you can do--either joining an existing thing or starting something small that you can sustain with resources you have--and start there.
BREAKING: Aggressively mediocre men who have never watched a game of women's basketball are suddenly experts on women's basketball.
08.03.2025 23:00 — 👍 10796 🔁 1004 💬 258 📌 59Delightful!
06.03.2025 23:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anyone else remove all these devices from their home?
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📚 Support Local, Share the Story! 📚
Want to see Shattered Paths on the shelves of your favorite bookstore or library? You can request it!
Just ask for:
📖 Shattered Paths by Daniel Rolph
📚 ISBN: 978-1-7638400-1-0
Or grab your copy here 👉 geni.us/OEi75Gh
Pissed off at MSNBC for canceling Yhe Reid Out? Show @joyannereid some love and buy her book from @bookshop_org
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I asked my director if I could add the interest on my credit card as an expense since the uni is essentially borrowing money from me. My next reimbursement came fast and furious
24.02.2025 23:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s wonderful!!!!
24.02.2025 23:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So happy for you!
24.02.2025 03:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@bookshop-org.bsky.social - do you carry this new release ?
23.02.2025 00:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Radical Act of Needing.
Finally - some clear thoughts amidst the chaos. Please read & share 🦋💙
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@nathaliejp.bsky.social welcome to 🦋! Glad you are here. Social work colleagues- do give Dr. Jones a follow and let’s get her in some starter packs !
20.02.2025 13:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Advocacy Update from APA Services and Practical Tips for Navigating the Policy Landscape Webinar apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... < Feb 25 at 7pm EST #socialworksky #academicsky #advocacy
19.02.2025 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“It was a matter of fighting and suppressing everything in the contemporary world which had destroyed the old world, and thus, in the words of certain writers, “repairing the chain of time.” - How The Nazis Viewed History
20.02.2025 10:47 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“Develop a Worksite Enforcement Response Plan. Supervisors and key personnel should be trained on how to handle an ICE raid. A clear chain of communication must be established, including legal counsel and senior management, and employees should be informed of their rights and obligations.”
20.02.2025 10:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for this important work .
20.02.2025 10:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really grateful to the folks who told me to reach out to my state department of insurance re: United Healthcare's refusal to pay my medical bills. It worked! They have reprocessed the claims and paid the outstanding balances. This is such a relief. Really grateful for the advice I received here. ❤️
18.02.2025 18:44 — 👍 2531 🔁 257 💬 39 📌 11The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.
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