Philip Cooke

Is this dementia or is this the same old playbook Trump has used for years: deny, deflect, and distort reality to his own benefit?

I’m not arguing trump is a paragon of cognitive health, but arguing he truly forgot he was president on 1/6 lets him off the hook for his sinister Roy Cohn tactics.

This brown skinned landscaper was minding his business on a job in Edgewater when 3 masked ICE thugs took him away. Then on leaving the 3 reportedly got out of their car, turned their guns on a woman and tried to get into her car for apparently driving too close searching for parking near her home

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

Perpetual anticipation is a delicate art:
Keeping control while falling apart.

Yes I think you’re right. And creating the path for this SCOTUS ruling will end up doing more sociocultural harm than the law itself would have prevented (to your point, unqualified harmful pastors will continue unabated either way).

Mostly despairing over our society’s psychological illiteracy 😔

The number of news pieces on this story, as well as the conservative justices’ and plaintiff’s views, that rely on entirely erroneous ideas about psychotherapy, autonomy, sexuality, motivation, and coercion is infuriating and devastating.

There need to be state charges filed against the ICE agents who did this. @ilattygeneral.bsky.social

I would listen to each episode multiple times if it were a combination of idea 2 and 4

We need to protect protestors, not limit protests.

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Surely my neighbors are pleased with me driving through the neighborhood with my windows down and Mandy Patinkin blasting.

I agree that its mostly lip service paid to "lifelong learning." My takes: (a) people aren't great at learning independently outside educational settings, (b) it gets more difficult to do so for anyone near the top of the career ladder, and the pressure to be seen as an expert inhibits learning.

Me waking up this morning from a dream: Finally, a dream not about X person! 😁

Me 5 minutes later, associating to a “weird” part of the dream: oh fuck… 😩

Surely Americans would rally around a political party that insists on shutting down the government until the government stops trying to turn American cities into military combat training zones.

Couple's Therapy host Orna Guralnik with Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln (from Oh Mary)

This photograph captures most of my personality.

Governor JB Pritzker bluesky post: In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

Hakeem Jeffries: Bigotry will get you nowhere. Cancel the Cuts. Lower the Cost. Save Healthcare. We are NOT backing down. A photo of Jeffries and Chuck Schumer outside the white house.

Pritzker speaking plainly, directly, and urgently about the present danger of authoritarianism.

Jeffries speaking about... healthcare subsidies.

Truly delusional and shameful for Jeffries and Schumer not to be joining Pritzker and other governors in fighting back against authoritarianism directly.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Another way to put it:

How much of these sorts of posts are unconsciously meant to lure people into a “debate” that largely serves as cover for the underlying, destructive sadomasochistic enactment? 2/2

I wonder how much this maligning of Bluesky is the product of frustrated sadism.

The sadist angry their partner is opting out of the sadomasochistic dance (ie twitter) that neither partner (consciously) signed up for. 1/2

Does Jeffries really believe that if Trump were in DC “working” there would be a deal that could be made??

He probably doesn’t, but he clearly believes this messaging from 2015 (which didn’t work too well then) is fit for 2025.

“Part of the total fantasy of greed is always the attempt to eat up one’s own appetite.” - Adam Phillips

So do you think the Dems should help Republicans pass whatever they want?

It seems that's the alternative. And since Republicans aren't willing to engage in meaningful negotiations, that would mean rubber stamping whatever Trump wants, with no assurances he'll follow the law.

I guess I’ll be in heaven so long as it isn’t required to have enjoyed a certain female leads performance 🫣

It's such a tell to reference "irreversible medical interventions" but not be specific. They're not specific because trans children generally don't have surgeries before they're 18 and puberty blockers are not irreversible.

It's fear mongering disguised as rational concern.

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I keep hoping it’s mostly ignorance about his hateful beliefs and rhetoric, but more and more that seems like wishful thinking.

Wow. Kinda speechless seeing this. How can he be this ignorant?

Oh boy, there’s no end in sight, is there?? 😝

Might make some enemies saying the following, but here goes: 1. Really short-term therapy benefits therapists in various obvious ways. 2. Really short-term therapy, e.g. CBT or whatever, is an easy target for criticisms of unfalsifiability. If there's progress on outcome measures, therapists can usually justify terminating and feel narcissistically gratified, and if there isn't progress, they can defend against insinuations that it's ineffective because it’s the “gold standard treatment.” It usually lacks scientific rigor because studies are designed with the capitalistic incentives of researchers and insurance companies in mind. 3. I suspect that the more therapists that are trying to bill 3rd parties for therapy that goes on for this short are, cumulatively, probably increasing the likelihood that said payers are going to increasingly clamp down on all providers in general, pushing more of us toward stricter and stricter value-based care guidelines, which has

Do people like Ezra really believe there are right wing evangelical churches eager to open up their pulpits for progressive politicians to speak freely?? Totally absurd.