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AmyMarie

@amymarie3456.bsky.social

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Long time pediatric oncology and BMT nurse. Recent career transition to clinical psychology. Also getting a degree in Psych of Coercive Control and hope for equality of power for all. And good health for all.

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · Mar 12

They provide emotionally stunted, unindividuated individuals who feel lost and disoriented with a totalizing worldview, which gives them a sense of identity, purpose, and, very importantly, agency.

Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · Mar 12

Historian Roger Griffin, author of *The Nature of Fascism*, despairing.

Rebirth and Ruin: Understanding Fascism's Appeal with Roger Griffin

In this interview, Roger Griffin examines the psychological and ideological roots of fascism and terrorism, emphasizing how modernity's existential crises drive radicalization and extremist violence.

intpolicydigest.org

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 6h

This is how we win.

Solidarity and community are the only way out now.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 27m

Haha “what? Oh. Sorry, that’s for my other vehicle. Let me get my human body license.”

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 32m

I believe that ICE has privileges to do whatever they want. Basically. I think they’re classified as SS/ Einsatzgruppen not police officers.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social · 13h

Why is Pope Leo meeting with an alleged sex offender?

The pontiff met with a disgraced Opus Dei cardinal this past week - but has completely ignored pleas from victims of this abusive group for him to meet with them

What's going on?

🧵 A THREAD

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 12h

By irritable do you mean stomach lining or mood? Mood I think hormones(glucose,), stomach lining I think something about the physical properties of the food, possible what is used for packaging or pesticides used on grapes or in animal feed. Just staying open minded and curious can help figure out

AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 12h

like they need 1/2 the usual dose of things. but if stress is reduced for months- years they can be less sensitive and are fine with normal doses. Whereas, others it seems like it’s how they genetically metabolize it.

AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 12h

when I say blood flow I mean if the blood in your system is diverted to the GI tract. Is it absorbed more quickly then?
it seems
like people who are running on high stress for so long (childhood) system gets finely tuned, and can be really sensitive to small changes of chemicals (food/medicine)

AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 13h

Interesting! There’s some medicines when given IV undiluted and fast cause that in some people. (Benadryl,) but it’s ok if given more slowly and diluted. Makes me wonder if you had a cup of hot water - or just water, first if it might help? It seems like hot water may change the blood flow?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 18h

MSNBC from last night.

Debunking the right's obsession with Antifa

Rutgers University History Professor Mark Bray joins The Weekend: Primetime to share why he and his family fled the U.S. over safety concerns amid the Trump administration's broad attacks on Antifa. H...

www.msnbc.com

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

It is so tragic how he died! I’ve read translations of the Overcoat that caused a visceral reaction and some that are like- what a stupid story. Dead Souls Part 1 was a page turner but Part 2 I never could finish. The picaresque stories are my favorite-

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

Glucose or insulin levels? HR or blood pressure drop from some type of vasovagal response to digestion like a shift of blood flow to stomach/small intestines and not to brain? I have no idea but maybe patterns will emerge. was it high carb (glucose/insulin) or high fat (gall bladder) sweaty/pale?

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

I was able to read Camus in French, lol, dictionary and grammar rules at hand.
I brought Being & N on the plane once & think I left it there to protect my sanity. I really like Russian lit from Gogol, Chekov, Tolstoy to Grossman- the Road and Life & Fate, Turgenev, Tarkovsky.

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

I once met a writer from Moldova who said reading Dostoyevsky in Russian, one novel in particular, was so distressing that she could only read the translation. I had an Enlightenment era history class in Uni, it was a good Candide but it helped to understand the context & philosophers it parodied

AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

Some translators get the humor, irony or themes and present a brilliant representation. While others translate like AI just transcribing words. Candide has been a favorite of mine since I was a teen, but the wrong translation can make it not interesting at all.

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

Some Russian stories and poetry use the rhythm of the words, each word only has one syllable stressed no matter how long the word, so the rhyme and rhythms make you feel you’re moving, perhaps stepping through leaves in the forest, each stress a footfall. It’s otherworldly.I’m fluent in only English

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

I checked my library to see if I had it, it’s been such a long time since I read it. It probably is even better in Spanish. I did find a novella by the author I had to buy years ago because I couldn’t stop reading it & the bookstore was closing. I recall it was hilarious.

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

she seemed to have had sincere Q Anon beliefs and is losing the glaze of unreality. Beginning to realize how full of self-righteousness, malicious, untrue gossip and threads of logic floating in the wind her disinfo worldview was. “Wait, if this is true than that can’t be…” I truly hope so.

AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

They’re destroying as much of USA infrastructure as they can. It’s heartbreaking to think of the current but especially future suffering and death they’re causing. their conception of how systems and diseases work is childish, appalling and criminal. Ignorant or malevolent?

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

1) WHY isn't this a bigger story? High food prices were cited time and again as a major 2024 campaign issue?

2) Democrats said said over and over again this was going to happen.

3) Why didn't the MSM take it more seriously, when trump LIED over and over again about bringing food prices down???

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

Will Ebola remain contained in Africa w/o USAID to improve health & infection control.
A nurse caring for one of 1st Eb patients had plans & was financed to study nursing in USA and in denial planned to get on flight. She began exploding blood before it left, but could’ve been mid-flight.

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

And declaring war on over half the people he governs?

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

What actually does contribute to those diseases? No one will know because they stopped doing research, and even without vaccines, If they survive the diseases. Like in 1990s when Trump tried to lynch 5 innocent black boys for a rape. Later DNA found rapist who was free and cont. raping women.

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AmyMarie @amymarie3456.bsky.social · 1d

There was a rescue penguin in Japan that lived with a family and took daily walks to the fish market in the city, alone, wearing a penguin backpack and would stop in front of a Coke machine for about a minute and just look at it then continue his trek home. Wearing its penguin backpack.

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