In addition to dropped lawsuits, dozens of ongoing investigations into alleged corporate malfeasance are now frozen at CFPB, potentially denying accountability and financial relief for untold numbers of consumers, ProPublica found.

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending.

As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances:

Visualization is a tool we're using all the time, but we're rarely taught how to harness. What we see in our mind's eye has an enormous impact on our nervous system.

We're told that "imagination" is only for children at some point-- but what a waste of a powerful, free tool.

I’m terrible at positive self talk, so sometimes when I’m feeling bad about myself I imagine what my dog would say about me at a dogs-only cocktail party where everyone is standing around talking about their owners, and honestly it’s just the best little life hack

It’s unsettling to find out as an adult that your childhood was abusive/traumatic. Kids normalize what they know & if abuse is consistent, so is the survival. Rarely is there room to pause & name it, much less understand that it isn’t normal & isn’t happening to everyone else too.

This is the year you're going to make a significant shift, you're going to understand something essential, you're going to develop a game changing recovery skill. This year you're going to see baby steps really start to add up. This is the year.

Put it on repeat. Let it sink in.

Bluesky will attract bad actors, it's not immune. The good news is you don't have to block them one by one, Bluesky has moderation lists managed by others (or even you) to help you mass block accounts as they turn up. All you need to do is visit the list, hit subscribe, then choose block or mute.

Trauma conditions us to abandon & betray ourselves, like we were abandoned & betrayed by people & churches who should have cared for us.

Recovery is our commitment to have our own back & be own our own side-- no matter what our old programming is pressuring us to do.

Complex trauma survivors often feel paralyzed if we don't have an "escape hatch." If we feel we're trapped in a situation, we'll shut down-- but if we know we have a way out if we need it, we can often stick around another minute or two & keep trying.

CN CPTSD

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A lot of folks have been lamenting that now so many people are here and their accounts are growing they can't shitpost anymore and I say: No, friends, shitpost harder! Be the shitposter you want to see in the world! Lean the fuck in!! Protect the Bluesky vibe at all costs!

Ex-librarian here—I'd say encouraging your followers to put in requests for books with marginalized authors/MCs and check out those books both in person and online would be best. To get books and keep them on shelves in times of scrutiny like this, there has to be a quantifiable demand for them.

Smudg says he loves you and wants you to be kind to yourself today.

Drink some water.
Eat something yummy.
Stretch.
Take a nap.

what if your ideas are as in love with you as you are with them?

what if your creativity spends its days dreaming about you too?

what if art is a co-creation between you (the vessel) & the eternal source of all things?

what if this act of making is the universe experiencing itself through you?

There is a special circle in hell for publishers who do not make the gutter margins big enough