Karen Morris
@kmorris24.bsky.social
Recently retired psychotherapist. Living in this world best as I can. Have been told that I do not suffer fools gladly. Curious. Believes in tikkun olam.
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Tzedek, tzedek tirdof.
A critically important message in these troubled times.
A critically important message in these troubled times.
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Observations about AI - how it is hyped and why it requires guardrails.
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The Problems With AI Are More Readily Apparent
psychiatry blog, George Dawson MD, Real Psychiatry
real-psychiatry.blogspot.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Observations about AI - how it is hyped and why it requires guardrails.
real-psychiatry.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...
real-psychiatry.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...
His psychopathology is the driver of who he is and what he does.
The entire world knows we have a president who's mentally ill. When are we as a nation going to start talking about that?
mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 4:34 PM
His psychopathology is the driver of who he is and what he does.
James Taylor - Shed a Little Light (Video)
YouTube video by JamesTaylorVEVO
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January 19, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
YouTube video by Nobel Prize
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January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Turning back time...
One year in, the Trump administration has rolled back civil rights enforcement wherever it could—removing Smithsonian exhibits, restoring Confederate monuments, and enabling employer discrimination, a law professor explains.
12 ways the Trump administration dismantled civil rights law and the foundations of inclusive democracy in its first year
At its one-year mark, the Trump administration is dismantling the systems that once helped the US move toward a more open and equal democracy.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Turning back time...
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In a forthcoming paper, legal scholar Spencer Overton says the Trump administration's AI policy is another critical arena for its efforts to advance ethnonationalism, ensuring that problems such as algorithmic bias and discrimination are encoded into the systems that will shape the future:
How Trump's AI Policy Promotes Ethnonationalism
A conversation with George Washington University Law School scholar Spencer Overton about his forthcoming paper, "Ethnonationalism by Algorithm."
buff.ly
January 19, 2026 at 1:48 PM
In a forthcoming paper, legal scholar Spencer Overton says the Trump administration's AI policy is another critical arena for its efforts to advance ethnonationalism, ensuring that problems such as algorithmic bias and discrimination are encoded into the systems that will shape the future:
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"Formed in 2003, during the embarrassing and disastrous national excesses of the post-9/11 era – when the nation launched two ill-fated forever wars, and demonized Muslim immigrants – ICE’s mandate was overwrought and ill-considered."
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
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January 19, 2026 at 4:06 AM
"Formed in 2003, during the embarrassing and disastrous national excesses of the post-9/11 era – when the nation launched two ill-fated forever wars, and demonized Muslim immigrants – ICE’s mandate was overwrought and ill-considered."
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Published 250 years ago, “Common Sense” is perhaps the most consequential piece of political writing in American history—and to revisit it “is to be reminded of the most expansive possibilities of the American idea at its creation,” Jake Lundberg writes.
The Provocation That Helped Create America
Common Sense was subversive in 1776. Maybe its ideas are what we need now.
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January 17, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Published 250 years ago, “Common Sense” is perhaps the most consequential piece of political writing in American history—and to revisit it “is to be reminded of the most expansive possibilities of the American idea at its creation,” Jake Lundberg writes.
“We are now facing an urgent choice as to whether we submit to the entrenched hatred and abuse of women as a technological and cultural norm, or whether we fight for an alternative way forward,” @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues.
The Unspeakable, Enabled
This year will decide whether gendered abuse in real life and online becomes the norm.
bit.ly
January 19, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Where are the Democrat party leaders? Looking, looking, looking...
Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
January 19, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Where are the Democrat party leaders? Looking, looking, looking...
Shame, shame on us that he is still our "president".
The president of the US is a deranged power drunk moron and I am choosing my words with restraint out of respect for the office he holds. That the superempowered still back him is a sign of how little they care about anything outside their billionaire bubble.
mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Shame, shame on us that he is still our "president".
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it,” MLK wrote. “He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/the-fight-...
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The Fight of Our Lives
Reflections on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the continuing struggle for a better America
www.americaamerica.news
January 19, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Fascinating: Experts on megalomania describe serious pathology, even dopamine driven addiction: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...
Opinion | Trump Unmasked
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Fascinating: Experts on megalomania describe serious pathology, even dopamine driven addiction: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...
Yes, this article is worth a read.
January 18, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Yes, this article is worth a read.
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The old/traditional ways of doing politics will not work and no longer fit the situation. Past time to update the operating system.
Is the future a return to a Clintonian heyday? The normalcy of the Obama years? So many in the national leadership of the @democrats.org, think this is about the old 90s/00s playbook, triangulating to victory for the status quo. Or is this a fight for our lives, our democracy?
January 18, 2026 at 7:05 PM
The old/traditional ways of doing politics will not work and no longer fit the situation. Past time to update the operating system.
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No one from the GOP Congressional majority does anything about all this because they're into it.
That's the Occam's razor explanation. Yet there's more focus on finding excuses for them. "No, you have to understand, honoring the Constitution is bad for their job prospects."
OK. So they're into it.
That's the Occam's razor explanation. Yet there's more focus on finding excuses for them. "No, you have to understand, honoring the Constitution is bad for their job prospects."
OK. So they're into it.
January 18, 2026 at 4:46 PM
No one from the GOP Congressional majority does anything about all this because they're into it.
That's the Occam's razor explanation. Yet there's more focus on finding excuses for them. "No, you have to understand, honoring the Constitution is bad for their job prospects."
OK. So they're into it.
That's the Occam's razor explanation. Yet there's more focus on finding excuses for them. "No, you have to understand, honoring the Constitution is bad for their job prospects."
OK. So they're into it.
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National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3
January 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3
Message : When dealing with events, one really should not avoid psychological dynamics.
Excellent 🧵 What the Republicans Know +
@karenstenner.bsky.social(The Authoritarian Dynamic) and @leorzmigrod.bsky.social(The Ideological Brain) bring an undeniable truth -The data has been put to the public for 30 + years. We must address the cognitively rigid minds as a public health emergency
@karenstenner.bsky.social(The Authoritarian Dynamic) and @leorzmigrod.bsky.social(The Ideological Brain) bring an undeniable truth -The data has been put to the public for 30 + years. We must address the cognitively rigid minds as a public health emergency
This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵.
The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.
The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.
January 18, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Message : When dealing with events, one really should not avoid psychological dynamics.
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January 18, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Other "Dems" need to pay attention. At this point, why do they think that ICE can be reformed?
The Public Has Turned on ICE - Dems Have a Clear Field talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/very-...
Very Important Moment
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) went on CNN this morning and among other...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Other "Dems" need to pay attention. At this point, why do they think that ICE can be reformed?