Donna Dickinson ☮ ♫

Educator, music enthusiast, cannabis advocate & inveterate idealist. Beaches and deserts are my happy places!

[Florence @fluorinespark]

Abusive parents often assign malicious intent (that isn't there) to their children so they can justify the abuse in their heads. "You meant to make me angry; you are doing it on purpose out of spite toward me; you meant to make my life harder," etc. This allows them to abuse their children without feeling guilty about it.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

"Quiet Piggy" - CNN, MSNBC, FOX NEWS

[Derek Cressman @DerekCressman]

Your weekly reminder that Peter Thiel’s Palantir IS the deep state.

[Evan Roth Smith @TheRealERS]

I am appalled and aghast at the unfair and bigoted vitriol being directed at Mayor Mamdani around 9/11. He was one of a million kids in New York who spent that day terrified, and who carries that experience with him today. I know because I was with him, and we were terrified together. None of the attacks on the Mayor or others like Ramzi Kassem survive even the slightest scrutiny beyond dredging the bottom of the barrel of anti-Muslim slander.

I disagree with the Mayor on many things, and have made those disagreements known publicly and privately. But there is absolutely no room for accusing a New Yorker who lived through those attacks of sympathy with the people who perpetrated them. End of story.

[Rosie Gray @RosieGray]

One of the guys' last words to his wife were "Don't worry, we're going to do something." These were extraordinary people and if you'd seen them in the airport lounge beforehand you wouldn't have looked twice, they were normal business travelers

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Republican New Hampshire Senate candidate John Sununu says he supports a work requirement for seniors on Medicare:

"I certainly support a work requirement for able-bodied Medicare recipients."

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Look at Zelensky. Look at his reaction to what Kushner is saying. Utter disgust. He’s doing his best not to show it, but @ZelenskyyUa is rightly and utterly disgusted with the Americans talking about Putin’s “aspirations.” Fuck Putin and his aspirations. He invaded a sovereign nation. He needs to get the fuck out of that sovereign nation. All of it. But alas, America has a president who’s on Putin’s side.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Oh! Why didn’t you tell me earlier? Wouldn’t want to offend Israel’s cattle.

Is political prostitute more to your liking?

You want to see dehumanizing? Take a look at what Jeffries and all the scum in Congress used our tax dollars for in Gaza and the West Bank. Aside from that, I would like these fucking race vultures to shut the fuck up.

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

I still think about the guy who pointed out that "the underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth." Rarely have I seen Al described so succinctly.

[D. Alec Zeck @Alec_Zeck]

I know one thing for certain about this Lindsay Clancy trial, and I say this based on my own direct experience watching my mother suffer for years under a fistful of psychotropic medications:

Nowhere near enough attention is being paid to the fact that Lindsay Clancy was cycled on and off 13 different psychotropic medications in an absurdly short window of time.

For years, I watched my own mother suffer tremendously. I would never wish what my siblings and I, nor what my mother, experienced on anyone. It was hell.

She didn’t sleep for days on end, didn’t eat, screamed that it felt like her skin was burning off, screamed that it felt like her brain was being zapped, sat in front of her bathroom mirror staring wide eyed without saying anything, hallucinated that she was 13 years old and I was her father, saw demons and shadowy figures in the room, was in and out of psychiatric hospitals, and attempted to end her life more than once.

These drugs don’t just fail to fix people. They mask symptoms, manufacture new ones, and in some cases push people toward harming themselves or someone else—and the industry that profits from them has spent decades making sure the general public doesn’t fully grasp how often that happens. They rip people apart psychologically and physically. They rip families apart, too.

I’m not on “team Lindsay” or “team Patrick,” and I don’t know what happened in that house. But the medication piece keeps getting drowned out by true crime theorizing.

In the 4 months before the killings, Clancy was pumped through 13 different psychiatric medications, with over 30 total prescriptions as doses got yanked up, down, and swapped, by multiple providers who never once compared notes with each other.

The publicly available data backs this up, and they’re not “fringe” in any sense:

The FDA’s own 2006 review of 372 antidepressant trials (nearly 100,000 people) found a 2.3x jump in suicidality risk for patients under 25. That’s why every antidepressant in America now carries a black box warning.

A 2015 Swedish national study found SSRI users aged 15-24 were convicted of violent crimes at more than 5x the rate of non users (3.3% vs 0.6%). Sertraline in particular stood out among the top-prescribed SSRIs.

Roughly 1 in 4 American women is currently on some form of psychiatric medication, per the CDC’s own newest data, nearly double the rate for men. This isn’t a fringe issue at all. It’s mainstream medicine, quietly, on a massive scale.

And the problems with rapid switching or cold stopping these drugs, exactly what happened to Clancy, isn’t a fringe theory:

Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome is very real and can, at a minimum, trigger brain zaps, insomnia, anxiety, and suicidal ideation within days of stopping.

Benzodiazepine withdrawal is one of the most dangerous withdrawal syndromes in all of medicine, capable of triggering, at a minimum, rebound psychosis, seizures, and severe agitation. I watched that happen to my own mother.

Cross tapering (stopping one drug abruptly while starting another) can stack withdrawal from the first on top of side effects from the second, leaving a person destabilized from both directions at once.

According to the medical system’s own ideas, psychiatric medications typically take 4-6 weeks just to reach full effect, and many require slow, deliberate tapering over weeks specifically to avoid destabilizing the nervous system.

Going through 13 drugs in that same window means many of them never had time to even show whether they were “working” (which is a loaded, problematic idea, in and of itself…) before being swapped again.

13 different medications in 4 months is not normal, cautious psychiatric care, or at least it shouldn’t be. But it probably is relatively normal. And that’s the problem: it’s pure pharmacological, psychological chaos, and nobody bats an eye because this is just how the system runs…

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

We are SEVERELY fucking underreacting to what’s happening in our government right now.

[Retrievals Resists @Retrievals1]

The scariest thing to outsiders about what is happening to America isn't necessarily Trump's destruction of it, it's the lack of any opposition to the destruction of America.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Why are the people of the USA letting Trump lead them down such a dark path that they'll never recover from? It's like you're all watching him light the building on fire, lock the doors and you're not trying to stop him. What's up with that? Kinda weird.

[IreDoc 🇺🇦🇪🇺👩🏼‍⚕️🧶😷💚 @Europa97531]

@implausibleblog

[Kim Iversen 🇺🇸 @KimIversenShow]

Israel rejects peace with Gaza, Israel rejects peace with Lebanon, Israel rejects peace with Iran, Israel refuses to leave Syria… at what point do you stop blaming everyone else?

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Internment Camps for Children

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

I appreciate AIPAC proving it doesn’t belong in the Dem Party and especially our primaries.

From endorsing Jan 6th members to ensuring Congress remains in the hands of a 34-count felon, AIPAC is an org committed to undermining democracy at home and abroad.

See you in November.

[Amie the Great @a_standal]

@WUTangKids This fucking guy?

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Lmao hold up….so they want to ban Mamdani from the 9/11 memorial who was NINE when it happened but meanwhile Trump called the news on 9/11 while the towers were collapsing and bragged that he had the tallest building in Manhattan is welcome to go 🙄

[Donna Dickinson ☮ ♫ @LaSpiaggia]

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