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daily affirmation: it's hardly possible to study the relation between trauma and neurodivergence, because there's no control group. every person with autism is traumatized to some degree. ❤️

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High Vis:
🎵 Trauma Bonds
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“In fact, while the trauma and terror that Bovino’s unit instills is certainly real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how _ineffective_ the force has turned out to be. Time and again, these agents — and the broader DHS and White House policies behind it — are being exposed not for their strength, but their weakness. Ordinary Americas are stronger — braver _and_ better.”

Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.

Is jacking it a trauma response?

Trauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop: A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/06/trauma-and-mental-health-in-the-writing-workshop-a-theor…

Transcending Trauma With Leigh Milne Holistic Psychologist
Holistic and Evidence based perspectives for mind body wellness...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/transcending-trauma/

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
#politics

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High Vis:
🎵 Trauma Bonds
#HighVis
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https://open.spotify.com/track/1wT90Y3nYuDhTjytAfO6Cx

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol

The Inheritance: When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot
Some secrets do not stay buried. They write themselves into blood and bone. They pass from grandmother to mother to daughter through mechanisms we are only beginning to understand. The Inheritance, the second novel in the Fractional Fiction series, asks what happens when a scientist trained to study transgenerational trauma in laboratory mice discovers that the patterns she has been mapping exist in her own…

The Inheritance: When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot | David Boles, Blogs
Some secrets do not stay buried. They write themselves into blood and bone. They pass from grandmother to mother to daughter through mechanisms we are only beginning to understand. The Inheritance,…

"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats"
― Diane Arbus

Just finished "Fitting Indian" by Jyoti Chand and Tara Anand.
Indirect CW: alcohol, self-harm, and suicide.
A graphic novel about mental health issues, being a second-generation Indian immigrant in America, international trauma, and both peer and family bullying. Beautifully illustrated and of course gripping given the subjects.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

"a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles."
"Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles ... When compared to human drivers on the same roads, Waymo’s self-driving cars were involved in 91 percent fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes and 80 percent fewer crashes causing any injury. It showed a 96 percent lower rate of injury-causing crashes at intersections...deadliest I encounter in the trauma bay.&q…

There's a video going around social media today showing an individual in Minneapolis being killed by American "ICE" personnel. In many cases, there's no content warning, and it (and other videos) will automatically play in most apps and browsers by default.
If you happen across it, or other traumatic videos, and it causes intrusive thoughts, I've seen credible sources saying that real and good advice to counter them is to play Tetris.

In virtually every other law enforcement agency, if an officer is involved in a shooting there would be an internal investigation to determine whether deadly force was warranted. During this time the officers involved would be placed on leave and have access to (often mandatory) trauma counseling. Also during this time officials would refrain from commenting on the incident other than the barest of facts, pending the outcome of the investigation. These are the types of guard rails that any p…

🥴 Cops on ketamine? Largely unregulated mental health treatment faces hurdles
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Cops on ketamine? Largely unregulated mental health treatment faces hurdles
Combining psychotherapy with low-dose ketamine, a hallucinogenic drug long used as an anesthetic, is a relatively new approach to treating severe depression and post-traumatic stress, especially in populations with high trauma rates such as firefighters, police officers, and military members. Yet evidence of the efficacy and safety of ketamine for treatment of mental health conditions is still evolving, and the market remains widely unregulated.

I'm anticipating a lot of grief in 2026 after a hard end to 2025, so I'm not looking forward to the many January conversations about everything to look forward to in 2026
You can't skip processing grief and jump straight into hope. The grief will consume you and turn into despair, or you'll internalize and repress the trauma and metabolize it into despair via a different path.
Or, I don't know, maybe some people can grieve and hope at the same time, but I know…

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 28: In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work?
In one novel I've written, I based my main character on what I imagine I would have been like if not for the trauma of my childhood. He came out as very successful, but also extremely arrogant and entitled — not a likeable person.

Theorizing Turmoil, Tragedy, and Transformation: Textual Approaches to Trauma
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Bangzz:
🎵 Trauma Response
#Bangzz
https://bangzz.bandcamp.com/track/trauma-response
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Huh, that's weird.
Watching a documentary set in a hospital ER and they're blurring some obvious things - patient names, computer screens not relevant to what's going on, faces of people without a media release, more graphic injuries, etc.
But they also blurred a *clock* in the background of one scene. I have to wonder what the story there is. Just a big 7-segment LED clock on the wall of one of the trauma bays.

“My oldest daughter had a lot of trauma as a child,” Andreatta said.
“Something really terrible happened to her when she was very young that I would hope never would happen to any other child.
And as a result of it, she's a lesbian.
She's gay, and she's married to a woman.
And sometimes that's a little bit of [an] internal struggle for me
because I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.”
After the speech, Andreatta opened the …

California Turning Point USA club in jeopardy after city councilwoman's controversial comments
Comments by Lincoln City Councilmember Holly Andreatta at a Club America meeting at Twelve Bridges High School have drawn attention to the emergence of Turni...

I reject this rationalization for more police and jail funding in Salt Lake County, Mayor Jenny Wilson.
If "homelessness, mental health, trauma and substance use" are problems, then more case workers, social workers, housing, and treatment resources are needed. Police and jails just inflict more pain on people who are already struggling with what problems they have.

SLCo Mayor proposes tax increase, criminal justice focus
Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson unveiled her proposed budget on Tuesday, proposing a property tax increase to keep up

I cannot recommend *Drystone - A Life Rebuilt* by Kristie De Garis highly enough. This is one of those rare memoirs that manages to be simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious, raw and beautifully crafted.
De Garis writes with brutal honesty about topics many of us struggle to articulate: racism, intergenerational trauma, undiagnosed ADHD, addiction, and the blunt realities of motherhood. Set against the stunning landscapes of rural Scotland, she portraits her journey of self-discove…

Kristie De Garis - Writer, photographer and drystone waller based in Perthshire, Scotland.
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Finished “People Like Us” by Jason Mott.
I will admit that there were moments early where I struggled, trying to puzzle out the dual narratives. You have to accept it as experimental writing with a plurality in scope. When I surrendered and just READ, I absolutely loved it!
What is it about? So much. Gun violence. Where home is. America. Race. Writers. Trauma & coping. Time travel. Peacocks.
So much to say, but for spoilers 🤐
5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

People Like Us
The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 Nation…

Let's hope this helps Robert Roberson's case. I don't understand why Texas is trying so hard to kill him. It's okay to admit that the state made a mistake.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/202

Robert Roberson asks court to consider NJ landmark shaken baby ruling
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled 6-1 Thursday that a shaken baby syndrome diagnosis, also known as abusive head trauma, is not generally accepted within the “...

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Elias RŸnnenfelt feat. Erika de Casier:
🎵 Blunt Force Trauma
#EliasRønnenfelt #ErikadeCasier
https://eliasronnenfelt.bandcamp.com/track/blunt-force-trauma-feat-erika-de-casier
https://open.spotify.com/track/6afDGn5RO7QvV88C6dESzg

No, Jayden Daniels isn't on the path to becoming Washington's next RGIII https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6734044/2025/10/21/jayden-daniels-rgiii-commanders-injury/

Real conspiracies tend to come out, but some of them take a while. Information on the Iran/Contra scandal broke out about 5 years after the conspiracy started. That would have taken several hundred people to carry out, so it was somewhat hard to hide. Even so, they largely got away with it.
The moon landing conspiracy theory would have taken thousands of people, so it would have come out more quickly. Since we have an example of a real secret program of a similar scale as what would be required to fake a moon landing (that is, the Manhattan project), we know that the fake moon landing conspiracy theory is not true. (There's also the literally tons of evidence in the form of rocks and other samples, and all kinds of other ways to debunk the claim.)
Could Kash Patel's FBI have been trying really hard to entrap people into carrying out terrorist attacks in order to justify #Trump's occupation of DC? Could they have helped a guy plan an attack then just failed to arrest him? There are reasonable scenarios that fall in between malice and incompetence while still indicating some level of false flag.
Could someone have just snapped and ambushed some guardsmen without any involvement from the FBI? Yeah, totally. The US is a country full of guns with a completely non-functional mental health system. Someone coming from a country that the US destroyed, twice, could have a lot of untreated trauma. Might they see the national guard as a threat (even if that wasn't totally true)? Yeah, they were deployed to threaten people (even when they were just picking up trash). The point was to incite this kind of response. It's completely reasonable to believe that the FBI would not need to be involved at all, that this would just be the stochastic response they were looking for.
So the point here is that everything is on the table, nothing is really known, nothing should be surprising, and no matter what it's Trump's fault. This is exactly the escalation he was looking for. If he didn't get it naturally, he would also have had ways of making it happen.
He will use this in exactly the same way as the Reichstag fire, to drive a wedge between liberals and radicals. Don't fall for it.
Edit:
There are plausible reasons to not believe the official narrative at all right now, or maybe ever. The official narrative is also plausible, but there are plausible reasons to disagree with the response even if the official story is true. It is unnecessary to resort to conspiracy thinking in order to account for what happened and to disagree with the response. But it is also understandable why someone might jump immediately to a conspiracy given the circumstances.

Just finished "Low Orbit" by Kazimir Lee.
It's an excellent graphic novel about a queer Malaysian immigrant kid in small-town Maine, the unexpected friends she makes, and the science fiction author who happens to be her landlord. It reminded me a bit of the also excellent "Navigating With You" because of its interwoven fictional sci-fi novel (with really good writing!). CW as predictable for queer family trauma, although it doesn't get too bad and has a happy ending.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Trauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop: A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers
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E lembre-se: você não precisa falar repetidamente sobre o seu trauma.
🎨🎶❤️‍🩹 Desenhar, pintar, modelar argila ou cantar permitem que o corpo se manifeste e encontre caminhos próprios de cura.
#arteterapia #artecura

Trauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop: A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers
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Just finished "Twice as Perfect" by Louise Onomé. This is now the third novel I've read by her about a teenage Nigerian-Canadian second-generation immigrant, two of whom deal with some form of family estrangement ("Like Home" and "The Melancholy of Summer" are the other two). I checked it out because I liked her other novels and was not disappointed; in fact I feel like this is her best novel of the three. Dealing with cultural appropriation, both implicitly and explicitly, along with deep family trauma and a bit of romance, "Twice as Perfect" is suspenseful, wise, and heartfelt. It's got a thread of Nigerian Pidgin in it, which I thoroughly enjoyed although I didn't 100% understand, similar in some ways to the sprinkling of Spanish in "Each of Us a Desert", but with even less of an attempt to subtly explain each instance in English, which I don't mind at all.
The 2nd generation immigrant authors writing YA ~romances I've read recently have all been great, including Adiba Jaigirdar, Samira Ahmed, Sabina Khan, and Randa Abdel-Fattah (a slightly different era), and to a lesser extent Romina Garber (I didn't like "Lobizona" quite as much as stuff by these others). It's been super interesting to contrast their stories with those of people like Mark Oshiro, Angie Thomas, Randi Pink, and Angela Velez who talk about American racism from a non-immigrant perspective (perhaps Ahmed is in between the two groups).
#AmReading #ReadingNow

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Elias RŸnnenfelt feat. Erika de Casier:
🎵 Blunt Force Trauma
#EliasRønnenfelt #ErikadeCasier
https://eliasronnenfelt.bandcamp.com/track/blunt-force-trauma-feat-erika-de-casier
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O estado de freeze (congelamento) não é apenas estar fisicamente “parado”, e sim uma resposta profunda do sistema nervoso diante de uma sobrecarga ou ameaça.
Em situações de trauma (TEPT), a ameaça ficou no passado, mas o corpo segue respondendo como se ela fosse iminente.
“Não posso lutar nem fugir. Só me resta congelar”.
#terapiasomática

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Daniel Quién:
🎵 IGLESIAS, SHAKESPEARE Y EL SÍNDROME DE TRAUMA RELIGIOSO
#DanielQuién
https://open.spotify.com/track/6y8tb3hlLHhblKeCk8VIG1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Elias RŸnnenfelt feat. Erika de Casier:
🎵 Blunt Force Trauma
#EliasRønnenfelt #ErikadeCasier
https://eliasronnenfelt.bandcamp.com/track/blunt-force-trauma-feat-erika-de-casier
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Elias RŸnnenfelt feat. Erika de Casier:
🎵 Blunt Force Trauma
#EliasRønnenfelt #ErikadeCasier
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://eliasronnenfelt.bandcamp.com/track/blunt-force-trauma-feat-erika-de-casier
https://open.spotify.com/track/6afDGn5RO7QvV88C6dESzg