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Curious thinker, former aspiring scientist, & science teacher, exploring connection, healing, & societal transformation. Through reflective writing on power, trauma, & quantum-inspired perspectives, I uncover possibilities for growth & change.
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This is the cycle of co-optation we see across various structures—whether in schools, politics, or broader societal systems.

to enrich himself and force corporations to bend the knee, he will bankrupt everybody and everything #MafiaDon

@byjacobward.bsky.social help me understand what the hell I’m experiencing when using ChatGPT? Seems to me it’s just mining me for nuance to build better capture, to trap me in some simulated loop.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Collapse isn’t punishment; it’s a teacher and a final invitation: Will you keep pretending, or will you enter truth—even here?

The Earth is not angry. She is truthful. She does not do mercy. She does balance —Unknown

Trump is the wound made visible.

I trace to interrupt pain. That’s resistance.

SCOOP: YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy. "YouTube quietly removing ‘gender identity and expression’ from its list of protected groups is a major radical shift away from best practices in the field of trust and safety."

Liberation, which is a healing framework, gets absorbed into domination unless the relational field is reciprocal

Authoritarianism isn’t just a regime. It’s what happens when a system (personal or political) decides it would rather dominate than feel. It refuses the exiled parts: • The weeping child • The silenced witness • The ungrieved wound

I screamed to break the spell. They will remember that I told the truth.

mass submission to authoritarianism is not about political ideology at its core—it’s about psychological need rooted in unprocessed trauma, disconnection, and fear. “The authoritarian character worships the power of those above and despises the weakness of those below. His ‘love’ for

Coherence can’t be controlled. It doesn’t obey hierarchy. It doesn’t require permission. It can’t be extracted, branded, or owned. It connects people across trauma—and across lies.

The authoritarian nervous system’s deepest fear: Coherence

Collapse gives way to the emergent clarity that policy doesn’t save people. People save people.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw2K...

Sad but true: Columbia has inspired scholars to flee US academia completely. "Jason Stanley ... said he finally accepted Toronto’s long-standing offer after seeing Columbia University 'completely collapse and give in to an authoritarian regime.'" www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

When the DOE touts itself as inclusive but allows a Black, queer, disabled kid to be repeatedly harassed & then pushed out, it’s not just a failure—it’s complicity, & it’s strategic. Yeah, I’m also talking about you Russell Sage JHS 190 & all you performative brand-building liasons & CEC “allies”

the overtly anti-equity and the performatively inclusive—operate off the same logic: power hoarding, image management, and silencing dissent.

Wow, this 👇

Some people built their standing on safe proximity to harm, not resistance to it.

Power-hoarding can be dressed up as allyship. Social capital disguised as community. Testimonial authority assigned by the optics (who looks the part, who fits the story people want to tell about equity), rather than who’s actually telling the truth. Witnessing isn’t branding.