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michaelpipich.bsky.social
Psychotherapist in Colorado. Author of Owning Bipolar. Authoritarians thrive on the illusion of inevitability. Resistance is fruitful. "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." -Nelson Mandela MichaelPipich.com
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Keep up the good work, Kyle.

A must watch moment: Republican Sen Tom Tillis shows he may have a spine after all. I know it’s hard to believe, but he actually calls out Putin 👀 Thanks to @reallyamerican.bsky.social

To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:

CO & @philweiser.bsky.social stand up for trans youth & their health. Amended complaint: "[The EO] is an official statement of bigotry from the President that directs agencies to openly discriminate against vulnerable youth on the basis of their transgender status and sex." coag.gov/press-releas...

While families skip doctor visits because of cost, and choose between buying groceries and picking up prescriptions, Donald Trump was hosting lavish dinners for insurance and pharma CEOs who were lining up to cut him million dollar bribes to keep healthcare costs high. Grift.

“The goal of Trump--like all autocrats and dictators--is to make you feel that “resistance is futile,” but history shows that people standing up to that leader has inspired others to do the same.” @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social talks with @deanobeidallah.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...

The pro-death party.

Knowledge is power…

I fear they’re coming for ALL school vaccine mandates next. Including measles, mumps and rubella.

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

Dictators eventually fall, but it's always a matter of how many they take down with them. Today's confirmation of Kennedy as head of HHS will result in many more victims. Even still, it's no time to despair. Organize, support, and inform. Leave no one behind, especially the most vulnerable among us.

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

With Musk controlling payments, Trump and Republicans don't have to cut Social Security. They can just hold it ransom for whatever they want, whenever they want it.

Journalists should seek truth, not just access.

I don’t get it—supposedly trans women are dominating women’s sports but also weakening our military? Make it make sense lol

The shock-and-awe approach to the fascist takeover is meant to overwhelm and disorient. This psyop intends to create a sense of inevitability and hopelessness. Don't give in to either. Stand firm, in action and within your own consciousness, and let the weight of the offensive fall upon their heads.

8 million disabled children benefit from federal funding to their schools. It’s a full-time job for every parent of a disabled child to fight for their kids’ education. Donald Trump and MAGA GOP in Congress just told every family they’re on their own.

With RFK Jr & ending medical research, remember the 907 people who died of deliberate poisoning, killing themselves and their children, all because their leader Jim Jones told them to. The cult master's final dream is not just eliminating dissenters, but leading the flock to his own killing field.

One of the most beautiful and important speeches in cinematic history, and pointed squarely at us today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY...

We need experts and expertise. We have complex systems for a complex world. We are now facing the consequences of exceedingly arrogant and cruel people making extremely stupid decisions to appease a malignant narcissist who wants quick, simple results for problems that require expertise and nuance.

I keep hearing that we have to get through the next 4 years, as if dictators self-impose an expiration date. Hitler boasted the Third Reich would last a 1000 years. Trump and his minions have the same plan. Don't be fooled. This is about now or never.

There is no more liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, pro-choice or pro-life, etc. A single line has been drawn, whether we like it or not. If we are to be people of a *United* States, we must stand boldly for democracy over fascism, without compromise or equivocation.

Each email and call log is a different violent rioter who assaulted me in the tunnel. If you are defending these people who brutally assaulted the police, maybe you ARE NOT a supporter of the police and the rule of law to begin with. If you did you would want accountability.

What is gaslighting? Gaslighting is when an Episcopalian bishop pleads with the President for mercy for Gay, Lesbian, transgender and immigrant groups who are now feeling endangered and fearful—and Trump calls her a hater.

Waiting for the Catholic bishops to do the same.

Commander Bone Spurs with his 5 daddy deferments so he wouldn't have to get his hair mussed in Vietnam has launched a purge of transgender servicepeople, who are far more patriotic and self-sacrificing than he will ever be. May God bless them for their love of country.

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