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I go live this Thursday! Lots to chit-chat about. Come listen and bring your questions. If there's a particular topic you'd like me to touch on, or if you'd like to submit your questions in advance, head to my chats and drop them in the June chat here: open.substack.com/chat/posts/31e… If you have any questions about mental health, support, diagnoses, symptoms, or remedies, I'm happy to answer them (if I can). I also love giving referrals, so if it's something I can't answer right away, I'll do my best to point you in the right direction. Clinicians - this is also a great place to ask practice-related questions or seek clinical guidance. I'm here to serve! Remember: I am NOT your therapist or your supervisor. Any feedback I provide is my personal and professional opinion based on my experience and training - not therapy, supervision, or individualized clinical advice (gotta keep the legal folks happy 😉). See you all Thursday at 3 PM PST | 6 PM EST. open.substack.com/live-stream/21…

Take a moment and recognize that President Trump admitted that Israel is bombing innocent people. Something so many have been saying for a very long time. And the neocons are exploding. So again I ask, why are we in Israel's war?

STOP GLORIFYING DIVORCE! You are not "cool" or "free" because you got divorced. I'm not saying it's not necessary in some situations - but before you start blaming your spouse, maybe take a look at you for picking them, and be a little more humbled by that realization.

@RealCandaceO @FBI_Response There is something so unsettling about our FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION posting on social media to vent their frustration. Can we pretend we’re a serious government, please

Reporting this tweet immediately to the @FBI_Response team. Nowhere in their letter does it say verbatim “here’s a middle finger, Candace”. Show us WHERE exactly in the letter it says that, Zach or face the full wrath of their social media department. Your post may also fall within the bounds of clickbait which, as you know, is a major DOJ concern. Or something. 😂

The only organization I FULLY trust for proper training in all things mental health. 🙏🏼

🚨 MIDNIGHT TAX INCREASES! In the dead of night, California legislators passed massive new taxes on insurance, digital software, and employee payroll taxes. Don’t let anyone fool you this isn’t the federal government’s fault. The math isn’t mathing. California just passed a $355 billion record budget with record revenue. Yet my colleagues still blame the President. For context: The state budget was around $170 billion just 10 years ago. Now it’s more than doubled and life in California doesn’t feel any easier. Sacramento has an insatiable appetite for your hard-earned money. If you’re not paying attention, they will keep taking more.

Let me help everybody out. Many probably remember Gavin Newsom's infamous French Laundry scandal where he ignored all Covid protocols (which he implemented) to have a private party at the exclusive Napa restaurant. Well, what many people don't know about the story is that the dinner was hosted by a PG&E lobbyist named Jason Kinney. PG&E is responsible for igniting hundreds of fires in California, including the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 residents in town called Paradise, CA. Newsom, who takes hundreds of thousands in donations from PG&E, arranged to have the victims paid in part with the company's stock, instead of cash, and in part with a taxpayer-funded slush fund. Predictably the stock price plummeted after the scandal was made public, leaving the victims billions short what they were initially owed. He then set up something called the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which was supposed to grant "safety certificates" to make sure PG&E was compliant with safety regulations. Except, per whistleblower complaints, the CPUC was effectively controlled by Newsom, and functioned essentially as a rubber stamp for PG&E. In short, Newsom ignored court rulings and rigged California law to bail out a major corporate donor, trading policy favors for campaign cash while sticking wildfire victims with the bill.

@calvinrobinson He thinks he’s being so brave and bold, but he’s an absolute coward not standing on truth.

Catholic Archbishop praises a mosque as a “sacred place,” also saying, “there is no place I feel more at home,” and offers a blessing. Pluralism is a heresy. Repent! This man is not leading people to Christ. There is no salvation outside the Church.

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it. The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state. What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it. Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure. In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

Her body was cooled to 60 degrees. Her heart was stopped. The blood was drained out of her brain. Every monitor in the room said she was dead. Then she woke up and described her own surgery. Pam Reynolds had an aneurysm at the base of her brain that couldn't be operated on by ordinary means. So Dr. Robert Spetzler stopped her heart, drained her brain, and gave himself 30 minutes to rebuild the artery. When she recovered, she told him she had watched the whole thing. He told her she couldn't have. She was under surgical drapes. She was brain dead. So she described his custom-made instruments. The conversations between the doctors, word for word. The problems that came up mid-surgery. "She described the music they were playing in the operating room while she was brain dead." Spetzler's own response: "I can't explain it."

I love watching him freak out so much

I’ll say it with my full chest: Millennials are by far the worst at parenting. Their “boss babe” culture has produced a generation that believes parenting is an inconvenience. If it takes work and energy away from their personal goals, they’ll find the easiest method to it.

@GavinNewsom We loved it!

The White House was built to serve the American people. Tonight it was used to promote a company the President owns stock in, sell subscriptions, promote corporate sponsors, push Trump crypto, and enrich the President and his family. The founders warned us about kings enriching themselves from public office. They did not fight a revolution for this.

@realannapaulina @finkd @KatieBrittforAL @RepLisaMcClain Really? We’re just going to pretend he’s one of the good guys?

Fight Night! @finkd @KatieBrittforAL @RepLisaMcClain

And this is exactly how you lose younger male voters, actually a lot more than that demographic. Send in police to haul off an actual American UFC Champion because he used his 1st amendment and criticized Israel.

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@AwakenWithJP @DerrickEvans4WV Basically everything that was happening before Israel started bombing is exactly happening again.

@DerrickEvans4WV We give $325 billion to Iran. They can’t have nuclear weapons, the same way our intel agencies confirmed they didn’t have before the war. And the strait of Hormuz, that was open before the war, is now open again. Those are literally the benefits to America from the peace deal.

Can someone please explain to me what we just accomplished with the peace deal with Iran? I’m not being a jerk or being sarcastic. What are the highlights that benefit Americans?

“Michelle Obama is a man!” 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Seeing Mark Zuckerberg at the White House make my blood boil. Zuckerberg did everything possible to destroy our elections. We can’t pretend like the Zuckerbucks never happened. Conservatives are still punished on his platforms.

@BreannaMorello And they wouldn’t let Sean Strickland in…absolute stupidity.