It takes a lot of training and a lot of self care. I'm very lucky to work with an employer that does truly emphasize self care and allows us to do that.

Thank you, I appreciate that.

I'm a crisis intervention specialist, which means I'm a counselor who specifically works with suicidal individuals and those undergoing similar crises.

Lmao, how on earth is the loss in faith in news organizations your justification for refusing to endorse a political candidate? It's like he's tone deaf as to why people are losing faith in news organizations.

"People no longer trust news organizations because we prop up this false dichotomy of both political sides being "equal" despite one side being clear and dangerous fascism. In order to try and gather faith in my news organization, I'm going to double down on this and refuse to acknowledge this problem." What a joke.

This just reads to me like he did something super illegal, and his only hope to avoid arrest is a Trump win.

"Hope the night is manageable." I work in a field where people aren't sure how to wish me a good night at work.

I work for a mental health crisis line. We are taught, with extremity, to always go for least intrusive intervention possible. We will only ever call Emergency Services after a literal check list to ensure it's the last resort possible.

Practically the only times we ever call EMS on someone is if they tell us they are actively dying this very second, due to injury or overdose, etc. Or if they, after all of our attempts to listen, empathize, talk about what's going on, talk about how they're feeling tonight, work on what options there might be, who in their lives might be able to help, listing resources, and attempting to safety plan; if after all that, they say "yeah, I'm gonna kill myself specifically in this fashion and I'm gonna do it right now, and I have the means available to me." Then hang up and don't answer when we call back. Then we call EMS.

It's drilled into us that EMS is expensive for the person, and potentially dangerous because police are often not great at responding to Mental Health emergencies. So always the last last last resort.

One thing that I've found is super consistent across all Trumpers that I've ever spoken to.

They have no fucking clue what tariffs are.

Hold up, if that's the crux of his argument, does that mean that his argument is

"I can't be barred from running because I never took an oath to support the constitution. Therefore my inciting insurrection is not covered by this clause. But I totally incited rebellion."?

I had a gym teacher who was not really interested in being a gym teacher. He was the varsity football coach and that was where his main focus was. Gym/Health class was basically the bare minimum health information required by curriculum, and then the rest of the time was spent in the weight room. Not even doing like, fun games or anything like that, literally just 'weight room' so that his athletes could just use the hour for their workout time.

One day, after 'weight room' another student who was held back a bit (he had reached maybe 20 y.o. at this point, and hadn't graduated) made a joke about wanting to shower with people. Nobody thought it was funny, we all ignored him. He takes offense to this, and decides to vent that frustration on me. He grabs me by the side of the head, and slams my head into the locker next to me. He does this within full view of the teacher, maybe ten feet away if that. I walk over to the teacher, holding my rapidly bruising face, and repeat to him what happened, literally what he just witnessed.

He looked me in the eyes and said "Yeah, and?" and refused to do anything about it.

I went to the Principal, who didn't do anything. I went to the Vice Principal, who didn't do anything, and then I went to the Dean of Students, who got that kid pulled from class for three days total. The next week I had a sit down with the Principal who apologized for what happened, but was oh so thankful that I was such an understanding kid, and could empathize with my assailant's mental handicaps, and this didn't need to go any further than it did, right?

Shoulda sued.

And the amount of "omg I stimmed in this public place!" That are then videos of them just being dicks and pretending that this "uncontrollable movement" knocked something over.

And the amount of patently fake DID tiktoks, ugh. I moved over to YouTube shorts mostly for other reasons but there are way less of those things going on there.

Supernatural

They managed to escalate all the way to God's grumpy sister.

And then went even further, making the next enemy: The British.