It’s beginning to sink in with my friends, having just woken up. They’re kind of free-association texting me. I don’t think that a lot of Americans understand that in terms of percentage of the population directly impacted by deaths, this is the same scale at 9/11.

Given the phrasing, I’m guessing he’s got Kiwi citizenship. The more important piece of the story, for me, is how long he spent growing up in Australia. The white supremacist scene is far stronger there than in NZ.

This was an Australian man

When I bought a new car, my dad passed down advice from his father: go kick the car, enough to scuff or ding it a bit. Doesn’t have to be a big scuff or ding, but just enough that you’re the first one to make a mark.

All I can say is that after two months of CBT and getting absolutely nowhere, still jumping out of my skin and rocketing into hypervigilance based on really specific triggers, it took one EMDR session to cut those responses down by 90% and a follow-up session to basically blitz it entirely. I don’t know why it rewires…

I did EMDR in the exact process you describe, and it broke a PTSD-association that had been haunting me for months. That shit works.

I watched The Dark Crystal when I was nine and on a TV ban. I watched it surreptitiously at my friend’s house, the crab people ate the elflings and the jackrabbits died horribly and vultures breathed horribly on everyone, and then I went home and couldn’t tell my mom WHY I was a shattered wreck for the next 2 weeks.…

I was convinced the Big Bad Wolf waited for me at night in the dark living room doorway right at the bottom of the stairs. My father raised us listening to Sergei Prokofiev’s orchestral treatment of the story and encouraged us to close our eyes and let the music direct out storytelling, and I think the wolf is a…

She’s doing it because the topic would never, ever die. Ever. Ever ever. He brings it up every time he talks about her, it’s not going away. She either ignores it (this does not work well with Trump tactics, he just continues repeating the lie and people believe it on the 18th repeat) or she at least lays the facts…

I think it is important to recognize that being a Cherokee or a member of any other tribe is about culture and relationships, not a result of a DNA test.

Honestly, the crime in this video is that she didn’t produce a 30-second version. No one is watching the video, everyone’s relying on summaries. Every time I hear someone find fault with Warren, it’s something she explicitly addresses in the video and if called on it, they wave it off and find another reason to prop…

You and I are on the same page. This whole thing is unbelievably stupid. She said she was Native American because she’d been told by family they were. At no point did she claim to be part of a tribe, and she didn’t get any benefit from the distinction. It’s like me claiming to be part Welsh (which as far as I…

She hasn’t claimed that she belongs to a Native tribe, and it’s insane that the waters are getting muddied on this. She claimed she had a Native ancestor. In the video she explicitly calls out the difference.

I’m sure most ppl who have far reaching roots in North America have Native roots of some kind & don’t even realize it bc it was 6-10 generations ago.

Yes, it’s embarrassing that Elizabeth Warren believed she was Native American and was ultimately incorrect.

I couldn’t even watch it. I saw a clip of it with no sound, and I was just like, Oh this is going to make me angry. I couldn’t watch it.

She was found in her own burnt car, not a huge leap for the first responder who knew her personally to identify her regardless of how she pronounced her name.

They had a kid and shortly after, he died (I don’t know of what). Whole thing was damn weird. His sons from his first marriage were 10 years older than her, I think everyone moved away within a decade. Just tried to look her up, seems she’s off Facebook.

I was actually slightly impressed by how accurate that terminology was. It may be subconscious, but some part of her knows the start of that “romance” was unbelievably creepy.

The only way I can deal with Soon Yi is assuming she’s got a monster case of PTSD-y Stockholm Syndrome. Or maybe some other psychological issue I don’t know the name of. Allen Syndrome. Something. Whatever syndrome you get when your guardian grooms you and explosively alienates you from your family and marries you and…