1/ I’m not sure, but leaning toward the view that all the research showing that therapeutic alliance predicts therapy outcome may be leading us astray. Here me out

Just about any well-intentioned therapist can develop a decent working alliance with someone at the healthier end

2/ of the spectrum of personality functioning (reasonably securely attached, good object relations, mature defenses, no serious personality pathology)

But it’s incredibly difficult to develop a working alliance with people with more severe character pathology (impaired capacity

3/ for attachment, impoverished or malevolent object relations, more primitive defenses, etc)

What if “therapeutic alliance” is really a proxy for personality health vs. personality disturbance?

If so, “therapeutic alliance” research may tell us only that people with healthier

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Folks, be aware, extremists such as Three Percenters aren’t just hiding behind anonymous online accounts as they train for war. They operate within our very communities — often going unnoticed.

See the Three Percenters we’ve been monitoring in Conejo Valley since 2020.

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In August, 2020 we first spotted Three Percenters running security with Bryce Eddy and Chris Dunn of Covered 6 at Rob McCoy’s infamous @GodSpeakCCTO COVID shutdown defiance stunt in Newbury Park, CA.

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Read about Jon Peto, the Covered 6 Three Percenter who currently trains @LVUSD security guards to carry weapons around school kids.

https://twitter.com/cantifascists/status/1718096026668851583

1) Someone suggested I look into Elizabeth Eloise Kirkpatrick Dilling(April 19, 1894 – April 30, 1966). First, she has an awesome birthday. She was an American writer and political activist. “In 1934, she published The Red Network—A Who's Who and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, which catalogs over 1,300 suspected communists and their sympathizers. Her books and lecture tours established her as the pre-eminent female right-wing activist of the 1930s, and one of the most outspoken critics of the New Deal, which she referred to as the "Jew Deal". In the mid-to-late 1930s, Dilling expressed sympathy for Nazi Germany.” Per wiki.

“Dilling was the best-known leader of the World War II women's isolationist movement, a grass-roots campaign that pressured Congress to refrain from helping the Allies. She was among 28 anti-war campaigners charged with sedition in 1942;.

3) the charges were dropped in 1946. While academic studies have predominantly ignored both the anti-war "Mothers' movement" and right-wing activist women in general, Dilling's writings secured her a lasting influence among right-wing groups. She organized the Paul Reveres, an anti-communist organization, and was a member of the America First Committee.” This keeps coming up.

+JMJ+ Welcome! This is the Holy Rosary Thread for Friday, Sixth Week of Easter, May 10, 2024. +JMJ+

Optional Prep Thread:



"The Rosary is the 'weapon’ for these times." -- Padre Pio

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https://twitter.com/disciple96/status/1789079531128533010

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NEW: The Arizona grand jury that indicted 18 Trump allies displayed unusual independence and aggressiveness that at times surpassed AG Kris Mayes' prosecutors.

A rare look inside the process that led to last month's indictment.

w/ @woodruffbets

politico.com/news/2024/05/1…

At least two of the 18 people indicted by the grand jury — Christina Bobb and Jenna Ellis — were told by prosecutors that they weren't targets of the investigation. In Ellis' case, that assurance was reiterated four days before she was charged.
politico.com/news/2024/05/1…

One witness described an interview with the grand jury that revealed a panel that was not politically monolithic and had factions of some particularly aggressive jurors with clear opinions and others more skeptical of the lines of questioning. politico.com/news/2024/05/1…

Over 200,000 Palestinians—not 35,000—have already died since October. This is based on nearly 100,000 bombs and missiles directly on civilians, without food, water, medicine, electricity, healthcare and World Health casualty projections starting last October. The 35,000 official fatality count is absurd. No human beings could endure those massacres and related untreated diseases since October 7th. -R

Bears repeating, Biden’s own humanitarian aid envoy stated weeks ago: “There is an imminent risk of starvation for the majority, if not all, the 2.2 million population of Gaza. This is not a point in debate. It is an established fact, which the United States, its experts, the international community, its experts, assess and believe is real.” -R democracynow.org/2024/4/11/head…

"Ultimately, unless something changes, the world faces the prospect of almost a quarter of Gaza’s 2 million population - close to half- a million human beings - dying within a year. These would be largely deaths from preventable health causes and the collapse of the medical system. It’s a crude estimate, but one that is data-driven, using the terrifyingly real numbers of deaths in previous and comparable conflicts." - Professor Devi Sridhar (@devisridhar) Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh. Source: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

+JMJ+ Welcome to the Optional Preparation Thread for Friday in the Sixth Week of Easter, May 10, 2024. The Rosary Thread will be pinned beginning at 7pm CDT, 8pm EDT. +JMJ+

Pray a great deal & make sacrifices for sinners - OL of Fatima

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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "ASK THE FOLLOWING QUESTION….

WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCES FOR ALL U.S .ALLIES OF BIDEN’S POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL

Think aqbout this:
1)

Taiwan. Taiwan, by the way is still waiting for military supplies that they paid for 3 years ago. Taiwan's leaders are watching how Biden has threatened Israel & why, and they are concluding that they cannot trust the USA if China actually cuts them off and possibly invades.
2)

Biden’s policy to demand one sided cease-fires (unrealistic and stupid), policy of moral equivalence, leads to only one conclusion. Do not trust the U.S.A. if Biden is President.
3)

Daily Ukraine map thread 🧵 for 9th-10th May 2024

Highlights: Russian forces attempted assaults in north Kharkiv, with very limited progress so far. Mostly infantry, and some vehicles.

Russian minor advances marked near Staromaiorske and into Netailove

Ukraine announces ten new brigades to form, which based on lack of equipment will likely be infantry brigades from the upcoming mobilization

Map:

1/20uacontrolmap.com

2/20 Russian abandoned tank being grenaded to destroy it, west of Tonenke, by Shadow, plus others.
Coordinates: 48.131735, 37.613056
Map view:
Source: google.com/maps/d/u/0/vie…

https://twitter.com/Noobieshunta_/status/1788502069080428783

3/20 Air Patrol hits Russian position in Tavriiske, from March 18th
Coordinates: 46.768417, 33.410684
Map view:
Source: google.com/maps/d/u/0/vie…

https://twitter.com/neonhandrail/status/1788400055608594822

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is not hiding in Rafah, two officials familiar with the matter tell @TimesofIsrael as the IDF moves to expand its operations in Gaza’s southernmost city. (1/12)
timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has elevated a potential IDF operation in Rafah to the top of his public agenda, but targeting Hamas’s leadership is believed to still be a major Israeli war aim as well. (2/12)

Israel has had some success on this front, killing Hamas military wing deputy commander Marwan Issa & other senior leaders. But Sinwar and military wing chief Mohammed Deif have remained elusive, despite repeated claims by Israeli officials that IDF was closing in on them(3/12)

1/ The worst, most unbearable part of this Götterdämmerung is its pointlessness. The genocide has reached its nadir. There is no progress despite the worst being full of passionate intensity. There is just death, more and more, unleashed solely for empty manipulation. --->

2/ Israel is without reason and without commitment to its own social and moral bonds, let alone those of "humanity". There are Israeli Jews who are passionately invested in a zero-sum game worldview - Palestinians must die so that Jews can live. Many more just don't care. --->

3/ A prominent Israeli public intellectual, a scholar of Judaism and religion, published a learned article on a popular news site. The topic: The deep-seated hatred of the west and of modernity not just by non-westerners but by critical western intellectuals. --->

🧵For those who’ve not yet discovered the excellent work of Van Harvey @Van_Blogodidact here (with his kind permission) is a 🧵of highly valuable gems you’ll want to save & revisit. A truly astonishing essay on presented in bitesize format. Take your time blogodidact.blogspot.com/2009/07/unknow…