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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
11 hours ago

Psychology says people who grew up poor and became successful often can't fully enjoy it - not because they're ungrateful, but because some part of them never stopped waiting for it to disappear - Silicon Canals

Successful individuals often struggle with feelings of scarcity and anxiety about their financial stability, despite their achievements.
LGBT
fromGothamist
6 hours ago

NYC's LGBTQIA+ office leader poised to tackle 'entrenched disparities'

New York City opens its first office for LGBTQIA+ Affairs, led by civil rights attorney Taylor Brown, the highest-ranking openly trans person in city government.
California
fromABC7 San Francisco
14 hours ago

NAACP responds after homeless man 'dumped' in Oakland by San Leandro police

San Leandro officers forcibly transported a homeless man to Oakland and 'dumped' him, prompting outrage from civil rights groups.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
14 hours ago

There's a specific kind of tiredness that has nothing to do with sleep. It comes from years of translating yourself into a version that other people could handle, and the exhaustion lives in the gap between who you are and who you've been performing so consistently that even you forgot there was a difference. - Silicon Canals

Workplace burnout often stems from the exhaustion of pretending to be someone you're not, rather than from overwork itself.
fromTruthout
2 days ago

Rupture and Repair Under Fascist Conditions

"We have a great opportunity in our movements to learn how to be opponents without being enemies," says Tanuja Jagernauth. This perspective emphasizes the importance of maintaining respect and understanding even amidst conflict.
Social justice
US politics
fromJezebel
1 day ago

GOP States Are Taking Voter Suppression Into Their Own Hands

Republican-led states are enacting voter suppression laws, including Florida's and Mississippi's versions of the SAVE America Act, facing legal challenges for their constitutionality.
Right-wing politics
fromTruthout
1 day ago

No Kings Must Mean No War: Foreign Policy Is Least Democratic Space in Politics

The majority of Iranian Americans oppose the war on Iran, despite media portrayal of pro-monarchy sentiments.
#brooklyn
NYC politics
fromBrownstoner
1 day ago

Gravesend Homeless Shelter Moves Forward Despite Protest

Demolition of a proposed men's shelter in Brooklyn resumes under Mayor Mamdani, despite ongoing protests and calls for affordable housing alternatives.
fromNew York Post
5 days ago
Brooklyn

Hundreds of protesters swarm proposed NYC men's homeless shelter site, physically block construction truck

Protesters in Brooklyn oppose a proposed homeless shelter, fearing it will bring danger to the neighborhood.
NYC politics
fromBrownstoner
1 day ago

Gravesend Homeless Shelter Moves Forward Despite Protest

Demolition of a proposed men's shelter in Brooklyn resumes under Mayor Mamdani, despite ongoing protests and calls for affordable housing alternatives.
Brooklyn
fromNew York Post
5 days ago

Hundreds of protesters swarm proposed NYC men's homeless shelter site, physically block construction truck

Protesters in Brooklyn oppose a proposed homeless shelter, fearing it will bring danger to the neighborhood.
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
2 days ago

I'm 66 and I spent forty years trying to stay positive through everything - and what I actually created was a life where nobody knew me well enough to notice when I was drowning - Silicon Canals

Staying positive can lead to hidden struggles and emotional isolation, as individuals often mask their true feelings to appear strong.
Washington DC
fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

They Had to Clean Solitary Cells. What They Saw Forced Them to Quit.

Solitary confinement work is demoralizing and involves invasive strip searches, contributing to severe mental health issues among incarcerated individuals.
US Elections
fromLos Angeles Times
2 days ago

Californians say democracy is in peril, state should enact voting rights protections, poll shows

Two-thirds of California voters believe democracy is under attack, with strong support for a state Voting Rights Act following recent Supreme Court decisions.
fromPhilosophynow
3 days ago
Philosophy

The Collective City

Islamic philosophy invites plurality and coexistence, emphasizing the importance of dialogue and the acceptance of error in understanding.
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 week ago

Digital Hopes, Real Power: From Revolution to Regulation

66% of internet users live where political or social sites are blocked, and 78% are in countries where people have been arrested for online posts. New social media regulations have emerged in dozens of countries in the past year alone.
World politics
#immigration
fromURL Media
3 days ago
Law

For Asian Immigrants in NYC, Legal Help Remains Out of Reach With Life-Altering Consequences

Social justice
fromTruthout
1 week ago

Disabled Organizers Are Facing Down Trump's Immigration Crackdown

The number of people in immigration detention has nearly doubled under the Trump administration, impacting disabled individuals significantly.
Law
fromURL Media
3 days ago

For Asian Immigrants in NYC, Legal Help Remains Out of Reach With Life-Altering Consequences

Mohan's deportation highlights systemic issues in immigration legal services for Asian immigrants in New York City.
Social justice
fromTruthout
1 week ago

Disabled Organizers Are Facing Down Trump's Immigration Crackdown

The number of people in immigration detention has nearly doubled under the Trump administration, impacting disabled individuals significantly.
SF LGBT
fromBronx Times
3 days ago

'You saved my life': How one Bronx social worker helps transgender patients recover with dignity - Bronx Times

Asha Lyons provides vital support to transgender patients during recovery, emphasizing the importance of visibility and care in their journeys.
fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

Tonika Lewis Johnson: Segregation and How to Disrupt It

Tonika Lewis Johnson's Folded Map Project connects residents known as 'map twins' who live on the same street name but miles apart, revealing structural inequality and personal commonality.
Arts
Los Angeles
fromCalifornia Post
5 days ago

Tragic past of LA woman living in squalid sewer - as her family reveals her downfall

Jameelah Robinson, a mother of three, is living in a storm drain in Los Angeles, refusing help from her family and city services.
East Bay (California)
fromThe Oaklandside
5 days ago

Thousands turn out for Oakland No Kings march

Thousands protested across the U.S. against authoritarianism, with Oakland's No Kings march being one of the largest events, attracting 20,000 participants.
NYC LGBT
fromTruthout
6 days ago

Millions Join "No Kings" Protests in One of Largest US Rallies

Up to 8 million Americans participated in nationwide No Kings protests against President Trump's agenda on March 28, 2026.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 day ago

You know a woman has lost her joy in life when she describes her days accurately and without feeling - when the words are all correct and the tone is completely flat and the account of her own life sounds like something being reported rather than lived, and she doesn't notice the flatness because she has been inside it long enough that it just sounds like how things are - Silicon Canals

Emotional flatness can creep in, making life feel like a series of tasks rather than meaningful experiences.
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 days ago

Freedom of speech can never trump liberation - LGBTQ Nation

A chief tenet of liberation is the freedom to define oneself while being accorded the rights and privileges established and guaranteed under law and social standing.
Social justice
US politics
fromsfist.com
2 days ago

Day Around the Bay: Trans Nonprofits Brace For Funding Cuts When Community Needs Them Most

Nonprofits for the transgender community face funding cuts amid a significant city budget deficit, impacting support when it's most needed.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Next week's disability cuts will make people destitute and you might not understand how bad they are until it's too late | Frances Ryan

Almost 750,000 severely ill and disabled people in Britain face a significant cut to their universal credit support.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 days ago

Trans activist tests bathroom ban by defying it in front of Capitol Police - LGBTQ Nation

Samantha Boucher tested Kansas' trans bathroom ban on Trans Day of Visibility, highlighting enforcement challenges and advocating for trans rights.
London politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Your Party to focus local election efforts on backing independent candidates

Your Party is targeting urban areas with large Muslim populations to support independent candidates and community groups against Labour.
California
fromStreetsblog
4 days ago

No Kings Rallies Throughout California - Streetsblog California

Record attendance of 8 million at No Kings rallies across the U.S., with significant participation in California's major cities.
Women in technology
fromThe Oaklandside
5 days ago

Women and wealth: Tips for navigating your lifelong financial journey

Women are set to inherit significant wealth and are actively building their own financial futures amidst the Great Wealth Transfer.
fromTruthout
4 days ago

A Shady Nonprofit Pushes Back On Pennsylvania's Proposed Minimum Wage Hike

"Today's vote ignores the well-documented harmful consequences of wage hikes by economists. Not only would this proposal slash up to 86,000 jobs, it would also worsen inflation for Pennsylvania workers and residents."
Non-profit organizations
NYC politics
fromNew York City, NY Patch
5 days ago

Your Vote Decides Which New York Neighborhood Fix Mamdani Will Tackle Next

Over 11,600 New Yorkers participated in the Mayor's Municipal Madness to select city projects for repair by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Los Angeles
fromKqed
5 days ago

Marching for Immigrant Rights, 20 Years Ago and Today | KQED

The 2006 immigrant rights marches in Los Angeles galvanized Latino organizing and continue to inspire current activism against anti-immigration policies.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
10 hours ago

Not everyone who avoids asking for help is proud. Some of them asked once, received it with a lecture attached, and learned that the cost of support was a small erosion of standing they could never quite earn back. - Silicon Canals

Asking for help can lead to unintended consequences that affect relationships and self-perception.
Brooklyn
fromTruthout
6 days ago

Inside the Grassroots Campaign That Pushed a Drone Company Out of Brooklyn

Protesters occupied Building 77 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to oppose the lease of Easy Aerial, linked to the Department of Homeland Security and Israeli military.
Social justice
fromTruthout
4 days ago

It's Not Just Huerta. For Many Survivors, Silence Seems Like the Only Option.

Sexual abuse within movements, exemplified by Cesar Chavez, must be addressed to foster change and protect survivors' dignity.
London politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 days ago

The attack on the right to protest in the UK is not just about Palestine

Recent trials of pro-Palestinian activists reveal politicised policing and legislation threatening free assembly in Britain.
#resilience
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Stop Telling Anxious People to Be Resilient

Resilience frameworks wrongly attribute anxiety to individual weakness rather than systemic issues, leading to harmful consequences for those affected.
fromSilicon Canals
6 days ago
Psychology

Psychology says the loneliest form of resilience isn't surviving hardship - it's being so good at handling everything alone that people stop checking if you need support and eventually you stop believing you deserve it - Silicon Canals

Resilience can appear strong externally while internally leading to isolation and a lack of perceived support.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Stop Telling Anxious People to Be Resilient

Resilience frameworks wrongly attribute anxiety to individual weakness rather than systemic issues, leading to harmful consequences for those affected.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days ago

Psychology says the loneliest form of resilience isn't surviving hardship - it's being so good at handling everything alone that people stop checking if you need support and eventually you stop believing you deserve it - Silicon Canals

Resilience can appear strong externally while internally leading to isolation and a lack of perceived support.
Relationships
fromPortland Monthly
2 weeks ago

From the Editor: Building Community Isn't Always Fun. Do It Anyway.

Proximity-based community organizing builds solidarity across differences through sustained engagement and shared material goals, fostering understanding that transcends initial disagreements.
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
5 days ago

Two-thirds' of domestic abuse survivors rejected from refuges due to shortages

Domestic abuse services in the UK face a crisis, with over 65% of refuge referrals rejected due to capacity issues.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days ago

There's a specific exhaustion that belongs to people who spent decades being exactly what everyone needed them to be - and then one day realized they couldn't remember what they needed - Silicon Canals

People-pleasing leads to losing one's identity and can result in profound exhaustion and disconnection from self.
LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
4 days ago

Trans people are here to stay, no matter who tries to erase us

Understanding the gender spectrum and dismantling misconceptions about trans identities is crucial for acceptance and recognition of diverse gender experiences.
Philosophy
fromThe Nation
2 weeks ago

In Defense of Being Performative

Democracy requires citizens to actively perform civic engagement; dismissing performative politics misunderstands that democratic participation is inherently performative and essential for democratic survival.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 days ago

Why UN slavery resolution won't be enough

The United Nations resolution categorically states that slavery is the gravest crime against humanity, emphasizing the need for global acknowledgment and action.
Social justice
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days ago

People who go quiet when they're hurt instead of raising their voice learned somewhere very early that their anger wasn't received as information. It was received as an inconvenience. So they stopped sending the signal and started absorbing the damage, and they've been doing it so long they sometimes mistake silence for calm - Silicon Canals

Silence during conflict often indicates deeper emotional pain rather than composure or passive aggression.
Social justice
fromThe Nation
4 days ago

On Chavez, People, and Power

A respected figure was revealed to have caused harm to vulnerable individuals, prompting a call for accountability and reflection on past actions and movements.
Social justice
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

The Psychology of Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking is a severe human rights violation, often misunderstood, with survivors criminalized instead of protected and rooted in societal norms.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
3 weeks ago

Why We Need a Formal, Mandatory, and Remunerated "Citizen Lobby"

Post-Cold War optimism about democracy and internet freedom has been undermined by geopolitical tensions, neoliberalism, nationalism, and corporate influence that concentrate power among the already wealthy.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

The most expensive thing about growing up poor isn't what you couldn't afford. It's the decision-making architecture it installs, where every choice runs through a scarcity filter that adds cost to options other people experience as free. - Silicon Canals

Financial scarcity significantly impacts cognitive performance, altering decision-making processes and creating a lasting influence on individuals' choices beyond material deprivation.
#disability-rights
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
1 week ago

You Don't Have to Be Unionized to Be United | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

The labor of this kind of organizing was invisible and deeply exhausting. In a precarious workplace, where a so-called 'performance review' could amount to job loss, organizing meant building a bridge while standing on it.
Social justice
Design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

The biggest barrier to accessibility is not usability

Accessible product adoption fails primarily due to shame and stigma rather than functional deficiencies; successful design requires dignity and emotional appeal alongside technical functionality.
Food & drink
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Why food justice isn't being served in America

Food justice advocates often misrepresent South Central Los Angeles as a resource-depleted food desert lacking grocery stores and knowledgeable residents, contradicting anthropological research documenting abundant food retail and community food practices.
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

26 Social Burdens Women Shoulder That Are Completely Exhausting

Putting on makeup. Like, we're supposed to disguise ourselves; otherwise, people think we didn't take this outing seriously, didn't care enough, or didn't act professionally. In some ways, beauty standards are social obligations. Keeping up with nails, clothes, hair, etc., that's almost an expectation in some relationships.
Women
#environmental-justice
fromNature
1 month ago
Social justice

My professor said 'Black people are not interested in the environment'. I set out to prove him wrong

fromNature
1 month ago
Social justice

My professor said 'Black people are not interested in the environment'. I set out to prove him wrong

fromTruthout
1 week ago

Formerly Incarcerated Women Are Pushing Systemic Change in Elected Office

That was my freshman bill. The following year, the state passed my bill to expand housing assistance vouchers from three to six months for people released from prison.
Social justice
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Neighbors, It's Time to Make a Stand

Universal conviction in one's own righteousness divides humanity, while accelerating evolutionary mismatch from our technology-created world remains our shared existential problem.
Social justice
fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

By Organizing Acts of Public Grief, We Build the Courage to Keep Fighting

Authoritarian regimes use fear and violence to enforce compliance, but sustained public dissent and collective grieving strengthen resistance to oppression.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Fight the Power, One Breath at a Time

Chronic stress narrows focus, drives short-term coping, and platforms that profit from outrage amplify stress to increase consumption and fear-based behavior.
Relationships
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Financial Abuse Is More Common Than You Think

Financial abuse often accompanies other abuse, involves controlling access to money and spending, and can be reduced by clear boundaries and financial independence.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

What Does 'Care' Mean During Times of Social Instability?

Care is fluid and adaptive; emotional signals like anger, numbness, and fatigue indicate needs and limits, and individual care requires collective support for survival.
Social justice
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

Data is power: What we need to build meaningful infrastructure for Black & brown trans folks - LGBTQ Nation

Black transgender people are systematically excluded from research design and data collection, rendering their lived experiences invisible in statistics used by policymakers and organizations.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
2 months ago

Economic Democracy as the Redemption of Political Democracy

Economic democracy should be reframed as intrinsically linked to political democracy, reintegrating economic and political spheres rather than merely extending political democracy into firms.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

Enough Is Enough

The presidency is increasingly privileging unilateral force and authority over legal and institutional constraints, eroding credibility and making restraint appear weak.
fromEast Bay Express | Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda
1 month ago

Freedom From Fear, pt. 3: What we can do here and now

"Freedom from fear" was the fourth of four freedoms defining democracy President Franklin D. Roosevelt framed in his rally cry to fight fascist conquest from without. It is openly debated whether America is now fighting a fascist takeover from within. It may be debated, but only because the would-be dictators of the world will always disguise their plays for power in the mock forms of democratic legality-by declaring a fake emergency, attacking political rivals through trumped-up legal charges or holding rigged elections.
US politics
US politics
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Protesting Can Be Good For You

Participating in political protests builds social connection, reduces stress through collective effervescence, and strengthens community allyship against state aggression toward vulnerable groups.
Social justice
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Living Under a Concentration Camp Regime - and Fighting Back

Mass detention systems expand through legal 'end runs' and normalization; rapid U.S. detention infrastructure growth signals a dangerous escalation requiring organized resistance.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Distrust and Disempowerment, Not Apathy, Hinder Allies

Our research, published in the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, suggests that people often hesitate to intervene when co-workers are mistreated because they themselves feel disempowered in their organizations and experience distrust and polarization. Our findings run counter to the common assumption that people don't step up to support marginalized colleagues because they don't care or are unmotivated. Not seeing much action against inequity and injustice can drive this cynical idea.
Social justice
Social justice
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This

Superficial reforms like body cameras and uniforms fail to challenge systemic state violence and instead legitimize and enable continued expansion and funding of ICE and policing.
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