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Martha Crawford

@whatashrinkthinks.com

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focused on: death work, dream work, community building & psychologies of liberation Essays in Slate, Vox, New York Magazine Crone Quaker-ish She/Her Website: whatashrinkthinks.com

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · Jul 17

A thread to pin to my feed about the different kinds of work that I do around something central that feels whole to me:

Almost everything is offered on a pay-what-you-can basis

Upcoming events and workshops are a good place to start

What A Shrink Thinks

Martha Crawford offering workshops, consultations, and essays on dreams, death, contemplation, community resilience and psychologies of liberation

www.whatashrinkthinks.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 6h

I can't put into words how much satellites and airplanes are my enemy. This was taken about 50 miles from a major city, an hour time lapse.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 3h

Yes a bunch! I’m a birthright Quaker/irregular attender but a lot of the big Friends orgs are here and I’ve encountered a fair number of Friends

Search Quaker (you don’t need the hashtag to word search) and you’ll find folks!

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 4h

Because he forgives nothing.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 4h

I’m angry with myself that I laughed at this 😂

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 5h

This is very sad, but also not surprising. The science has warned for a long time, including in IPCC reports, that even modest levels of global warming will devastate virtually all coral reefs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 13h

In Alabama, incarcerated workers in a work-release program must take jobs at private companies—but 40% of their wages are docked as a “labor-trafficking fee.” A recent lawsuit brought by incarcerated people argues this is a modern form of convict leasing.

The Past and Present of Prison Labor: Your Questions Answered

A historian answers <i>Bolts</i> readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and efforts to challenge it.

boltsmag.org

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Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 6h

This family was able to hire an immigration lawyer, but there is no right to a lawyer in immigration proceedings - even if you are a kid

Reporting from ABC News in June 2024

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 5h

Thanks for this!

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Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 5h

Fascinating history of New Mexico's federal judiciary beginning with the Taos revolt before the Civil war when our state was still a territory

Interesting to watch the judges fumble their way through establishing a functional judiciary in a land with so many competing cultures

Watch on @pbs.org

Law for a Lawless Land: New Mexico’s Federal Judiciary

During New Mexico’s territorial period, U.S. federal judges faced extraordinary challenges.

www.pbs.org

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 5h

Tonight’s dog walk

A bright red sunset over purple mountains

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Tewa Women United @tewawomenunited.bsky.social · 8h

The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in #ABQ #NewMexico is hosting a great #IndigenousPeoplesDay gathering on Monday, October 13. Dances, comedy from Ricardo Cate, and more...

indianpueblo.org/event/indige...

Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025 | Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Honor the past, celebrate the present.

indianpueblo.org

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · Jul 17

I’m trying, with a group of other folks, to create a network of drop in facilitated resting spots so that we can listen to each other and breathe together without having to fix anything or battle.

Just sit together and refuel

Gathered Meeting to Support Helpers — What A Shrink Thinks

A quiet space to gather, rest, share & recover

www.whatashrinkthinks.com

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 11h

This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 9h

If you get or see a post like this, REPORT it. Esp. if a phone # is posted. Here's how.

3 dots menu for "report"
Pick "Illegal and Urgent"
3 Submit report. See "Add more details (optional)"?
Click that.
In "Additional details" write problem. Be specific & blunt. Doxing. Aggressive sexual comments.

Why should this post be reviewed?
Illegal and Urgent

Glaring violations of law or terms of service
• Select moderation service
Bluesky Moderation Service
By @moderation.bsky.app

3 Submit report
Your report will be sent to Bluesky Moderation Service. Add more details (optional)

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 9h

I've had silver hair since I was in my early 30s!

I lived through decades of certain kinds of women telling me to dye it - and rolling my eyes at them.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 9h

Reported and blocked. He’s posting phone numbers along with unsolicited sexual comments.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 10h

If you have white hair you might want to block this guy.

And dear god I am not 80.

And right. Not within 100 feet.

A screenshot of a bluesky post:

calrobert.bsky.s...

@calrobert.bsky.s...

Based on your silver-gray hair, I presume you're almost as old as I am. I'm 80. You're reasonably good looking. I want to run my tongue across and between your lips.
But my face is so ugly that you would never let my face get within 6 feet of yours, right?

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 9h

Yes! Report him too!

ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 9h

this guy is also doxxing women in other posts so @aaron.bsky.team if you want to at least remove the posts from 6 hours ago with phone numbers that resolve to imessage accounts that would probably be some relief to that one woman.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 10h

If you have white hair you might want to block this guy.

And dear god I am not 80.

And right. Not within 100 feet.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 9h

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 10h

If you have white hair you might want to block this guy.

And dear god I am not 80.

And right. Not within 100 feet.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 14h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 9h

It is SO WEIRD!!!

Its really a particular Bluesky thing? It does NOT happen to me anywhere else!

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 9h

😂😂😂

lol!!

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 10h

I think I’m doing pretty well for sixty!

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