Lisa Sherper

@lsherper.bsky.social

I am a feminist and former couples therapist. My book, Maybe it’s Him: How Couples Therapy Fails Women comes out next June. The book tackles the question, why does relationship inequality persist and argues that couples therapy isn’t the answer.

Border patrol/ICE are using violence as a means of social control. This is the beginning, not the end and many more groups will be targeted. So far only small groups are pushing back. A massive non-violent public response can stop this. Only you can prevent fascism.

“My friends don’t feel safe to call the police, because they think that’s going to get them deported. They don’t feel freedom,” says a young Salvadoran man whose stepfather was arrested by a sheriff’s deputy in Frederick County and eventually deported.

 “We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts

Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impossible to ignore.

boltsmag.org

The Immigrant Pantry Memphis, Tn 75 families. Nearly 400 people. One week. That’s what the need looked like at the Immigrant Pantry this week—and it continues to grow. In just the last six weeks, our volunteers have completed 395 deliveries supporting households with more than 2,000 people. 1/

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NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...

Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

broligarchy.substack.com

Watched a More Perfect Union video on changing the tax code: a 20% tax on luxury items, a 70% tax on political donations, tax capital gains as income annually, tax large loans against stock, raise global corporate tax to 35%, and no stock buy backs.

Quoting Naomi Klein, “Fascism is capitalism’s threat response.” As our natural resources dwindle, the most important resource the ruling class has is human labor and increasingly violent methods of social control are needed for its extraction.