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Jack Register

@jack-register.bsky.social
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Political social worker, Behavioral health therapist and recovery coach, academic, and all around queer bear looking for my tribe. All views are mine and not representative of organizations to which I'm affiliated.

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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11, I had a friend from high school in one of the towers. Today is a day I remember lives lost in violence. Its grief.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Today Im living like the puppy who realizes someone left the gate open! Happy Fri-Yay!
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My definition of writer's block
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Grateful for life. Grateful for community. Grateful for love. Grateful for blessings of food, healthcare, shelter, meaningful work. Grateful for laughter of children and families prospering. Grateful for beating hearts and voices sharing and caring. My radical leftist post for the day
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hoooman, I see you. Its is not time for adoration. It is treat time.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What are we going to do today Brain? The same thing we do everyday Pinky Try and take over the world Muhahahaha The real question is who is Brain in this picture? :)
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
All is well in the universe. The hoooman has successfully fulfilled his duties and I am pleased. Carry on
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Belle speaking to a maga: "why are you wasting precious air I need to be beautiful?"
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Belle and I
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#mood
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
When the hooman does as expected and remembers treats just because Im so irresistible
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
When life throws me curveball I have learned (through many trials and hits to the face metaphorically) to move out of the way. Just because something doesn't work out doesn't mean it wont work out in a different way. Yall, this has been the hardest lesson to get in my 50+ trips around the sun.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
When political discourse and political decisions directly affect my capacity to live my life in the same way others do then political participation becomes an act of survival. And when my participation becomes protest my survival is at risk. Your feelings on this arent my responsibility
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Ms Belle asks if you've taken time to hydrate and eat today.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Trust goes with safety. If I cant be safe with you in real and practical ways then I cant trust you. Many folk today wonder why they feel so awlful. Their nervous system are in fight or flight mode. They dont feel safe. Therefore trusting the world around them becomes impossible.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
#mood
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Dr King said the arch of justice is long. I believe that the only way we truly get there is realizing we are connected to other humans. We must work in community. There is no other way. Working toward this goal is a long struggle. It requires commitment to stay in the place of openness
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Today I choose gratitude to start my day. I do this so that the storms of the moment do not dictate my grounded resolve. It is easy to get caught up in an anxiety ridden state of response. Gratitude puts me in a grounded intentional response mode.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I hold onto hope the way Captain America does his shield. Hope can deflect the nihilism and hatred propagated by those who want everyday Americans at each other's throats. I believe in community. I believe in playgrounds and Sunday picnics celebrating little league wins. I believe in hope
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Laughter is the best medicine when the world feels too much. I remember being a kid and just playing outside or riding my bike for hours. Simple joy. I committ today to finding simple joy. Cup of tea while answering email. My favorite shirt because the hubs says it makes my eyes light up. :)
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Critical thinking allows me to digest before response information in front of me. I can use skills in reasoning, logic, ethics, then allow my emotions to react before I choose my response.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Community is an action. Not a noun. It is dynamic and requires me to tend to it like a garden. I cannot expect results from a garden left to wither. Even in the days I feel I dont have it in me I step up and take one action to tend to my community. Then my community can tend to me.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Actions are how I match intentions. If someone tells me something but then actions dont back it up I have data to prove their words meaningless. I strive everyday to ensure my words and actions align.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A dialectic is when two things are true and they conflict with each other. This can cause lots of psychological distress. We can simultaneously hold hope and faith that there is good in the world and outrage and mobilize against this administration and their actions.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I believe a lot of problems were solved on the playground in the 80's. Had a bully? Good game of dodge ball. Wanted to really win? Swing set and launch yourself into the air like a rocket. Maybe we bring that back in DC and see who becomes the last one standing in a good game of freeze tag.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
#mood Juggling all the things today
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Community, real community, is a place of sanctuary and of inquiry. Those who hold space for me also remind me what I say my values are. There is a calling in when I stray from who I say I want to be. Struggle is met with compassion and care.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Humor, even sarcastic humor, reminds me to laugh at life. Not those trying to live it. The thought anyone truly has "the formula" for a perfect life is ludicrous to me. Everyone struggles with something. There is no perfect life. Only a life i can live in full authenticity as messy as it is.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Hope seems to be juvenile and pollyanna to those who want to see it destroyed. Oppression requires learned helplessness. Hope is at the core of activism and advocacy. Hope + diverse community + action = change. That's what the orange kool aid drinkers are really scared of right now.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The psychological consequences of our current administration will be felt for years to come. Being in a dystegulated state because of political gaslighting is a sign you are still engaged. Now we build community so we dont face this alone. #takesavillage
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Today Im choosing community over competition. The only person Im competing with is the guy in the mirror. I want to learn, grow, and become more by listening and being with those around me.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
My need to be informed and engaged is constantly pushing my mental health and my emotional equilibrium. Im a tired therapist. Those I serve are struggling in the politicized climate to just exist.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Bears repeating right now
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social, you are my Senator and Im proud to call you my senator. I stand with you in defiance of facism
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Hooooman, stop click click on glowing box and pay attention to me. Im cuter
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Ya know there are days that just suck. When they happen you gotta love on yourself more than you citizens yourself. The world will critize you more than enough. But, the world won't love you how you need to be loved when it really counts. So begin with self love and pick yourself up, go get em!
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
MLK Jr’s daughter responds to the partial release of files related to her father:
Be A King
@BerniceKing
Now, do the Epstein files.
[photo of MLK Jr giving side eye]
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Intentionally limiting how much I take in from news or social media is a way to control what is feeding my anxiety. No one can stay tuned in 24/7 without loosing their self in the process. Silence is sorting though what I have held onto to see if it fits or not
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The space between impulse and action can be small but the consequences are life altering
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Thoughts and feelings are the traffic jams of being a living being. We are not our thoughts. We are not our feelings. We are not our worst day. We are not our best day. We are a collection and compliation of all that has happened and what we have learned from it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/05/2025
Our “America’s Mental Barrier” series, which examines how insurance companies interfere with access to necessary mental health care across the United States, was also named a finalist in the explanatory reporting category: www.propublica.org/series/ameri... Via @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social
The Pulitzer Prizes Explanatory Reporting finalists: Alexia Campbell, April Simpson and Pratheek Rebala of the Center for Public Integrity; Nadia Hamdan of Reveal; and Roy Hurst, contributor, Mother Jones. Azam Ahmed, Christina Goldbaum of The New York Times and Matthieu Aikins, contributing writer. Annie Waldman, Duaa Eldeib, Max Blau and Maya Miller of ProPublica.
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
On this May 4th...I choose the side of the Jedi - not the side of the stormtroopers and the Imperalists. May the Force Be With You
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/04/2025
Cohn: "Tariffs are highly regressive. Meaning that poorer people end up paying a disproportionate percentage of the tariffs."
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
As a mentor has said many times to me - scattered fingers means scattered energy. Trying to do everything will cause you to do nothing. Remembering to focus is a continued lesson for me
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
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Jack Register @jack-register.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
NASW friends in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico, I am running for the National NASW Board Region XI Representative. Ive made a short video to tell you a bit about myself. #NASW youtu.be/u2lUSKnrqcc?...
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April 16, 2025
YouTube video by Jack Register
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