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I have worked in homelessness services over two decades and it has never been easy. Verbal assaults are commonplace and even physical assaults have been known to happen. So is property damage,  threats, accusations, backstabbing and getting doxxed.  Reading this would make most people considering entering this field to change their minds. The homeless population are indeed a complex group of people and no two days are the same. Mental illness and addiction is prevalent as is childhood trauma that has effected about 90% of every homeless person I have ever met.

I was commissioned to write this piece by a VERY exciting, prestigious and high profile UK publication. JUST as I was about to start writing, they pulled it (for space reasons). Aside from a little bit of heartbreak over the piece being dropped, I was also left with lots of research and a great, juicy topic, and nowhere for it to go.  The Outfluencer is meant to be akin to a women’s magazine experience online, so I decided to write and publish it here.

The clip was uploaded to the official @stevewilkosshow TikTok in January. Since then over 5,000 users have made their own videos using this audio. The original clip was taken from this segment of The Steve Wilkos Show: It was a great call by The Steve Wilkos social media team to edit the clip to add the “This is your man?” to the beginning—this likely would not have become a trend on TikTok without that question.

Meet Alexa Grace Kern, author of the reasonably popular real estate blog “Realtors @ Substack”, which boasts over 55,000 subscribers as of May 2nd, 2024. All is not as it seems, however, as Alexa Grace Kern’s profile photo is a StyleGAN-generated face, and DuckDuckGo and Google searches for the name “Alexa Grace Kern” turn up no evidence that anyone by this name exists, outside of material linking back to the blog in question.

Bananas and sour cream. If you’d asked me at age 5 to name my favorite food, that would’ve been my answer, no pondering involved. I would eat it every day. For breakfast. For lunch. For dinner. For dessert. Not all on the same day—I wasn’t a weirdo kid. I ate other things too. Pancakes, hot dogs, grilled cheese. Normal stuff. I’m just stating the flexibility of bananas and sour cream.

Thanks to everyone who continues to support the newsletter, whether it’s signing up to be a paid subscriber, sending encouraging words, or passive aggressively forwarding it to your sister (kidding!). For paid subscribers last week, I wrote about how we can play around with anxiety by dialing up relationship stress just a teeny bit, and I provided some examples. - K I have written a lot about families, anxiety, and the holidays.

Welcome back to your weekly roundup of good reads, legal updates, and legislative tracking on abortion. The big thing in the news this week is medicated abortion lawsuits, so we tried to break down a few things in our feature at the bottom. Let us know what other questions you have! Anti-access advocates in Ohio are pushing false information about the proposed abortion amendment, linking it to transgender and parental rights, despite the language having no connection to those issues.

As Derrick Austin noted in his PopPoetryinterview, X-Men: The Animated Series (1992–1997) introduced countless 90s kids to poetry more than once. How did the show work poetry into superhero situations? Through the extraordinary character of Beast, of course. Beast, aka Dr. Hank McCoy, was introduced to the world in 1963 in X-Men #1, making him one of the original founding members despite his spotty appearances in later film adaptations. McCoy became a mutant after exposure to radiation, and his monstrous blue exterior contrasts with the deep humanity of his well-read and well-spoken interior.

Thom HartmannNY Times bestselling author 34 books in 17 languages & nation's #1 progressive radio host. Psychotherapist, international relief worker. Politics, history, spirituality, psychology, science, anthropology, pre-history, culture, and the natural world. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbW0zqafmqqkoq6vug%3D%3D