Julio Rivera

4 days ago | medium.com | Julio Rivera |Ben Ulansey

Floundering retirement accounts and illegal deportationsNo one signed up for this. No matter who you voted for, the last thing you wanted was for the economy to crash and for legal residents with no criminal record to be deported to a nightmare prison in another country. Hell, you’re human, after all. There’s a general downer vibe in the air. It’s either I told you so or just give it some time. Right now, it looks like a shit show. The market tanked, and Kilmar Ábrego García still isn’t home.

1 month ago | medium.com | Julio Rivera |Scott Ninneman

I’m sore. Beat up. I’ve aged five years in the last two. Stress is no joke. The nauseating up and down of my emotional state made me sick. I don’t feel like myself. My muscles don’t hurt, but somehow, my body still aches. It pops and cracks when I stretch. It’s been under tension for a long time. The strain of severe anxiety or crippling depression, followed by the euphoria of bipolar hypomania, dominated my life for several years.