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Via my brother. Even when 28 isn’t the problem it’s part of the problem.
#teamupthursday Tommy was the first evil ranger created by Rita Repulsa to destroy the Rangers. We saw the Shadow Rangers in Tuebo and Ofco
🇵🇹 “Se hoje for à noitinha ao meu jardim, por lá encontrarei rosas, fazem-me lembrar de ti”
Bandidos do Cante will sing “Rosa” for #Portugal at this year’s #Eurovision.
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The PRT is institutionally corrupt at the highest levels, but not in the cartoonish "every employee is on the take" sense. It's a more insidious, structural rot: the organization was deliberately designed and steered by Cauldron to serve a hidden agenda ("save humanity at any cost") while maintaining the appearance of a legitimate government agency.
1. The Root of the Corruption: Cauldron's Shadow Control
Alexandria (Rebecca Costa-Brown) is literally the Chief Director of the PRT while being a founding member of Cauldron. She is the one "manipulating government oversight" from inside the agency. This isn't a rogue element; it's the top of the org chart working for a secret conspiracy that:
Sells powers (Triumph, Battery).
Experiments on people (leading to monsters like the Endbringers via Eidolon).
Runs the Birdcage as a black-site "throw them in and forget" prison.
Orchestrates cover-ups and false flags.
Legend (the "nice guy" Triumvirate member) was deliberately kept in the dark about the worst stuff, which tells you how compartmentalized and dishonest the leadership was. The other two (Alexandria and Eidolon) were fully complicit.
Result: The PRT's official mission (protect the public, enforce the law, support heroes) is subordinate to Cauldron's real mission. Public safety is a side effect, not the priority.
2. Evidence from the Brockton Bay Team and Leadership
Armsmaster/Defiant: Breaks the Endbringer truce twice (arranges villain deaths for a solo kill on Leviathan, then outs Skitter as a mole). The consequence? Silent house arrest in PRT HQ. When Mannequin attacks, Dragon is allowed to let him escape so he can keep operating as Defiant. This is not how a clean agency disciplines its top field commander. It's how a conspiracy protects an asset.
Battery: Explicitly does "favors" for Cauldron (including helping a villain like Madcap defect and marry her). She later tries to atone and dies for it. The text frames this as "dirty business" she was involved in while in the Protectorate. The agency knowingly employed and promoted people who owed debts to a criminal conspiracy.
Miss Militia: Becomes temporary PRT Director as part of a deal with Skitter. She's one of the cleaner ones (reasonable, apologizes for Sophia's actions), but she still operates inside a system she knows is compromised. Her "Nerves of Steel" and sleeplessness are partly because her passenger forces her to relive memories instead of dreaming — a subtle reminder that even the "good" heroes are shaped by the same broken system.
Triumph: Bought his powers from Cauldron. A recent Wards graduate turned Protectorate member whose family just wrote a check for superpowers. The agency accepted him with zero apparent ethical issue.
3. The Image Department and PR Machine (Glenn Chambers)
This is one of the most blatant examples of systemic corruption:
The PRT doesn't just manage hero branding; it controls it to maintain the illusion of legitimacy.
Glenn forces Weaver to use butterflies instead of effective bugs because "image" matters more than results. He later reveals he's doing it strategically to help her challenge the corrupt leadership — which proves the rot is so deep that even the guy in charge of spin is secretly working against the official line.
Heroes are expected to be shiny, camera-ready symbols. Reality (truce-breaking, Cauldron deals, human experimentation fallout) is suppressed.
4. How the Corruption Manifests Day-to-Day
Unequal justice: Heroes get second (and third) chances. Villains get the Birdcage or are set up to die (Armsmaster's plan with Kaiser, Fenja, and Skitter). The text shows Armsmaster viewing a 15-year-old mole as acceptable collateral.
Truce violations treated as minor internal issues instead of career-ending scandals.
Hero recruitment from Cauldron: Multiple Protectorate members (Battery, Triumph) have direct ties. The agency is fine with this.
Cover-up culture: Echidna, Alexandria's "death" (brain-dead and puppeted), Leviathan aftermath — the PRT's default response is damage control and narrative management, not transparency.
The Triumvirate's influence: Even the "Big Good" heroes are compromised. Legend is the exception who was kept ignorant; the other two actively ran the conspiracy.
5. Counterpoints — Why It's Not Completely Rotten
Not every member is evil. Miss Militia, Chevalier, Legend (once he learns the truth), and later Defiant/Dragon are genuinely trying to do good and push back against the worst excesses.
The PRT does fight real threats (Endbringers, S9, etc.). The rank-and-file and many field teams are probably normal people doing a dangerous job.
Corruption is top-down. The rot starts with Alexandria/Cauldron and flows downward through policy, promotions, and cover-ups. Lower-level PRT troopers and most regional teams aren't necessarily in on the conspiracy.
Bottom line: The PRT is profoundly corrupt as an institution because its highest leadership was a Cauldron front. It was never truly a neutral law-enforcement body for parahumans — it was always a tool to maintain stability while Cauldron pulled strings in the background. The text you pasted shows this repeatedly: heroes with Cauldron vials, light consequences for major crimes by leadership, image control over actual ethics, and a system that protects its own while throwing villains (and inconvenient heroes like early Skitter) under the bus.
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), (honorary mention of EAET*, Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy) - saying this as someone with trauma-induced chronic pain. The first time something is starting to make a difference after 7 years of unremitting (7/10) pain (daily headache in my case, tension type ... what you'd label as NDPH).
read The Way Out by Alan Gordon & Alon Ziv, there is a lot of research that went into this. I don't trust anything of this sort unless it's backed by studies and evidence. Additionally, they managed to capture the pain on fMRIs, more specifically in the part of the brain associated with learning and memory. That is huge. If you were ever told that your pain isn't real, they have it on a scan.
The success rate is: 98% of patients improved and 66% of patients were pain-free or nearly pain-free* at the end of treatment. The results held up when checked a year later.
*their definition of pain-free/nearly pain-free being 0-1/10 pain level
If you know anything about chronic pain treatment statistics, you likely see this is groundbreaking. Certainly better than the usual "no cure".
I'm aware that unless you've looked into this, it probably sounds like some kind of woo woo. I initially thought it was BS and closed my tabs on it (like I've said, I've been in pain for 7 years. If there were something, I would've known by now, right?). Read the book, my curiosity wouldn't let me not to (truthfully, thanks to the science and references involved) because the other option was to give up. Read the book.
Don't underestimate your chance. If you commit to it, you can do this yourself. I'm not saying it will be easy but your chances of recovery might be high and would you pass on that? I am doing it myself (I'm already quite familiar with how to do intenional neural rewiring sucessfully thanks to a different instance in my life), I have gone through extensive testing (therefore I know for certain I have no structural damage) and I do fit the majority of the criteria for neuroplastic pain, which is why I believe PRT is the perfect fit for me personally. If you want a practitioner, there are options, but this treatment is incredibly accessible if you think you have what it takes and choose to do it on your own. There are numerous cases who have made a full recovery on their own.
Some of the many interviews I found helpful after reading the book: **int1 <- is my favourite and a good introduction to the topic int2, int3, int4, int5,
+ **Howard Schubiner, MD also has this new book on the topic that you can preorder
int6 (an interview in which the book listed above is mentioned in more depth)
*should imo in many cases be practiced with PRT (after you get a physical assessment)
🇵🇹 #Portugal 🎤 Bandidos do Cante will sing "Rosa" 🎬 https://youtu.be/8emG9PghYXg
Which of this year's #Eurovision songs do you LOVE?
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🎁 #HappyBirthday to Conan Osiris who represented #Portugal at #Eurovision in 2019, with "Telemóveis" finishing 15th in the first semi-final with 51pts. 🔶 https://youtu.be/SIGn9_yMLn4 #ESCismyBF #DareToDream #PRT
🎁 #HappyBirthday to Salvador Sobral who represented #Portugal at #Eurovision in 2017, with "Amar Pelos Dois" winning with 758pts. 🔴 https://youtu.be/Qotooj7ODCM #escismybf #PRT #CelebrateDiversity
