MD. Child and forensic psychiatrist. Lover of music, Buddhist meditation and my wife and kids. Reluctant but obsessive observer of politics. Working on getting more involved.
my friend asked the other day how i planned to cover the growing fascism here and i said “i guess continue writing about it til i’m sent to prison? lol”
it was a flip thing to say but it’s hard to imagine ever stopping. or fleeing. i’m feeling not quite patriotic, but protective of this country.
This awful Biden situation could’ve been avoided if the US had simply stayed under British rule and gradually transitioned to being an independent parliamentary democracy like Canada
Looks like something useful is happening on the Nazi site - this court document about Donald Trump’s involvement in the Epstein case is going viral
This is a disgusting read
Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
In case no one has told you lately:
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
We get the worst of both with that one. Simultaneously treating him as if he was never President, while downplaying what his second term would be like because he couldn’t accomplish his authoritarian agenda in the first
Trump’s support and active participation in the mass slaughter of Yemeni citizens was so senseless, Congress passed a bipartisan bill (!!) to end it and he vetoed it!
Look at how the New York Fucking Times covered this blood lust:
Preposterous that goldfish get to live among skulls and treasure chests and little colourful pebbles.
That should be my environment.
What does a fish know of whimsy?
Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.
For six years, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman killed 17 people, has been a nightmare frozen in time. But now, the 1200 building, which contained the bloody and heartbreaking remnants of the massacre, is being demolished.