@fearlessrahul.bsky.social
Psychiatrist. Gently anti-tribal. Hopeful pessimist.
Democratic fundraisers: I have adopted the strategy of deleting your texts and reporting them as junk. I have to do this multiple times per day.
July 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Democratic fundraisers: I have adopted the strategy of deleting your texts and reporting them as junk. I have to do this multiple times per day.
Excellent article about what empathy is and what it is not, and what are the attacks on it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...
How Empathy Became a Threat
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Excellent article about what empathy is and what it is not, and what are the attacks on it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...
Superman was awesome. I felt like a kid again. If you can imagine an ideal, you can get closer than you expected.
July 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Superman was awesome. I felt like a kid again. If you can imagine an ideal, you can get closer than you expected.
Evan is a friend. I trust this sober assessment. www.facebook.com/share/v/1G9K...
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Evan is a friend. I trust this sober assessment. www.facebook.com/share/v/1G9K...
RIP Peter David. I had the fortune of meeting him at NY Comic Con circa 2007. He had written in "But I Digress" about people who asking him, a writer they didn't know, to do sketches. He would do a lightning bolt for Storm, or an X with a square scholar cap for Professor X. (I got one!)
May 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
RIP Peter David. I had the fortune of meeting him at NY Comic Con circa 2007. He had written in "But I Digress" about people who asking him, a writer they didn't know, to do sketches. He would do a lightning bolt for Storm, or an X with a square scholar cap for Professor X. (I got one!)
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A clearly insane and cognitively diminished President Trump rambled at length about a far-right conspiracy theory in front of the president of South Africa at the White House yesterday. Now here's eight articles about Biden's halting pauses and memory lapses.
May 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A clearly insane and cognitively diminished President Trump rambled at length about a far-right conspiracy theory in front of the president of South Africa at the White House yesterday. Now here's eight articles about Biden's halting pauses and memory lapses.
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BARTIROMO: Will you be able to come up some more clarity on tariffs so that business has that confidence?
BESSENT: Wall St. people like instant gratification. The president's agenda is an agenda for the next one, two, three decades in the US of bringing back manufacturing
BESSENT: Wall St. people like instant gratification. The president's agenda is an agenda for the next one, two, three decades in the US of bringing back manufacturing
May 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
BARTIROMO: Will you be able to come up some more clarity on tariffs so that business has that confidence?
BESSENT: Wall St. people like instant gratification. The president's agenda is an agenda for the next one, two, three decades in the US of bringing back manufacturing
BESSENT: Wall St. people like instant gratification. The president's agenda is an agenda for the next one, two, three decades in the US of bringing back manufacturing
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Senator Angus King (I-ME) reaching to history to recall Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) and her 1950 stand against what she called "Republican Fascists." (King does not hold Chase's seat; Senator Susan Collins (R) does.)
Margaret Chase Smith’s words ring more true — and urgent — today than when she first spoke them. Americans should put aside politics and return to what unites us: the Constitution. We can disagree about policy, but we cannot waver on our commitment to our founding principles.
May 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Senator Angus King (I-ME) reaching to history to recall Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) and her 1950 stand against what she called "Republican Fascists." (King does not hold Chase's seat; Senator Susan Collins (R) does.)
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"This, from the billionaire, crypto-salesman, golf-club-operating, Palm Beach-by-way-of-Fifth Avenue president with the golden office and the golden triplex apartment"
By Shawn McCreesh
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
By Shawn McCreesh
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
Trump, on Tariffs, Says ‘Maybe the Children Will Have 2 Dolls Instead of 30’ (Gift Article)
At the end of a cabinet meeting, the president allowed for the possibility that trade war could disrupt supply chains.
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"This, from the billionaire, crypto-salesman, golf-club-operating, Palm Beach-by-way-of-Fifth Avenue president with the golden office and the golden triplex apartment"
By Shawn McCreesh
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
By Shawn McCreesh
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
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“There are things you could do or say—as a person in academia, or in the media, or an N.G.O.—that would get them to come after you. But if you know where the lines are, and you don’t cross them, you can have a good life.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.
www.newyorker.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“There are things you could do or say—as a person in academia, or in the media, or an N.G.O.—that would get them to come after you. But if you know where the lines are, and you don’t cross them, you can have a good life.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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This is totally fair
April 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is totally fair
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uh oh what’s the fifth panel gonna be
April 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
uh oh what’s the fifth panel gonna be
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You're never alone so long as phones have paint programs
April 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
You're never alone so long as phones have paint programs
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Anyone debating or analyzing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's life or record is doing a grave disservice.
He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama.
It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.
He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama.
It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.
April 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Anyone debating or analyzing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's life or record is doing a grave disservice.
He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama.
It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.
He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama.
It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.
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Terrorists belong in jail. Here is why I pardoned the January 6 rioters.
by Donald Trump
by Donald Trump
April 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Terrorists belong in jail. Here is why I pardoned the January 6 rioters.
by Donald Trump
by Donald Trump
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The innocence of Abrego Garcia, Merwil Gutiérrez, and an estimated 90% of the people sent to El Salvador proves this was never about “criminals”.
It’s about racism.
It’s about state terror.
It’s about dehumanization.
Fascism takes hold when people stay silent. It’s up to all of us to speak up.
It’s about racism.
It’s about state terror.
It’s about dehumanization.
Fascism takes hold when people stay silent. It’s up to all of us to speak up.
April 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The innocence of Abrego Garcia, Merwil Gutiérrez, and an estimated 90% of the people sent to El Salvador proves this was never about “criminals”.
It’s about racism.
It’s about state terror.
It’s about dehumanization.
Fascism takes hold when people stay silent. It’s up to all of us to speak up.
It’s about racism.
It’s about state terror.
It’s about dehumanization.
Fascism takes hold when people stay silent. It’s up to all of us to speak up.
Never forget, even for those of us in the USA for generations, our ancestors all came from somewhere. And all those people have felt pride of their heritage, and others have vilified their heritage. #NationOfImmigrants
www.wetheitalians.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Never forget, even for those of us in the USA for generations, our ancestors all came from somewhere. And all those people have felt pride of their heritage, and others have vilified their heritage. #NationOfImmigrants
Amazing article from NYTimes on migration patterns using Meta location data. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First (Gift Article)
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Amazing article from NYTimes on migration patterns using Meta location data. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
It must be nice for brains to not have any cognitive dissonance when confronted with hypocrisy. I am jealous of you, Rep. Greene.
Protestor with a “Jail 4 Insider Traders” sign removed from Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall
April 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It must be nice for brains to not have any cognitive dissonance when confronted with hypocrisy. I am jealous of you, Rep. Greene.
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The Salvadoran Government could have had the support of more than 70+% of the USA population. We don't agree on much, but we do generally agree violent gangs shouldn't be on the streets. They fucked up, made it political. That was stupid. Due process and prisoner's treatment is important.
April 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The Salvadoran Government could have had the support of more than 70+% of the USA population. We don't agree on much, but we do generally agree violent gangs shouldn't be on the streets. They fucked up, made it political. That was stupid. Due process and prisoner's treatment is important.
@djleftover.bsky.social wrote a beautiful piece on "Terrorism" in Collateral Language in the early oughts after 9/11. I would be very interested in a follow-up given that anyone deported to CECOT is de facto a terrorist without due process. Professor Collins, do you have recommendations on updates?
April 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
@djleftover.bsky.social wrote a beautiful piece on "Terrorism" in Collateral Language in the early oughts after 9/11. I would be very interested in a follow-up given that anyone deported to CECOT is de facto a terrorist without due process. Professor Collins, do you have recommendations on updates?
If I had a boy I’d name him Jimothy Tames. He’d go by the nickname James. When people wanted to call him Jim he’d say “no, my nickname is James.”
April 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If I had a boy I’d name him Jimothy Tames. He’d go by the nickname James. When people wanted to call him Jim he’d say “no, my nickname is James.”