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I'm starting to think that, until he's finally gone, I should repost on a daily basis this 11,000+ word piece I published in @theatlantic.com about Donald Trump's serious psychiatric disorders to explain why, as a legal and constitutional matter, he was unfit for the presidency.
In the six-plus years since, every mental health professional I have come across has told me that my essay had it exactly right. I think every word of it has been proven right many times over.
Even today, he's still only going to get worse.
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Even today, he's still only going to get worse.
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Unfit for Office
Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:38 PM
I'm starting to think that, until he's finally gone, I should repost on a daily basis this 11,000+ word piece I published in @theatlantic.com about Donald Trump's serious psychiatric disorders to explain why, as a legal and constitutional matter, he was unfit for the presidency.
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Change from Alabama 1965 to Chicago, Portland, or Minneapolis 2025-2026. Reverse roles of federal and state forces (now the Feds are the brutal, vicious, lawless ones). But whether 1965 or 2026, those in power use the same techniques to whip up white hysteria and use violence to traumatize Americans
And here we are again. An overtly White nationalist Trump regime has ginned up fear of “the Great Replacement,” “wokeism,” immigrant violence, and anti-white discrimination.High prices? No healthcare? Never mind. The regime is keeping you safe from these threats to white male dominance.
contrarian.substack.com/p/americans-... When Republicans mouth platitudes about King and wrongly insist the 14th and 15th Amendments mandate colorblindness they are bastardizing history, ignoring the original meaning of the post-Civil War Amendments, and destroying King’s most important achievement.
January 19, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Change from Alabama 1965 to Chicago, Portland, or Minneapolis 2025-2026. Reverse roles of federal and state forces (now the Feds are the brutal, vicious, lawless ones). But whether 1965 or 2026, those in power use the same techniques to whip up white hysteria and use violence to traumatize Americans
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do yourself a favor and listen to Janai Nelson, the extraordinairy head of NAACP Legal Defense Fund and S Ct litigator for Callai open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Supreme Court Considers Axing Voting Rights
Janai Nelson forebodes on what is at stake with the Callais case.
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:28 PM
do yourself a favor and listen to Janai Nelson, the extraordinairy head of NAACP Legal Defense Fund and S Ct litigator for Callai open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Bravo. wapo.st/4qvlMfa
Top Catholic cardinals say U.S. foreign policy raises moral questions
Three senior archbishops said recent events raise “basic questions about the use of military force” and have put America’s moral role “under examination.”
wapo.st
January 19, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Bravo. wapo.st/4qvlMfa
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And here we are again. An overtly White nationalist Trump regime has ginned up fear of “the Great Replacement,” “wokeism,” immigrant violence, and anti-white discrimination.High prices? No healthcare? Never mind. The regime is keeping you safe from these threats to white male dominance.
contrarian.substack.com/p/americans-... When Republicans mouth platitudes about King and wrongly insist the 14th and 15th Amendments mandate colorblindness they are bastardizing history, ignoring the original meaning of the post-Civil War Amendments, and destroying King’s most important achievement.
Americans Should Understand MLK, Jr.’s True Legacy
The Voting Rights Act was King’s greatest achievement
contrarian.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:56 PM
And here we are again. An overtly White nationalist Trump regime has ginned up fear of “the Great Replacement,” “wokeism,” immigrant violence, and anti-white discrimination.High prices? No healthcare? Never mind. The regime is keeping you safe from these threats to white male dominance.
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The allegations in this story are incredibly disturbing. Blocking kids from bedside, lying to their pastor, pushing a patient — Why are hospital staff so involved in ICE’s attempts to detain a woman in their care?
sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
ICE agents detain Mounds View couple en route to ER
An early-morning trip to the ER turned into a nightmare for a Mounds View couple with Liborio Parral Ortiz shipped to Texas and the family blocked from access to the bedside of his wife by ICE agents ...
sahanjournal.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The allegations in this story are incredibly disturbing. Blocking kids from bedside, lying to their pastor, pushing a patient — Why are hospital staff so involved in ICE’s attempts to detain a woman in their care?
sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
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i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
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Republican Nazis thought we would greet ICE as liberators. They fundamentally do not understand human decency.
Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn
So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and this is by design.
newrepublic.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Republican Nazis thought we would greet ICE as liberators. They fundamentally do not understand human decency.
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Gonna see a WHOLE lot of quotes from I Have a Dream today. And fewer but still a lot of Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Spend some time with the rest of Dr. King's oeuvre. It's worth it
Spend some time with the rest of Dr. King's oeuvre. It's worth it
"Give Us the Ballot," Address Delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
kinginstitute.stanford.edu
January 19, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Gonna see a WHOLE lot of quotes from I Have a Dream today. And fewer but still a lot of Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Spend some time with the rest of Dr. King's oeuvre. It's worth it
Spend some time with the rest of Dr. King's oeuvre. It's worth it
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This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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A witness posted this to FB along with video of Saly being violently taken by ICE:
January 19, 2026 at 6:32 AM
A witness posted this to FB along with video of Saly being violently taken by ICE:
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A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,.
The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.
The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.
January 19, 2026 at 3:52 PM
A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,.
The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.
The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.
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Trump cheered China for Tiananmen Square (violent crackdown on pro-democracy protestors) and cheered Russia for invading Ukraine (unprovoked aggression in pursuit of conquest).
Minneapolis and Greenland shouldn't be a surprise. But for whatever reason, tons of people chose not to take him seriously.
Minneapolis and Greenland shouldn't be a surprise. But for whatever reason, tons of people chose not to take him seriously.
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Trump cheered China for Tiananmen Square (violent crackdown on pro-democracy protestors) and cheered Russia for invading Ukraine (unprovoked aggression in pursuit of conquest).
Minneapolis and Greenland shouldn't be a surprise. But for whatever reason, tons of people chose not to take him seriously.
Minneapolis and Greenland shouldn't be a surprise. But for whatever reason, tons of people chose not to take him seriously.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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The Trump administration is seeking to deport two men who provided accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp that differed from the Department of Homeland Security’s description of the incident.
DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed
The two men’s eyewitness accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp differ from the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the incident.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:30 PM
The Trump administration is seeking to deport two men who provided accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp that differed from the Department of Homeland Security’s description of the incident.
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The sort of people who support ICE and the Trump Administration are fine with this because she’s black, because she’s a woman, because she‘s Somali-American, and because THEY are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture.
Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...
St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention
Nasra Ahmed, 23, said she was taken to the hospital for an MRI with hands and legs shackled
www.twincities.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:33 AM
The sort of people who support ICE and the Trump Administration are fine with this because she’s black, because she’s a woman, because she‘s Somali-American, and because THEY are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture.
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January 18, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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Check it out. www.democracydocket.com
Check it out. www.democracydocket.com
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January 19, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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Vicious Nazis.
ICE kidnapped an elderly Hmong man in St. Paul, Minnesota. The temperature was sub-zero, and he was taken only wearing shorts and Crocs, and no shirt. (1/18/26)
January 18, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Vicious Nazis.
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Hmmm...
How could Russia be getting strategic intelligence information? 🤷🏼♂️
How could Russia be getting strategic intelligence information? 🤷🏼♂️
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Hmmm...
How could Russia be getting strategic intelligence information? 🤷🏼♂️
How could Russia be getting strategic intelligence information? 🤷🏼♂️
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The shadow cabinet idea was a great idea and should have been implemented a year ago. Would have presented an organized, unified response to the chaos, issue by issue, by people with expertise.
Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
January 18, 2026 at 11:29 PM
The shadow cabinet idea was a great idea and should have been implemented a year ago. Would have presented an organized, unified response to the chaos, issue by issue, by people with expertise.