Our country doesn’t understand Donald Trump in the same way that normal people can’t fully comprehend sociopaths, a psychologist writes. slate.trib.al/t0l0Wzn

(1/X) Good piece in Slate on Trump's sociopathy. One thing I've been struck by over and over again in dealing with my department's malignant narcissist is how quickly... slate.com/news-and-polit…

"There is still no language that conveys what the stakes really are." There it is! That's been my experience as a writer and critic for the last nine years. That's the fact that defeated me. slate.com/news-and-polit… via Carrie Brown

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.

Although not my favorite columnist at the Times, even David Brooks now gets that it’s time for liberals and conservatives to be humbled and to wish they had listened to Bernie in 2020: nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opi…?

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is likely true and perhaps even more frightening than the idea that Trump is Putin’s puppet. Trump is now in the stronger position. What will he do with it?

After 20 months of round the clock work by Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH research teams for ObserveConflict, our labor of love is public. We can now prove beyond reasonable doubt that Putin and Russia are coercively adopting children from Ukraine and making them citizens of Russia. Read more 👇

Eleven men, imprisoned at Guantanamo for 20 years & never charged with a crime, have been released. Biden has 13 days left to free 4 others already cleared, transfer those found guilty of crimes to legitimate prisons, & close Guantanamo once and for all. nytimes.com/2025/01/06/us/…

Zelensky, in an act of supreme courage, called Trump’s bluff. Great Britain, the EU and Ukraine are now able to play their cards and, finally, they are not being intimidated . Let’s hope it lasts. nytimes.com/live/2025/03/0…?

📣 Last Friday news broke that Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH team tracking children abducted by Russia lost its US state dept. funding. I haven’t spoken publicly about it until now. Today I gave one on-the-record interview and I gave it (appropriately, I think) to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty rferl.org/a/yale-ukraine…

Just for the record, and ABC news notwithstanding, Terry Moran 🇺🇸's post was in fact objective and impartial. Can he help it if Trump and Millar are, objectively and impartially speaking, haters?? nytimes.com/2025/06/08/bus…

Let's be clear: Immigrants are the Jews of Trump's plan for American fascism. This is where we must fight him at every turn. Everything else, including the mid-terms, is a distraction from the true nature of the threat. #AmericanFascism nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/…

These are the names of 274 Palestinian journalists in Gaza killed by Israel since October 7, 2023. It’s the deadliest war for media workers in history. #JournalismIsNotACrime

WHAT SHOULD BE THE BIGGEST NEWS STORY IN THE WORLD: US Intelligence assessments find increase flow of arms from UAE 🇦🇪 to RSF, including drones used in sacking of El Fasher. As civilians die, USA and allies sit on their hands - all the while knowing the Emirates armed a genocide.

In Sudan, more people may have been killed in the past week than in two years of the Gaza war over 70,000 deaths, writes The Telegraph, citing researchers from Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab. Satellite images show mass graves and destroyed neighborhoods in Darfur. 1/

Trump Administration: Believes in Santa Claus. But not in Establishment Clause. nytimes.com/2025/12/25/adm… via The New York Times

"We simply follow orders." -Sam Altman's corporate credo. wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-al…