In "When Your Psychologist is an AI," author Elizabeth Svoboda investigates the true capabilities of the #AI therapy chatbots. Are AI therapists biased? Trained? Helpful? Out of their depth? And if you must use one, how can you use it wisely? openmindmag.org/articles/when-… #mentalhealth

Neo-Nazis & white supremacists have taken two tacks since Oct. 7 — some “pro-Israel” and some “pro-Palestinian.” Don’t be fooled: neither cares about Israelis or Palestinians, and both are only interested in exploiting the conflict to sow division, hate, & extremism here at home.

No other moment in American history.

I know the stress from not knowing whether you have #CTE pathology. That's why we are launching the #BankCTE study tomorrow BankCTE will build on successful Alzheimer's disease research to try to discover a blood biomarker for CTE during life. Sign up at bankcte.org

I want to share something personal. This is a picture of my grandfather’s gramophone store on Johnson’s Court circa 1940. Inscribed in chalk in front of the store are swastikas and the following: ‘Put the Zionists in their place’. ‘Expel the Jews’. ‘Boycott the Jews’.

The Nuns of Benedictine College have released a statement regarding the Commencement Speech of Harrison Butker. If any "Christian" men have issues with the Sisters statement go argue with the wall.

Trump posts a new ad foreshadowing a second Trump term that says he will create a “UNIFIED REICH,” echoing Nazi Germany

So, this morning we awake to Trump's vision of America as a "unified reich". This messaging is not a "mistake by a staffer". This is part of the subtle but continuing normalization of Trump's intent--an American Dictatorship.

In addition to mentioning a "unified Reich" twice, this video advocates "Peace Through Strength." This instantly reminded me of the "Kraft Durch Freude" (Strength Through Joy) program, which sponsored activities and free trips to get the German people on board with Nazism.

For every tenth cup, get a free night at the Four Seasons

I am once again begging people to realize that the thing that is fundamentally broken in our country is our political press. It cannot cover Trump without breaking its own self-imposed requirement of always seeming neutral, so it has effectively given up on covering Trump.

Y’all, I seriously cannot remember the last time any journalist on cable news confronted the bad faith of a MAGA politician this insistently. For five minutes (!), Kaitlin Collins pressed Ted Cruz and demanded a good faith answer. This is brilliant.

Emma Malabuyo will be heading to the 2024 Olympics! 🙌🙌🙌 She will join Levi Jung-Ruivivar and Aleah Finnegan, who had previously qualified for the Philippines.

Levinson, The Authoritarian Personality, 1950: "The ethnocentric conservative is the pseudoconservative... Their needs dispose them to use of force and oppression in order to protect a mythical 'Americanism' which bears no resemblance to what is most vital in American history."

Can a whistleblower also be a gutless wonder? Absolutely, says Carl Elliott, the whistleblower in question, who faces this inner contradiction in his book The Occasional Human Sacrifice. Read more in my Undark Magazine review: tinyurl.com/7tzw54dn

Thanks to Scientific American for picking up my story on the risks and benefits of AI therapy bots! We need to keep talking about the collective human effects of consulting therapists that are, increasingly, no longer human.

My in-depth Discover Magazine feature on the evolution of the opioid crisis involved some of the most intense reporting I've ever done. Huge thanks to my sources who shared their stories in hopes of helping addicted people find a way out. ow.ly/a4Cy50SsZjL

Commentators now warn of approaching fascism in the U.S., but I argue in the The Boston Globe that today's right-wing leaders, including Donald Trump, aren't really fascists. They're Caesarists, a species of autocrat historians have described for decades. ow.ly/GoG250SHrcE

Witnesses say coaches at San Diego's Champion Gymnastics abused young students while many adult observers—immersed in the twisted gym culture—ignored or excused what was happening. Democracy and justice die in darkness, and stories like this are beacons. ow.ly/n0JI50SNIL2

Honored to be on this year's @litquake roster for the first time. Come out and see me and other The Writers Grotto writers from 5-6 on Oct. 26 at Teeth Bar SF, 2320 Mission St. All of us will be sharing "Words to Save the World." ow.ly/JJsW50TN3TW