Author of Listening to Prozac, now in new 30th anniversary edition Latest: Death of the Great Man: A Novel Please now follow at: @peterdkramer.bsky.social
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Ordinarily Well, as reviewed in @TheAtlantic, theatln.tc/2qk6H1w: "an ambitious, persuasive, & important book"
I do kinda worry about being sanctioned by the algorithm gods, but hard to imagine a clearer pangram than DICKHEAD.
Not sure I wouldn't accept DICKHEADED as well.
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I've been remiss in not posting the new landing page for the audio book of my novel Death of the Great Man. More timely than ever... and now, at half price.
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@parul_sehgal In which skepticism of the overused trauma plot becomes a meme. youtube.com/watch?v=SxReJxet…
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Republicans’ promise to preserve Medicare didn’t last long. Their cuts just had to be well hidden.
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Republicans are saying that our opposition to Trump nominees is “unprecedented.” Seriously? Let’s take a look at some of the stuff that is really “unprecedented”:
Well worth a read.
Entirely clear.
Although the early material is more amusing, the late section that quotes President Eisenhower is especially strong.
This is an absolute *must read* opinion from Judge Wilkinson on the Fourth Circuit - a very conservative judge - in the Abrego Garcia case.
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MAGA is making the claim that if you watch the entire 50 minute video, Zelensky is the antagonist.
This isn't true. At all. I was with Zelensky before this meeting and it's important to know his mindset heading in.
1/ A short 🧵on how the entire ambush went down.
If you watch the full Trump-Zelensky press conference, it is very clear that Zelensky, not Trump or Vance, became the antagonist. Both POTUS and VP were very respectful and cordial until Zelensky very publicly ignited a firestorm.
It all starts at 40:30
1) Zelensky essentially rejects how VP described the mandate of POTUS to conduct foreign affairs, and he insinuates that Trump term one did nothing to stop Putin.
2) He then basically tells Vance that his ideas are faulty and that the administration's diplomacy won't work.
These two comments are *deliberately antagonistic.* Everything was all well and good, but Zelensky took two major shots in a public forum, and they had to respond. And respond they did.
Recall, this is the guy who interfered in our electoral politics and called VP "too radical," and bashed Trump in an interview with New York Mag weeks before the election.
Zelensky is ENTIRELY at fault here. 100%.
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Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
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Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist
A guest essay by the psychiatrist Susan Mahler on her experience of depression (including treatments with ECT) and how she finds herself in a position where both lived and professional experience are failing her
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Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch.
President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.
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Today the @HouseGOP put out their rules for the next two years of Congress.
If you thought their dysfunction, disorganization, and disarray was bad before, buckle up, because it’s about to get even worse. A 🧵…
Beautiful, detailed illustration by @mattckramer in the NYTimes this morning.
A guest column in @washingtonpost.com by Laura Delano includes a hot link to my 1996 roundup essay about memoirs of depression. I hope that readers will click through. I didn't get everything right, but I think that the piece holds up pretty well.
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This morning's @washingtonpost features an op-ed by @LauraDelano with a hot link to my 1996 roundup essay about memoirs of depression. I hope that readers will click through. I didn't get everything right, but I think that the piece holds up pretty well.
nytimes.com/1996/04/07/books…
From Down Under, a comprehensive overview of @AndrewBlauner 's writers-on-Freud anthology. I contributed, and I'm in the best of company.
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