The Lancet today published an essay––"The clinical and the political: care under authoritarian threat"––I wrote in response to the widespread conflation of political and clinical care as the Trump regime seeks to inject itself between patients and doctors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I've a short piece out on media obsessions with Trump's health and the medicalization of American politics. While fixation on the health of presidents is not new, what has changed is the backdrop. Trump’s case exemplifies our increasingly theatrical political... www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/t...

I've a short piece out on media obsessions with Trump's health and the medicalization of American politics. While fixation on the health of presidents is not new, what has changed is the backdrop. Trump’s case exemplifies our increasingly theatrical political... www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/t...

since the next round of media layoffs is inevitable I recommend getting rid of anyone who wrote a "the campus left is a serious threat to free speech"; you're probably paying the wrongest dipshits on earth so much money anyway that liquidating them will allow you to hire a lot of reporters

Reminder: if Democrats had had the basic political and ethical spine to properly tax billionaires at any point over the last 30 years (rather than simply selling themselves to their neoliberal donors), none of this fascist oligarchy shit would be happening now.

Not the first time we’ve heard a mission to “save western civilization” from the “radical left” announced at large rallies.

Given our political reality (eg, ongoing participation in a genocide, extrajudicial executions in Latin America, brutalization of US residents by ICE, etc), it’s striking that far-right American politicians and oligarchs still move around in the comfort and safety that they do.

the federal surge in Chicago never ended

It is not surprising but it is despicable that NYTimes editors can––without any self-awareness or shame––publish this while also publishing Ezra Klein enforcing the very authoritarian consensus demanded by the Trump administration to which M Gessen points. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

The thing about far-right America is that they know very well what they're supporting. They identify it outright. But the psychic pleasure of hating an invented enemy and breaking and remaking law to enable more and more violence simply far outweighs all other considerations and supposed values.

In a way, they are mirrors of their patron, President Trump, deeply aggrieved and ready for vengeance even it means pulling the house down around them, presiding over the destruction of NIH, CDC, FDA. It is worth it to them. 7/

Two essays on political and clinical responsibility in US healthcare amid rising fascism: 1) "On Medical Ideology and the Production of Docile Doctors” in Social Science & Medicine drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9... 2) "The clinical and the political" in The Lancet. drive.google.com/file/d/1eDrf...

Two essays on political and clinical responsibility in US healthcare amid rising fascism: 1) "On Medical Ideology and the Production of Docile Doctors” in Social Science & Medicine drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9... 2) "The clinical and the political" in The Lancet. drive.google.com/file/d/1eDrf...

Every day at the White House: How can we make this country a more expensive, less safe and predictable, more violent place to live?

Two incarcerated writers with first-hand experience of solitary confinement just wrote a book about what they went through. We asked you to submit questions you have about solitary, for these writers to answer you from prison. Here's the resulting article. It's powerful, and I hope you read it.

MLK Jr, who advocated and practiced nonviolent civil disobedience (ie, violation of the law), would be declared an ‘antifa terrorist’ by the Trump administration were he alive today.

Sometimes you read a quote and instantly know it’ll pop up in a court filing down the road.

Just a friendly Friday afternoon reminder from your friendly neighborhood lawyer to keep your doors phones & computers locked don’t let anyone in you don’t know & ask anyone who claims to have a warrant to slide it under the door first! Make sure address is correct & it is dated & signed by a judge

Fascism thrives when doctors moralize clinical interactions while neglecting the politics shaping them. My new essay in The Lancet explains why defending care requires fighting authoritarianism to protect the clinic from political intrusion. (PDF below) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The Lancet today published an essay––"The clinical and the political: care under authoritarian threat"––I wrote in response to the widespread conflation of political and clinical care as the Trump regime seeks to inject itself between patients and doctors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Assassinations are appealing to many in part because they appear to offer a shortcut toward stopping fascism. But when fascism has broad support that’s inseparable from liberal failure to provide a compelling alternative, this shortcut is an illusion—one that obscures our actual responsibilities.

NEWS --> Anna Gomez, the lone Dem on the FCC, tells me the Trump admin's pressure to oust Jimmy Kimmel may be unlawful as well as unconstitutional. FCC chair Brendan Carr may be committing censorship in violation of federal law. That and much more in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

The assistance given to fascist takeover of the country by eternal, Overton-window-disregarding devotion to ‘balance’ in the US liberal media is really amazing to watch, even as it’s entirely predictable.

Trump is launching an all-out assault on labor and broader left organizing groups under the name of 'anti-terrorism.' I doubt there's ever been a more important time to support their budgets and coming legal defenses. Donate to targeted group CTWO here: ctwo.org/donate/

Trump has declared that opposing fascism in the USA now officially constitutes 'terrorism.' This should underline that the US government use of 'terrorism' as a category has always functioned as cover for arbitrary exercise of state violence.

Aaron is spot on. One of the more disturbing aspects of this reality is the deep advocacy for this perverse, fascistic use of antisemitism accusations not just by openly reactionary figures in the Trump orbit but also by ostensibly liberal university leaders like Larry Summers, Jeff Flier, etc.

“The campaign by one faction of the Jewish community over the past twenty-three months to systematically label political outrage as ’antisemitism’ is causing destruction at every level of civil society in our state.” Aaron Shakow on the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism:

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

When we invoke parallels to Nazi Germany, we are neither kidding nor exaggerating. The US far right is dangerously violent in their aspirations and rhetoric, with concrete policies that increasingly map onto their stated goals.

the thing to understand is that for many people the violence of order maintenance is simply not seen as violence in the first place

When NYTimes-style liberals say we need to "bring down the temperature," they're saying we need to normalize fascism rather than name it for what it is and try to effectively oppose it. They're doing the work of the far right far better than the far right itself.

If you want to condemn political violence, then you should condemn ICE violence, stripping people of Medicaid coverage and killing thousands as a result, destroying public health systems that will kill thousands more, deploying the National Guard against US residents, etc.

Liberals are doing the right’s job for it. By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.

Publicly condemning specific interpersonal acts of political violence is often a tool for normalizing and promoting ongoing acts of mass political violence like stripping people of Medicaid, destroying public health systems, police-state violence against immigrants and gender minorities, etc.

Political violence is bad. ICE violations of our rights is political violence. Targeting trans people is political violence. So is denying people healthcare. Don’t valorize proponents of violence and erase ongoing political violence in your rush to condemn bad acts.

Israel’s highest court says Palestinian prisoners are being deliberately starved in harsh prison conditions.

The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” www.bmj.com/content/390/...

US medicine failed the challenge. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Pritzker and Johnson say Trump is trying to provoke Chicagoans to violence to create an excuse to inflict violence on us, but that ignores that Trump needs no excuse. He acts regardless of justification or truth. And he’s already inflicting violence on immigrant communities.

Does Trump know that the film Apocalypse Now is about the American perpetration of a genocide in Vietnam? Does he know anything about US history? Doubtful.

They're openly announcing their intent to simply disregard the Constitution on cable television, and their 'conservative' party just cheers.

"Scientists must finally prove the Earth is round. Some say it is, and a lot of other very smart people who I've put in charge of the US government say it's flat. Scientists show me pictures from space, but they never show them to the public. What's the truth? I demand an answer."

ICE is reportedly preparing a surge in raids across Chicago in the coming days. Chicago is ready. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

If Biden or Harris had refused to give Israel carte blanche to commit genocide, Trump would not be in office right now. What an incredible reason to usher in the end of democracy as a viable possibility in the US.

Trump's invasion of Chicago is reportedly to be launched from Great Lakes Naval Base, which will house ICE, soldiers, and operations. What prevents Pritzker from implementing "urgent repairs" that coincidentally cut off electricity, gas, water, and roads to the base?

No rational, non-sociopathic person could disagree with this. RFK Jr is currently the world's greatest threat to the lives, safety, and well-being of Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

What are the consequences of Gavin Newsom's war on unhoused people and his Trumpian policies of clearing homeless encampments and criminalizing homelessness? More preventable deaths. It's not just Trump and RFK Jr who are undermining US public health. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

With Democrats like these, who needs Trump. calmatters.org/housing/home...