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Dr. Bandy Lee tells DC Report at Raw Story:

“One of the reasons why the American Psychiatric Association’s silencing of mental health experts under the Trump administration was so alarming was because it stripped the public of its one defense against victimization—and this was after it looked the other way throughout Barack Obama’s presidency when psychiatrists were constantly diagnosing him incorrectly with ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ on Fox News. It also said nothing about those who incorrectly diagnosed Trump—as long as the diagnosis was favorable. It only aggressively shut down conscientious mental health professionals who were not unethically diagnosing but responsibly alerting about the dangers, since we were inconvenient to a dangerous government.”

before I realized that J.D. Vance’s right-wing agenda was going to warp the entire tale.

The book went back to the library soon after.

Now Vance is ranting to the squinty-eyed stupidity of Tucker Carlson in an attack on universal daycare.

Vance is one more right-wing quack normalized and promoted by corporate publishing.

On behalf of the Working Families Party, Jamaal Bowman responds to Biden’s speech, saying the right things and giving the President credit, but also insisting that we need to do more, we need to do better.

There was a time not too long ago when I thought we’d never again see non-defensive, assertive Democratic progressives–Bowman, et.al. have proved me wrong.

And wouldn’t you know it, Simon & Schuster has just signed a book deal with her.

As if Pence wasn’t enough.

I’ve written for them, so I can tell you first hand:
Man, are they low.

And they keep plunging altitudinously.

Reporter Laura Italiano may be complicit, but atleast she has finally jumped ship, after being ordered to write a fake story smearing Vice President Harris.

as demonstrated by her refusal to recuse herself from a case brought by her dark-money funders.

And Penguin/Random House is spending two million dollars to give her a platform from which she will attempt to whitewash herself.

It is a menace to the public health.

Twisted, grotesque sociopath Tucker Carlson reaffirms his hated of America by advocating violence against citizens who protect themselves, their children and the body politic by wearing masks.

Even in the middle of a pandemic.

Alexander Zaitchik in The New Republic describes “How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines.”

Reviewing in The New York Times Book Review Mark Harris’s biography of Mike Nichols (he recommends it) James Wolcott starts off by saying, “Individual genius is a group accomplishment.”

This needs to be repeated every hour on the hour to counter the mogul worship that brings us acceptance of the bizzaro policy prescriptions of a Bill Gates and much worse, the complete breakdown in sanity and substance preached by Donald Trump.

He comes out with yet another Hail Mary golf swing endorsing the vote-tampering heist going on in Arizona, where the GOP-controlled legislate has somehow been allowed to get their paws on last fall’s ballets and voting machines, then turning them over to a fringe pro-Trump outfit which doesn’t have the slightest intention or skill set to perform a legitimate re-tally.

Note bene: the wackadoodle outfit that’s “counting” the ballets has, of course, provided no security for those ballets, which means that they can perpetuate the steal with no questions asked.

But Trump, in typical Fascist-misdirection form, is claiming that the ballets must be secured against Democratic seizure.