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7 Dec 2017
Ordinarily Well, as reviewed in @TheAtlantic, theatln.tc/2qk6H1w: "an ambitious, persuasive, & important book"
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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.
audiobooks.com/promotions/pr…
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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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@peterdkramer retweeted
19 Sep 2025
Republicans’ promise to preserve Medicare didn’t last long. Their cuts just had to be well hidden.
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2 Aug 2025
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”:
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18 Apr 2025
Well worth a read.
Entirely clear.
Although the early material is more amusing, the late section that quotes President Eisenhower is especially strong.
17 Apr 2025
This is an absolute *must read* opinion from Judge Wilkinson on the Fourth Circuit - a very conservative judge - in the Abrego Garcia case.
storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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@peterdkramer retweeted
1 Mar 2025
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.
28 Feb 2025
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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@peterdkramer retweeted
28 Feb 2025
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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28 Feb 2025
Shame
28 Feb 2025
A dark day for #Ukraine, but an even darker day for the USA. Shame on us.
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1 Feb 2025
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
psychiatrymargins.com/p/conf…
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@peterdkramer retweeted
30 Jan 2025
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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@peterdkramer retweeted
1 Jan 2025
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 🧵…
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28 Dec 2024
Beautiful, detailed illustration by @mattckramer in the NYTimes this morning.
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28 Dec 2024
Re-posting this way (with only the illustration in the lead tweet) on the theory that the algorithm disfavors posts with urls that link to sites outside X.
If so, what an idiotic site this has become.
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15 Dec 2024
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.
nytimes.com/1996/04/07/books…
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14 Dec 2024
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…
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12 Dec 2024
From Down Under, a comprehensive overview of @AndrewBlauner 's writers-on-Freud anthology. I contributed, and I'm in the best of company.
theconversation.com/penis-en…
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6 Dec 2024
Study suggests a link, in women, between the genetic predisposition to major depression and a liability to cardiovascular disease—even in women who have no depression and no exposure to antidepressants.
ahajournals.org/doi/epdf/10.…
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6 Dec 2024
2/ In my 2005 book Against Depression, I cite the association with heart ailments as one reason (among many) that we can understand depression as a "real" disease. The new study weakens that argument. It may be that a common liability links mood disorder & heart disease.
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6 Dec 2024
3/ Not likely, but it's possible that once we understand the nature of the liability, we'll see that, in whole or part, it points to impairment (versus, say, adaptive evolutionary change)—and that result wlll lead us to conclude all the more that depression is a "real" disease.
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