Gary Swergold MD, PhD

Rebekah Caruthers: “Our concern is that there is more friction and more barriers being injected into our system in terms of registering to vote and accessing the ballot. That creates more barriers, and as people run into them it decreases the likelihood of them actually voting.”

It used to be you could discuss the carb load of pussy with your BFF convicted child rapist. But the woke mob took all of that.

Real, not shithole countries, hold the rich and powerful to account

I am watching Mamdani's presser (Bloomberg is carrying it). He is very impressive as an emergency leader.

The last time I saw nominal adults being such incoherent whiny bitches about the Supreme Court was at every Federalist Society meeting ever

You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Gotta Hand It To Chief Justice Roberts Ditto for Barrett and Gorsuch.

"This is not the day that Chief Justice Roberts became a real jurist...We will not be applauding like trained seals because the person who left the bath running and flooded our collective house eventually wandered back and turned off the taps" www.lawandchaospod.com/p/you-do-not...

I think we need to say the obvious -- that the president intends to defy the court, in fact, IS DEFYING the court.

it doesn't get enough attention that there is clearly something seriously wrong with the president's health and the White House is covering it up

MAGA liars are expert at false equivalency

A 21-year-old Moroccan woman was beaten by her family when they found out she was a lesbian. She sought asylum in the US & Trump tried to deport her to Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal.

Sometimes we get distracted by how incompetent our country has gotten, we forget how evil it has gotten.

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing.

These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted.

Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

Analogously, I’ve long said that society loves the products of creative people but hates creative people themselves

Vintage black and white passport-style photo of a woman with short dark hair and earrings, wearing a coat with a fur collar.

23 February 1910 | Jewish woman, Anna Frume Reichmann (nee Jakubowitz) was born in the Russian Empire (today’s Latvia). She went to Norway in 1937.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber together with her 6-month-old son Gerhard Benny.

Black and white portrait of a young girl wearing a bow in her hair and a patterned dress, looking contemplatively to the side.

22 January 1938 | French Jewish girl, Eliane Fischer, was born in Paris.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 28 October 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://bit.ly/4ql4LTV

The Christian Right Is On The Attack — And The Target Will Shock You As Christian nationalism rises, some influential voices are reframing this ability as weakness, manipulation or even a threat to faith.

flip.it/o2EB7i

In my opinion, tribalism is at least as strong, and possibly stronger, than our other drives. (Our drives e.g. to not kill and for fat salt and sugar all work the same way).

Humans will find all sorts of rationalizations to defeat the dissonance when our drives are in conflict.

Exactly this.

Also, yet another connections between Trump and Putin

This is why I fight: for the promise of what America could be, per Barbara Jordan and Langston Hughes.

(full text of the Hughes poem: poets.org/poem/let-ame...)

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

WSJ quote: The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to slap down Trump’s use of tariffs could make a U.S. attack on Iran more likely, said Wilbur Ross, who was commerce secretary in Trump’s first term. “I don’t think he can take this loss and then be seen as backing down on Iran,” he said.

The most chilling, because plausible, paragraph in today's papers.

(From WSJ www.wsj.com/politics/nat... )

Saving face and soothing his always-wounded ego, by launching a war—with zero Congressional approval or public explanation or support.

Yesterday, all of America saw what happens when Trump is told “no.” Now now imagine America was an underage girl.

The Pernicious Myth of Voter ID Laws: Stacey Abrams & Joyce Vance Explain A recording from Joyce Vance's live video

What’s wrong with Trump’s plan to make Americans provide identification to register to vote and/or to vote? @staceyabrams.com & I explain how these benign-sounding proposals are being used to suppress the right to vote. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Overwhelm communities. Provoke fear. Suggest those enforcing the law are above it.

Trump is dripping authoritarianism bit by bit into our veins—hoping we won’t notice the poison.

We noticed.

“I won *all* the swing states!”

—Lyin’ Ceatin’ Donald

This is nuts

It’s so ugly, watching our society and cultured disintegrate

22 January 1913 | A Czech Jewish woman, Hana Radnitzerová, was born in Blovice.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

It was an argument used against gays in the 80s (and might be used again). That they "chose" to be gay and if they just changed their minds they'd be OK. 🙄

It was never just about a swim meet.

Good grief

The Ugly American had come home to America