Mr. Trump’s choice to lead a mass pledge of allegiance to himself, followed by commanding his followers to cheat in the upcoming election, was unusual by presidential standards.
Kevin J. Black
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Husband, dad, Christian, neuroscientist, neuropsychiatrist. Speaking only for myself. Bibliography: www.bit.ly/myncbiKJB or https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6921-9567
"It's the Nazification of the country; it was no longer one of allegiance to the constitution or its institutions, but one of binding loyalty to Trump himself." @rmckee.bsky.social
Large-Vessel Venous Signal Confounds Apparent Amygdala Activation in BOLD fMRI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.04.749520v1
"There will be no more elections in the future in which we lose even a single vote.” Joseph Goebbels, Dec 4 1932.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoMike Johnson: "We cannot and will not allow them to take the majority in the Congress. We're not gonna do it."
I didn't think those words mean what you think they mean.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoRFK Jr claims Trump is a man of "superior intelligence" and "empathy and compassion"
Funny … I want a country where people without a PhD know something about the ingredients and basic chemistry.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoJD Vance on his son: "I want him to live in a country where you don't need a PhD in chemistry to understand the ingredient list at the grocery store"
I don't know that we previously had evidence that his weird ideas were delusional, but this …
Xela Hart@xelahart.bsky.social · 6d ago
There's a clear takeaway from this study. Consider thiamine supplementation when you see these side effects on GLP1 RAs: ▪ Persistent nausea, vomiting, low food intake, rapid weight loss Here's why: psych-partners.com/glp-1s-thiam... #psychiatry #pmhnp #medicine
Wow. Where have we heard anything like this before?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago"Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in history that loves us so much he can't even breathe" -- in extremely culty scene, Trump has his supporters pledge to him that they will vote, then tells them they will "go to hell" if they don't Here's the full sequence:
This “noticing” talking point comes out of white nationalist/neo-Nazi circles. Typically part of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoJD Vance: "We were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer"
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 7d agoTrump: "If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate...I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000."
No USA metro has swung blue more over the past 20 years than Provo-Orem-Lehi (Utah County UT): D +34 2020-2024: Every State House District trended left of the USA. Every one. Now the @utcountydems.bsky.social chair @darinself.com has recruited a historic 13 candidates in 15 Utah HD races.
Canada has recruited dozens of researchers away from US universities. 48 out of 64 chair recipients in a government program worth $500+ million are coming from US institutions like Harvard and MIT. 🧵
Trump family crypto earnings: $1.4 billion $TRUMP meme coin: -98% $MELANIA meme coin: -99% “Perhaps the most blatant example of corruption in the history of American politics.” — Bilello
Ay ay. I'd have thought that being so madly anti-1A would have turned off nearly all Americans. Still amazes me how many still support him.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: "They kill they people when they get out to protest. They shoot them right between the eyes."
Another example of (a) how Trump is completely ignorant and/or a lying liar, and (b) a politician dissing an improvement to our system that would have prevented him from being elected in the first place.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: "They have ranked choice, which is a crooked form of voting. It's totally dishonest. They throw everybody into a hat and somebody backstage that nobody knows picks a winner. It's ridiculous."
Shades of Hitler's final days, deep inside the bunker.
Whoever you are, you have made my day. #NIH
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's Ties Getting Longer With Each Public Appearance
BETHESDA, MD—Expressing growing concern about a trend that has accelerated markedly since his confirmation in March, aides to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya confirmed Tuesday that the director’s neckti...
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Sad to hear. I think first of his superb clinical work on recurrent brief depression, showing that it was essentially a forme fruste of major depressive disorder by examining personal history, family history, treatment response, outcome, etc. … that and nominal determinism :)
Chris Aiken, MD@chrisaikenmd.bsky.social · 2w agoJules Angst (1926-2026) leaves us with a rich history. Learn how he split mood disorders into iunipolar and #bipolar, then spent the rest of his career filling in the gaps between them, and what it means for med response: psych-partners.com/remembering-... #psychiatry #pmhnp #depression
This sounded especially bizarre to me. So I looked it up. Duffy seems to have confused the EPA ending a credit for “engines that automatically turn off when vehicles come to a complete stop and restart when drivers take their feet off the brake pedal” with the START buttons that are now universal.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoSean Duffy: "You know the stop/start button on your car? I hate that thing. Thank you Lee Zeldin! He's gotten rid of it and the first cars without the stop/start button are rolling off the line."