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Writer on Side Effects @psychologytoday.com | Prof Emeritus of #MedHum at Northwestern | Medicine & politics; mental health & public health. #Medsky. π³οΈβπ Website: https://www.christopherlane.org
New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the βMiddle East."
A budget is a moral document.
*FYI*
How to Be Less Miserable β a new book discusses the science of unhappiness and how to suffer less.
My review @psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...
#suffering #stress #mentalhealth
Florida uses emergency rule to cut patients off AIDS medication
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Cruelty is the point. Always has been.
This week's cover @thelancet.com
BBC explains the #Trumpr related #Epstein files the @DOJ is accused of HIDING!
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
#TrumpEpsteinFiles
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Hey thatβs weird.
jmail.world/drive/vol000...
Undated image of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. Photo: House Oversight Democrats
Deposition: βHave you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18β οΏΌ
Epstein: βThough Iβd like to answer that question, at least today Iβm going to have to assert my 5th, 6th & 14th Amendment Right, sirβ
Hillary Clinton didn't plead the 5th once - js
Weird they dragged in Hillary Clinton when there's another First Lady right there in the White House who actually knew Jeffrey Epstein.
The FBI directorβs firing is the latest in a series of dismissals targeting federal officials who probed Trump during the Biden administration.
This is what theyβre up to..We must stop them!
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How to Be Less Miserable β a new book discusses the science of unhappiness and how to suffer less.
My review @psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...
#suffering #stress #mentalhealth
We are going to need Nuremberg Trials when this is all over.
Everyone of these powerful people already knew their names were in the Epstein files.
The panic isnβt about the files.
Itβs about the public finally getting to see them.
And another one bites the dust.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Health secretary likely referred to Harvard psychiatrist who says heβs βnever used the word cure in my workβ
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
5. The US economyβs dependence on AI may have been overstated, experts say. In 2025: it became conventional wisdom that AI was a major driver of growth. But some prominent economists estimate that it contributed as little as 0% to economic status
Arenβt we lucky that universities havenβt gotten carried away with the hype and taken a careful approach to AI?
Imagine if they had decided to push AI into our teaching and work life!
All praise to our leaders in higher ed for not falling for hype, hallelujah and praise the goddess
Trump has a financial incentive to back Russia in the Ukrainian "peace talks"
It's now out in the open
Russia has offered him $12 Trillion in deals to help seal a Russian victory
Americans need to understand this
Monica Gandhi is busy blaming everyone else for the forces she helped unleash on us all.
Bizarre that the guy who was apparently all over the Epstein files and an insurrectionist is managing to avoid legal repercussions, while all around the world people who have been hit with one of the two go under...
Yes! And it can't come soon enough!
Grey's Anatomy star Eric Dane, who went on to be an advocate for ALS awareness, dies at 53
He was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disorder in April 2025
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
Where are all those right-wing βreopen the schools for the kids despite COVIDβ folks now?
Shouldnβt they be screaming about learning loss?