This Week In The Big Picture
Donald Trump is weak and thin-skinned. And like every autocrat, he seeks to shut down speech he doesn’t approve of through various forms of punishment and retaliation.
But now Trump has taken his contempt for the First Amendment a step further by detaining and threatening to deport a green card holder, who is legally here in the U.S., simply for protesting and for holding views that are abhorrent to many.
In tomorrow’s piece,
will explore Trump’s latest attack on free speech and look at how even some in MAGA are cringing at the president’s latest blatantly anti-constitutional move.And if you missed it yesterday,
wrote a primer about the danger of measles as a deadly outbreak spreads across more than 20 states. Cutting through the disinformation is more important than ever now that we have an anti-vaxxer heading up the Department of Health and Human Services.
Mostly a good post, but one point deserves calling out: the view that Palestinians are entitled to live their lives in peace should never be labeled "abhorrent". Not even with the qualifier "to some".
Every psychiatrist and psychologist listening and watching Donald Trump knows that he is mentally ill and dangerous a sociopath and yet the the Psychiatrists governing body prohibits Psychiatrists from acting in the interests of the public health and declaring a public warning. Imagine if imunoligists could not warn about COVID.