Kenneth Vatz
Kenneth Vatz
@kenv54.bsky.social
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Neurologist. Curmudgeon. UMich. And at UPenn at time Ben Franklin said we had a republic if we could keep it. I later told him he was very prescient.
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What Trump has done to our relationship with Canada. Another disaster.

‘Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...
Opinion | ‘Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment
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How Netanyahu Played Trump for a Fool in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...

We’ve got 3 narcissistic sociopaths, Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin, running the world, and this is what you get.
Opinion | How Netanyahu Played Trump for a Fool in Gaza
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For adult patients with recurrent depressions over years unrelated to obvious situational factors, and therefore probably endogenous, what is the point of discontinuing medication after 6 to 12 months of initial use? What are the psychic and physiological harms of continuing medication?
Oh no! When Susan is concerned, the Administration is in big trouble! We all know what will happen. Nothing, if the past is prologue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...

Friedman says it all. Trump is simply killing the country, as he has done historically to everything else he’s been in charge of.
Opinion | Trump’s Gilded Gut Instinct
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Just trying to maintain a dollop of optimism in the face of the Trump-Miller fascist regime. It’s difficult.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

One answer is, we won’t know, any more than than you know when you’ve crossed the event horizon of a black hole. The other answer is, we’ve probably already crossed it, when it comes to authoritarianism.

Levitsky discusses a way out, if it isn’t already too late.
Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
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From what my insider friends tell me about the NIH, it’s essentially gone.

What a loss.
And I just learned that the VOA has been silenced after 83 years.

Considering all this evil and illegal authoritarian regime has done and continues to do I think we might well be finished. In less than 100 days they have destroyed our 249 year old democracy. Blame Trump, Elon, and Stephen Miller.
Trump won’t have to force Congress to adjourn – he’ll just ask them to do so and they will capitulate.

Trump said he would be a dictator on day one. That was wrong. He will be a dictator at the beginning of January.