
Eric Reinhart
@_Eric_Reinhart
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Psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and political anthropologist
Joined June 2020
I often take care of people after suicide attempts. When they explain why they tried to die, a large proportion say they could no longer see “the point” in life. “There’s no meaning for me, no reason to live.” Most clinicians push against this idea to dissuade people from it. 1/
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They want us to believe there is a ceasefire.
Saleh Al-Ja'afrawi, one of the last remaining Palestinian journalists in Gaza, was murdered by Israeli-affiliated gangs in Gaza city today. In a conflict that regularly dehumanized not only Palestinians at large but esp Palestinian men, Al-Ja'afrawi represented the best of
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This was Palestinian journalist Saleh AlJafarawi’s final post before he was murdered today. He was on Israel’s list of journalists marked for assassination, the same list that Anas Al Sharif and Hossam Shabat were on. He was 28 years old. The genocide is not over.
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I bought The Nazi Doctors by Robert Jay Lifton when it came out in the 80s. I tried to read it and couldn't as it was so horrific. We trade as doctors on a humanitarian ethos. So often that is a sham.
New article out this month on how doctors become fascists. 50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are among the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path. https://t.co/BFH8q9dGA6
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What does it mean that "medicine is always political"? Many affirm this line while others dismiss it as "woke," but there remains on both sides a widespread fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between politics and care. My new essay on this: https://t.co/joRH1yr7L9
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I wrote a paired essay for The Lancet on what the politics of care means in practice. https://t.co/joRH1yr7L9
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I wrote a paired essay for The Lancet on what the politics of care means in practice. https://t.co/joRH1yr7L9
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New article out this month on how doctors become fascists. 50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are among the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path. https://t.co/BFH8q9dGA6
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ICE agents threatening to arrest Chicago residents in an illegal abuse of power. This is all over. Is it fascism? Who knows. Maybe it's just healthy democracy in a new flavor and we should all debate it over and over in the NYTimes rather than throw these motherfuckers out.
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Very hard to see the path forward when national Democrats are so dug into the belief that they cannot fail, they can only be failed.
Harris slams protestor during book tour. “You want to talk about legacy? Let’s talk about the legacy of mass deportations, of not voting, and Donald Trump.”
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This huffy attitude (“it’s your fault for not voting for me!”) is totally unbecoming of a public servant. I don’t know when it started, but it’s gotta stop.
Harris slams protestor during book tour. “You want to talk about legacy? Let’s talk about the legacy of mass deportations, of not voting, and Donald Trump.”
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This guy is a craven moron. This same “mistake” of firing-unfiring that he blames on the Democrats and the shutdown has happened literally thousands of times during the first nine months of the Trump administration. Does he really think we’ve already forgotten about DOGE?
BRENNAN: CBS confirmed that the Trump administration rescinded some of the layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly laid off on Friday. Some were involved with the federal measles response or the response on Ebola. How does a mistake like this happen? JD VANCE:
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Qatar: We need ID Air Force Base Trump: Approved Argentina: We need $20 billion Trump: Approved Musk: SpaceX needs $5.9 billion Trump: Approved Larry Ellison: I need CBS Trump: Approved Average Joe: I lost my job. My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicaid? Trump: Denied
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New article out on how doctors become fascists. 50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. American doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path. https://t.co/iM78fDBG9s
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“This is the first time I’ve seen so many pregnant people in [ICE] detention,” said Tania Wolf, the Southeast advocacy manager at the National Immigration Project. https://t.co/IBGBYnwjm4
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Domestic terrorism. Aggravated child abuse. Assault. Kidnapping. Let's call this what it is.
In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.
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By doing this, Trump just blinked, revealing that he knows very well that this shutdown is obviously his fault and that he owns the consequences.
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Make no mistake: this is part of eugenicist policy under fascism.
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