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Political anthropologist, social psychiatrist, and psychoanalytic clinician. Based in Chicago, I work via remote connections with individuals across the world. https://www.eric-reinhart.com/ America Under Occupation: https://ericreinhart.substack.com/
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I have never been in a US hospital that did not have an extensive tunnel system beneath it. This is standard for hospital design and construction. How many times are people going to repeat Israeli propaganda lines as if they're something other than what they are?

The banality of evil.

If Mamdani loses to Cuomo (as is likely), center-left pundits will again claim progressive candidates never win Black/working class/older/non-college voters. Those blocs do tend to be less support of progressive candidates. But a huge factor in this race is money! www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

I have no love for either the Israeli or Iranian governments, but if one is going to consider their relative merits, only one of them is––with the full collaboration of the USA––committing an ongoing genocide.

No one, including Iran, should bomb a hospital. It's despicable that Israel and the US, which have collaborated to repeatedly bomb all of Gaza's 36 hospitals, only now recognize that this is a war crime after a single Israeli hospital has been struck. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

If Cuomo wins NYC, it'll be rather hard to deny that this is not a country––even in its 'liberal' centers––genuinely interested in opposing fascism, corruption, and continuation of the route to hell we're presently on.

Lencapavir––the biggest breakthrough for HIV prevention in decades––was approved today. Funded by our tax dollars through the NIH, it's now sold by Gilead for over $42,000 per year. Here's what would happen if it was instead sold for $40. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The average ICE agent is making around $30,000 per year. Most of them are in these jobs simply for the privilege of beating people and making themselves feel like big boys by separating parents from children. There is no more pathetic and dishonorable job in America.

I'm told some people think this is a reference to ICE agents. I wonder why.

Because of the NRA and longstanding bipartisan efforts to ensure this, the USA is the most heavily armed––and violent––country in the world. It's amazing to me then that masked men without identification can show up, beat people and throw them in unmarked cars, and expect not to get shot.

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

Did Nazi Germany have a right to exist as an Aryan state?

Israel should be disarmed, its leaders sent to the Hague, and its cities occupied by UN peacekeepers.

It's "terrorism" if they do it, but it's "self-defense" and a "preemptive strike" when we do far worse.

Tomorrow night, join acclaimed author + activist @naomiaklein.bsky.social for a conversation and phonebank as we get out the vote in the final stretch of the campaign. Sign up here: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

These 18 Democrats just voted for the Senate's corrupt crypto industry bill that greenlights Trump's corruption: Alsobrooks Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Kim Lujan Ossoff Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner Warnock

Then get ICE the fuck out of New York. They are brazenly breaking the law at every turn. By doing so, they forfeit any possible right to operate. Get them out.

Good on Brad Lander for forcing an escalation of tension. You know how you definitely don't beat Nazis? Compromise, accommodationism, and what Trump-side-kick Andrew Cuomo calls "not overreacting" when they disappear people right in front of you.

Governor Pritzker should explore activating the National Guard to expel ICE from Illinois. ICE has been brazenly breaking the law and refusing any legal process or accountability. They are a threat to the safety of everyone in Illinois and have no legitimacy here. Get them the fuck out.

If "law enforcement" openly breaks the law, then why should anyone obey them? US Representatives have a legal right––and obligation––to inspect ICE prisons. By refusing to honor this, ICE forfeits any remotely plausible claim to legitimacy. Abolish ICE. And get them the hell out of Chicago.

We need a Bernie-AOC-Brad Lander-Adrienne Adams-Zohran Mamdani series of joint rallies in NYC organized around keeping Andrew Cuomo out of the mayor's office.

JUST IN: Bernie Sanders endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor, citing policies like a rent freeze and transit and housing reform:

Breaking News: Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor, calling him a “visionary” leader.

Does anyone doubt that Andrew Cuomo would make a deal with Trump's ICE to arrest his opponents and collaborate with ICE however they asked thereafter if it guaranteed him a win in the race for NYC mayor? Maybe I'm a bit too cynical, but I don't.

Are you an immigrant? Are you Black? Did you want to see you family and friends again? Well, too bad––Trump's obscene racism apparently matters more than your life. Welcome to Naziland America.

Why is any judge who isn't a deliberate collaborator with fascism holding immigration hearings in person? Stop making people take this risk in order to remain in compliance with their legal responsibilities.

Every single day that the US and Israel slaughter civilians around the world, they earn themselves yet new generations of enemies who see and feel these violently racist, imperial nations for what they are.

A week after 75 Dems vote for a resolution expressing gratitude toward ICE in a resolution that pretended to be about antisemitism, ICE goons arrest the Jewish comptroller of NYC without cause.

Abolish ICE. Zero respect for anyone who works for or collaborates with the gestapo.

A specter is haunting New York City—the specter of an actual democracy designed for working people rather than a city run by billionaires and aligned media. The New York Times is terrified.

The NYTimes, with its sordid history from praise for Hitler to aggressive advocacy for the US invasion of Iraq and genocide in Gaza, today published an editorial effectively endorsing Cuomo and warning its readers against the specter of progressivism.

The NYTimes is clinging to its neoliberal guns for fear that progressives might actually have a shot at governance. As is their steadfast position, they'd prefer fascism to anything resembling an actual democracy.

NYT Ed Board said last year that they aren’t doing local endorsements anymore, but they couldn’t help themselves from writing a gross roundabout endorsement of Cuomo.

If you rank Zohran 1st you’re voting to make every New York Times Opinion writer insane for several years.

In Pilsen today: “June 2, 2025: At 8:30am, our neighbor was kidnapped by ICE + CPD in front of this building. They are pushed into a Dodge Durango van. Chicago is a sanctuary city.”

Destruction of Gaza’s hospitals is a war on the whole of humanity. Chicago Sun Times. June 14, 2025. chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...

I’ve been surprised by US elections before, but I would be very surprised if Zohran Mamdani doesn’t win the NYC mayoral primary. How the betting markets have Cuomo ahead is beyond me.

Arguably the most useful US media outlet in operation today.

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing theonion.com/protest...

Israel could murder 50,000 or 500,000 or 5 million or 50 million—it will make no difference to the US government, which will continue to provide weapons to kill every single small child Israel calls a “terrorist.” We are living inside a nightmare as cruel as any in world history.

The power of assembly in confrontation with power vs the fantasy of 'abundance' to obscure the reality of domination.

This obviously not credible. We all know that Israel would never use US-supplied weapons to attack a hospital—a blatant war crime.

Per WSJ, U.S. negotiations with Iran were actually a cover to buy time for Israel's attack. Would you ever enter into negotiations with the U.S. knowing this?

lol I was doing this in 2020 but to cops I have personally sued since 2004 who were back out doing what they do…

The Illinois secretary of state asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion. news.wttw.com/2025/0...

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