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[Michael Scally MD]

A New York appeals court cleared the way late Wednesday for a publisher to resume distribution to booksellers of a tell-all book by Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, despite the objections of the president’s brother.

The New York state supreme court appellate division said it was lifting a temporary restraint that a judge put on Simon & Schuster a day earlier that sought to block distribution of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.

Although the book was scheduled to be published on 28 July, Simon & Schuster said thousands of copies of the 75,000-copy first run of the book had already been sent to bookstores and others.

The appeals ruling, written by Judge Alan Scheinkman, left in place restraints against Mary Trump, the book’s author and the president’s niece, at least until a hearing due on July 10.

 

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Melania always looks so happy to be married to a self absorbed whale

 

[Michael Scally MD]

LMAO ...

 

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[OA] [Not the Onion] Trump Cardiomyopathy: A New Form of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy

An 84-year-old man developed angina while watching televised coverage of the President Trump impeachment hearings and presented to the emergency department with positive cardiac biomarkers and EKG changes indicative of ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

Echocardiogram and coronary angiography were consistent with non-ischemic, 3 vessel coronary artery disease with apical hypokinesis resulting in the diagnosis of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy.

This case is the first report of politically-induced cardiomyopathy and warrants further evaluation of political stress as an etiology of cardiac events.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a stress-induced apical ballooning of the left ventricle in the absence of angiographically significant coronary artery stenosis. It can mimic the symptoms and biomarker profile of myocardial infarction.

Triggering events, such as loss of a loved one, psychological trauma and acute anxiety, can cause a catecholamine surge, possibly leading to coronary artery vasospasm and decreased oxygen delivery.

Although most cases resolve with medical management, serious complications, such as heart failure, cardiogenic shock, thromboembolism, and ventricular rupture can occur.

The etiologies of psychological distress that result in chest pain vary extensively. In the United States, a growing number of mental health specialists have identified a common source of stress: politics. Labeled "Trump Anxiety Disorder," psychiatrists have described a phenomenon of fear and anxiety related to current domestic politics.

In this report, we describe a patient who became emotionally distraught due to political events and, in turn, developed stress-induced cardiomyopathy.

Geisen WR, Rosse C, Menon S, Rudick S. Trump Cardiomyopathy: A New Form of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy. Journal of Cardiac Failure. https://www.onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-9164(20)30139-1/fulltext

 

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Zombie Apocalypse ...

 

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[Michael Scally MD]

Until the very moment when catastrophe overtook everything and everybody, it was covered up not by realities but by the highly efficient talk and double-talk of nearly all official representatives who, without interruption and in many ingenious variations, explained away unpleasant facts and justified concerns.

When we think of dark times and of people living and moving in them, we have to take this camouflage, emanating from and spread by ‘the establishment’ – or ‘the system,’ as it was then called – also into account.

If it is the function of the public realm to throw light on the affairs of men by providing a space of appearances in which they can show in deed and word, for better and worse, who they are and what they can do, then darkness has come when this light is extinguished by ‘credibility gaps’ and ‘invisible government,’ by speech that does not disclose what is but sweeps it under the carpet, by exhortations, moral and otherwise, that, under the pretext of upholding old truths, degrade all truth to meaningless triviality.

(Hannah Arendt, Preface to Men in Dark Times)

 

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A loose association of current and former Republicans working to sink President Donald Trump’s re-election now see another political feat that’s necessary for them to have a shot at reclaiming their party: flipping the U.S. Senate to the Democrats.

The emerging belief, based on more than a dozen interviews, is that defeating Trump alone is insufficient to spur the reckoning required to salvage a party that will almost undoubtedly confront a crossroads if the president loses to Joe Biden this fall. Many argue that GOP senators must pay a steep price for their unabating fealty to Trump, even if it hands Democrats complete control of the federal government.

“The analogy would be in the same way that fire purifies the forest, it needs to be burned to the ground and fundamentally repudiated,” said Steve Schmidt, a Republican-turned-independent political strategist who now works for The Lincoln Project, one of the most pugnacious of the anti-Trump GOP groups. “Every one of them should be voted out of office, with the exception of Mitt Romney.”

 

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