Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#Trump #Ad #YourTaxBucksAtWork 011
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I sometimes put my satirical images on my private account on Instagram so as not to offend the dear leader. Come join me.https://www.instagram.com/how_do_like_your_art/ 100
Reposted by Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writerJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is a genuinely terrible piece of journalism: Reporting, editing, writing, all of it. (Photos OK). Will appear alongside the word "credulous" in dictionaries. I had thought that the WaPo's news section was still "mainly good," in contrast to its laughable editorial section. But... 23581168
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A judge ruled that Trump can’t put his name on the Kennedy Center without Congress. So he wants to demolish it. My satire: When a national memorial becomes a naming opportunity, and rejection calls for a wrecking ball. #KennedyCenter #PoliticalSatire #Trump medium.com/the-haven/tr...medium.comTrump’s Edifice ComplexThe president has never met a national monument he couldn’t mistake for a naming opportunity. 011
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The strongman builds a triumphal arch for the people’s applause—and sniper nests for the moment he fears they stop applauding. #KennedyCenter #TriumphalArch #DonaldTrump 000
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026G’mar Chatima Tova. 001
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Here's an oldie but a goodie about Trump's psychology which can now be seen in an apparent neurological and psychological decompensation (deterioration): medium.com/new-literary... #Trump #Psychology #Psychopathologymedium.comWhy He Breaks Everything He TouchesThe mind of a man who finds pleasure in destruction — and why his power depends on chaos 000
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026medium.com/the-haven/ge... #AcceptanceAndCommitmentTherapy #Psychology #Iatrogenics #CommercialScience #PopPsychology #Satiremedium.comGet Out of Your Wallet and Into His WorkshopSteven Hayes wants psychotherapy to escape its branded boxes. Kindly register for ACT BootCamp® on the way out. 000
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026#Trump #PopArt 020
Reposted by Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writerJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Canadian boycott isn't a response to the trade war. It's a response to the clowning: 51st state jokes, "Governor Carney," a hockey video of Trump beating up their PM. My guess: the consumer boycott is costing us more than the tariffs ever will. youtu.be/lsRhHpwZfOk 2202096553
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026For those who want to know the real history of Tupac's murder, please see the work of the Pulitzer prize winning Chuck Philips: www.latimes.com/archives/la-...latimes.comWho Killed Tupac Shakur?How a fight between rival Compton gangs turns into a plot of retaliation and murder. 100
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026#Trump #NatalieHarp 010
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026medium.com/new-literary... #TupacShakur #Tupac'sMurder #KeefeD @rollingstone.com @latimes.com @hiphopgoldenage.bsky.social @cathyscott1.bsky.social Required reading for anyone who want to know who killed Tupac Shakur and why.medium.comThe Confederacy of Dorks Who ‘Solved’ Tupac’s MurderFor thirty years, detectives, documentarians and professional explainers turned a retaliatory gang shooting into The Da Vinci Code. Then a… 000
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 09/09/20261. Tupac’s murder was solved by everybody except the people solving it: cops with corkboards, authors with grudges, and amateur sleuths who could turn a parking ticket into an LAPD conspiracy.medium.comMedium 011
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Formal challenge to @cathyscott1.bsky.social: I’d be thrilled to debate the competing theories of Tupac Shakur’s murder—including yours—live on YouTube. Independent moderator, equal time, sources displayed. Name the date. @rollingstone.com @latimes.com @billboard.com @columjournreview.bsky.social 000
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026#Trump #MidtermElections #Voting 001
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Nobody has solved more versions of Tupac’s murder than Cathy Scott. Unfortunately, they can’t all be true. My tour through a true-crime cottage industry where certainty sells—and the evidence is merely decorative. medium.com/new-literary... @rollingstone.com #Tupac #TrueCrime #KeefeD #CathyScottmedium.comThe Woman Who Solved Every Version of Tupac’s MurderCathy Scott now gets credit for cracking the case in 1997 — an achievement so discreet that her own book, the police, and apparently Cathy… 010
Reposted by Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writerAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026It’s impossible to calculate how much of what I’ve been able to accomplish is because of women like Gloria Steinem. Rest in power. www.npr.org/2026/09/03/n...npr.orgGloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, dies at 92At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom. 253122692148
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Newsflash: "Ted Cruz is a very likable guy." - J.D. Vance 100
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is exactly what Chuck Philips said happened in the murder of 2Pac. Now, the trial has borne him out. It was a gang murder involving Keefe D and Orlando Anderson. #LATimes #ChuckPhilips #TupacShakur #Journalism 011
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 27/08/20261. A 19-year-old sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln reportedly asked for mental-health help, worried that his deteriorating vision could cause him to make a mistake that killed someone, and told his wife he was struggling with hopelessness. Then he went overboard. 141
Reposted by Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writerMichael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly’s final gift to us—she passed away as someone that nobody, but nobody, has a bad word to say about her—the eulogies fill us with joy at a life well lived 0213
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Trump’s fury when Jon Ossoff talked about Natalie Harp may tell us something important about what she is to him. She isn’t just an aide. She appears to perform an unusually intimate psychological function—filtering the world, bringing reassuring versions of the world back in. 031
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026#Trump #25thAmendmentNow 020
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is about the relationship between Natalie Harp and Donald Trump. It is not satire: medium.com/new-literary... #Psychology #Personality #DonaldTrump #NatalieHarpmedium.comTHE WOMAN WITH THE PRINTERNatalie Harp had been writing to presidents since she was sixteen. 110
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026medium.com/new-literary... #NatalieHarp #Trump #Satiremedium.comThe Human Binky Has the Nuclear CodesNatalie Harp: Trump’s Human Binky 000
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026There are just some things money can't buy. Jared and Ivanka get snubbed in the billionaire's boys club. My latest in lifestyles of the rich and heinous: medium.com/the-haven/th... #IvankaTrump #JaredKushner #Golfmedium.comThe Billionaire Bunker Has Standards, ApparentlyThere is wonderful news from Miami, where the republic’s most urgent infrastructure crisis is finally being addressed. 020
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Child abuse allegations are not "a family matter," as the GOP is saying. Child abuse is everyone's business. #MaxMiller #Trump #MikeJohnson #25thAmendment 030
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026#Trump #Musk #Bezos #Sanchez #Maxwell #Kushner 011
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026latimes.comCommentary: Trump's selling Wall Street early access to his Truth Social posts is ethically repugnant, but may be legalIf Trump's latest money-making scheme isn't illegal, what would be? 000
Reposted by Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writerMary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Roza Gilles is an Epstein survivor. When she was 18, she wanted to get an STD so she could kill Epstein. She didn't believe the government would stop him. He was abusing girls in his home in 2008 while wearing an ankle monitor. The US government exposed her.cnn.comExclusive: Survivor shares story of Jeffrey Epsein’s abuse that began when he was serving jail time | CNN PoliticsRoza Gilles was an 18-year-old model from Uzbekistan when she first met Jeffrey Epstein in Florida. She sits down with CNN’s MJ Lee and details how she was lured into his world and abused by the convi... 12655279
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026In honor of friendship - Every day is a wonderful secret. #DonaldTrump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles 020
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026medium.com/the-haven/on... JD Vance explains the true meaning of love and partnership in his own inimitable way. #Satire #JDVancemedium.comOn Love by JD VanceLook, first of all, I think it’s important to understand that love is fundamentally a framework. 000
Reposted by Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writerThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/06/2026The president has completely backtracked on his initial claims that the war was lethally dominant and basically said the Administration lied. With his tail between his legs but no apparent shame, the president admits that they got into this war unnecessarily. lnk.thebulwark.com/4vPqRBglnk.thebulwark.comTrump Admits SurrenderThere were no alternatives. 1922162
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026medium.com/the-pub/wher... #Poetry #LAFiresmedium.comWhere His House WasThe workers arrive each morning 000
Reposted by Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writerMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/06/2026THIS 100% 👇 743207524392
Reposted by Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writerCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o... 229119683098
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Our country did not simply become more polarized. It began to function like a family system under chronic stress, with loyalty tests, scapegoating, distrust, and the persistent sense that danger might arrive at any moment. Now is what it feels like after living for years inside 110
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Susan Collin's ACT journey towards visible discomfort: medium.com/the-haven/su...medium.comSusan Collins’s ACT Journey Toward Visible Discomfort June 9, 2026 “Senator Collins,” said Dr.Susan Collins’s ACT Journey Toward Visible Discomfort June 9, 2026 “Senator Collins,” said Dr. Hayes, “in ACT, we try to identify your values and then pivot toward committed action. So … 000
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech... Musk's companies hit with lawsuit.finance.yahoo.comMusk’s xAI, SpaceX hit with class action over data center ‘nuisance’Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX have been sued by Mississippi residents who say a power plant fueling nearby data centers is blasting “omnipresent and inescapable” noise that has eroded their health and ... 030
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026medium.com/the-pub/a-ma... #Poetrymedium.comA Map for AnaSixth-grade Monday: 010
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026#Memoir: medium.com/new-literary...medium.comThe Child Who LookedMother’s Day in the 1960s. 010
Reposted by Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writerE. Jean @ejeancarroll.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Isn't it time you find out what really happened? 91440115
Reposted by Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writerPaulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 25/05/2026In honor of the true heroes on this Memorial Day, I fixed it. #DonaldTrump #MemorialDay 871213386309
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026After recent events, Ghislaine Maxwell has withdrawn her recommendation that Donald Trump receive the Nobel Peace Prize, citing concerns about her personal integrity.” #StrangeTimes #DonaldTrump #PoliticalSatire @MeidasTouch @McSweeneys medium.com/the-haven/to...medium.comTo the Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee,After careful reflection, I must respectfully withdraw my previous recommendation of President Donald J. Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. 010
Reposted by Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writerNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026William Paul cannot be held responsible for things he said while he was drunk. by Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel 1478490
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Old Hollywood understood that glamour worked best when softened by generosity. The new celebrity economy often rewards the opposite: endless self-display without visible obligation to anyone else. #Culture #CelebrityCulture #MediaCriticism #Essays medium.com/new-literary...medium.comThe Death of Moral GlamourHow Celebrity Culture Lost the Capacity for Witness 000
Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Once upon a time, ballrooms meant monarchy. Excess during hardship meant something. Glamour required at least the performance of empathy. Now America’s elites drift through Versailles in ballgowns while warehouse workers collapse under fluorescent lights. #MetGala medium.com/new-literary...medium.comThe Court of Indifference: How America’s Cultural Elite Lost the Language of SubtextBy Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. 000