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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer

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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. | Psychologist-writer. Specializing in the psychological structures beneath public stories—https://medium.com/@leighloveshelping www.facebook.com/leighsilverton

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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Trump #Ad #YourTaxBucksAtWork
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I 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/
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This 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...
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A 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...
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Trump’s Edifice Complex
The president has never met a national monument he couldn’t mistake for a naming opportunity.
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The strongman builds a triumphal arch for the people’s applause—and sniper nests for the moment he fears they stop applauding. #KennedyCenter #TriumphalArch #DonaldTrump
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
G’mar Chatima Tova.
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here'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 #Psychopathology
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Why He Breaks Everything He Touches
The mind of a man who finds pleasure in destruction — and why his power depends on chaos
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
medium.com/the-haven/ge... #AcceptanceAndCommitmentTherapy #Psychology #Iatrogenics #CommercialScience #PopPsychology #Satire
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Get Out of Your Wallet and Into His Workshop
Steven Hayes wants psychotherapy to escape its branded boxes. Kindly register for ACT BootCamp® on the way out.
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#Trump #PopArt
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The 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
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Shana Tova
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For 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-...
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Who Killed Tupac Shakur?
How a fight between rival Compton gangs turns into a plot of retaliation and murder.
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#Trump #NatalieHarp
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
medium.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.
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The Confederacy of Dorks Who ‘Solved’ Tupac’s Murder
For thirty years, detectives, documentarians and professional explainers turned a retaliatory gang shooting into The Da Vinci Code. Then a…
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1. 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.
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Formal 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
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Trump #MidtermElections #Voting
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nobody 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 #CathyScott
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The Woman Who Solved Every Version of Tupac’s Murder
Cathy Scott now gets credit for cracking the case in 1997 — an achievement so discreet that her own book, the police, and apparently Cathy…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
It’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...
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Gloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, dies at 92
At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom.
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Newsflash: "Ted Cruz is a very likable guy." - J.D. Vance
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This 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
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
1. 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.
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly’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
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump’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.
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#Trump #25thAmendmentNow
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is about the relationship between Natalie Harp and Donald Trump. It is not satire: medium.com/new-literary... #Psychology #Personality #DonaldTrump #NatalieHarp
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THE WOMAN WITH THE PRINTER
Natalie Harp had been writing to presidents since she was sixteen.
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
medium.com/new-literary... #NatalieHarp #Trump #Satire
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The Human Binky Has the Nuclear Codes
Natalie Harp: Trump’s Human Binky
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There 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 #Golf
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The Billionaire Bunker Has Standards, Apparently
There is wonderful news from Miami, where the republic’s most urgent infrastructure crisis is finally being addressed.
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Child abuse allegations are not "a family matter," as the GOP is saying. Child abuse is everyone's business. #MaxMiller #Trump #MikeJohnson #25thAmendment
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#Trump #Musk #Bezos #Sanchez #Maxwell #Kushner
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Commentary: Trump's selling Wall Street early access to his Truth Social posts is ethically repugnant, but may be legal
If Trump's latest money-making scheme isn't illegal, what would be?
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Mary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Roza 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.
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Exclusive: Survivor shares story of Jeffrey Epsein’s abuse that began when he was serving jail time | CNN Politics
Roza 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...
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In honor of friendship - Every day is a wonderful secret. #DonaldTrump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
medium.com/the-haven/on... JD Vance explains the true meaning of love and partnership in his own inimitable way. #Satire #JDVance
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On Love by JD Vance
Look, first of all, I think it’s important to understand that love is fundamentally a framework.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/06/2026
The 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/4vPqRBg
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Trump Admits Surrender
There were no alternatives.
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
medium.com/the-pub/wher... #Poetry #LAFires
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Where His House Was
The workers arrive each morning
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
THIS 100% 👇
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Our 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
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Susan Collin's ACT journey towards visible discomfort: medium.com/the-haven/su...
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Susan 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 …
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech... Musk's companies hit with lawsuit.
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Musk’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 ...
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
medium.com/the-pub/a-ma... #Poetry
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A Map for Ana
Sixth-grade Monday:
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
#Memoir: medium.com/new-literary...
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The Child Who Looked
Mother’s Day in the 1960s.
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E. Jean @ejeancarroll.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Isn't it time you find out what really happened?
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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
In honor of the true heroes on this Memorial Day, I fixed it. #DonaldTrump #MemorialDay
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
After 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...
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To 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.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
William Paul cannot be held responsible for things he said while he was drunk. by Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Old 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...
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The Death of Moral Glamour
How Celebrity Culture Lost the Capacity for Witness
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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. psychologist-writer @leighsilverton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Once 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...
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The Court of Indifference: How America’s Cultural Elite Lost the Language of Subtext
By Leigh Silverton, Ph.D.
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