Wow. The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case about whether a person who could be deported due to an aggravated felony could be held without bail pending deportation. Three days before the brief was due, Governor @GovKathyHochul *pardoned* the felon to end the case. Case dismissed

Reading about westward expansion makes you realize just how soft and spoiled we are today. These people cut off their children’s limbs after fractures, watch their oxen fall off cliffs, suffered with malaria, cholera, measles, dysentery, typhus, dealt with rattlesnake inflicted gangrene, ran over their own children with wagons, all while walking thousands of miles. If a woman were to lose her husband, she’d better find a new one. Meanwhile, today we complain that our DoorDash is cold and the line is too long as Costco.

Matt Walsh called temporary insanity "mythological, something out of the movies." He said it about the Lindsay Clancy case, so I responded as a psychiatrist. Here's the thing: his core question is fair. How do you prove what was happening in someone's mind months ago? You can't run a lab test for it. But that's not how any of this works. Juries integrate evidence, and this case has evidence most cases never have. A medical record showing deterioration with every medication change. A mother and husband she told about her homicidal thoughts. An antidepressant dose doubled the day before the tragedy, on top of benzodiazepine withdrawal. And no motive. No affair, no violence, no history of anything but being a loving mother and nurse. That's why "anyone could just claim insanity" falls apart. Without that paper trail, the defense never works. I also pushed back on his claim that postpartum depression is largely about selfishness. I've sat with too many struggling new mothers to accept that. What I see is isolation: women raising children far from family and community, most households needing two incomes, and one in five American women now on an antidepressant. Since my first video on this case, patients have written to me saying they had frightening, intrusive thoughts in the postpartum period too and never told anyone. Those thoughts are far more common than we admit. Acting on them is extraordinarily rare. The silence around them helps no one. Tell me where you agree and where you don't. I read the comments.

Gambling provides no benefit to American or her citizens.

After a newborn died of a ruptured spleen during an at-home birth, Gov. Josh Shapiro said it was measles. The coroner says it wasn't. Health officials scold that the infant was unvaccinated. Babies receive the MMR vaccine at 6 months to a year. The newborn presumably was only a few hours old. Five days before the presser, a Democrat dark money group advised hitting Republicans on Trump's vaccine policy. dailycaller.com/2026/08/27/p…

A lot of people confidently opining on the Lindsay Clancy trial have clearly not watched any of it. Witness after witness, including her ex-husband, has described how she was in crisis: intensely paranoid, scared to be alone, repeatedly begging for help. The prosecution has had a *very* hard time rebutting it. Some of the government's cross-examinations have been painful to watch, like when prosecutors asked her Catholic ex-MIL—who testified in Clancy's defense—if she was aware "murder is considered a mortal sin." At times they've been desperate. If Clancy is acquitted by reason of insanity—and I think there's a chance she will be—a lot of people are going to be shocked and outraged. But this is quite literally why the insanity defense exists: because the law understands there is an obvious and meaningful difference between a sane person plotting out a murder, and someone who would otherwise never kill but does so because of a disease outside of their control. No, that doesn't mean any normal person thinks murdering children is excusable—an accusation so profoundly stupid and bad-faith that I'd expect it from someone with the critical thinking skills of a 12-year-old. It means people recognize the distinction above. Nor does it mean Clancy would go free, which a strangely large number of people seem to believe. She would be confined to a state hospital—which is a lot like prison in many ways—where she could plausibly remain for the rest of her life. The biggest question here is where, not if, she will be locked up. It's a horrible case. Her children are the victims. What she did to them is beyond appalling. I feel awful for her husband, who has lost so much. And yes, I also have compassion for Lindsay Clancy, who did something terrible when it seems she was very ill, and whose life—no matter what the jury decides—is forever broken in so many ways. All of these things can be true at the same time.

Prominent Roman Catholic influencers and some leading figures in the anti-abortion movement are behaving disgracefully over the Lindsay Clancy trial. They are mocking compassion for a severely mentally ill woman, dismissing illnesses they do not understand, and turning a family’s destruction into content. It is shameful. I am a priest, not a lawyer. I am not deciding Massachusetts law or the verdict. I am speaking about the moral reality before us. Cora, Dawson, and Callan are dead. Their mother killed them. Lindsay then tried to kill herself and is now paralyzed. Mental illness does not make the children’s deaths less real, and compassion must not turn Lindsay into a celebrity. This is a tragedy from every direction. But more than one thing can be true. Lindsay was trying to get help. She went from provider to provider, reporting severe anxiety, depression, insomnia, intrusive thoughts, and thoughts of suicide. She contacted crisis services and entered a psychiatric hospital. Nineteen days after her discharge, her children were dead. Prosecution witnesses described her as a loving and devoted mother. That does not erase what she did, but it destroys the caricature of a cold mother who simply wanted her children gone. The testimony has exposed fragmented care. Providers did not always know what others knew, and records were not always available or requested. I am not saying every provider was uncaring or incompetent. But when a woman moves through this many offices, medications, and levels of psychiatric care, someone must see the whole picture. Taken together, the warning signs were everywhere. Postpartum psychosis, postpartum depression, and bipolar disorder are real. Lindsay’s precise illness and mental condition when she killed her children are contested in court. The existence of these illnesses is not. A religious following does not make someone a psychiatrist. Suffering people do not tell everyone the same things. Lindsay may have told her mother one part, her husband another, a clinician something else, and a chaplain what she could not say elsewhere. Anyone who has cared for suffering people should understand that. We do not have to choose between grieving Cora, Dawson, and Callan and recognizing that their mother was severely ill. A movement claiming to defend vulnerable life should recognize that a mentally ill woman is also vulnerable. Compassion for Lindsay takes nothing from her children. Cruelty does nothing to honor them. People on the margins have been central to my priestly service since 2008. Women in psychiatric crisis are among them. I will not turn Lindsay into a hero or pretend three children were not killed by their mother. But neither will I join a public stoning led by influencers who mistake cruelty for moral clarity. Three children should still be alive. We must ask what must change so another family does not reach the same horrifying end.

No one in their right mind is arguing Lindsay Clancy should walk free. There are two legal outcomes being argued over: criminal responsibility and prison or lack of criminal responsibility by reason of insanity and psychiatric confinement. There is no secret third option where everyone shrugs and sends her home. And if the defence is substantially right, she is already living in hell. Imagine regaining your mind only to understand what you did while you had lost it. There is no sentence that erases that horror. She’ll wake up inside of it every day. I think death would be a relief to her. It’s a fucking tragedy from every direction. I just hope something useful comes from it: an honest conversation about psychiatric drug injury, polypharmacy, psychosis, informed consent and how we actually protect and care for people with mental disturbances /whose reality testing is collapsing.

I learned today that participating in a wheelchair race and smiling three years after a psychotic event that lead to you committing murder means you’re actually a psychopath and never experienced psychosis.

"Are you aware murder is a mortal sin". WTF is wrong with these prosecutors, and what the hell does that have to do with whether she goes to jail or an institution?

I’d bet 9 out of 10 women who’ve experienced difficulty postpartum have a horror story about being dismissed by a doctor when they reached out for help.

The reason I have such strong feelings about the Lindsey Clancy case is very personal to me. Story time. My youngest daughter was 23 and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2017. In May 2019, she was two months postpartum with my grandson when I received a frantic call from her then-husband telling me I needed to come immediately. She was in crisis and trying to harm herself. When I arrived, I put my granddaughter Sophia in the car and went to get my grandson while trying to convince my daughter to go to the hospital. The police came, but because she told them she was okay and wasn't going to harm herself or anyone else, they left. Two minutes later, my daughter and I were walking toward the car, where her three-year-old daughter was waiting, when she went into crisis again. She put the baby in my arms and ran directly into oncoming traffic. By sheer chance, the same officers had made a U-turn and were coming back down the street. They nearly hit her. This time, she was taken to the hospital and admitted. Her husband subsequently filed for full custody of their son and won. To this day, we don't get to see my grandson, who is now seven. My daughter got help. She has worked incredibly hard and has now been stable for more than two years. But that one postpartum mental health crisis changed her life and cost her a relationship with her son. That's why this subject hits so close to home for me. Postpartum depression and other serious postpartum mental health conditions are real. And one of the fears mothers can have about admitting they need help is the fear that they will lose their children. In our family's experience, that fear wasn't hypothetical. That's why I believe we need to be able to talk openly about postpartum mental health, recognize when someone is truly in crisis, and make it safer for mothers to ask for help before a crisis becomes a tragedy.

When people with no knowledge of psychiatry or psychiatric drugs can see the utter MESS that Lindsay's doctors made, it highlights how flawed & broken the mental health system is. Drug-based care is like playing Russian Roulette with a patient's brain. SCARY! #lindsayclancy

It's wild that not only were we expected to believe a virus manifested organically by coincidence right outside a virology lab, you were called a racist and conspiracist if you didn't believe it.

The gender wage gap is mostly about married men doing an incredible job earning more than everybody else.

There were 1,126,000 abortions in the United States in 2025. 1% is 11,260. 11,260 children violently torn limb from limb or poisoned into cardiac arrest is not a small number. Even one would be one too many.

What if I gave birth at an Olive Garden location? Is my baby entitled to a never-ending pasta pass?

Has everyone noticed how much America appreciates, celebrates, and enjoys our tourist friends, while other countries just bitch and moan about their tourists? Just proving once again that America is the friendliest, most welcoming country.

🔥 HELL YEAH! A pilot just used his airplane to draw a USA 250th banner using his flight path It took him over FIVE HOURS of flying time to do this. What a PATRIOT! 🇺🇸