diff --git a/frontend/src/Metamaps/Views/TopicCard.js b/frontend/src/Metamaps/Views/TopicCard.js
index 3cbe5f9a..a7e176ac 100644
--- a/frontend/src/Metamaps/Views/TopicCard.js
+++ b/frontend/src/Metamaps/Views/TopicCard.js
@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ import React from 'react'
 import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
 
 import Active from '../Active'
-import DataModel from '../DataModel'
-import GlobalUI from '../GlobalUI'
-import Mapper from '../Mapper'
-import Router from '../Router'
-import Visualize from '../Visualize'
 
 import ReactTopicCard from '../../components/TopicCard'
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Attachments.js b/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Attachments.js
index de7d1e39..a45cf197 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Attachments.js
+++ b/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Attachments.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* global $, CanvasLoader, Countable, Hogan, embedly */
+/* global $, embedly */
 import React, { PropTypes, Component } from 'react'
 
 class Attachments extends Component {
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class Attachments extends Component {
   }
 
   componentDidMount = () => {
-    const { topic, ActiveMapper } = this.props
+    const { topic } = this.props
     embedly('on', 'card.rendered', this.embedlyCardRendered)
     topic.get('link') && topic.get('link') !== '' && this.loadLink()
   }
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ class Attachments extends Component {
     if (e.which === ENTER_KEY) {
       // TODO evaluate converting this to '//' no matter what (infer protocol)
       if (linkEdit.slice(0, 7) !== 'http://' &&
-      linkEdit.slice(0, 8) !== 'https://' &&
-      linkEdit.slice(0, 2) !== '//') {
+        linkEdit.slice(0, 8) !== 'https://' &&
+        linkEdit.slice(0, 2) !== '//') {
         finalLink = '//' + linkEdit
       }
       this.setState({ linkEdit: '' })
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ class Attachments extends Component {
         >
           <div id="addLinkIcon"></div>
           <div id="addLinkInput">
-            <input ref={input => this.linkInput = input}
+            <input ref={input => (this.linkInput = input)}
               placeholder="Enter or paste a link"
               value={linkEdit}
               onChange={this.onLinkChangeHandler}
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class Attachments extends Component {
             {linkEdit && <div id="addLinkReset"></div>}
           </div>
         </div>
-        <a style={{ display: hasAttachment ? 'block' : 'none' }} 
+        <a style={{ display: hasAttachment ? 'block' : 'none' }}
           href={topic.get('link')}
           id="embedlyLink"
           target="_blank"
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Desc.js b/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Desc.js
index db17a6b7..689977f5 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Desc.js
+++ b/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Desc.js
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import React, { PropTypes, Component } from 'react'
-import { get } from 'lodash'
 import { RIETextArea } from 'riek'
 import Util from '../../Metamaps/Util'
 
@@ -13,8 +12,6 @@ class MdTextArea extends RIETextArea {
   }
 
   renderNormalComponent = () => {
-    const value = this.state.newValue || this.props.value
-
     // defaultProps MUST use dangerouslySetInnerHTML
     return <span tabIndex="0"
       className={this.makeClassString()}
@@ -32,7 +29,7 @@ class Desc extends Component {
       : Util.mdToHTML(this.props.desc)
 
     if (this.props.authorizedToEdit) {
-    return (
+      return (
       <div className="scroll">
         <div className="desc">
           <MdTextArea value={this.props.desc}
@@ -56,7 +53,7 @@ class Desc extends Component {
           <div className="clearfloat"></div>
         </div>
       </div>
-    )
+      )
     } else {
       return (
         <div className="scroll">
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Links.js b/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Links.js
index 1eb85a44..93517965 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Links.js
+++ b/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Links.js
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+/* global $ */
+
 import React, { PropTypes, Component } from 'react'
 
 import Metacode from './Metacode'
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Metacode.js b/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Metacode.js
index 3add80fe..0306f35d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Metacode.js
+++ b/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Metacode.js
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+/* global $ */
+
 import React, { PropTypes, Component } from 'react'
 
 import DataModel from '../../Metamaps/DataModel'
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Permission.js b/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Permission.js
index fbe9b7c7..cc4e48db 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Permission.js
+++ b/frontend/src/components/TopicCard/Permission.js
@@ -3,22 +3,22 @@ import React, { PropTypes, Component } from 'react'
 // TODO how do we make it so that clicking elsewhere on the topic
 // card cancels this
 class Permission extends Component {
-  
+
   constructor(props) {
     super(props)
     this.state = {
       selectingPermission: false
     }
   }
-  
+
   togglePermissionSelect = () => {
     this.setState({selectingPermission: !this.state.selectingPermission})
   }
-  
+
   openPermissionSelect = () => {
     this.setState({selectingPermission: true})
   }
-  
+
   closePermissionSelect = () => {
     this.setState({selectingPermission: false})
   }