NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

My 6-year-old after crushing me at Uno and being told it’s skill, not luck: “Skill *is* luck, Dad, the luck of whether you have that skill.” Rawlsian Papa couldn’t be prouder.

This is big: elected Republicans in a deep-red state saying NO to Trump even after his personal plea. The balance is shifting - and we have to keep up the pressure everywhere.

We knew this, but we are glad someone really really looked. "Reading through it, I felt physically ill by the complete understanding of the caliber of people that the current U.S. government threw out because of bigotry and malice."

Come hang this sunday if you're in the East Ridgewood/Bushwick area! Got a lot of cool bands on the bill 👊👊👊 @weisenthal.bsky.social @pewilliams.bsky.social @mattlindauer.bsky.social

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

BREAKING: @governor.ny.gov just approved Trump's Williams-NESE pipeline, hoping no one would notice on a Friday. We noticed, and we're showing up to hold her accountable. Join us: bit.ly/CowardlyKathy

Met at CUNY, came to see me receive a research award today. Thanks Mom and Dad. ❤️ The road here may look straight on paper, but it had many turns, and you were with me through all of them.

The Feds deceived them by conducting a green card interview, subsequently arresting his wife, and mocking them while taking selfies.

The Oregon Department of Justice submitted multiple video exhibits showing federal officers using extreme force against nonviolent protesters outside the U.S. Immigration & Customs Building. This is part of its effort to block the federal deployment of National Guard troops to Portland.

Talking about variation in philosophical intuitions in philosophy bites

Every single time, it's a collection of people so bigoted that everyone in their life no longer wanted to be associated with them. Their partners left them, their friends stopped talking to them, their bigoted harassment gets them booted from social media. These are not good people.

every news outlet and journalist who calls trans rights a losing issue should be forcefed soap and their own regrets

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

I've been wanting someone to make a graph of issue prioritization and party trust for a while. So in our latest poll, I got some data and did it myself

Wonderful statement of what is so inspiring in Rawls by @lefebvrealex.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/john-...

Did you know that, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible?

I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making. In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence. arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894

People use norms, values, codification, and enforceability to determine if a rule was broken 📣 Recent work from Jordan Wylie, Dries Bostyn, & Ana Gantman

Excellent analysis by Toby Buckle on the desire to dominate others explaining MAGA. It is saddening that people who are objectively so well off could throw so much away for such petty nonsense. Stay hopeful, organize. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-disease-of... @polphilpod.bsky.social

Here's a link to access our article "People Can Find Their True Selves Outside Moral Pursuits" (Cognition) for free for the next 50 days @jowylie.bsky.social @anagantman.bsky.social 📄 📎 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lznW2Hx2-... #moralpsychology #philsky

Only 9 days left to submit!! Come join us in Chicago in Feb!

My book "The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts" examines the role that philosophy can play in solving practical problems. The Wolfe Institute at Brooklyn College is hosting an open online book event this Thursday night (6pm Eastern). Register at: brooklyn-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #philsky

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

My new book *The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts* is featured at The Page 99 Test. Page 99 looks at conflicts between achieving consensus and empowering those most committed to solving social problems, and tries to make progress on these issues. #philsky page99test.blogspot.com/2025/10/matt...

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

"However, Ember says the headlines mask a mixed global picture. Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including the US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation." 2/2 www.bbc.com/news/article...

I just received a discount code for my new book *The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts.* Link and code in image and first comment. Also: 1) a link to a free copy of the book's introductory overview, 2) for ppl at unis, a link to ask your librarian to order a copy (I would be most grateful 😊).

Keynotes: @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social & Abigail Marsh Invited talks: @peez.bsky.social, Amrisha Vaish, @joshcjackson.bsky.social, @joodykeem.bsky.social, @sydneylevine.bsky.social, @nourkteily.bsky.social, Jessica Salerno, @mattlindauer.bsky.social Organizers: yours truly & @jowylie.bsky.social

Very much looking forward to giving a talk at this year's SPSP Moral Psych preconference! #spsp2026 #moralpsychology #philsky

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

My revised and expanded entry on the Ethics of Cultural Heritage is now live in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy! Appropriation, repatriation, monuments, and more, as well as a new section on the nascent aesthetic injustice literature. #philsky plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethi...

Can reasoned arguments shift moral behavior? In a new preprint, @eschwitz.bsky.social, Jason Nemirow, @fierycushman.bsky.social and I explore this question in the context of charitable donation. (1/10)

It's Publication Day for The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts! 🥳 Thanks to the friends and mentors who helped make this happen, and to my editor Lucy Randall for her encouragement and input throughout the project. Oxford University Press and Oxford Scholarship Online links in the comments.

New paper with @jowylie.bsky.social and @anagantman.bsky.social on art, morality, and the true self, forthcoming in Cognition! #philsky #psysky

A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame and alarm" @alexhorton.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Early copies of my book arrived! :) Did a little unboxing after bringing the kids home from school. The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts is officially out in print September 19.

Nice review of recent research showing that younger children start out with a more expansive moral circle than older children and adults @juliamarshall.bsky.social, @mattiwilks.bsky.social, @karrineldner.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The reporters tell us they interviewed dozens of anti-immigrant protesters and “also…asylum seekers.” By the end the article finally states only two asylum seekers were interviewed, who only say asylum seekers shouldn’t commit crimes. Thanks for the balanced view BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In his new book, Prof. @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social explains how ordinary actions—when done with others—can help reshape unjust systems

I think all of this online content is a lot more vulnerable to just being totally lost than we realize. Future historians may have none of this stuff. Which kinda makes you ponder how much more we could learn about, say, the Jacksonian era if we had access to all his late night thoughts

Why aren't people talking more about this book, which not only shows how terribly democratic collective action has atrophied in the US but gives detailed analysis of how to change that. By a true legend of democratic organizing (who cites Olivia Chow as one of his former students, for 🇨🇦).

Final call for global collaborators on this replication collaboration on @bioxphi studies — moral psychologists and x-phi researchers wanted! especially based in SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE! global-bioXphi | moral science lab www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

USask philosophy class encourages kids to ask the ‘big questions’ Philosophy for Children class examines important issues, develops critical thinking skills artsandscience.usask.ca/news/article...

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.