This moment in history seems a good time to re-read Walter Wink, on Christian nationalism and the myth of redemptive violence.

I thought he knew nothing about Project 2025...

Can't wait to dig in. Thanks @meridyann.bsky.social !

The Trump admin's attempt to classify trans individuals as violent extremists is the latest move towards a full Nazi state. MAGA is scapegoating a weak minority in order to enflame hatred, consolidate power, & eliminate perceived enemies. Let's be crystal damn clear:

this exists it is called thinking

Since the inception of the NFL brain damage has significantly increased. Players consistently wear helmets. Thus, helmets are causing brain injuries and need to be banned. Click on my link to order my supplements that will detox your brain damage.

Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies" Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.

Wild that Ted Cruz is such an uncultured doorknob that he thinks of Dominos when he's searching for a pizza place in Illinois.

Finally got away for the summer. #CapeCod

HEP author Tim Shanahan recently sat down for an interview with the Science of Reading podcast and spoke about research and takeaways from his new book, LEVELED READING, LEVELED LIVES. Listen to this conversation here:

Attention podcast ad producers. I hate ads. I don't want to hear them. But I have to be honest. I SO VERY MUCH don't want to hear Malcolm Gladwell telling me about" AI agents & assistants automating workflows & streamlining data" that I would happily listen to 100 other ads if you just shut him up.

Hey, #schoolpsychologists, did you know @nyaspsych.bsky.social just published a new practice document on the #scienceofreading and #dyslexia? Check it out! nyasp.wildapricot.org/Practice-Doc...

YES! Yet another reason I am PROUD to live in New York State.

Yale, which is one of the most well-resourced institutions in the world, has the resources to FIGHT this. This action will cause kids to kill themselves. Full stop. Trump is a fascist, and fascists win when you comply in advance. Yale New Haven is complying in advance. Kids deserve better.

I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.

I hope blue states rewrite voting districts if Texas does it. Sorry, but it's time to respond. Enough of this Republican-Trumpism bullshit.

Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran

Hey, #schoolpsychologists, did you see the #scienceofreading overview from @nasponline.bsky.social? Tip o' the hat to @burnsm1.bsky.social ... it's very well done. www.nasponline.org/x68588.xml

Looking forward to some light beach reading.

Fuckkkkkk you, @nytimes.com

Resign, @johnfetterman.com

So, it turns out we're treating fascism just like we've been treating climate change: – ignore warnings of experts – buy into bullshit "alternative explanations" - read "don't worry" media op-eds – deny it will really be that bad – start seeing major evidence – hope somebody does something

I knew I loved this song already but for some reason, it's especially beautiful to me today. I'm sitting here writing reports and just basically have it on repeat. "Do the dead believe in ghosts?" Good g-d damn, #JasonIsbell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bKi...

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Adding this to my reading list on the strength of that quote alone.

‘Apparently it’s only Jim Crow if it comes from the Bull Connor region of France; otherwise it’s just sparkling election integrity.’ @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social I Howled 🔥. Cant put it down 💙📚

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

At some point we gotta start arrest ICE agents for kidnapping

SCIENCE OF READING: The New Paltz's Science of Reading Center is proud to announce a partnership with Yonkers Public Schools! 🧡💙 This will provide free microcredential for educators. INFO: www.newpaltz.edu/science-of-r... #sunynewpaltz #scienceofreading #reading #yonkersschooldistrict #yonkers

Once a #schoolpsychologist, always a #schoolpsychologist. A 🧵 I work for a state agency as a licensed psychologist, providing services to adjudicated and incarcerated youth. I am the only one in my agency who is also a school psychologist... /1

I was hopeful for pictures of goldfish contributing to research. Still a cool paper, tho.

The sunset over the #Gunks did not disappoint tonight.

Ok, #schoolpsychology, #clinicalpsychology, and #autism friends, I have a request... Is anyone aware of any studies showing the sensitivity & specificity of the ADOS module 4 with a pop. of individuals who have experienced complex trauma &/or those who are from historically marginalized groups? /1

Amazing book. Actually, come to think of it, due for a re-read.

This: "Ostracizing people whose beliefs harm others is a critical aspect of a functioning marketplace of ideas."

As a result, that is an *extremely* fringe view that you don't come across in the wild all that much. There's nothing illiberal about treating people with contempt when they express odious, discredited views. Empathy is good as a general principle but it needs limits.

Consider the way we treat people who want to get rid of age of consent laws. Do we publish op-eds proposing that view in major newspapers? Do we produce humanizing documentaries about how they came to that belief? No. We laugh in their faces and tell them to shut up if they bring it up.

The narrative that anti-vaxxers or QAnon weirdos will come back from the brink if we're nice enough to them isn't tenable morally and doesn't hold up empirically. Ostracizing people whose beliefs harm others is a critical aspect of a functioning marketplace of ideas.

I think this comes from a good place but I disagree. A common thread in deradicalization stories is stigma: Once people start losing friends and jobs they reconsider their beliefs. Obviously you should try to be nice to people but you also need to draw a line where you won’t engage anymore.

"Autism isn’t a disease or epidemic, and it sure as hell isn’t a predictor of violence—but to a Kennedy who shot up enough heroin over 16 yrs to kill the whale whose head he palled around with, facts are inconvenient speed bumps on the road to perdition" More Here! www.blueamp.co/p/rfk-jrs-da...

While driving home from the grocery store this morning with my wife, I took a sharp turn and the ham we bought flew out of the bag in the back seat and rolled to the other side...

As a pediatrician, I am horrified that "we" would treat children who commit crimes as adults. Why not instead address root causes (e.g., trauma) & provide opportunities for positive change (e.g., education, skill development)? Kudos to Louisiana residents for rejecting this ballot measure #PedSky

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

This. And, honestly, if we had hanged a LOT more Confederates and never rehabilitated their veterans, we might have avoided a lot of this awfulness. Ending Reconstruction /neo-confederates-> Jim Crow/reaction to New Deal -> Southern Strategy, Reagan, and Bush. Just a tiny hop from there to MAGA.

Fucking yes. @governor.ca.gov take note.