The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

In order to be worthwhile for investors, AI companies need to simultaneously: - increase demand 100,000x - increase capacity to support that usage - make a profit instead of a loss on each token Which, well, lol.

1/n Propaganda doesn't just relate to attitudes, it also relates to how people make sense of events. We looked at how Russians construed the war in Ukraine in terms of core values, and how these meanings associate with media exposure and intentions to support/oppose the war. #Ukraine #UkraineWar

Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold. www.wired.com/story/world-...

Actions that may seem small make a big difference. Show up. open.substack.com/pub/arikohen...

Thrilled to share our latest paper, out now in Science Advances! We explored the development of cooperative behaviors — fairness, trustworthiness, forgiveness, & honesty —  across five societies, culturally contextualizing them & seeing how they correlate. (1/5) www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Transparency is the key for election integrity. I’m not sure that’s compatible with our national security institutions.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Presidents used to say eloquent things. Inspiring even.

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Justice requires trials. Not just leaving MN, and not just funding changes. Trials for both agents and also for leaders who provoked and lied.

Listen to Powell here. www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

The big issue with AI is that it doesn’t share human values. It will value whatever you ask it to value. Most work involves the values that professionals learn as part of the professional community.

I think the "politician issue positions are decisive in elections" crowd needs to reconcile their beliefs with political science evidence finding that positions are mostly downstream of party ID and elite opinion leadership www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The ROI on biking infrastructure is clear. USA cities pay attention.

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.

The way Trump is violating the Constitution to pay the troops during the shutdown is a big deal that is getting virtually no coverage because Democrats don't want to be on the wrong side of the issue (podcasts.happyscribe.com/the-daily/a-...), but that's precisely why it's so dangerous.

No money for healthcare, no money for veterans, no money for farmers. But good news: Trump just doubled Argentina’s bailout to $40 billion.

If Trump can order the murder of people on boats without any accountability, he can order the murder of people on land without any accountability.

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Populist #Attacks on #Academic #Freedom: How Populist Leadership Erodes Academic Freedom in #Liberal & #Electoral #Democracies By @victorhernandez.bsky.social & María Inclán doi.org/10.1017/S153...

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Question is - and I’m being totally serious - why aren’t they saying anything

If one wanted to engage in a coup or do something else illegal in DC, then a key step would be to control the response of the police and National Guard. Centralized power is not the American way.

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.

New in BJPS: @amydmeli.bsky.social and I investigate how Fortune 500 companies changed their 💰 after Jan 6. We find that they balance the interests of their two audiences by sending signals of disapproval towards those who violate established norms while continuing to lobby key lawmakers.

Texas's abortion ban is very out of step with the median voter. It's not the reddest gerrymander out there (it might be soon), but gerrymandering is one reason state policy is out of step with the preferences of Texans.

The tariff deal with Japan has me thinking: 1) It is well aligned with crony-capitalism, 2) a 15% tax on Japanese cars is not cheap, and 3) a system where one person decides how to allocate capital is not capitalism.

It’s ludicrous and immoral to require some of America’s universities to pay a higher effective tax rate than many corporations do.

DON’T appease fascists. It doesn’t work. DON’T give a bully your lunch money. It shows you’re a soft target, encouraging them to demand more. DON’T negotiate with terrorists. It accepts their techniques as legitimate. Decades of history and pop culture, only to land on “but it might work for us.”

Tariffs are taxes Thread

It's hard to tell the difference between bad and terrifying, but this is terrifying. The US govt. wants to be able to de-naturalize people for crimes as menial as "fraud against the United States" (??). Then they could deport you to their El Salvadoran prison, and you'd have no recourse...

Combine this with questioning birthright citizenship and pretty much anyone can be denaturalized/deported.

In 2022, inspectors described a “cascade of failure” at one foreign factory. The FDA barred it from shipping drugs to the U.S. — then excused more than 20 drugs from the ban, despite risks to consumers.

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Eisenhower knew that an effective supply chain will win wars. The US is making the supply chain inefficient by increasing costs through tariffs and also through disruption as companies scramble to change their plans. Prices can be increased for taxes, but changes to the chain are structural.

Friday Night Massacre of accurate information. A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Public opinion is crystal clear on this. Recent polling from YouGov (n ~ 2800 US adults) -- if a judge makes a ruling, the Administration should follow it today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

Can I report Rubio for cutting aid to the poor and downtrodden of the world?