Congrats to Cuomo for thinking Zohran's popular because of the lighting in his outdoor videos & for finding 15 New Yorkers willing to shake his hand without squirming.

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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

1/🧵 "More voters help Republicans" is reshaping Dem strategy after 2024. We put this claim to the test with a deep dive into voter files and survey data. Results? Non-voters remain disproportionately Democratic while GOP simply turns out their base better.

I understand this isn’t representative of the whole Dem party but… Who keeps telling Democrats that the American public is left-right ideological and that being “moderate” is what most voters want?? It’s a narrative only capital interests would want you to bel… ok I answered my own question

„House Republicans passed a bill (now stalled in the Senate) to require citizens to have a passport or birth certificate matching their name to vote. This would be a back-door ban on voting for any woman who took her husband's last name and doesn't have a passport, an est. 69 million women“

Is there somewhere I can get an estimate on the tax savings I’m supposed to be seeing in exchange for democracy, my rights, and all the other benefits of a federal government? Like a grand? (Not even considering other costs like debt slavery of course)

There’s enough stressful stuff happening I don’t need Duolingo’s passive aggressive bs

It’s wild I haven’t been to Target since. As someone who went there for any & everything. This weekend I had to do shopping. I went to ulta (with a coupon) for some things, I went to Costco, dollar tree and cvs. I did have to go more places but I still got all the things I needed. You can do it.

NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans

Utter failure to grasp what we are facing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u... 1. People lack the framework to recognize an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order 2. The lack of elites *acting* like point 1 is true makes it illegible. Without Ds behaving as if it's a crisis, it's not a crisis.

In print 🙂. I think it’s crucial for political neuroscience to speak to poli sci lit and shed light on how politics works (rather than just the brain). That’s why I’m very proud of this one by myself and Ingrid! @jepsjournal.bsky.social was great, btw. Superb editorial process from start to finish.

Oh wow I always forget that my best celebrity encounter other than Joe Rogan in a Denny’s was Billy Blanks outside an Outback Steakhouse. I was maybe 9 years old, kicking a wall, and he stopped me and showed me the correct form.

My favorite part of both sides-ism is how much money we will spend on security today to prop up the myth that “both sides” are equally likely to try to violently overthrow democracy.

I get the motivation behind the NYC congestion pricing, but can someone tell me how this doesn’t disproportionately place the burden of relieving congestion on the lowest income levels? I get driving in NYC is in itself a luxury to some degree, shouldn’t the richest bear the greatest burden?

Curious what others think: Is the “blood-and-soil” faux-populist racism of Loomer/Bannon et al. (who don’t want H1B visas) distinct from the nihilistic hyper-capitalistic “model minority” racism of Musk et al. (who likely just want H1Bs to continue exploiting immigrants)? Or is it the same thing?

These post cards should be a part of every “sweep” and mailed to all the city’s residents.

The biggest Danish metal festival, Copenhell, will feature yours truly giving a talk on the need for chaos. Come for the metal, stay for the science 🤘

You can listen to Catherine Baker in conversation with @adrianweckler.bsky.social on his podcast talking about the April report's findings: www.independent.ie/podcasts/the...

There are at least 11 billionaires among Trump's Cabinet picks—and that doesn't include Elon Musk or Vivek Ramaswamy. newrepublic.com/post/189109/...

💯. And what this means is the solution isn’t to overburden the few members of minoritized groups who managed to squeeze through the cracks of a system set up against them. It’s to work toward a system that *has more members of minoritized groups in it.*

There are many layers here, but I want to comment on one aspect of these findings for now--the editorial board representation. Some will see this and immediately think: we need to get more POC on our boards! I understand that impulse, but encourage you to think a few steps down the game tree 1/n.

Can we just shamelessly co-opt “drain the swamp” after they take office? Like don’t even change it to make it our own or anything. Just fuck you this obviously should be ours.

ICYMI, I wrote about the gender gap in 2024 exit polls. Overall the gender gap wasn't record breaking, but there is a lot under the surface that shouldn't be ignored. E.g. young men and women are living in different worlds online, to major consequence. Check it out: abcnews.go.com/538/gender-g...

I know I’m preaching to a choir here but school “choice” is very very bad and is why we here in the great state of Arizona are dead last in education. Like many things, “choice” here means choice for the rich, even when disguised as a “lottery” or whatever nonsense terminology they use.

Have them. That’s the tip.

My fear these days is the normalization of all this clownery, cruelty, and the selling of a democracy for parts. I know this is a legitimate fear because if I lived in some sort of halfway decent society and was suddenly transported to what our society already has been for decades, I’d be horrified.

Curious when others think, but it irks me when pundits talk about making sure the “pendulum” doesn’t swing too far left or right. I’m of the view that ideology is real, but what swings most voters is what Hibbing & Thiess-Morse (2002) called “process space,” or perceptions of *how* things are done.

Really great read for those looking to put there energy toward effective levers of change. There are achievable goals here, and academics have some clear roles in this.

We really need to democratize access to the information necessary for democracy to sustain itself.

My thoughts consistently end with the conclusion that a) we can no longer be “sort of” pro-corporations and sort of against them, and b) too much of the knowledge and messaging that actually appeals to working class Americans is behind a paywall of some sort (news, higher education).

Higher-ed colleagues, our task now becomes to keep our fucking institutions from complying in advance. Do you know what this involves? Service work. Committee work. Being on Faculty Senate. All the shit that many of us turned our nose up at because "that wasn't what we were hired to do."

Forget the polls, the forecasts, the “issues that mattered,” the campaigns, and party platforms. What’s clear is that America is due for a real, deep reckoning - a reckoning for its history and what it *is*, that only a small percentage of Americans acknowledge. We have work to do.

I'm famous! And, I can read minds. Here's a Youtube video that just came out that I did on POLITICS & THE BRAIN (i.e., political neuroscience)! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnqK...

Ok maybe I’ll check out the other site just to see how bad..what in the literal fuck??

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🚨New political neuroscience publication!🚨 Check out Ingrid Haas & my new MRI paper on the neural correlates of race priming/"dog whistles" in American politics at @jepsjournal.bsky.social ! The Neural Mechanisms of Race Priming in American Politics osf.io/preprints/ps... via @OSFramework

If someone makes “tampon Tim: stopping the red wave” t-shirts, that’s probably another million dollars in fundraising for the campaign

Ok my hot take since this seems to be catching on. Although being perceived as “normal” is a huge factor, I have to say progressives - a small minority of the population (that I identify with) often perceived as weird - trying to label radical conservatives “weird” probably isn’t effective.

Less than 24 hours for the birther conspiracies! Wow

Comforting but also is it too much to ask for a candidate that can just be witty and sharp and make a public mockery of a trump? I feel like that isn’t a big ask!

I got tenure! This is a huge deal for me and I’m grateful to many people but for now all I can think of is cheesy one liners. So, keep on truckin!

On the "plagiarism" attack - the truth is that academic writing is dry and formulaic - by design. Factual evidence can only be put forward in so many ways. The most precise way to describe other scholars' findings is often very similar to the way they described it. This is how we all write.

GOP candidates must negotiate a thicket of tricky gotcha questions like "what was the cause of the civil war?" but also "who won the 2020 Presidential election" and "do you denounce the teachings of Hitler?"

Pretty sure our university president just used ChatGPT to tell us they’re freezing hiring and salary increases…