Oh I forgot another part : they kept editing me to say “the horrendous attacks of 9/11” when I’m not talking about 9-11 I’m talking about the post 9-11 United States. Like anytime a Muslim says 9-11 they have to immediately apologize.

There are halal and kosher hot dogs, idiot. They already sell those in NYC. What strikes me about all this hand-wringing is that everyone lamenting the "fate" of NYC shows that they've barely even looked twice at the place outside the glitzy tourist crap for like five seconds.

And here's the paper, led by the incredible Silvia Mari, in which we find that stronger beliefs in traditional gender roles is associated with less voting intention across 18 countries. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Two great scholars doing work on moral (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) & personality (@tedmond.bsky.social) development & change are recruiting PhD students this year @msupsychology.bsky.social! Your grad office could be across the hall from my office!* *not necessarily a selling point, just a fact

The last 10 years of elections in the US tell us it isn't about being left, right, or center, nor is it about being too woke/not woke enough. It's always been about who more convincingly argues they can make life affordable. In the year of our Lord 2025, it is and has always been, about the MONEY.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language. LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying. english.elpais.com/technology/2...

A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative. (Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)

Influencers have fractured reality in Portland

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

Not for nothing but like...imagine if he said this about a presidential candidate he didn't like. This man needs to go, and he needed to go yesterday, and every single politician like him needs to go, because this is not leadership.

This is worse than the worst thing ever attributed to any “Bernie Bro”. The Democratic leader literally refusing to say WHETHER HE VOTED FOR THE DEMOCRAT.

wrote this 364 days ago

A reminder that Zohran won IN SPITE OF his party and not because of it. This matters because while Democrats like Schumer and Jeffries might SAY "Vote Blue No Matter Who" and "Party Unity," they LITERALLY found it easier to go to bat for a guy with a Nazi tat than Mamdani. They will not accept this.

On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

In case you were wondering why so-called centrists are so ineffective in resisting Trump it is because deep down they want us to listen to him

Here's the thing. SNAP benefits are not generous enough to *be* abused, and it's not like SNAP gives you hard cash to spend on food. But even if that were the case...why would you care? The total expenditure on SNAP is less than 1/3rd what ICE got this year.

Heritage Foundation president backs Tucker Carlson’s chat with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist

It’s an absolute s**tshow at the federal health agencies—the MAGA/MAHA Fox News MDs & PhDs are appointing each other into top positions & then pushing each other out. The idiocy & utter chaos would be funny if it wasn’t leading to the dismantling of public health & to pain, suffering, & death.

Y'know what? I'm gonna say it. Between Clinton and Weiner, yes, yes it is. That is in fact the version of the Democratic Party Cuomo is fighting to protect. One in which being a slimeball is a feature, not a bug.

They're Nazis. Don't ever apologize for calling them Nazis. If they didn't want to be called Nazis, they wouldn't be Nazis. So: Nazis are back, they're American now, and they're not hiding what they are. Whether it's Randy Fine, Nick Fuentes, or the anonymous Twitter account below Elon Musk loves.

dont worry lads it turns out bluesky cant read

While this is obvious nonsense, here's the thing that I have to stress: The "sweets" and "coffee" are often purchased from a vending machine or a coffee bar at work, and are overpriced. If a small black coffee costs $6, THAT is the problem, not the purchasing habits of buying said black coffee.

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?

New Bayesian *Meta-Analysis* of Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation! Open-access 👇Thread! Buckle up www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!

Here's my top 5 ways to help friends & family falling down the conspiracy hole: 1. Prebunk - prevention is key 2. Validate their worldview first 3. Reiterate social consensus to highlight extremism 4. Involve ex-conspiracy theorists 5. Keep in touch & prevent isolation shorturl.at/dmldd

Every time someone said, "We have to allow for intellectual diversity," I said, "You mean people who are always wrong?" and I'm not sorry.

It's pretty wild that a good chunk of the pro-Trump right just spent the last several months going to war on left-wing anti-Zionist activists, including many Jews. And now, one of the most powerful organizations on the right is refusing to distance itself from actual antisemitism.

A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.

It's also worth noting that the phrase "Kitchen Table Issues" smacks of out-of-touch privilege in a world where most of the voters they want to engage don't have kitchens much less kitchen tables.

One thing about this I need to stress is not just the racism, but the utter ignorance and contempt White Nationalists like Bo French have for most actual White PEOPLE. The biggest demographic that uses SNAP are poor White folks. He has no actual love for White people--only hatred of Black people.

In addition to being just plain racist, it's also just plain wrong. Objectively--FACTUALLY SPEAKING--there are more WHITE people on SNAP than Black people on SNAP! A fact that takes less than three seconds to learn! frac.org/blog/new-usd...

This bit, I think, goes overstated. People didn't "go" fascist; they were fascist. And when it was pointed out to them, they went more fascist. That's what the "reactionary" component is. That, and the fact they realized they could blame liberals for it.

What we might call "normal people" often use the term "aunt" or "auntie" to refer to any older lady that may or may not even be related to them who isn't your mom or your granny. And NY Post has to know this because NYC is full of Italians; they can't NOT know this. It's common knowledge.

I think some problems of this nature would be resolved if journals had less restrictive word counts. These general interest journals also advise a maximum of 50 citations. Being as inclusive as possible with citation practice is difficult under current publishing paradigm

...here is that passage, the TL;DR being: whenever someone describes someone or something as "divisive", they are telling you about the imagined "one-ness" they favor (which inevitably excludes others). more about Excluded can be found here: juliaserano.com/excluded.html

The American Mind, a Claremont publication, is coming for birth control, declaring in a new article by Scott Yenor that the birth control pill has had “grave consequences for our society...” 10/20/25… 1/ americanmind.org/salvo/rfk-sh...

If you've been reading that fantastic new paper by @dasalgon.bsky.social & @tevoelker.bsky.social on how mainstream parties lose if they adopt far-right issues: We looked at a case study & found similar dynamics for media. This was partly based on data from Daniel & Teresa!❤️ bsky.app/profile/curd...

Y'know what, I'll cosign this as soon as someone can explain to me how J. Phillipe Rushton harassing Black undergrads at the mall about how far their jizz shoots advances "public trust" in psychology. Or better yet, how hiring a Neo-Silverite would restore public trust in economics.

It is frustrating to know that the most notable Latino/a characters in comics were created by white men who currently campion ICE on social media. When they appear in a cartoon, those men get paid. When they appear in a movie, those men get tickets to the premiere. Every year a royalty check.

Chuck Dixon created Bane. I don't bring this up to argue that creating that character somehow negates his current behavior, but to talk about a problem very prevalent in comics. And that is bigoted people making bank off the very marginalized groups they later demonize and discredit.

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com

They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.

at its core, the leadership believes that the paper, not the facts, should get to set the agenda. this is one of the reasons why coverage of the *most prominent* stories - especially U.S. politics - is usually so bad at the Times, whereas its coverage of everything else is often very good

did you know they do this so they don't have to hire disabled people

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings. In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

Thing is, I actually believe this, and not even in the "it's a cope" form. A lot of people see it as a win, even if they get hurt, if someone they hate gets hurt even more. They don't care if he materially harmed their lives, as long as he hurts folks they hate even more (which he has).