Trump has pardoned numerous people convicted of billions of dollars’ worth of health care fraud at the end of his first term and throughout his second term so far - but you wouldn't know from Fox.

via @camanpour.bsky.social Trump's "net worth is off the charts, bigger than what it was prior to this presidency." Maggie Haberman says we're just scratching the surface when it comes to how Trump has used the presidency to inflate his wealth.

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

Men are too emotional to handle the levers of government.

New post! "Making Sense of Replications (and Some Nonsense about the Replication Crisis)," in which I suggest a journal club reading list of new papers on replication, and push back on claims that the replication crisis is fake. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/making-sen...

Happy to be part of this paper. 1. Depression and personality functioning are pretty fungible. 2. It is hard to statistically work one's way around latent correlations of .75 to .87. 3. The perils of partialling remain grossly underappreciated (see www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...)

Excited to share a new commentary set to be published in J. of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Co-authored with @vizecolin.bsky.social (shared 1st), @nphillips36.bsky.social, and @drlynam.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

And then President Trump is going to beat up Iran's dad in front of the whole school and then President Trump is going to take us all out for McDonalds and then President Trump is finally going to tell me that he loves me and then

Remember, it's only a waste of taxpayer money when it is something that is being done to help other people

Happy to share our latest paper, "Exploring the Lower-Order Structure of Trait Disinhibition," which was just accepted for publication at Journal of Personality Disorders. Here is a link to the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... (1/5)

This is a huge scandal. They cut your health care while spending taxpayer dollars on a golden ballroom for Donald Trump. And they lied about it.

a little over a year ago elon was dancing around having successfully cut off USAID, which caused ~600,000 people to die including ~400,000 children). now he is our first trillionaire. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s....

A real headline in the United States today

The man with the nuclear codes

Chris Wright has a master's in electrical engineering from MIT and absolutely understands "batteries" as well as any five-year-old child, but you see, he took a job in the Trump administration so he has to pretend he's just as stupid as the boss.

One of the most competent politicians we’ve ever had, but stooopid voters screwed us.

Lutnick: "The president sleeps less than me. The president sleeps 4 hours a night, working all the time. Most impressive thing you've ever seen." Imagine thinking shitposting online and watching cable news 24/7, falling asleep during cabinet meetings, are the most impressive things you have seen.

Dems: just copy Ossoff language. Thanks.

Speaker Mike Johnson is the most incompetent, feckless, pathetic speaker in American history. He has neutered an important institution and badly damaged our democracy. He will be remembered as a sniveling coward and an enabler of the worst president ever. *That* is an objective fact.

this is the kind of merit that pete hegseth has brought to the department of defense

The correct terms are "racism" and "sexism," not anti-diversity politics.

I can’t get over how insanely stupid it is to let one person decide how funding will be prioritized for several fields. Just an abject failure on so many levels.

I think about this a lot.

This is a fantastic and deeply troubling account of how NIMH’s priorities became so terribly limited with catastrophic results.

I feel like people need to understand that the Trump presidency has irreparably destroyed American liberal democracy and as such, the possible Democratic controlled government of 2029 must be dedicated to setting up an entirely new set of political institutions almost from scratch.

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

In my opinion, it was laughable when the rejoinder authors said "dark" was ok to use when done responsibly. Like half the literature is built around using it sensationally. E.g., "The dark side of the rainbow: Homosexuals and bisexuals have higher Dark Triad traits than heterosexuals." Lol - gtfo.

Every American should hear about this story. As millions lose health care, Trump is demanding $1.7 billion in taxpayer dollars for Jan. 6 rioters and other allies. The most corrupt president in history, and you’re paying the price.

There's so much projection in MAGAland -- complaining that Democrats did something, then doing it themselves a hundred times over -- it can get a little numbing. But their complaints about family members profiting off the presidency might be their biggest bit of projection ever. It's a crime spree.

The president is negotiating against his own administration to shake down taxpayers for $10 billion. The corruption meter is flashing red and sounding the alarm. ca.news.yahoo.com/doj-consider...

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters

🔥 HAYES: “You get the pattern here, right? One after another… so there’s no Black members of Congress left in the states of the old Confederacy. They want a New Jim Crow, now they have a blessing from the Supreme Court.” #Tennessee #Memphis @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

This. All this.

look, it’s time to embarrass these people. ask them if trump could play quarterback right now for the cowboys, ask them if trump is more mortal or god, ask them if donald trump deserved an oscar for his performance in home alone 2

Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe.

once again, it is great that the president is a klan-level racist

Today's demolition of Voting Rights Act by Roberts Court will likely trigger largest drop in Black representation since end of Reconstruction. They're taking America back to Jim Crow, when white supremacy and one party rule enshrined across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

An official adviser for the First Lady is on television urging a private company to fire an employee over what he said, then yes, it is absolutely a free speech issue. But if "half the country disagrees with them, they should be shut down" is the new standard, let's talk Fox News and the rest.

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

I don't know if young people these days understand that this kind of grotesque gutter racism was simply not acceptable in public... not that long ago!

Donald Trump was posting on Truth Social until 4:10am, including an image of himself as Jesus and multiple posts of the same article, raising alarms about Biden’s cognitive decline.

I don’t want to be controversial but I do think it’s turned out that the possibility of nuclear war is a bigger threat to the future of humanity than the woke mind virus

They really are the Party of Values. It’s just that the values are really, really bad ones.

Are we talking about the same psychopathic traits? Mapping semantic similarity across psychopathy scales using large language models: https://osf.io/e2sr7