In 1854, the California Supreme Court ruled that "Chinese people" are "a race...whom nature has marked as inferior, and who are incapable of progress or intellectual development beyond a certain point." Now, the average Chinese IQ is among the highest in the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_...

We went to ask Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar a simple question: If you claim to love the Cuban people… why support policies that starve them? No oil. No medicine. No answers.

I guess with race science discourse still percolating, I should re-up my starter pack for people who work on the topic

The “Schizophrenia is 80% Heritable” Fallacy: Deconstructing a Twin Study Meta-Analysis open.substack.com/pub/jayjosep...

🇨🇺 💗 We're flying to Cuba with a plane full of medical aid & delegates to support the Cuban people in the face of the heinous US blockade.

DSM-6 Will Be Structured Around Biomarkers—Despite Acknowledgment There Aren’t Any by Peter Simons The subcommittee was created to use biomarkers to reorganize the whole project. The problem? They acknowledge that such biomarkers have not yet actually been found. buff.ly/vtgqFfz

Time to reject the common claim that schizophrenia/psychosis is "80% heritable." My new (paywalled) article in the Review of General Psychology: "The 'schizophrenia is 80% heritable' fallacy: Deconstructing a twin study meta-analysis." doi.org/10.1177/1089...

Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran - chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact - the rain is corrosive + could damage structures - heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems

I imagine that this all looks like a long-awaited dream come true for the apocalyptic millenarianists in the Trump admin. In their eyes, the more hellish, the better.

This is disgusting, but also a tacit admission of just how horrible and indefensible it is.

It is still happening. No country is stepping in. Cuba has helped so many movements and people around the world and they are being abandoned to die

Had to doublecheck the date on this

Jewish Voice for Peace denounces the immoral and illegal war on Iran launched by the United States and Israel last night. These attacks expand the endless wars that could destroy the lives of tens of millions of people.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

For those still interested, "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2016) tells a false story about twin research and the genetics of psychiatric conditions. See my 2019 article. www.madinamerica.com/2019/12/twin...

From the occupied West Bank to Gaza, the Israeli government is committing ethnic cleansing. We will not look away.

Regime following the eugenics of F. Galton and followers such as psychologist R. Cattell in his 1973 book "Beyondism." The APA tried to give Cattell a 1997 "Lifetime Achievement Award," despite his having called for "phasing out" allegedly "moribund cultures." www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03...

Because they undoubtedly also believed that "anti-social behavior" and "sociopathy" are as "heritable" as IQ, did Epstein and his politician/billionaire/royal friends worry about passing their own genes down to the next generation? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🇻🇪 Venezuelan oil to Israel? The U.S. is seizing Venezuelan oil through intermediary companies & taking sales outside of Venezuelan control. Now, they are hijacking shipments headed to Cuba & redirecting them to fuel genocide in Gaza against the will of the Venezuelan people.

🇨🇺 The US is trying to starve 10 million Cubans. We are bringing 2,500lbs of lentils to Cuba to break this criminal and genocidal blockade. LIFT THE BLOCKADE ON CUBA NOW

The US is starving Cuba to death www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

World turned upside down: 1) Jews protesting genocide are "anti-Semites"; 2) U.S. citizens trying to stop ethnic cleansing are "terrorists"; and 3) "The Mismeasure of Man" is "an example of pseudoscience about race and IQ," and (presumably) Murray's "The Bell Curve" isn't.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

So the homicide was premeditated. Planned in advance. Agents knew they wanted to kill him, so they prepared for the opportunity and took it. Thanks for helping NYT.

This Bruce anti-ICE anthem is gonna leave a mark:

On 1/30 we are shutting it down, and, on 1/31, we are gathering across the country to demand ICE Out of Everywhere, permanently!

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

They murder a man in cold blood and wait around to watch him die. There is no hell hot enough. Abolish DHS. Impeach, convict, remove. Trials as soon as possible.

This is really is a great piece, and Kevin makes an important point in it: “the data was made vulnerable because our scientific institutions assume good faith in people. There needs to be an acknowledgment that there are bad-faith researchers. The rules and regulations need to catch up with that”

The Pioneer Fund was also the main funder of the Minn. Study of Twins Reared Apart. The researchers suppressed their control group results not only to match their IQ-hereditarian confirmation biases, but also to please their funders. jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/iq-heredit... osf.io/preprints/ps...

Tim Walz: “Minnesota has had it.”

Both peddle junk science in the service of far-right political agendas. For example, "The Bell Curve." osf.io/preprints/ps... www.madinamerica.com/2024/03/bad-...

Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ

Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.

Colorful and seemingly impressive diagrams do nothing challenge my 2025 conclusion that "schizophrenia genetic research" is a 110-year-long trainwreck. www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/the-...

In the words of John Lewis, it's time for "good trouble." If you're a Minnesotan, I urge you to join tomorrow's Ice Out For Good economic blockout and exercise your collective power. And if you're not, organize in solidarity and demand our leaders stand up to ICE. https://iceoutforgood.org/

Breaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...

For those that don’t know, Minneapolis unions called for a statewide strike

Extreme skepticism aside, if psychiatry only learned to "objectively spot mental illness" in 2026, wouldn't that call into question all psychiatric research conducted prior to 2026? jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/the-110-ye...

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

At a time when multiple federal departments run by Donald Trump have posted Nazi slogans or imagery or songs in the last week—with the total number of incidents being impossible to count just on one hand—Trump is now demanding lists of Jews from U.S. institutions. Time to wake the fuck up, all.

one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.

With this list of Minnesota labor and community orgs this is REAL. Not internet randos repeating a meme.

Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school. 📸: Jerry Holt

Its not MAGA, its MEGA (Make Eugenics Great Again) same old arguments about low birth rates among "old American stock" aka "Heritage Americans"

Thank you, Dave Matthews, for also speaking out.

BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up. Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.

"Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!" Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves. From me for Zeteo:

Dozens of cities across the country marched yesterday against Trump’s war on Venezuela. The marches were called as part of an emergency day of action in response to the administration’s bombing of Caracas Friday night. Even more actions are planned for today, including at the NY MDC holding Maduro.