Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology #PsychSciSky This is a difficult read. Even if you think you've heard the entire Hewstone story, you'll likely learn new details here. I applaud the courage of the women who have come forward, and respect those too afraid to do so.

Maybe Alabama’s counties would have OBGYNs if the state’s policies made it possible for doctors to care for women. I can’t even imagine the psychological experience of a pregnant woman being told that their only option for healthcare is a robot. So cold.

Interesting which stories don't get held for "a few more phone calls" www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

The link in the earlier post was a dead-end. This works. New study finding that class position moderates Christian nationalism's link with views on organized labor. I find as CN increases, lower-income folks often support unions more, higher-income folks oppose them. academic.oup.com/socrel/advan...

Yes. And The demand made of lifelong DOJ prosecutors to investigate Good’s widow rather than the killing itself or the officer is also a large and salient data point as we define what kind of regime we are currently living under.

telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

I did a whole series of stories for the Washington post late 2020/early 2021 about coup attempts, democratic backsliding and authoritarianism, and got a lot of grief from reactionary centrists about how that was "just the opinion of some elite academics"

There are countless examples like this just stacking up with absolutely no accountability from any case, just operating with absolute impunity to commit overt crimes and trample any semblance of rights to US citizens and immigrants alike

We must stress: The only violence is coming from CBP/ICE. They are rioting in the face of sustained nonviolent protests by thousands of Americans across the country. They are today’s Alabama State Troopers at the Selma bridge. They are Bull Connor’s police with firehoses in Birmingham.

"Hats off"

The Pentagon is said to have used a plane that looked like a civilian aircraft in a boat strike. The law prohibits combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called “perfidy.”

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.

“…the same house of worship in northeast Jackson that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights.”

Horrible. Arson attack today at Mississippi’s largest synagogue, on Shabbat, destroyed multiple Torahs and left parts of the building in ruins

My earliest memory: pedaling my bike at age 5 to warn my parents about the Basijis. At 6, I heard my mother’s screams as she was arrested for nail polish. I tell my kids the story of Zahhak—the tyrant who fed on youth until he was overthrown. The Zahhak of our time is falling 🕊️ #IranRevolution2026

Speaking of #rstats, my buddy Joey Merrin and his colleagues recently published a paper in AMPPS/had an R package "CATAcode" accepted to CRAN. Looks like a banger set of resources to navigate those finicky "choose-all-that-apply" (CATA) survey questions! Check it out!

Another shooting by a border agent. This time in Portland. Two wounded. katu.com/news/local/i...

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk link.springer.com/article/10.3... My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul, partnering with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, will unveil a plan to expand free or affordable child care for New Yorkers across the state.

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health”

If we needed another reason to feel ashamed and mad today.

TIM WALZ: Do not take the bait. Do not take the bait. Do not allow them to invoke the Insurrection Act. Do not allow them to invoke martial law.

Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.

What happened in Minneapolis today is an inexcusable tragedy. My heart is with the victim's family and loved ones. One thing is clear: ICE is out of control. We have to listen to local leaders warning that ICE is putting communities in danger. ICE must leave Minneapolis now.

🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11

A new paper finds ideological bias in research analyses: Research teams composed of pro-immigration researchers estimated more positive impacts of immigration on public support for social programs, while anti-immigration teams estimated more negative impacts. science.org/doi/10.1126/...?

I stand with Senator Mark Kelly.

Even if Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro somehow led to a positive impact on Venezuela’s future, it would not make these actions by the United States legal, moral or wise. Normalising and legitimising this behaviour endangers all countries - democracies and dictatorships alike.

Donald Trump’s unconstitutional military action in Venezuela is putting our troops in harm's way with no long-term strategy. The American people deserve a President focused on making their lives more affordable.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Fellow members of the tribe may disagree, but I fear this growing practice of labeling every criticism of Israel anti-Semitism will ultimately be bad for the Jews. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/n...

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

Breaking News: President Trump abandoned, for now, his efforts to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles.

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

Latino voters are often treated as a single bloc. Our new paper led by Mercedes Muñoz surveys Mexican and Cuban Americans, finding higher traditionalism, machismo, and income predicts voting for Trump over Harris. Latino voters are not a monolith. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Eight U.S. Jewish organizations have written a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to rescind the most recent travel ban, especially its restriction on Palestinians with documents issued by the Palestinian Authority. religionnews.com/2025/12/24/u...

NYT, Tuesday: everyone is simplifying and exaggerating Christian nationalism! NYT, Thursday: Trump administration seeks to impose state religion through official Christmas messages. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

How do resource fears (realistic threat) vs. value clashes (symbolic threat) drive war & peace? We built a virtual society of 25 autonomous agents using the Park et al. (2023) framework to find out, using a "minimal groups" paradigm (Group A vs. B). But first, we looked under the hood. 🧠

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

Anyone check in on Johnny Haidt to see if he thinks Bari Weiss still embodies the “telos of truth”

Sigh www.news9.com/ou-essay-rem...

If Bari Weiss's goal was to ensure that people are actually interested in watching 60 Minutes again, she has succeeded beyond her wildest imagination.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

the sad thing here is that America's institutions of higher learning are full of actual theologians who study this kind of thing, at least at places where administration hasn't decided that learning how to write a LLM query is an acceptable substitute for humanities education