The daily corruption news. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

Confronting the past in a polarized present: holocaust representations motivate people for symbolic justice and against antisemitism Awareness of past atrocities is widely seen as critical for restoring justice and building resilient democracies. Cultural representations are ofte #sociology link

If your focus is on changing the rules before an election, you’re only admitting that you know that you can’t win on your own merits.

Disinformation is often a preparatory act for corruption. We need to teach people to ask why someone is intentionally sharing misleading or false information and prosecute the associated corrupt acts. youtube.com/shorts/DXixP...

Insightful discussion of methods and theoretical implications #PsychSciSky #socialpsych #sociology

Autocrats' dream: “Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on” #privacy techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/x...

Political review of NIH grants and the words their AI is searching for. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧪

More rights for the Christian right. wapo.st/43YNcR4

SCOTUS essentially eliminates asylum rights: You have the right to apply if you get your feet on US soil, but if that's prevented at the border, you have no right. www.npr.org/2026/06/25/n...

“Regime Change,” Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s vivid, rigorous, and unavoidably depressing chronicle of the first year of Trump’s second term in the White House, is “exceptional,” David Remnick writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/H_cVc9

#climate #heatwave

The Reflecting Pool: "An American icon becomes a metaphor for an incompetent and corrupt presidency" There's worse incompetence and corruption, but the pool is not divisive, so now all can agree? #DailyCorruption

"Program managers would normally rush to inform potential and current grantees about such dramatic changes. But the memo tells program managers to keep their mouths shut. 'This information is highly confidential...Please do not communicate anything to PIs.'” www.science.org/content/arti...

The same man who will pardon you if you ransack the Capitol and smear your feces on its wall will throw you in jail if you wiggle your fingers in the water of the Reflecting Pool.

Someone please mash up Narcissus and the Portrait of Dorian Gray into the tale a demented man who thought to see his own magnificence reflected in, well, a Reflecting Pool and instead saw failure and algae and decay.

NEW: The administration is defying Congress on foreign aid that Trump himself agreed to spend. “It is a huge grab of power from the president, taking powers away from Congress,” said David Super, a leading scholar on administrative and constitutional law.

Trump's triumph in Iran, in lines as biting as funny

The pool is what happens when corruption, incompetence, and pure tackiness have a baby.

The growing surveyance dragnet. The Cato Institute calls it "a Bill of Rights disaster waiting to happen." www.npr.org/2026/06/19/n...

"Do you think people from these backgrounds have more that unites them than divides them, or vice versa?" Some surprises. Report linked in first comment. #polarization #trust #socialpsychology

Food for thought.

ICE removed detainee protections after private outreach from top contractor: Helping donors to exploit detainee labor. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

White House considered suspending constitutional rights after Minneapolis protests. The warnings can't get any clearer. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

Not a big fan of the title, but the danger is real. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...

If we’re allowed to build houses that could collapse on top of you, we can build a lot more houses!

Autocrats do not follow the "rule of law." Autocrats "rule by law." They use the law capriciously to reward their friends and punish their enemies. The do not allow the law to bind them and their cronies, they use the law as a cudgel to punish others. Authoritarian law doesn't protect, it punishes.

Men are too emotional to be president.

Can't recall a recent video that better captures Trump's essence. Misogynist goon sweatily belches out egregious lies to a woman reporter, insults and berates her when she asks for evidence, then storms off in anger, all while his spray-tan slowly slides down his face.

Pleasing Trump at CBS: Pelley on Bari Weiss www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

California'a slow pace of vote counting is a byproduct of verifications and opportunities for voters to fix errors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The role of misogyny in right-wing ideology. Gift link . www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

If insider trading were a crime, the White House would be empty. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration. The defenders of free speech in action, obviously. 🧪 #academicsky #psychscisky

Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.

Reminder Ken Paxton who is running for Senate in Texas pardoned his friend who was in jail for raping a boy for years. Oh well, let's move on.

This! The goal: excluding people from all financial transactions, making life so hard they'd leave the country. Included citizens and lawful residents. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

If nobody knows, it didn't happen: ICE to stop reporting deaths of newly released detainees. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

He's a master of distracting us from crimes he's already committed by continuously committing new crimes. 5 months until the Midterms. #AccountabilityIsComing

JUST IN: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin won't commit to abide by court orders. via @JAscholtes www.politico.com/live-updates...

Changes to science funding and what to do about it. 🧪 #psychscisky #academicsky #cogsci

"One thing that actually propelled actual US greatness after World War II was tying large scientific investments to a non-partisan, merit-based process. But that is not the way of Trump, who wants to extend tools of control and retribution over science." Trump is wrecking everything. Illuminating:

This ⬇️ #CivilRights www.npr.org/2026/06/01/n...

Free speech champions www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Corruption requires silence. NDA request for all federal workers. #DailyCorruption

Political review and peer review of federal grants #academicsky #psychscisky #cogsci

NDAs instead of whistleblower protections for all federal employees: another intimidation move. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

New, from me: He turned the part of Lincoln into the party of Trump, and has broadly succeeded in turning the US federal government into a personalist regime. Here are seven signs that personalism has come to define the second Trump administration. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...

How autocrats recruit staff for the dirty work--and how ICE recruiting fits the pattern. (No paywall) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been. By @deldeib.bsky.social