Says the man who just gave $40 billion to Argentina

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Why is there any doubt about this

If you think free buses that cost 0.6% of the city budget, rent freeze on city subsidized homes after a corrupt Adams hike, free childcare for employed people, and 5 city run grocery stores in grocery deserts is communism, you're in for a real surprise when you encounter actual communism.

Look, I'm a natural history guy so I don't want to get out over my skis here, but given the ongoing reproducibility crisis and stuff like this, I have to ask: is Social Psychology... real

New data: CBPP analyzed USDA’s contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting families’ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDA’s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.

Loevy plays a video of a woman's arrest. Hewson says the woman was "assaultive" because she kicked a can of tear gas that had been deployed. Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?" Hewson: "Yes."

Raskin: "South Korea gave him some kind of golden crown or something, and then he lowered their tariffs. That is a monarchist mercantilism, that is not the American system."

NJ's bluest counties saw biggest turnout increases, propelling landslide Three densest counties saw largest jumps from '21: Hudson (Jersey City), Essex (Newark), Union >30% increase in total vote >30-pt Democratic margin High-profile local races helped, e.g., Jersey City mayoral w/ former gov 1/2

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"Oil companies have polluted groundwater and the environment by injecting oil field waste deep into the earth at pressures high enough to violate Oklahoma law." www.propublica.org/article/okla...

“Florida lets big companies pollute with impunity. Waterways suffer. Florida is supposed to police water pollution from major industries but the state’s regulatory framework amounts to an honor system where state leaders have repeatedly chosen business over the environment”

Really worth reading the entire 60 minutes interview transcript but admit this part got me laughing out loud.

It's journalistic malpractice not to immediately follow these statements with questions like "Are you saying you didn't sign it?" and "Was it signed by autopen?" And "Is someone else making decisions for you?"

Details here on how exit polling/poll of election voters! For the in-the-weeds details on methodology, see: ssrs.com/wp-content/u...

Last week I wrote about the racist narratives being pushed about SNAP benefits, including unhinged AI videos on TikTok Fox News however ran a story claiming those videos were real until they realised their mistake and changed the story without admitting their mistake. www.wired.com/story/disinf...

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

The bottom line: Across all levels of elections, the average polling error in 2024 was 3.3 percentage points, down from 5.3 in 2020 and 5.2 in 2016. National presidential polls missed by 2.6 points on average, and state-level presidential polls by 3.0 on average.

Getting citizenship is hard. It's getting harder for normal people. It is getting easier for the super wealthy. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”" www.prb.org/resources/se...

Folks, please note this. The top military official overseeing Trump's boat bombings recently resigned with no explanation, and now Republicans in Congress are refusing to press for his testimony even in a classified setting. Lots of new behind-the-scenes reporting in this piece:

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

“There’s this machinismo aspect that they don’t want to accept that we have breasts, but we do,” said Kirby Lewis, who served in the Navy and was diagnosed with breast cancer a dozen years ago. He called the decision “very upsetting.”

An authoritarian... stifles dissent/speech persecutes opponents bypasses legislature uses military domestically defies courts declares false emergencies vilifies groups controls info/media controls universities creates cult of personality uses power for profit manipulates law to stay in power

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$550 billion in Japanese funding. Directed by the President. Outside Congress’s control. My new @justsecurity.org piece explains how the agreement bypasses the Appropriations Clause and violates the laws that safeguard Congress’s power of the purse. www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump...

"If we had a contingency fund." You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded? www.notus.org/trump-white-...

To recap: Trump is spending money Congress never appropriated to pay federal employees with guns, and cutting programs and grants even when Congress has appropriated funds. They literally have a contingency fund for SNAP that they are refusing to use. No Speaker has done more to weaken Congress.

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I suspect I will be citing this great new @mattgraham.bsky.social piece often! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

🚨Weeks after UF unveiled a ‘universal’ mRNA cancer vaccine that eliminated tumors in some mouse models and entered early trials, HHS Sec. RFK Jr., in the Trump administration, cut $500M from respiratory mRNA projects, alarming experts. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

The Trump administration has a rainy day fund that will keep SNAP from expiring in November. Trump is refusing to use it. Funding SNAP isn't a choice he can make. It's a legal obligation. USDA must release the funds and stop punishing the American people. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Fascinating graph from @mattgraham.bsky.social's latest www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very interesting!

The subtlety of belief in misinfo/partisan differences in beliefs: -Fraud misperceptions link.springer.com/article/10.1... and partisan differences in econ. expectations (below) seem genuine/sincere -Other misperceptions more unstable www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Not all beliefs are the same!

Really interesting work (and thoughts on experimental design)!

The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟

Really cool and important work!

This contradicts a long running belief I held that people were fudging their responses to tell pollsters how much they loved politicians. I was wrong! I completely acknowledge that. It seems more that voters are just genuinely deluded by the sense that things must be going better if their guy is in

After a huge post-election flip in economic perceptions, I thought Democrats and Republicans might be lying to pollsters to send a partisan message — but I was wrong! New in the Journal of Experimental Political Science (open access): doi.org/10.1017/XPS....

“It’s not a partnership…If you switch out the product, we would never say, ‘Xerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.’”

“.. perhaps the most cruel and unlawful offense the Trump administration has perpetrated yet — freezing funding already enacted into law to feed hungry Americans while he shovels tens of billions of dollars .. to Argentina and into his ballroom.” @politico.com #SNAP www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

"The president’s statement announcing the relief funding emphasized the number of times he won Missouri’s electoral votes, as if there were some kind of connection between his political support in the state and his eagerness to provide disaster aid..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

CBS’ evening news program failed to cover Trump's pardon of Binance founder last night — while its counterparts all did. www.mediamatters.org/cbs-evening-...

This is a misinterpretation. In addition to having the LOWEST disapproval, Mamdani's high % DK indicates people don't really know what they think of him—even those who answered the Q. See my 2021 POQ, esp. Figure 4 which is about candidate approval specifically. academic.oup.com/poq/article-...