Martin Scorsese's 🇺🇸American crime thriller “THE DEPARTED" (2006) starring Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga and Alec Baldwin premiered #OnThisDay in 2006 at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City 🎬 Warner Bros.

A Republic, if you can keep it:

This sounds crazy but it’s literally just a plain, accurate description. Again, like all the rest of the lawless authoritarianism, this Article III constitutional crisis is really an Article I constitutional crisis. Congress could end this nonsense at literally any time. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

Just discovered that I was elementary school classmates with the mother of one of my students. #FeelingOld

First time I’ve seen the rabbit/bird illusion with an actual photo. Took me just a half second to process the word in all caps…

Does nature exposure help children with ADHD? In what appears to be the first pre-registered trial, the evidence suggests maybe not. Medication helps but nature exposure has no significant effect. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

CHOTINER: you told your class you would return their papers within two weeks. how's that going? ME: well, I have two more days, so-- CHOTINER: how many papers have you graded so far? ME: uhhh CHOTINER: interesting. so probably three weeks then. ME: *pause* *sigh*

🚨 new paper out w/ @simonchauchard.bsky.social in BJPS @bjpols.bsky.social on the link between misinformation and religiosity- does religious belief cause people to endorse more misinformation? And if so, what can we do about it? thread below ⬇️

I'm happy to be a reviewer on any social/personality/wellbeing political-psych articles in the next few weeks.

The Irish Examiner.

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

An eye for AI makes the whole world blind. - Gandhi

one of the fascinating things about this episode is the concern for the student - whose identity has not been disclosed for “safety” reasons - against concern for the professor. *not* arguing the student deserved to be harassed. but destroying someone’s career and then skating off is pretty wild.

Why Language Models Hallucinate: "We argue that language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty... guessing when uncertain improves test performance" arxiv.org/abs/2509.04664

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

This gets at one of the dynamics that has really changed teaching. Faculty never know when we are being recorded by students, and for what purpose. Hard to maintain conditions of trust in a classroom where political monitors are on hand to report wrongspeak. Literally what happens in China.

So which other social psychologists on Bluesky are going to SESP 2025? #SESP2025

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

A reminder: the in-state public institution that you or your loved one is admitted to will most likely offer you a quality education at an affordable price.

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.

At $100,000 per H1B visa, Amazon alone will end up paying $1 Billion. Or, more likely, laying off most of their international staff. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...

How many "cancel culture is bad, both left and right do it" pieces like this are we going to get that minimize the GIANT FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS this time? www.natesilver.net/p/the-politi... Cancel culture can be bad; liberals should reflect. But this is more than just a reversal of 2020.

There isn't one set of elites. Source: Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty in the LSE webinar happening right now, "Global inequality in historical and comparative perspective"

Univ. of North Georgia professor Matthew Boedy featured here. Boedy is also the Georgia AAUP president, and as a Georgian I appreciate the work he does! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

What I love most about the insincere religiosity of the right these days is how they keep making it crystal clear they don't actually read the Bible. There were twelve *apostles* and, even then, there was one (Matthias) who replaced Judas and was known as the 13th apostle. Otherwise, great work.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Ok so Trump has lost the WSJ editorial board on two issues now. Tarrifs and the massive campaign of fascist censorship that he’s trying to kick off. Against unilateral taxation and locking up your political opponents? Hell, they’re practically woke at this point. www.wsj.com/opinion/pam-...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Happy 3²/4²/5² Day to all.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas. The new reality in US higher education is that faculty/staff will have their social media posts policed by on-campus &/or external conservative groups & they may be fired if those posts do not pass political litmus tests.

Question for the clinical psych folks: Are ACT and DBT still considered interesting and new models of therapy?

"I urge every government, every leader and every citizen to ask: What will we say when our children and grandchildren ask what we did while Gaza was burned to the ground? Every act of genocide is a test of the humanity that binds us." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

He’s not familiar with anyone who isn’t on TV.

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Honestly a great reminder of how we take the visual coherence of sports television direction and camerawork for granted to see a rare instance where they completely fuck it up

Fascinating thread from Ohio State Senator Beth Liston, who is a Democrat. Liston was prepared to go on a trip to Israel and occupied Palestine but declared her intention to not do so after being pressed by constituents.

Lost in the discussion of how Charlie Kirk "did politics the right way" are the lives of the two victims assassinated at Florida State University by a member of Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA, in April 2025.

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:

At the aquarium

That's about 10% of the population. Quite literally, "decimated."