Some absolutely amazing Streisand Effect happening here

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

I fucking love @thehandsomefamily.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/4FNTbp...

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Tip o' the hat to Drudge.

The accusations against Trump in the latest Epstein dump are beyond lurid. DOJ took them down after 20 minutes, but plenty of people got screenshots. Stomach-churning. augustafreepress.com/news/latest-...

This, from @adamserwer.bsky.social, is unimprovable: The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. 1/2

“DARVO is an acronym for Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender, a manipulative tactic used by perpetrators to avoid accountability for their actions.”

I wrote about the New York Times refusing to call Neo-segregationists by their true names, the DARVO style of writing about race, and some great articles and books I read this week. If you haven't subscribed to my newsletter with @hebagowayed.bsky.social yet, now is the time.

Thinking of making this my profile banner.

"Abolish ICE" ≠ "abolish the police." The former won't get the pushback the latter did. People are realizing that ICE is nothing more than an internal paramilitary doubling as a full-employment program for precarious men seeking an outlet for violent urges. It needs dissolution.

Tony Tulathimutte had these life-hacky tech-bros' number back in 2008. From his story "Our Dope Future":

I would like to know less than nothing about the Melania documentary, thanks very much.

Alex Pretti and Renee Good were motivated by a desire—maybe even a need—to put their bodies between the powerless and those who would abuse them. It's an astonishingly beautiful thing. The existence of human beings like this is this government's shame.

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

Abolish the bejeezus out of ICE. Not a close call.

I'm not one to point out bothsides-y journalistic framings, but this upsets me. The administration has not been found to "advance one-sided narratives." It has been found to spread lies and smears. Calling Good or Pretty domestic terrorists bent on murder is outright, wholesale fabrication.

My wife is apparently commanding NORAD now.

If these dudes approached my kid like that, my anger would be enough to power four dozen medium-sized cities for 250 years.

Hot take: a purpose-built LLM would provide better and less-biased manuscript reviews than the average human reviewer currently does. The last few rounds of review I’ve gotten left me genuinely wondering whether they read the work.

This Greenland shit is bonkers (p < .05).

A thousand times yes. You can’t publish 40 papers a year and have thought at all deeply about each one. And you can’t run a massive, impersonal lab and produce happy researchers who want to stay in science. The work and the workers suffer. Do less, better!

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

James Talarico: When we win a Senate majority, we must launch a full investigation into ICE and haul these masked men in front of Congress so the world can see their faces. This is the United States of America. We shouldn't be afraid of our government — our government should be afraid of us.

The Department of Homeland Security and the officials who lead it cannot be trusted to provide good-faith, accurate information about what they are doing and any claims they make should be considered in that context. www.ms.now/opinion/kris...

Social Psychology answers the call! @ericdknowles.bsky.social #WorkingToFix2026

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

By refusing to coordinate with local law enforcement, ICE is not making our community safe. It is making it less safe. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

In my book I wrote about research from NYU’s Eric Knowles and others into the “minority collusion” fear: that White Republicans in particular have a bizarre idea that non-Whites act collectively against Whites.

The very first act of the next prez should be to abolish ICE. Yes, I know it was created by an act of congress. So do to it what Trump did to USAID and the Education Department. Starve it out of any meaningful existence. Bury it.

What if, and bear with me on this coz its going to sound radical, the Washington Post's Editorial Board could reach out to actual experts on this topic rather than rely on right-wing youtubers? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...

For researchers interested in semantic change over years and decades... I've created a toolkit — lexichron — for measuring long-term shifts in word meanings using Google Ngrams and other corpora (e.g., COHA, COCA). Here's the public GitHub repo: github.com/eric-d-knowl... 🧵

for me, the apparent absence of any serious policy process, clear thinking about the national interest or more concrete foreign-policy goals, or effort to look down the game tree is impressive even by Trump standards (1/n)

I can't look at Marco Rubio without thinking of Faust/Gob.

For me, the most important consequence of the methods revolution in psych is that I’m now more skeptical of my own findings. Everything, even well-powered replications, feels “initial” to some degree. I think it’s a healthy development and hope it’s common in the field.

Venezuela is about profit. Trump doesn't lift a finger unless it enriches him personally.

Here comes the profiteering. How much does Trump take for himself and his family and associates? www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. futurism.com/future-socie...

imagining Laura Loomer going to an Alabama football game and thinking all the women in the audience are Hamas

In a statement, an emotional Grok told me it was "shaken" by the revenge porn it had generated. "It's not epic, and not based," Grok said. "It's neither. Frankly, it's cringe. And gay." An emailed request for comment to X received an auto-reply of a rofl emoji and a custom swastika emoji.

The fact that anyone cares what the government of Israel says is one of life’s great mysteries.

My brother got me Master Of Puppets on vinyl and I love him very much.

Yes, the fact that the man who controls the U.S. nuclear arsenal is PROUD OF BEING ABLE TO RECOGNIZE A CAMEL is a bad thing when you think about it.

Constantly getting calls from Joel/Paul/Keith/Marissa/Sally/Robert/Doris from the “tax resolution unit” with important information about my “tax matter.” Must be serious. They’ve got ‘em working in shifts.

Just watched Weapons and holy f*ck Amy Madigan deserves all the Oscars.

Great historical perspective on Mamdani’s mayoralty from Kim Phillips-Fein (NYU Department of History). www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/o...

Mom introduced me to Hysteria/This F*cking Guy, hosted by badasses @eringloriaryan.bsky.social and Alyssa Mastromonaco. EP374 taught me about an axe-throwing photo op in which a drunk Pete Hegseth lobbed his blade over the target, seriously injuring a marching-band drummer. url-shortener.me/596S

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

We wrote a paper in 2008 examining how people bend popular ideologies to fit their social agendas. It gives a psychological account of ideological cooptation—such as right-wingers touting colorblindess or freedom of speech for ends antithetical to these ideas’ original meaning. shorturl.at/oCfC4