I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba

"From where I’m sitting, that’s why Justice Jackson...ruled herself here—rather than allowing the full Court to overrule her. It drastically increases the odds of the full Supreme Court resolving this issue by the end of next week—one way or the other."

NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

😂 why do people do this?!

Spreading the word in case this is new info.

Gorsuch finally starting to understand what they have unleashed

For those who don’t know, Lina Khan gave tech bros hell AND her ass to kiss when she was FTC chair. She was busting monopolies left and right. Gave Amazon and Meta the finger too. This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

FEEDING BABIES WON!!!!!

Savor this moment, friends. They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.

The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

What is going on over at the Chronicle...

Feds tear-gassed a Northwest Side street, disrupting a Halloween parade for kids. blockclubchi.co/4quhdSA

They kidnapped a landscaper only a few blocks away from us yesterday. I see men working every morning, and I am legitimately worried for their safety. What do we do?! www.reddit.com/r/evanston/c...

another @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social job opening! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.

Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down. www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

The USC Thornton School of Music has appointed Solange as the school’s first scholar in residence She will she will teach a course on music curation, host student-focused workshops and more

💜💜💜 (Heard. Off sick today & yesterday. This is not a joke or a game.)

Today marks the first day in the 55-year history of PBS and 54-year history of NPR that public media has broadcast to its audiences without federal funding. But even though lots of local outlets are at risk, PBS and NPR are still here, providing fair, accurate news coverage and will not be silenced.

I'm grateful to all the health care systems and insurance companies that are providing COVID vaccines according to science rather than conspiracy theories

The SCIP Lab had our inaugural lab retreat yesterday. It was much needed, and these students inspire me. Among other things, we did some team building during an escape room challenge!

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

More great news for Big Diarrhea!

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals. In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed. Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph... 1/4

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

If you are at the US Open and in the audience while Trump is there: 1. Please BOO him. Boo him like you're from NY, even if you're not. 2. Record it. Record all of it. 3. Post it to every social media platform you can think of.

Trump labor secretary spinning a terrible jobs report by saying "but the few people hired are all native-born!" is as good an example of "drained-pooled politics" as you will see. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564989...

Scared of what's to come... news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

THIS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND IRRESPONSIBLE. WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD???? They are going to kill so many people including children. What a FUCKED UP DECISION!

I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”

Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung. bit.ly/3HkcyBf

Definitely my experience growing up in NC! We're just gonna ignore the fact that my grandma put a tad bit of sugar in her spaghetti 😅

I love how accurately describing actually existing conservatism makes one sound totally unhinged and the people who get punished for this are not conservatives but the accurate describers.

When a cop’s son is tased and ends up in cardiac arrest, he’s forced to question the training that told him it wasn’t possible. This week on Reveal, the truth about Tasers and the company that makes them.

This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

In economics, men are tenured aren't punished for coauthoring. Women, however, are less likely to receive tenure the more they coauthor.

Canceled NSF grants

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Had a great time teaching a CSS workshop at SISPP - thanks to all the students and organizers! Future of social psych is looking bright 😎

"If you’re pasting in contracts, asking legal questions, or asking [the chatbot] for strategy, you're not getting legal advice…You’re generating discoverable evidence. No attorney-client privilege. No confidentiality. No ethical duty. No one to protect you."

Thanks, Michael! Thanks to my co-chair Shige Oishe for help with planning; the SISPP committee @proftracy.bsky.social , @mocraig.bsky.social, Niall Bolger,& Arianne Eason; and of course Rachel Puffer at @spspnews.bsky.social for her leadership! It took a village & years to plan this fantastic event.

Trump is like please hate these Black people. don’t worry about the Epstein files. you all hate Black people, remember?

"Exciting news to announce! The robbers I let into the house have agreed to give back the money they stole!"

Northwestern is on this list 🤬