Stages of women in the workplace: 1. We have one woman, she's one of the guys, no problem. 2. We have two women, and they're always talking to each other 3. Now 3 out of 10 of us are women, and they are taking over! 4. Guys, let's leave and form a higher status group. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

Thank you, @mcopelov.bsky.social for the name, Ezra Douthglesius, which from this day forward shall be writ large in history of journalism.

A daycare was traumatized today by ICE, and tonight, hundreds of parents and community members organize to support one another. ICE attacks bystanders brutally, and people record it. Ordinary Americans are standing up and pushing back.

I donated, and I hope you do, too. These young women are the future of responsible, truthful journalism.

Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’

Trying to find which group he hates that I belong to.

@teenvogue.com Shame on you. Your reporting took young women seriously, provided intelligent political and cultural insights, and powered up a generation of leaders. All gone, now. And for what?

Instead of texting me fifty times a day, the Democratic party offices should be stocked to the ceiling with food boxes to give away to people whose SNAP is ending, because that's what we should be about. I would donate to that.

Just a little suggestion from a psychologist to world leaders who must talk with Trump. As a group, decide that you will only respond to him with " I don't understand what you are saying" repeatedly, rather than playing along. Or just, "Whut??"

Here in Kansas, authoritarianism drips slowly into our daily lives. Lose the pronouns in your official emails. Clean up your syllabus of forbidden words. Be careful what the job description says. As I drive home, I see this and say, "But at least I have this." For how long?

I read this again with detective-like zeal, imagining each person in turn as Nazi or not Nazi. Thompson is a canny observer of individual psychology. Happy, warm people who approach others with curiosity and geniality just don't go Nazi.

Worst filler arc ever, can we please just provide for our fellow Americans necessities and do more science please?

I never thought, that as a scholar of psychology, I would spend an hour reading a court ruling in its entirety. I have a greater admiration for the legal reasoning that goes into these decisions than I ever have.

Watching the terrifying Stephen Miller speech, I was reminded of Freud's descriptions of the two great human instincts (Eros - love, sexuality, cooperation, creativity and Thanatos - aggression, destruction, death). Miller seems motivated entirely by Thanatos.

I read these articles as they emerged in print. I know how hard it is to write with a broken heart from the broken heart of America, and @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has more courage than most of us to keep writing anyway.

The latest think from billionaire funded Searchlight think tank is that Biden and Harris weren't moderate enough! That thinking is so 2K24, guys. Keep up.

I realize there has been a lot of news, but Fox news host Brian Kilmeade suggesting TWICE killing mentally ill people by lethal injection ought to warrant a statement from the #APA

And I think about all of you, too.

This is an important essay. Surprisingly the comments push back, with only scant evidence to support arguments for the use of race as a biological construct. Medicine Still Treats Race as Biology. As a Physician, I Choose Evidence Instead. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review. I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway. My latest in @thenation.com

I’m in.

A book review from my toughest critic -- my daughter!

On this day, remember when you have felt most FREE. Was it walking in the woods, playing with kids, laughing with friends, making things, making love? What if FREEDOM is exactly what it feels like, and everything from low wages, overwork, no healthcare, no time is UNFREEDOM. Please read my book.

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Not to be a lib, but you guys, I don’t think Kamala Harris would be selling merch for the tents surrounded by alligators being used as a concentration camp.

It's not just a transfer of wealth from all of us to the rich -- it's a transfer of freedom from us to them. From my book:

“We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources.” Bravo to the brave folks at NIH who published the Bethesda Declaration this morning to hold this administration accountable! You can sign a letter…

This is a horrifying hate crime. RIP Jonathan Joss. www.yahoo.com/news/king-hi...

This is America

If every single person except you has already read this today, this one is for you, on a Friday evening in May.

If the deficit is imaginary (and MMT shows that it is) I think we should give each billionaire a trillion dollars on the condition that they go away to their private libertarian islands with their sex bots and leave the rest of the world alone.

According to Modern Monetary Theory, the national deficit is just a made-up idea to clobber programs for the common good. Once Congress approves funding a program, the money is created out of thin air. If inflation comes taxes take back money. Democrats, don't buy into the deficit myth.

I have never seen this extraordinary description of the elites cozying up to the mob. Hannah Arendt's words are almost prophetic.

I wish more Democratic leaders would read @stephaniekelton.bsky.social The Deficit Myth, which shows that the U.S., with its sovereign currency, can create as much money as needed to purchase anything that exists in sufficient quantities.

This an important one. resist.bot/petitions/PW...

So these memes make me really uncomfortable, and @taylorlorenz.bsky.social explains why. She comes to the same conclusion I do in my book on the Psychology of Liberty -- we need to create an entirely new society, beginning with mutual aid and protection of the persecuted.

"You are not refugees. You are just a case study of white flight dressed up as martyrdom. You are not escaping violence, you're escaping equality."

Could somebody, anybody tell me how ICE guys are hired and trained???? Who ARE these guys?

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Me after watching Andor

Psychology of Liberty is in bookstores now! Here's an NPR podcast about reclaiming true freedom. Hint: It's not what neoliberals, tech bros, and the wealthy say it is. It's how we feel when we are allowed to be the humans we evolved to be. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

I never thought I would have to send money to a Kansan🌻 deported when lawfully attending her green card hearing. She had her hands held forcefully and made to sign her deportation order. My U.S. rep, Derek Schmidt, voted in Judiciary Committee today in favor of deporting U.S. citizens.

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “May Day Strong: We are the Many” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

Our dead NSF grant proposal had most of these words. Bad words. We used bad words.

On this 100th day of horror, I am haunted by what an anti-apartheid activist told me after leaving South Africa: "I finally realized that the rich people just want the poor people to die."