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Psychology and Neuroscience Professor | Writer of all things | Supports democracy & social justice | Loves books, writing, movies, and food

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What it was like to watch grieving parents stare down Mark Zuckerberg in court The most coveted ticket in LA was for a downtown courthouse.

“One thing that pisses me off about him is the curly hair. Riley’s curly hair was so fricking cute. And then I want to shave his curly hair because he doesn’t fricking deserve it.”

13.03.2026 13:06 👍 740 🔁 196 💬 43 📌 17

Trump went to Kentucky to campaign against Thomas Massie yesterday. Today, the betting market shows that Massie’s odds of winning jumped from about 53% to 66% after the rally. 😂

13.03.2026 04:12 👍 257 🔁 85 💬 10 📌 2
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crooksandliars.com Another Win: Dem Flips State House Seat In Red New Hampshire | Crooks and Liars

Another Win: Dem Flips State House Seat In Red New Hampshire #CrooksAndLiars

13.03.2026 16:05 👍 46 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0

Your daily reminder that not a single Epstein client has been arrested.

#TrumpEpsteinFiles

12.03.2026 10:11 👍 6536 🔁 2221 💬 200 📌 66

One of these executives was set to publicly testify this week — but Trump’s DOJ let the ticketing giant off with a cushy settlement.

It's clear who he governs for.

13.03.2026 01:15 👍 1068 🔁 328 💬 33 📌 7

Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.

13.03.2026 14:30 👍 5393 🔁 1249 💬 65 📌 24
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Rights Groups to Dems: Don't Give Stephen Miller What He Wants on Mass Surveillance | Common Dreams “Supporting Stephen Miller’s warrantless surveillance agenda would be a massive detriment to the privacy and civil rights and liberties of people in the United States."

Rights Groups to Dems: Don't Give Stephen Miller What He Wants on Mass Surveillance www.commondreams.org/news/section...

13.03.2026 16:06 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A tweet that reads “The new academic wealth gap isn't your university.
It's not even your advisor's connections.
It's who knows Claude can turn 50+ research papers into a thesis chapter in 3 hours and who's still manually coding qualitative data.
I just watched a sociology PhD skip 8 weeks of analysis.
Here are the 9 prompts they used:”

A tweet that reads “The new academic wealth gap isn't your university. It's not even your advisor's connections. It's who knows Claude can turn 50+ research papers into a thesis chapter in 3 hours and who's still manually coding qualitative data. I just watched a sociology PhD skip 8 weeks of analysis. Here are the 9 prompts they used:”

fuck this so much

we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

13.03.2026 14:16 👍 2957 🔁 513 💬 118 📌 293

Every commanding officer in the US military that gives the orders to bomb civilians, desal plants, non military targets needs to be court martialed and sent to prison. A strong message needs to be sent to our military that they took an oath to the Constitution. Iran is a war crime.

13.03.2026 14:25 👍 1575 🔁 486 💬 61 📌 23

One reassuring point — if the USA loses, Donald Trump will tell everyone that it only happened because everyone else cheated. He will say he was treated unfairly, and none of this is his fault.

12.03.2026 10:14 👍 411 🔁 54 💬 43 📌 4

So, Trump is insisting he won't sign any bill until the SAVE act is passed. That begs the question, is he for America First or simply a manchild fighting to get what's best for him?

12.03.2026 23:42 👍 1233 🔁 229 💬 198 📌 30
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Send the Billionaires' Kids to Fight Trump's Iran War | Common Dreams Have you noticed the people most excited about bombing Iran are almost never sending their own kids?

Send the Billionaires' Kids to Fight Trump's Iran War www.commondreams.org/opinion/brin...

13.03.2026 16:06 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Marilyn Strickland for Congress | WA-10 Marilyn Strickland represents Washington's 10th District in Congress. Army brat. Former two term mayor of Tacoma, and CEO of the Seattle Metro Chamber. The right leader to meet this moment.

Big news for WA-10!
Rep. Marilyn Strickland is running for her fourth term in the U.S. House of Rep.
From helping create good-paying jobs to protecting our communities and civil rights and expanding access to health care and housing, she's fighting for all Washingtonians.

12.03.2026 21:54 👍 266 🔁 80 💬 11 📌 3

There’s really no other way to say it other than Pete Hegseth is a trashy despicable monstrous piece of shit, he at the very least deserves to be in prison forever for crimes against humanity among his other heinous crimes. What a truly immoral being.

13.03.2026 16:01 👍 391 🔁 105 💬 21 📌 5

Yoooooooooo!!! Where the hell are the Epstein files???

13.03.2026 14:45 👍 212 🔁 57 💬 12 📌 2

the country is at war and the president is leaving DC this afternoon for a weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers

13.03.2026 14:13 👍 9905 🔁 3338 💬 725 📌 220

"Hegseth’s rhetoric is so alarming that it sometimes eclipses how he also can come across like an eight-year-old boy inventing dialogue for the villain in his G.I. Joe game."

13.03.2026 14:30 👍 44 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
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I watched Hegseth's press briefing this morning & he has some anger issues & is aggressive. Authoritarian governments don't want the press asking any questions. For a former FOX weekend news host, he doesn't have any respect for real journalists. He is still an entertainer for an audience of 1.

13.03.2026 14:28 👍 55 🔁 20 💬 8 📌 3
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Did Vance OPPOSE THE WAR? Leaks Emerge, but WHY?!?! YouTube video by Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

Today at 11 am ET, we're talking about leaks to the media that Vance opposed the war and what it signals, six more military service members die in the war, Hegseth goes crazy, the DOGE tapes emerge, and way more.

Join us live or on the replay.

youtube.com/live/qIwh7b3...

13.03.2026 14:37 👍 46 🔁 28 💬 5 📌 2
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Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...

oh this is why Hegseth was so big mad at CNN this morning

"Trump’s national security team failed to fully account for the potential consequences of what some officials have described as a worst-case scenario now facing the administration, the sources said."

www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

13.03.2026 14:19 👍 210 🔁 81 💬 7 📌 8

I still don't think it's especially realistic to expect the military to Do Something about this administration--the norms against it are overwhelming--but Trump and Hegseth are mad-kinging their way through this totally unnecessary war to such an incredible extent that I don't think it's impossible.

13.03.2026 15:07 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 2
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Soldiers who died in the refueler crash over Iraq has gone up to SIX.💔 France/Italy are now in talks with Iran to get French/Italian ships through the Strait. Germany is pissed off at Trump for lifting oil sanctions on Russia. Hegseth is whining that the media isn’t framing the war the way he wants.

13.03.2026 14:48 👍 58 🔁 21 💬 8 📌 1

In the @propublica.org article linked in my attached post - Hegseth & Trump have fired off more strikes in one year than in Biden's 4 years. And said to hell with civilians.

bsky.app/profile/drdi...

13.03.2026 15:22 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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I joined 121 @housedemocrats.bsky.social demanding Secretary Hegseth publicly release the results of the investigation into the strike that killed over 175 Iranian civilians — mostly elementary school girls.

13.03.2026 15:02 👍 83 🔁 29 💬 8 📌 1
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Pentagon Sends Marine Expeditionary Unit to Middle East The Pentagon is moving a Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East, as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, according to two U.S. officials. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approve...

Boots on the ground. The Pentagon is moving a Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East, as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz. Hegseth has approved a request from Central Command for the expeditionary unit, typically consisting of up to 2,500 Marines. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

13.03.2026 15:08 👍 46 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 8

I am morbidly amused by Hegseth and Trump telling us how they've destroyed Iran's ability to fight yet every news article refers to how Iran "steps up its attacks"

13.03.2026 15:13 👍 102 🔁 24 💬 4 📌 2
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82 million can't afford health care, but Hegseth gets lobster | Opinion More than 82 million Americans are having to skip meals, borrow money or cut back on utilities so they can afford health care.

82 million Americans can't afford health care, but Hegseth gets lobster? The Department of Defense spent $93 billion in September while many are skipping meals to afford doctor visits. That’s some bulls--t.

My column:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

13.03.2026 15:05 👍 396 🔁 141 💬 18 📌 9
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Talarico on Trumpworld's "short term pain" talking point: "I'd like them to tell that to the parents of the American troops who have lost their lives. That is not short term pain. That is pain that will last forever ... no one asked for this."

13.03.2026 01:22 👍 11433 🔁 3235 💬 232 📌 95
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12.03.2026 19:20 👍 4774 🔁 1439 💬 516 📌 173

If your so-called president is getting richer during his term while you are getting poorer, you may want to vote accordingly next time.....

...if you get a chance to.

12.03.2026 15:11 👍 3351 🔁 846 💬 68 📌 31