@steveread
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Southern California. Interested in Computational modeling of personality, decision-making, social reasoning, and social behavior. Also interested in relating this to Neuroscience
New York’s attorney general is now investigating the death of a nearly-blind refugee soon after he was released from custody by Border Patrol, the Investigative Post reports.
Trump can say completely conflicting things in the same breath and appear to mean both of them because, for him, there is no truth.
As a malignant narcissist, his relationship with reality is entirely transactional.
The College Republicans of America have named Kai Schwemmer as the organization's political director. Schwemmer is an avowed and overt supporter of racist antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
oh hey we have proof of the thing we all knew was happening when it was happening
He’s gonna try naming it the Straight of America isn’t he?
suddenly have a new perspective on chatbots 😬
"We're not gonna be harassed by the New York Times who have put out a lot of articles on this" -- Leavitt sneers at the New York Times for reporting on what by all accounts seems to have been a US strike that killed scores of elementary school students in Iran
Definitely worth the read.
That Dem consultants told Gov. Walz to stop calling them “weird” still has me miffed.
Vinay Prasad's departure comes amid a cluster of bad decisions, which include a shocking rejection of an mRNA vaccine, a demand for an additional clinical trial on a gene therapy for Huntington’s disease, and alleged abuse of FDA staff.
I rarely do this, but here goes.
Dems should have VERY clear messaging on supplemental tied to the ouster of Whiskey Pete, Jared, and Witkoff. They've all ABSOLUTELY bolloxed the situation and if Trump wants $$, he needs to get rid of all of them.
Double-tap means it was an intended target. The girls school was the school of choice for the daughters of Iranian officers.
A dispatch from the annals of Project 2025 authoritarianism: Universities are now being required to provide demographic data on all students who applied to their schools for the past 5 years so the feds can sniff out illegal affirmative action. Until last year, tho, keeping such data was not allowed
CNBC: “How do you see this war ending?”
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff: “I don’t know.”
Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: “The claim that Iran was planning on attacking the US or US Forces, whether preventively or preemptively, is a sheer and utter lie.
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A surviving senior Iranian leader issued a chilling threat against Donald Trump in response to his own warning of "Death, Fire and Fury."
I was not previously aware of what a badass Maren Morris is. I mean, "dementia-ridden, diaper-clad, cornball ex-TV host" is pretty good!
Trump's refugee resettlement explicitly maximizes preferences for white South Africans while cutting off virtually all resettlement from places that Trump describes as "shithole countries." Ethnic reengineering is literally baked into policy!
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
"We don’t know all of the crimes, but we can see the coverup. And the common thread here is the U.S. Justice Department putting its finger on the scale to protect the Epstein class, because as long as Trump is president it cannot be trusted."
Phil Stewart ® @phildstewart X.com EXCLUSIVE-AS MANY AS 150 U.S. TROOPS WOUNDED SO FAR IN IRAN WAR, TWO SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER TELL REUTERS 1:00 PM • 3/10/26 • 82K Views
As many as 150 US troops wounded in Iran War, per Reuters:
"...the question of whether the energy supply chain comes back online isn’t entirely up to Trump. Israel and Iran each have a say in that question, and we just murdered the new ayatollah’s entire family." www.offmessage.net/p/elites-mag...
Leavitt ticks through the new anti-trans provisions in the SAVE America Act without explaining why in the heck they're in a "voting bill" in the first place
Trump is literally the dumbest person any of us know.
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
NEW: After CBP's FOIA office released a "Privacy Threat Analysis" of the face recognition app Mobile Fortify, 2 staffers were reassigned and leaders order PTAs to be mislabeled to prevent their release. @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cbp-pr...
> @cnn.com
Several good pieces out there already on this, but yeah definitely lots of ground to cover still. See e.g. - alexkotran.substack.com/p/writing-is...
The Iran timeline just got a lot murkier.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
