Adam M. Kleinbaum

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday
Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name
Genie: okie dokie

But also, home of the brave!

Yes please

Network GPS: An AOM Symposium Our 2025 symposium explores how psychology and personal experience shape network evolution, structure, and mobilization. Discussant: Stefano Tasselli.

We're presenting at AOM, mark your calendar! networkgps.co

Welcome to the RFK Jr public health era.

Yes. Imagine if Harvard said
“We’ll keep our Boston campus, but because Trump Republicans want to make it impossible to have free thought in America, we are exploring a new campus in Toronto.”

It would be a power move that would put MAGA on their heels.

Book burning in the digital age.

Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.

Did they send them to you via Signal?

See you there?

"First they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist..."

The Chinese government is his most important business partner.

Hard to fathom that this is America

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

Don't believe me, believe them www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

You can either support the United States of America and our democracy, or you can support trump.

You cannot do both.

Opinion | This Never Happened With an American President Before Trump’s behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky was an unparalleled break with American foreign policy.

Nailed it

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

🚨The European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas : “The free world needs a new leader”

The United States is weaker and more isolated than ever.

Sounds like a short discussion, at the rate we're going

The bill they passed did not include no tax on tips or no tax on overtime. It did include a multi-trillion windfall for billionaires.

They’re just straight up lying to you and hoping you don’t notice.

Republicans Face Angry Voters at Town Halls, Hinting at Broader Backlash (Gift Article) After a monthlong honeymoon for the G.O.P. at the start of President Trump’s term, lawmakers are confronting a groundswell of fear and disaffection in districts around the country.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes (Gift Article) The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
W. E. B. Du Bois, born on this day in 1868

👇🏻

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

Reddit post from a terminated federal employee: "The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer."

the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941