@nschwarz.bsky.social
Social psychologist at the University of Southern California. Reposts are not endorsements.
Trump posted this AI video of himself as King dumping poop on demonstrators. The post is verified.
19.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Vance Flexes the Marines’ Might as Thousand Protest Trump’s Agenda VP JD Vance’s trips o a military base in California illustrated rising tensions between the federal government and Democratic leaders
This is quite a hed/subhed.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.
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A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day.
Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏
History.
A reminder: Nobody ever has a "deal" with DJT, his enablers, or the U.S. government. Promises don't matter. The next "deal" is waiting. Alliances are meaningless. Grift is king. It will hurt America for decades.
19.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
No Kings!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“This is what democracy looks like.”
“This is what America looks like.”
NYC
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
18.10.2025 23:22 — 👍 83371 🔁 27456 💬 2188 📌 1787
So no terrorism then?
18.10.2025 20:26 — 👍 42463 🔁 10183 💬 881 📌 500
NEW: “ICE, their secret police, is their tool,” said a human rights attorney who directed DHS’ ombudsman office under Biden.
“Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.”
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
17.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 18889 🔁 6626 💬 344 📌 191
Explaining why he pardoned Santos, Trump openly admits crime is ok if you’re a loyal Republican
17.10.2025 23:45 — 👍 3130 🔁 1234 💬 270 📌 122Why you should attend a rally -- like the No Kings Day rally
First, people aren't great at judging consensus.
We frequently experience illusory consensus effects -- believing more people agree with us than actually do.
We also judge consensus based on what we see around us an in the news. 1/🧵
A map of the over 2,700 events planned across the US for No Kings Day on Saturday, October 18.
No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
18.10.2025 01:05 — 👍 3572 🔁 1408 💬 76 📌 85
“Professing love for Hitler is more than anti-Semitic—it’s antihuman,” George Packer argues. The Young Republicans’ texts “degrade all of us”:
17.10.2025 22:25 — 👍 188 🔁 60 💬 7 📌 2Insightful discussion of versions of connectionism in psychology, cognitive sciences, AI. Long thread with links.
#PsychSciSky 🧪
From chats of the Young Republicans, reported by Politico on Oct 14. The racism and antisemitism is blatant. The MAGA response focuses on blaming the leak, not the messages.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
🚨NEW: After we revealed Russ Vought's "put them in trauma" video, I spent the next year reporting on him, his influence, and his vision for America.
Yes, I got *new* recordings & videos of Vought.
Here is the story.
A @propublica.org + @newyorker.com collab: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.
Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.
Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!
The supposed free speech defenders silence freedom of press. Another step in the playbook.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.
The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.
The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
Negative emotions worldwide remain far above levels from a decade ago, even after easing from their pandemic-era highs.
#PsychSciSky
#wellbeing
news.gallup.com/poll/695963/...
This is a list of European options, many with open code, publicly funded, and free or cheap.
european-alternatives.eu/category/sur...
This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time
14.10.2025 09:26 — 👍 2399 🔁 765 💬 54 📌 21
Concerns mount over increased violence among federal immigration agents www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...
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