Andrew Marcinko

A screenshot of a funny Facebook post by Aldi UK showing an M&S truck in their parking lot, with the caption "Why are they so obsessed with us omg".

Aldi's UK web presence is just an absolute joy.

Are they like this in other countries, or are we just lucky? @aldiukstores.bsky.social

City Police should be arresting any ICE agent that takes part in these raids. They are unambiguously unconstitutional and illegal.

I've been lucky enough to work with some top military folks over the years in the US and UK. Some more liberal, some more conservative.

But I promise you, they'll all think this was absolutely farcical.

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells Top Brass American Cities Should Be ‘Training Grounds’ for Military

So, Pete Hegseth - an alcoholic, wife abusing, rapist, white supremacist tattoo-covered shitbag whose own mother hates him - spent millions of taxpayer $$$ to get all the country's top military leaders in a room to rant at them about "standards".

Even for MAGA... lol
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

#AcademicSky

Not read @lindatropp.bsky.social 's new #ERSP article yet, but even the title excites me.

Getting us to reaffirm our commitment to the public good.

How could that advice be bad?

To regain lost public trust, the public good *should* be in mind

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Texas Professor Fired After Accusations of Teaching ‘Gender Ideology’

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

I don't think ppl have grasped how far into fascism the US already is.

They've taken over the universities in Florida & Texas. They've successfully turned ICE & the FBI into paramilitary forces. The courts are stacked with loyalist judges.

Trump will be running the country until he dies.

Should be illegal, it's shamefully taking advantage of people.

I think this starts in a big way with Trump's speech today.

He'll link "radical left terrorists" with the 9/11 attacks. It won't be unity or de-escalation.

Right now, Stephen Miller is furiously writing a fascist speech that sets the tone for the next 12 months of authoritarian escalation.

Early prediction: Trump will use Kirk's death as a pretext to ramp up the authoritarianism for the midterms next year.

Expect armed "poll watchers" (FBI, ICE, and local militias) aggressively checking IDs and intimidating folks in the name of "preventing left wing political violence."

Title of Project: Examining school-based body image interventions in Africa and/or Latin America Start Date: January, April or October 2026 Application Deadline: 20th October 2025 For more information including how to apply please see: PhD advert BIRES studentship

PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth.
Please share with your students.

#PsychSciSky
#Anthropology

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

House Panel Releases Drawing for Epstein Apparently Signed by Trump

Unfathomably gross.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

Trump Says U.S. Attacked Boat Carrying Venezuelan Gang Members, Killing 11

Wild that this isn't even front page news today. I mean, what are the rules now?

Can the president... unilaterally execute anyone accused of drug-crime...?

Is it international waters? Is it non-citizens? Is it the seriousness of the crime? Where's the line here...?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...

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It is risky for Dems, but not because there's a crime problem.

It's politically risky because 🇺🇸 has a racism problem. Targeting racial minorities is hugely popular with Republicans.

Putting a Black majority city like DC "in its place" is red meat for Trump's base.

A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments -- in times of relative calm -- become normalized in American political culture.

More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I guess credit for admitting they were wrong, but just be less outlandishly wrong from the start next time.

Opinion | We Used to Think the Military Would Stand Up to Trump. We Were Wrong.

How could anyone have possibly thought the military would stand up to Trump?

How could someone with such stupid thoughts be a high ranking government official?

The ignorance of the political establishment in the States is mindboggling.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

If by "arbitrarily", you mean "in a calculated appeal to its racist and anti-intellectual base", then sure.

Grunge is by far the most enduringly cool musical era.

Imagine any other major era-defining musician - for the most part, they'd be cringe if they dropped right now.

Kurt Cobain could do exactly the same everything as 1993 and he'd still be the coolest guy in the world in 2025.

A meme mocking the article.

Can't get over how dumb this article is.

"Why Women Are Weary of the Emotional Labor of ‘Mankeeping’"
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...

Orcas bring food gifts to humans in puzzling acts of kindness Dozens of cases of wild orcas bringing fish and birds to humans have been documented. Are they trying to make friends or do they hope to manipulate us?

This is clearly crisis PR after all the attempted boat sinking last year.

The ability to control the media narrative is famously a key indicator of higher order cognition.
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

This is all somewhat moot because I think MAGA has already won. The political violence in the coming decade will be primarily Trumpist storm troopers crushing dissent.

Mandatory caveat: I'm not advocating political violence. Just pointing out that it's going to get worse.

I've NEVER met a Republican who'd accept that.

Alternatively, Democrats will never accept the sort of illiberal neo-fascism that defines the GOP.

If there's no middle ground, it's a zero-sum game, and ppl will always be willing to resort to violence if the only alternative is a total loss.

How Much Worse Is This Going to Get? Political violence poses an existential threat to our nation and our freedoms—but it’s not too late.

The challenge is polarisation, in the same way slavery was an intractable disagreement on the nature of the country with no plausible compromise.

GOP voters cannot abide a multicultural society where White ppl aren't the majority or dominant sociocultural force. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

All Texas Republicans, along with of course Donald Trump, oversaw the gutting of the National Weather Service's local forecasting capacity that could have saved dozens of lives here.

The media shouldn't let them move on from this with the next news cycle.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

Screenshot from ESPN.con with the relevant quote.

No matter how much you want to hate the premise of a hot dog eating contest on principle, it's just impossible with quotes like this from the competitors:

"𝑂𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦, 𝐼'𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑎𝑙𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛'𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔."