Matt Lindauer

James Talarico: Imagine a Democratic Party that takes on big money and isn't captured by it. Imagine a Democratic Party that delivers for people on housing, healthcare, education, and actually defeats the right-wing extremists who have taken over this country.

The new journal *Experimental Philosophy* is now open for submissions! Very glad to serve as an AE and looking forward to seeing this take off. #philsky

Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders “This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”

The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.

It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.

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Thanks Luis! Hope to discuss it and catch up some time.

What's not reported is as important as what is. This didn't fit the corpo media's narrative, just like dozens of other issues.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

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A quick request for academic friends: if you have a moment, please consider asking your institution's librarian to order a copy of my new book The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts.

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Chart showing detention population, among those arrested in the interior, by criminal record, May 2019 through present. There are three lines shown. (1) Prior conviction (which rises from around 9,000 in January 2025 to just over 16,000 in November 2025), (2) Pending criminal charges (which rises from around 5,000 to 15,000), and (3) No criminal record (which rises from around 1,000 to 21,000).

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

My 6-year-old after crushing me at Uno and being told it’s skill, not luck: “Skill *is* luck, Dad, the luck of whether you have that skill.” Rawlsian Papa couldn’t be prouder.

Indiana likely will not push forward with redistricting despite pressure from White House It’s a massive blow to the White House’s efforts to shore up a Republican House majority next year.

This is big: elected Republicans in a deep-red state saying NO to Trump even after his personal plea.

The balance is shifting - and we have to keep up the pressure everywhere.

We knew this, but we are glad someone really really looked.

"Reading through it, I felt physically ill by the complete understanding of the caliber of people that the current U.S. government threw out because of bigotry and malice."

Come hang this sunday if you're in the East Ridgewood/Bushwick area! Got a lot of cool bands on the bill 👊👊👊 @weisenthal.bsky.social @pewilliams.bsky.social @mattlindauer.bsky.social

The voices of SNAP Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.

I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

We Won't Back Down, Mass March, Tuesday Nov. 11, Meet at St. Catherine's Park @11 am. Snack, orange background

BREAKING:
@governor.ny.gov
just approved Trump's Williams-NESE pipeline, hoping no one would notice on a Friday.

We noticed, and we're showing up to hold her accountable.

Join us: bit.ly/CowardlyKathy

Met at CUNY, came to see me receive a research award today. Thanks Mom and Dad. ❤️ The road here may look straight on paper, but it had many turns, and you were with me through all of them.

The Feds deceived them by conducting a green card interview, subsequently arresting his wife, and mocking them while taking selfies.

The Oregon Department of Justice submitted multiple video exhibits showing federal officers using extreme force against nonviolent protesters outside the U.S. Immigration & Customs Building. This is part of its effort to block the federal deployment of National Guard troops to Portland.

Talking about variation in philosophical intuitions in philosophy bites

Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January.

Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January.

Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January.

Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January.

Every single time, it's a collection of people so bigoted that everyone in their life no longer wanted to be associated with them. Their partners left them, their friends stopped talking to them, their bigoted harassment gets them booted from social media. These are not good people.

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every news outlet and journalist who calls trans rights a losing issue should be forcefed soap and their own regrets

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

I've been wanting someone to make a graph of issue prioritization and party trust for a while. So in our latest poll, I got some data and did it myself

John Rawls, liberalism and what it means to live a good life | Aeon Essays For John Rawls, liberalism was more than a political project: it is the best way to fashion a life that is worthy of happiness

Wonderful statement of what is so inspiring in Rawls by @lefebvrealex.bsky.social

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When Online Content Disappears A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

Did you know that, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible?

I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making.

In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894

People Use Norms, Values, Codification, and Enforceability to Determine if a Rule Was Broken Abstract. Rules are essential for the successful coordination of large-scale societies, with official, codified rules (e.g., laws) proscribing behaviors for everyone in their jurisdiction. These rules...

People use norms, values, codification, and enforceability to determine if a rule was broken

📣 Recent work from Jordan Wylie, Dries Bostyn, & Ana Gantman

Agree. But the question from the literature is whether the true self is seen as inherently moral. Like your question we think the answer is “not necessarily.”

A Disease of Affluence Trump's supporters are not motivated by economic anxiety, but by its opposite.

Excellent analysis by Toby Buckle on the desire to dominate others explaining MAGA. It is saddening that people who are objectively so well off could throw so much away for such petty nonsense. Stay hopeful, organize.

www.liberalcurrents.com/a-disease-of...
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We don’t really explore that question, but rather find that morality is not the only value area that is viewed as contributing to closeness to the true self. I suspect there could be cases along those lines, but then the question of what sort of moral view you have in mind looms large.

Here's a link to access our article "People Can Find Their True Selves Outside Moral Pursuits" (Cognition) for free for the next 50 days @jowylie.bsky.social @anagantman.bsky.social 📄 📎
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