Neil Lewis, Jr.

bring back shame 🤝🏿 bring back common decency

Screenshot of a December 2025 Pew Research Center article noting that for the first time in more than 50 years, the immigrant population in the United States is now in decline. This trend has been driven by deportations, voluntary departures and fewer new arrivals.

The annual @pewresearch.org list of striking research findings from the past year is out.

#1 on the list: After more than 50 years of rapid growth, the immigrant population in the United States is now in decline.

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

main economic message from
the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it

"Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children even of aliens born in a country while the parents are resident there under the protection of the government and owing a temporary allegiance thereto are subjects by birth."

Inglis v. Sailor's Snug Harbor (U.S. 1830).

There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an “aura” around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks — Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to “ace” this Examination and, in fact,

most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful “source” of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US

Thanks brother 👊🏿

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

jesus christ

The estimated median net worth of who’s running the country:

House: $1.0M – $1.5M
Senate: $1.7M – $2.5M
Supreme Court: $4M – $6M
White House Cabinet: $15M – $50M
President: $5.1B – $7.1B​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I'd love it if someone did a deep dive into the "silent plurality" (36%) of young teens that do not use chatbots at all.

Who are they? Why don't they use chatbots? How are their parasocial relationships? What are their academic and professional aspirations?

That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight

sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...

How Medicaid’s New Work Requirement Will Work

Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

How People Make Meaning in a Fragmented Democracy: Implications for Incorporating Public Opinion into Public Policy - Neil A. Lewis, 2025 Scientists and policymakers often rely on polls to measure the opinions of the American public. They collect brief responses from large samples of Americans and...

4/4. The pretty, but paywalled version of the paper is here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The same substance without the Sage typesetting is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1tlsN...

3/4. and the consequences for public opinion formation and policy support across a few domains. After reviewing those processes, I end with some methods that can be used to better incorporate public opinion into policy, given the realities of the fragmented nature of our democracy.

2/4. I’ve been very curious about how living in what @povertyscholar.bsky.social calls a fragmented democracy affects people’s views about social issues and public policies designed to address those issues. In this paper, I reviewed research on social fragmentation, its psychological implications…

Academic article: How People Make Meaning in a Fragmented Democracy: Implications for Incorporating Public Opinion into Public Policy

1/4. The U.S. continues to be a place where people’s life experiences and outcomes differ dramatically by social positioning. How does that affect the way people make meaning of what is happening around them? Those questions guided this new paper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entire metro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether…”

ICE using Meta glasses to film abductions is the use case fwiw. I'm even shorter on consumer AR than I am consumer VR (at least you can do that at home). But there's money to be made in selling to cops/armies or certain enterprises (healthcare, high-end manufacturing). HoloLens is already there.

Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...

Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com:

1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science.

2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)

Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

every UN resolution is connected to your life, through both direct and indirect channels. You think the US invasion of Venezuela is none of your concern? I say it's got more than a penny's worth of lasting implications for your pension." At the time, Zhang had merely laughed at Lao Yang's

Finally finished The Three-Body Problem, which I (eventually) loved, so I picked up the first chapter of The Dark Forest and - you know, actually, I think I’ll go to sleep instead

Insurance coverage of hepatitis B vaccine won’t change, industry and officials say | CNN Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s vaccine advisers recommended a major change to t...

Because the vaccine prevents chronic hepatitis B for which there is no cure and the lifelong treatment costs more than a single birth dose of the vaccine. Insurance companies recognize this is a no brainer.
Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...

"I am Spartacus" but for sex pests

I only watch movies once or 25 times. There's no in between.