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Eric Knowles

@ericdknowles.bsky.social

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Social and political psychologist. NYU professor. Music appreciator. Californian in Manhattan.

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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 22h

I could understand Dems voting to end the shutdown if they were negotiating with good-faith actors, but unfortunately they’re negotiating with Republicans.

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 1d

It only took a week for Dems to get tired of winning.

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 1d

They grow up so fast.

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Aimé Césaire

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 1d

I am allowing myself the tiniest sliver of hope that, in the end, the ghouls might lose.

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 1d

The history of social psychology in a nutshell.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2d

Unintentional poetry from the lab notebooks of Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics 1923

Error high will not use.
Beauty. Publish this surely, beautiful!
Very low. Something wrong.
Will not work out.
Agreement poor.
Perhaps Publish.

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2d

Unintentional poetry from the lab notebooks of Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics 1923

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Silvia Secchi, Nazita Lajevardi , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Silvia Secchi, Nazita Lajevardi, Eric D. Knowles, Stephen Pimpare

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Same-day WAPO editorial drop:

“BOOOO Generalissimo Mamdani, YAYYY Captain of Industry Elon!”

So much for far-left media capture, I guess. What a charade.

Reposted by Eric D. Knowles

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

This is references “class warfare” and “Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani” and only gets more bananas from there. The new editorial page is… really something. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Zohran Mamdani drops the mask

The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors.

www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Anna O. Law, Steve Peers , and 7 more Cas Mudde, Anna O. Law, Steve Peers, Juan Cole, Sanford F. Schram, Robert C. Richards, Eric D. Knowles, Simon Lester, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, David Darmofal

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3d

This has not gotten much attention, but it should.

Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.

Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 3d

WOKE ALERT: HERTZ

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

WOKE ALERT: HERTZ

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

WOKE ALERT: HERTZ

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Everything is "socialism" until Americans realize they love it.

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Curious to see how trying *as hard as he possibly can* to take SNAP benefits away from hungry rural white voters works out politically for Trump. Anybody got priors on this?

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Unfortunately, only German compound nouns are up to the task, and so we'll have to settle for Selbstverblendungsschurkengeschichtenerzähler.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

there should be a word in English for when somebody tells a story that they think valorizes them but they're the obvious villain

✨️Spooky Sara✨️ @pashion.bsky.social · 4d

"No one likes me, I win."

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Eric D. Knowles, Nathan P. Kalmoe

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

there should be a word in English for when somebody tells a story that they think valorizes them but they're the obvious villain

✨️Spooky Sara✨️ @pashion.bsky.social · 4d

"No one likes me, I win."

Bethany S. Mandel
@bethanyshondark

"At the playground with a few moms. I mentioned
that there was a nice group On rambunctious boys in
a class I was thinking of signing my boys up for.
Another mom said, "Some actually have (female
names) and are non-binary."

Isaid, "Oh so they're girls dressed as boys?"

And then the moms left

and this is why it's fun making mom friends in
Montgomery county."

8:10 PM 11/5/25 687K Views

Reposted by Serge Guimond

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I really believe that equating critique of Israel with antisemitism is itself antisemitic. Doing so asserts a unit-relation between Judaism and the genocidal actions of a government. What's that if not anti-Jewish?

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Inshallah

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 4d

Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 4d

Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Bouie is right that many Trump voters aren't hardcore MAGA and instead display familiar voting patterns (e.g., thermostatic politics, voting their shifting personal and local concerns).

At the same time, the growing urban-rural and education divides in partisanship look pretty realignment-y to me.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

real sense in which last night was fairly predictable. real question is why our pundits and the elites who listen to them couldn’t see it. (gift link)

Opinion | Trump Is an Albatross

www.nytimes.com

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing, right? Brendel for president.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d

Day 79 of trying to be hired by Andrew Cuomo

A meme showing my hope that Cuomo runs for New York Comptroller and how emotionally upset that is making Zohran

Reposted by Juan Cole, Margot C. Finn, Eric D. Knowles , and 5 more Juan Cole, Margot C. Finn, Eric D. Knowles, Mark Rice, Andrew M. Riggsby, Catriona Seth, Daxton R. Stewart, David Lay Williams

Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 5d

Humanities where the cool jobs at

Reposted by Andrew Jacobs, Jacob T. Levy, Scott A. Imberman , and 3 more Andrew Jacobs, Jacob T. Levy, Scott A. Imberman, Eric D. Knowles, Sam Kamin, Nathan P. Kalmoe

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

real sense in which last night was fairly predictable. real question is why our pundits and the elites who listen to them couldn’t see it. (gift link)

Opinion | Trump Is an Albatross

www.nytimes.com

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 6d

About to tuck in to some Zohran cake at the home of his speech writer’s very (very!) proud parents. 🎉

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 6d

Zohran crushed it!

Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 6d

Turns out holding SNAP benefits hostage to hurt the other party is bad politics.

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