Eric Knowles
@ericdknowles.bsky.social
Social and political psychologist. NYU professor. Music appreciator. Californian in Manhattan.
I could understand Dems voting to end the shutdown if they were negotiating with good-faith actors, but unfortunately they’re negotiating with Republicans.
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I could understand Dems voting to end the shutdown if they were negotiating with good-faith actors, but unfortunately they’re negotiating with Republicans.
It only took a week for Dems to get tired of winning.
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
It only took a week for Dems to get tired of winning.
They grow up so fast.
November 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
They grow up so fast.
I am allowing myself the tiniest sliver of hope that, in the end, the ghouls might lose.
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I am allowing myself the tiniest sliver of hope that, in the end, the ghouls might lose.
The history of social psychology in a nutshell.
Unintentional poetry from the lab notebooks of Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics 1923
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The history of social psychology in a nutshell.
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Beautiful.
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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November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Beautiful.
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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.
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.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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.
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.
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.
“BOOOO Generalissimo Mamdani, YAYYY Captain of Industry Elon!”
So much for far-left media capture, I guess. What a charade.
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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.
“BOOOO Generalissimo Mamdani, YAYYY Captain of Industry Elon!”
So much for far-left media capture, I guess. What a charade.
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If you meet someone and they tell you they're part of the Washington Post editorial board, be sure to pat them on the shoulder, tell them to hang in there and maybe they'll get a respectable job someday.
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
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
If you meet someone and they tell you they're part of the Washington Post editorial board, be sure to pat them on the shoulder, tell them to hang in there and maybe they'll get a respectable job someday.
WOKE ALERT: HERTZ
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
WOKE ALERT: HERTZ
Everything is "socialism" until Americans realize they love it.
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Everything is "socialism" until Americans realize they love it.
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?
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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?
Unfortunately, only German compound nouns are up to the task, and so we'll have to settle for Selbstverblendungsschurkengeschichtenerzähler.
there should be a word in English for when somebody tells a story that they think valorizes them but they're the obvious villain
"No one likes me, I win."
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Unfortunately, only German compound nouns are up to the task, and so we'll have to settle for Selbstverblendungsschurkengeschichtenerzähler.
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?
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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?
Inshallah
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Inshallah
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.
At the same time, the growing urban-rural and education divides in partisanship look pretty realignment-y to me.
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
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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.
At the same time, the growing urban-rural and education divides in partisanship look pretty realignment-y to me.
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Day 79 of trying to be hired by Andrew Cuomo
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Day 79 of trying to be hired by Andrew Cuomo
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
About to tuck in to some Zohran cake at the home of his speech writer’s very (very!) proud parents. 🎉
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
About to tuck in to some Zohran cake at the home of his speech writer’s very (very!) proud parents. 🎉
Zohran crushed it!
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Zohran crushed it!
Turns out holding SNAP benefits hostage to hurt the other party is bad politics.
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Turns out holding SNAP benefits hostage to hurt the other party is bad politics.
The look, I just can’t place it.
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The look, I just can’t place it.
Yep
Jesus yes
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Yep