Stephen J Read
@steveread.bsky.social
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Southern California. Interested in Computational modeling of personality, decision-making, social reasoning, and social behavior. Also interested in relating this to Neuroscience
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Stephen J Read
@steveread.bsky.social
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People like this guy are the ones in charge of the Republican party. There are some more reasonable ones in the grassroots, but they have no power. All policy is being driven by people like Joel Webbon.
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says that women today are dumb, wicked, vile whores: "Women are atrocious today." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
People like this guy are the ones in charge of the Republican party. There are some more reasonable ones in the grassroots, but they have no power. All policy is being driven by people like Joel Webbon.
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Their religion is a fraud — a theater of piety hiding the oldest sin of all: men claiming God’s voice to silence women’s. White Christian nationalism isn’t faith — it’s patriarchy in a pulpit, preaching the gospel of male insecurity and calling it divine truth.
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Their religion is a fraud — a theater of piety hiding the oldest sin of all: men claiming God’s voice to silence women’s. White Christian nationalism isn’t faith — it’s patriarchy in a pulpit, preaching the gospel of male insecurity and calling it divine truth.
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It’s such a fucking scandal that he has no clue what Obamacare even is or how health insurance works
Trump: I want the money to go into an account for people where the people buy their own insurance. They will feel like entrepreneurs. Call it Trumpcare… anything but Obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster just like he was.
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
It’s such a fucking scandal that he has no clue what Obamacare even is or how health insurance works
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of Palantir who has recently pivoted to the political right, “seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of Palantir who has recently pivoted to the political right, “seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Opinion | Palantir C.E.O. Alex Karp Finds a Safe Space With Trump
A tech billionaire professes to hate identity politics, but they seem in some ways to consume him.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of Palantir who has recently pivoted to the political right, “seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of Palantir who has recently pivoted to the political right, “seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
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I'm reading tea leaves here but if you decide to reopen the government of probably the largest economy in the world and the price of gold surges, it probably wasn't a good deal.
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I'm reading tea leaves here but if you decide to reopen the government of probably the largest economy in the world and the price of gold surges, it probably wasn't a good deal.
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I grew up in the late 60s and 70s. I *never* thought I had it harder than my parents, because for "photographs" existed, and I saw my parents and their homes in the 40s and 50s. I thought those times looked *awful* and I still do. But people who complain now relentlessly idealize the past.
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I grew up in the late 60s and 70s. I *never* thought I had it harder than my parents, because for "photographs" existed, and I saw my parents and their homes in the 40s and 50s. I thought those times looked *awful* and I still do. But people who complain now relentlessly idealize the past.
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Seems concerning
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Seems concerning
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A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11.
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11.
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
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Democratic senators gave up fighting for 24 million to stay in healthcare, to stop Trump from starving 42 million on SNAP, but Trump is not going to stop trying to starve those 42 million. Because making American working families suffer & die is what brings him joy.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Democratic senators gave up fighting for 24 million to stay in healthcare, to stop Trump from starving 42 million on SNAP, but Trump is not going to stop trying to starve those 42 million. Because making American working families suffer & die is what brings him joy.
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Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
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Let a single person feed their family with food stamps when they don't "deserve" the benefit and Republicans will be filled with such rage that they'll take away those benefits from millions of others.
Meanwhile the administration is doing this:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
Meanwhile the administration is doing this:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Let a single person feed their family with food stamps when they don't "deserve" the benefit and Republicans will be filled with such rage that they'll take away those benefits from millions of others.
Meanwhile the administration is doing this:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
Meanwhile the administration is doing this:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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Wow — Casada wasn’t the only Tennessee Republican getting a Trump pardon. @RepHarshbarger got him to pardon her health care fraud husband too.
Kelsey, Casada, Harshbarger… Tennessee Republicans working those pardons hard.
The law no longer applies to them in the Trump era.
Kelsey, Casada, Harshbarger… Tennessee Republicans working those pardons hard.
The law no longer applies to them in the Trump era.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Wow — Casada wasn’t the only Tennessee Republican getting a Trump pardon. @RepHarshbarger got him to pardon her health care fraud husband too.
Kelsey, Casada, Harshbarger… Tennessee Republicans working those pardons hard.
The law no longer applies to them in the Trump era.
Kelsey, Casada, Harshbarger… Tennessee Republicans working those pardons hard.
The law no longer applies to them in the Trump era.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Trump’s sham Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin, announced a mass pardon of at least 77 people involved in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election results. This is another unprecedented and extremely dangerous use of the pardon power. Please watch and share. youtube.com/shorts/cHkqw...
Trump’s mass pardon of election deniers
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Trump’s sham Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin, announced a mass pardon of at least 77 people involved in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election results. This is another unprecedented and extremely dangerous use of the pardon power. Please watch and share. youtube.com/shorts/cHkqw...
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SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
President Trump criticized the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during a Fox News interview tonight, saying people "get it automatically now so the number is many times what it should be, it's disgraceful."
Trump says "we can reform" SNAP
"SNAP is supposed to be if you are down and out," Trump said on Fox News this evening.
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
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The CFPB was created. The Trump administration is seeking to eliminate it, despite the fact that Congress has passed no law enabling it to do so.
US consumer watchdog says it is legally blocked from accessing funds reut.rs/4p5bX6x
US consumer watchdog says it is legally blocked from accessing funds
The top U.S. consumer watchdog said on Monday it was legally prohibited from drawing cash from the Federal Reserve to support continuing operations, but that its current funding should last through the end of this year "at least."
reut.rs
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The CFPB was created. The Trump administration is seeking to eliminate it, despite the fact that Congress has passed no law enabling it to do so.
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“A lot of the discussion was about what comes next,” Ganz said. “How to avoid the Obama trap, how to avoid having built a really great organization and just dissipating it.”
“That’s what they’re up to now,” They’re building an organization parallel, but not owned by Mamdani”
“That’s what they’re up to now,” They’re building an organization parallel, but not owned by Mamdani”
HKS Lecturer Advised Zohran Mamdani on Sustaining Momentum, Avoiding the ‘Obama Trap’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Marshall L. Ganz ’64 met with incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani in August to advise his campaign on how to sustain a grassroots movement once in office.
www.thecrimson.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
“A lot of the discussion was about what comes next,” Ganz said. “How to avoid the Obama trap, how to avoid having built a really great organization and just dissipating it.”
“That’s what they’re up to now,” They’re building an organization parallel, but not owned by Mamdani”
“That’s what they’re up to now,” They’re building an organization parallel, but not owned by Mamdani”
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In my dictionary, the phrases "post-liberal" and
"no enemies to the right" and "neo-reactionary" and "alt-right" are merely euphemisms for "fascist" and "authoritarian."
"no enemies to the right" and "neo-reactionary" and "alt-right" are merely euphemisms for "fascist" and "authoritarian."
🔥 A former president & a former chairman of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) resigned from ISI’s board on Friday. One of them posted this warning that “conservative institutions are being systematically…undermined by post-liberals who promote a ‘no enemies to the right’ mindset.” 1/
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
In my dictionary, the phrases "post-liberal" and
"no enemies to the right" and "neo-reactionary" and "alt-right" are merely euphemisms for "fascist" and "authoritarian."
"no enemies to the right" and "neo-reactionary" and "alt-right" are merely euphemisms for "fascist" and "authoritarian."
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A former pardon attorney at the Department of Justice said during a podcast interview on Monday that she is stunned by President Donald Trump's use of the presidential pardon power.
'Absolutely stunning': Ex-DOJ pardon attorney blown away by Trump's latest moves
A former pardon attorney at the Department of Justice said during a podcast interview on Monday that she is stunned by President Donald Trump's use of the presidential pardon power. Liz Oyer, the first former public defender to become a DOJ pardon attorney, discussed Trump's recent pardons on a new ...
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
A former pardon attorney at the Department of Justice said during a podcast interview on Monday that she is stunned by President Donald Trump's use of the presidential pardon power.
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Schumer’s leadership potentially stands on uncertain ground amid the shutdown and criticism from members within his own party.
Schumer Likely Won’t Be Leader of Senate Democrats in 2027: David Axelrod
www.newsweek.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Schumer’s leadership potentially stands on uncertain ground amid the shutdown and criticism from members within his own party.
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If it gets to a jury trial, Berkeley residents will know what to do.
4 UC Berkeley undergrads who put up a cardboard insect to protest Turning P*int USA’s sold out campus event are being charged with FELONY VANDALISM.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.
www.dailycal.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
If it gets to a jury trial, Berkeley residents will know what to do.
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"There is a non-zero chance we repeat this all over again at the end of January when the funding deal will run out. There’s a reason you’re not supposed to negotiate with terrorists." www.thebulwark.com/p/dems-rewar...
Dems Reward the Hostage-Taker
Perhaps ending the shutdown was the responsible thing to do. But by caving, Democrats risk legitimizing Trump’s maximum-pain shutdown tactics.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"There is a non-zero chance we repeat this all over again at the end of January when the funding deal will run out. There’s a reason you’re not supposed to negotiate with terrorists." www.thebulwark.com/p/dems-rewar...
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Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government.
Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.
Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.
What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...
www.propublica.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government.
Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.
Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.
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