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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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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

06.03.2026 22:04 👍 7584 🔁 2795 💬 89 📌 107
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OK Piggy 🐷

07.03.2026 17:58 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

07.03.2026 17:12 👍 3665 🔁 1499 💬 58 📌 27
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NASHVILLE BANNER on Estefany Rodríguez: “A reporter who faced death threats in her home country could now be sent back by ICE.”

Her attorneys allege its retaliation for her NASHVILLE NOTICIAS reporting on ICE.

www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/ma...

07.03.2026 17:58 👍 803 🔁 379 💬 21 📌 7

Imagine how many other Martinezes — and Prettis and Goods — there have been in the past year who we don’t even know about

And that’s not even counting what we don’t know about the camps and elsewhere.

Christ

07.03.2026 17:59 👍 206 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 0

Would not this be the same senator who went to Georgia after the 2020 election to talk with folks there? The same one who had a close friend run for POTUS as the person joked about "Bomb, bomb, bomb; bomb, bomb, Iran"?

For all the sweet tea in the world . . .

#WorkingToFix2026

07.03.2026 18:00 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

07.03.2026 17:52 👍 230 🔁 78 💬 3 📌 0
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Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol

07.03.2026 14:11 👍 3544 🔁 925 💬 120 📌 97
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So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

07.03.2026 16:25 👍 8578 🔁 3437 💬 415 📌 355
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BEST DESCRIPTION, EVER!

02.03.2026 09:14 👍 377 🔁 82 💬 3 📌 34

This could get ugly quickly.

07.03.2026 18:03 👍 1017 🔁 283 💬 43 📌 5

Me Too!!!

07.03.2026 18:04 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This is a phrase I’ll hold onto: “Nosotros no estamos solos—somos los primeros. Somos los primeros.”

07.03.2026 18:05 👍 82 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
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The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought Visa issuances nosedived 36 percent, possibly reflecting weakening global interest in studying in the United States.

NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

07.03.2026 16:36 👍 256 🔁 162 💬 11 📌 23
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How Talarico Won Texas Democrats With Love, Luck and a Little Restraint

A disciplined campaign that capitalized on viral media and strong outreach to Latino voters helped propel James Talarico.

Via NYT Politics (gift link):

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...

07.03.2026 18:06 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

It's his verbal tic, like Susan Collins' "I'm very concerned."
Schumer and Jeffries are hapless, feckless, and behave as if they are both d!ckless.

07.03.2026 17:55 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 1
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A group of doctors that Jeffrey Epstein hired for himself and the young women around him bent or broke ethical rules for Epstein, who rewarded some of the medical professionals with hefty fees, gifts ... TikTok video by The New York Times

This is a real story from the Epstein files, where an injured girl is denied care until Epstein arranged for a Dr. to give her 35 stitches on Epstein’s dining room table, instead of in a hospital.

Monsters are real.

07.03.2026 18:07 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
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07.03.2026 14:18 👍 23368 🔁 5854 💬 408 📌 267

In the same way that if you were a hostile foreign power trying to destroy America you wouldn't do anything different from Trump, if you were trying to jumpstart a horrific global wave of antisemitism you would basically copy Netanyahu's actions step by step.

07.03.2026 18:08 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Multiple sources confirm that the military’s deployment of AI led to the missile strike against the girls’ school killing 150 ...

“The immediate theory is that the AI program included the school’s position based on older, archived intelligence."

maps were out-of-date & AI didn't know that

07.03.2026 18:05 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0

Schumer works for himself, Israel and some older New Yorkers he works for via AIPAC. Americans are a distraction from his interests. Wrote a letter to GOP saying please and thank you then continue being a patsy.

07.03.2026 18:08 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

OMG tRump, WTF did you and Epstein do!!!

07.03.2026 18:08 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Agree this would not be happening if Republicans senators & Congressionals, & corporate Demos (=Chuck Schumer Hakeem Jeffries) had a pair, not even brass ones, just a pair

But it is still possible to stop what seems inevitable

07.03.2026 18:09 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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For the bottom 40% of families, California taxes are LOWER than states like Florida and Texas.

In fact, 16 other states tax LOW-WAGE earners MORE than California taxes our HIGH-WAGE earners.

The evidence is clear, and the numbers don't lie.

07.03.2026 17:14 👍 1792 🔁 601 💬 102 📌 28
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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

07.03.2026 14:18 👍 4836 🔁 3105 💬 0 📌 212
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🇬🇧 The view from @lbc.co.uk across the pond: “If Trump started this conflict to divert attention from the Epstein Files, it’s not working… you have to ask what Netanyahu & Putin have on him… Netanyahu played Trump like a fiddle…”

07.03.2026 18:11 👍 1206 🔁 440 💬 60 📌 15

lol

07.03.2026 17:56 👍 394 🔁 53 💬 7 📌 6

in a way this is fascinating because in the family you hide this member from guests at dinner parties and the US is like buddy he's doing a daily off the cuff 30 min sesh with the press

07.03.2026 17:46 👍 1007 🔁 138 💬 52 📌 5

If this was *anyone* else, Trump would have been locked up on J7, never to draw another breath in freedom again.

I’m old enough to remember when treason was taken seriously.

07.03.2026 02:45 👍 36 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0
The metatheoretical calculus of connectionism — or: how we reason over artificial neural networks
The metatheoretical calculus of connectionism — or: how we reason over artificial neural networks YouTube video by Olivia Guest

I give examples from the 50s and 80s–90s hype, the previous AI hype cycle / summers, here in this video; time stamp at that point if useful: youtu.be/4DHgVkIWhig?...

7/n

07.03.2026 18:13 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0