USUALLY presidents getting blame or taking credit for gas prices (or local crime rates, or etc etc) is dumb, because it’s a commodity whose price is set on a global market, USUALLY for reasons having little to do with the White House’s occupant. But this is 100% directly Trump’s fault.
I seriously doubt he's thinking strategically like this, BUT the fact that he won't *sign* any other bills doesn't mean no other bills could become law. As long as Congress is in session, he can just sit on the bill for 10 days (Sundays excepted) and then it becomes law, just as if he had signed it.
Trump terrorized the refugees who had fled the thug government of Venezuela, murdered people in fishing boats, and now has totally sold out the organized opposition and is allied with the thugs.
While also fulfilling the worst stereotypes the entire hemisphere had of the US.
Most of psychotherapy research is progress, not innovation. This review concludes that small, incremental benefits can arise from it:
- Digital tools can increase access and engagement.
- Personalization can improve response rates.
- Simplified, scalable formats can reach more people.
I wrote up a quick story about an interesting funding proposal for public colleges in Illinois. Not everyone is happy with it.
Opposition to data centers surged in Wisconsin. Republicans remain mildly opposed but independents and Democrats became strongly opposed since October.
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Excited to present at #SPSP2026 alongside such wonderful researchers and to share our latest work on belonging with collaborators @pedram-zarei.bsky.social, @chrisrozek.bsky.social, and our research teams!
Thanks to Joel Le Forestier for organizing this session at @spspnews.bsky.social!
They actually crafted this speech, though. It’s not Sorkin’s brand of speech but it *crafted*. Sure it’s nonsense glued together with lies and racism but it has structure, something his speeches rarely do.
I regret to inform you that it could very well perform well.
Our instant poll of speech watchers, which found significant doubts that Trump is focusing on the nation’s most important problems or that he’ll lower the cost of living -- even among a friendly, GOP-heavy audience
“As we prepare for more waves of bad news, I’m remembering that there is always a next right thing to do, that I am never alone in my despair, and that when we come together, we can create new worlds that are kinder and more of what we all deserve." - B Loewe
“Hope expands the space of the possible and becomes a way of recognizing and naming the incomplete nature of the present.” Henri Giroux
You would never see USWNT partying with Kash Patel… just saying.
QEPD Willie Colón
Something is awry in higher education. Indiana University agrees to pay the football coach more than $100 million, shortly after cutting hundreds of academic programs. www.espn.com/college-foot...
New at Tusk: Trump is now openly defying the Supreme Court... and calling them traitors while he's at it
It's an absurd press conference because they have to pretend that the crap pouring out of his mouth has meaning. But the main takeaway is that he is accusing the Supreme Court of disloyalty to the United States and is ignoring their ruling.
I do love this but I can’t for the life of me figure out why the APA citations exclude the DOIs!
"The terms of the loan and the source of the funds have not yet been released."
This won't get paid back. These are UNRESTRICTED funds.
They could have been used for research, teaching, staff, faculty, you know... university stuff.
This is corruption. Plain and simple.
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This storm is still looking "good" (read: strong & dangerous) and I think we are in for a close call here. A few minutes after 7:00. Now's the time to finish up your plans.
If you have been following the clumsy — no, pathetic — attempt by CBS lawyers to collaborate with the FCC in reviving the pointless "equal time" rule, using Stephen Colbert and his show as their playground... then watch him explain it from his POV.
Fascinating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQIl...
This is tomorrow at 1 PM ET! Come hear me, Heidi Tseu, and Joe Brenckle talk about public trust and higher ed leadership. Thanks to the Association of Governing Boards for organizing.
US News postponed its ranking of social work programs this year following a boycott of deans that was driven by issues with the peer reputation survey rollout.
They're not against rankings per se, but stood up when a key component got screwed up.
Climate chagrin is exactly how they think of it 😂
New: "Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Learning: A Meta-Meta-Analysis" by Wagenmakers and colleagues revealing evidence for "severe publication bias and extreme between-study heterogeneity" in existing meta-analyses of the effects of AI on learning: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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New @MULawPoll national survey looks at ICE, Renee Good shooting, deportations, Trump approval and 2026 generic ballot.
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AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.
These continued attacks on higher ed are about control & protecting power, which includes the ability to shape education, knowledge, & history. Policies protecting faculty & their academic freedom are obstacles to authoritarian control.
