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Eric Knowles

@ericdknowles.bsky.social
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Social and political psychologist. NYU professor. Music appreciator. Californian in Manhattan. ericdknowles.com [research] github.com/eric-d-knowles [code]

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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social pinpoints something critical to understand Trump: he doesn't care if the world were to end with him, and may even find satisfaction in the notion that it might.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Or maybe—and bear with me here—centrists Democrats who have failed utterly to help the working class and reign in corruption should sit this one out.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Need to talk to my cat about his posture.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If so, it’s a bit like what I complained about here:
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It’s noteworthy, but shouldn’t be, that it’s now politically acceptable to regard Palestinian lives as having value.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Good opportunity for D.S.A. Democrats to channel their inner Milchicks and invite their neoliberal colleagues to devour feculence.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Once in a while, I like to pop over to X to see what’s going down in that mess. I can report that nothing—not a single thing!—has changed. Here’s one of the more venerable grifters misattributing the right’s lack of ideological constraint (Converse, 1964) to open-mindedness.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I find it reassuring that a mere 38.4% of my fellow Americans are in a cult.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The trend is incredibly important and encouraging. Since 2009, approval of labor unions has risen from 48% to 68%. That's a massive swing over just 16 years, and the increase is almost perfectly linear. This shows why the Democratic Party needs to embrace anti-neoliberal left-populism.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Alternative framing: Democratic administrations distribute disaster aid fairly, while Republican administrations are biased against blue states.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We wrote a relevant paper.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
How about Rennie Sparks or Brett Sparks or Mitski or St. Vincent or Joanna Newsom? David Byrne isn't even on the list, and he's a critical favorite. No Jeff Tweedy, either. Although he voted—and, cutely, included himself.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Platner's polls have bounced back after last month's tattoo+Reddit revelations, and he now leads Mills by 30+ points. Lots of folks claim that Collins will crush Platner in the general election, citing all the same reasons that *haven't mattered a bit* in the primary. The logic here escapes me. 🤔
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This aged as well as it’s possible for anything to age.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
File under: saying the quiet part out loud
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Inshallah.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Coercing a country into opening shipping lanes by destroying its ability to produce electricity almost certainly illegal under international law. I hope the @nytimes.com is working on a piece about how the President of the United States is threatening war crimes. Citations: 1/
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
If war crimes still existed in any practical sense, this would be one.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Also, this would be a war crime.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on how organizations can help Minnesota defray the costs of Trump's ICE incursion: "Hold your next convention here." @spspsc.bsky.social should get a Minneapolis conference on the books! (after Philly?)
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
It's increasingly clear that the United States killed roughly 175 school children in Iran—and you can bet none of the ghouls who did this are going to lose sleep over it. I hate this timeline so much.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Some absolutely amazing Streisand Effect happening here
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Tip o' the hat to Drudge.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Thinking of making this my profile banner.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Tony Tulathimutte had these life-hacky tech-bros' number back in 2008. From his story "Our Dope Future":
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I would like to know less than nothing about the Melania documentary, thanks very much.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I'm not one to point out bothsides-y journalistic framings, but this upsets me. The administration has not been found to "advance one-sided narratives." It has been found to spread lies and smears. Calling Good or Pretty domestic terrorists bent on murder is outright, wholesale fabrication.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
My wife is apparently commanding NORAD now.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I can't look at Marco Rubio without thinking of Faust/Gob.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The fact that anyone cares what the government of Israel says is one of life’s great mysteries.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Nate Silver wrote a whole article about one of his tweets. His verdict: "I think it was a good tweet."
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Lol. Is this what happens when you ask AI to draw Steve Pinker?
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
MAGA isn’t doing so well in the court of legal opinion.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
“Worst of the worst”
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
“I have a large foundation, but I don’t put my name on it,” Mr. Musk said. Though his charity is called the Musk Foundation (muskfoundation.org), Mr. Musk clarified that the name refers solely to the aromatic, reddish-brown secretion of the male musk deer.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Just not one of the pressing questions of the day, but thanks, Nate.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Bottle these expressions.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Trump is ~15% in the hole. Happy Friday!
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I can't read "Curd Tart" without spoonerizing it into "Turd Cart." I really just can't.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Since Trump 2.0, AFFLUENT Americans’ wages have recovered: They’re growing faster than inflation for the first time since Covid. Low-income Americans? Their wages *had* been keeping pace with inflation. Now, after Trumps’s tariffs and other bullshit, they lag behind. Reagan is smiling up at us.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
It’s so achingly clear that this regime‘s answer to DEI is a record-breaking level of incompetence.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Hobbes is being unfair here. Whether or not it's also a Republican attack line, Pete is straight-up echoing the Marxian argument that identity calculi without consistent class analysis fosters false consciousness. Which it does. FFS, Pete's dad was a Gramsci scholar!
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
They grow up so fast.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Aimé Césaire
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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.
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
About to tuck in to some Zohran cake at the home of his speech writer’s very (very!) proud parents. 🎉
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Zohran crushed it!
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