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Jennifer Richeson

@jaricheson.bsky.social
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professor of social psychology with a focus on race, diversity, & societal inequality; political junkie; the beach is my happy place; views are my own

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/06/2026
What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting, TODAY at 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/oCIDw #OMB
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🚨The OMB rule will be the end of science as we know it. MARK YOU CALENDAR for the @standupforscience.net EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING June 2nd, 4pm et. We will be giving an overview & assigning EVERY SCIENTIST IN AMERICA their marching orders. REGISTER: events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...
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Emergency Science Meeting by Stand Up for Science
[discussing OMB-2026-0034?]
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2026
The NIH is demanding that it's grantees cease collaborations with foreign scientists. Wait until NIH director Jay Bhattacharya hears about this! His stated top priority in the director role is to prevent government interference with or censorship of scientific researchers.
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U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
When a Democrat is president, the press only cares about the swing voters who oppose him. When a Republican is president, the press only cares about the conservative voters who support him.
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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Raskin said that if this fund hands money to the Jan. 6 rioters, Trump will be “using federal taxpayer dollars to compensate people who participated in insurrection.” Trump & his lawyers “are figuring out a way to refund the Jan. 6 militia, presumably to get them ready for the next round of battle.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
More university boards overruling the judgement of expert faculty 🤮 www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
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UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Reject Hiring of Tenured Women’s Studies Professor
The rare move comes a year after the Board of Trustees delayed dozens of votes to confer tenure, sparking outcry from faculty.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 13/05/2026
Black people saw the largest decline in financial stability for nearly every category compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Federal Reserve survey.
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Black People Worse Off in Trump’s Economy Than Every Other Group, Per the Fed
Black people in America did worse economically in 2025 than at any...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2026
gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders
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mherringe.bsky.social @mherringe.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Under the Texas GOP, universities have proclaimed that professors can’t teach “controversial ideas.” That seems worse than students complaining about a commencement speaker. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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UT Policy Asks Faculty to Avoid “Controversial” Topics
The system board did not specify what topics are considered controversial or elaborate on how the policy will be enforced. The language echoes similar restrictions at the Texas A&M and Texas Tech syst...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I know the bad guys are winning right now. It is nonetheless striking that they have to brazenly lie about their goal, pretending it is anti-discrimination rather than restoring white supremacy. They implicitly concede the popularity and undeniable moral force of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Orbán rode to power on resentment over the economic stagnation that developed under center-left governments. But he leaves office with Hungarians facing falling wages and higher inflation than similar countries are experiencing. Orbán’s sectarianism and intolerance have sparked neither a religious revival nor a fertility bump; Hungary’s population is shrinking and has become more irreligious, even as Orbán has demonized LGBTQ people, “Muslim invaders,” and Jews. Orbánism, in short, did not make Hungarians more rich, Christian, or free—unless you happened to be one of Orbán’s buddies, in which case you may have gotten rich. As most Hungarians felt their economic circumstances worsen, Orbán provided them with relatively powerless targets to hate.
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The result has been something like an inverse caricature of Republican complaints about diversity, equity, and inclusion, a system in which the incompetent rise not because of their abilities but because of their sycophancy. Authoritarian regimes behave as the Trump administration is behaving—optimizing for political loyalty rather than competence. Merit, in short, has little to do with it.

Hegseth is a prime example. Deeply unqualified for the job and convinced that brutality provides an easy path to victory, he has led the United States to the verge of a strategic defeat with a weaker adversary in Iran. The current cease-fire leaves Iran with a more hard-line government than before, one in total control of a shipping lane crucial to the world economy. The Islamic Republic is arguably in a stronger position today than it was when the war started, and probably in a stronger position than it was before Trump, in his first term, scrapped the Obama-era nuclear deal.

On Sunday, Trump posted on his social network a refrain that he and his toadies seem to think is insightful: “If you import The Third World, you become The Third World!” This archaic social Darwinism is the ideological mortar of the Trump project. It fuses Hegseth’s disdain for diversity in the military’s senior leadership and valorization of brutality with the administration’s attack on birthright citizenship and its deployment of federal agents to occupy American cities. It is a worldview that would assume an easy victory against a country like Iran, especially with America’s new, “unwoke” military. Bigotry isn’t just inefficient, as the U.S. military discovered in the 1940s. It also makes you stupid.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Rufo is also coming to UW Madison, hosted the Thompson Center by the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy. CROWE with just an eagle-eyed focus on the Wisconsin economy.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This is not lets-propose-this-and-see-what-Congress-says. Their plan is more like USAID: eliminate before Congress can weigh in.
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Jennifer Richeson @jaricheson.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Motivated to share our PCAST report on the value of the social and behavioral sciences. Sigh… www.erichorvitz.com/pcastreports...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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‘Proactively fall in line:’ Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to office
Two former employees said they believed the museum was altering its content preemptively to avoid unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
It says a lot about where we are that one can read the entire @nytimes.com story on the firing of the Attorney General of the United States without a *single* reference to that officer's duty to uphold the Constitution—which might just sometimes make it just a little hard to do the boss's bidding:
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Pam Bondi Wanted a Graceful Exit. But Trump Wanted Her Gone.
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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The targeted defunding of science on diversity, equity, & inclusion means that we'll all know less about the world outside our window. @alanyhyu.bsky.social reports on what that looks like at the science nonprofit, Project Implicit (@projectimplicit.bsky.social) whyy.org/articles/soc...
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Millions used a research website to test their biases. Now the funding has dried up
Two local researchers explain why the site matters to their work, and the field of social psychology.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Today in billionaires buying the media outlets that cover them: www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/o...
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OpenAI acquires popular tech podcast TBPN
OpenAI did not disclose the terms of the deal but said TBPN will be housed within its strategy organization.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
John Calhoun said the U.S. was a "white man's government." John Bingham, one of the authors of the 14th Amendment, said that this was a "horrid blasphemy." The birthright citizenship case is ultimately about which America we are going to be. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
So why was this case brought before the Court at all? For the same reason that Cowan’s racist invocation of “yellow peril” has survived to the present day, repeated in modern form by both the president and his solicitor general. Before the Civil War, America was a white man’s government. The Reconstruction Amendments were supposed to change that, to prevent not just the existence of masters and slaves but master classes and slave classes. Trump and those around him would like to change it all back. It is hardly surprising, then, that they would revive the same arguments against birthright citizenship that the framers heard in the 1860s.
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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.
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Medical Examiner Rules That a Rohingya Refugee’s Death Was a Homicide
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
After spending the last year dismantling every program, office, and tool the US had to identify and counter foreign propaganda and disinfo, suddenly the administration has discovered the need to…identify and counter foreign propaganda and disinfo… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/b...
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Trump Officials Try to Fight Foreign Disinformation They Once Dismissed
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
My personal favorite part of the interview is when Caldwell glosses his opposition to the Civil Rights Act by claiming he’s worried about “freedom of assembly.” He doesn’t mention that he means the segregationist freedom to ensure Black folks are barred from public life. So cowardly.
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A good interview with Jennifer Schuessler of the Times. It would be even better if it discussed how much Trump's "vision of American history" and his 1776 Commission were reactions to the 1619 Project and the events of summer 2020.
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Tracking Trump’s Efforts to Reshape Cultural Institutions
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Preach, @governorwalz.mn.gov!
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Updated link: www.rsn.org/001/what-a-s...
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What a ‘Spiral of Silence’ Can Do to a Democracy
<blockquote><br /><strong><em>Protests show people they are not alone in caring about an issue.</em></strong></blockquote><br /><p><dropcap>...
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”
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What a ‘Spiral of Silence’ Can Do to a Democracy
Protests show people they are not alone in caring about an issue.
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Jennifer Richeson @jaricheson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Wow …
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Scientists are fighting for the future of biomedical research in America right now. So please don’t tell me how sitting down with the architects of the destruction of a decades-old legacy of research in the United States is a good idea.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Remember when his Sieg Heil was just a gesture of heartfelt joy?
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 22/03/2026
Paapa Essiedu has revealed he’s faced racist death threats after being cast as Professor Severus Snape in HBO‘s upcoming Harry Potty television series.
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‘Harry Potter’ Series Star Paapa Essiedu Says He’s Received Death Threats for Snape Casting
Paapa Essiedu has revealed he’s faced racist death threats after being cast as Professor Severus Snape in HBO‘s upcoming Harry Potty television series.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
A university’s “content neutral” signage policies are irrelevant to the fact that the historical and current actions of universities privilege some identities and experiences over others. None of those actions are content neutral.
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 17/03/2026
Not really a surprise, but the V-Dem annual report for 2026 makes it official: US no longer a liberal democracy and heading for dictatorship: www.theguardian.com/... 1/2
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‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no. people.com/new-dime-coi...
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Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows
A new dime coin entering circulation in 2026 is sparking conversation after eagle-eyed Americans noticed a small but significant detail in its design
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 13/03/2026
"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes." AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...
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Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics
The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A contrived “people” without a geography to justify it wants a homeland <—- that’s as dangerous as it gets.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
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