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tagerai.bsky.social

@tagerai.bsky.social
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Psychologist, UCSD, researches morality, violence, culture, crime, politics. Author of Virtuous Violence bookshop.org/p/books/virtuous-viole…

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 11m
This number is going to go up as junior folks go up for tenure, but it will also get harder to prove
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h
America if the news covered it like those countries Over There
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?
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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h
Some days when I feel resentful about having spent years explaining that criminalization is the fuel of fascism which is why we have to reject criminalization, I remember that perhaps the time I say it might be the first time someone has considered the idea. So I keep saying it and keep organizing.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h
Ilhan Omar: 'Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced'
"I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.

I will not be silenced."
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5h
New working paper w/ @hannafolsz.bsky.social In 2025, Trump targeted US law firms for their political opposition Some firms resisted by suing Trump. Others folded by agreeing to support the administration w/ pro bono work Resisting firms took a short term financial hit but improved reputations
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h
"But the administration blew past a Sunday evening deadline and ran two of the ads into the early hours of Monday, advertising data from AdImpact shows." He's going to keep ignoring the courts as long as he and everyone he works with are assured they won't face any consequences for doing so.
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Trump blew past deadline to halt running taxpayer-funded campaign-style ads
A coalition of nonprofits had sued, calling the ads “propaganda.” The president has said campaign funds would be used to pay for the commercials going forward.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 9h
This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 9h
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE FUCKING FIVE ALARM FIRE. The President is weaponizing DOJ to go after an opposition leader. It's a massive completely unjustified abuse of power by his secret police to shut down dissent and we won't stand for it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar
The search takes places within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Out today!
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So…EJMR?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
We live in a surveillance state which spends an order of magnitude more on policing than any other country, how is the most powerful people in the country still feel unprotected? Why do you think that it?
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
fyi if you haven't read this you should,
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“They invoked academic freedom and then began erasing fields of study they found politically inconvenient. They railed against ‘indoctrination,’ and then argued that the state is entitled to control everything said in the classroom.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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All The Things You’re Not Allowed To Say In Texas
The state now controls what professors can teach.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2026
This article offers half a dozen reasons why people have stopped having friends and family over, but it ignores the fact that the women who planned parties and kept homes tidy enough for unplanned guests are now working for pay full-time (usually more than 9-5). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’
It used to be quite normal to pop next door for a coffee or invite friends over for dinner. But not any more. What’s behind this change – and just how damaging is it?
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A calculator first, a complete ecosystem within!
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Very grateful to go on @onthemedia.bsky.social to discuss Chris Rufo, his “Indian Question,” and why Rufo deserves more of the media’s scorn and disdain, and less polite sit-down interviews on New York Times podcasts www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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Polarization Is Not Our Biggest Problem | On the Media | WNYC Studios
During an I.C.E. operation in New York City, officers shot a man in a car while a child sat in the back seat. On this week’s On the Media, coverage of I.C.E. has decreased since the s...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What kind of controversial truths will the prize celebrate? Let me look at the opening paragraph to get a sense. Ahh. Ahh.
One of us (Mr. Fryer) released a study in 2016—later published in the Journal of Political Economy—finding that police aren't more likely to shoot black Americans than white Americans, after accounting for the relevant context. Colleagues who read the draft warned him not to publish: "You'll ruin your career." The paper was denounced on social media within minutes of release, and Mr. Fryer needed armed protection for more than a month. Privately, scholars who read the study called it rigorous, honest work.
Publicly, many of the same scholars said nothing. No single study settles a question this large-but silence isn't how science advances.
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Still sympathetic to trieze’s speech on drone warfare tbh
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
recently my oldest has gotten into gunpla so stoked
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
I am sure it’s been said but bowing to white supremacy is participating in white supremacy. There is no compromising with segregationists. They’d have been lucky to learn from @ruha9.bsky.social! But instead they tried to censor her work and words. Embarrassing and predictable.
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Johanna Ray Vollhardt @jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now published in JSPP: "Epistemic Violence and Academic Repression: Anti-Palestinian Racism and the Politics of Knowledge Production in the Context of the Gaza Genocide" (Veronese, Fiscone, Cavazzoni, Shaloub-Kevorkian, & Kagee). Read and download here: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
official confirmation that the paperwork is made up after the arrest, it is literally just a people stealing operation
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In case you were wondering whether or not local cops were gonna stop ICE when they show up at polling places in blue cities, the answer is a resounding no
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This spring, I wrote about the problems with the serial rapist model and why It's important to follow the evidence even when the data challenges our belief in a just world. The post is circulating again 💔 so I thought I would share it here. natematias.medium.com/when-science...
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When Science Isn’t Gaslighting You After All
Science can save lives by overturning our deepest, most well-meaning assumptions about the causes of harm
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 09/10/2026
So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
he communicates clearly.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 09/10/2026
hmmm
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
‘the three enemies of anthropology are religion, nazism, and woke leftism’ wut
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.
Chapters in Part III take stock of the current state of evolutionary psychology, by casting wider attention to other social and behavioral sciences and assessing the field's influence on them. In Chapter 11 ('Evolutionary psychology and anthropology'), Heiner Rindermann identifies three major forces that oppose scientific anthropology: Religion, National Socialism ('Nazism'), and woke leftist ideology. Ironically, in this sense, woke left ideologues, who include most anthropologists themselves, geneticists, and other university academics, share much in common with the Nazis in their common opposition to scientific anthropology.
Rindermann's extensive review of the literature leaves no doubt that humans are genetically polytypic and contain different biological races or 'subspecies' At the end of the chapter, Rindermann delivers devastating rebuttals to all potential arguments against the notion of races/subspecies among humans.
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just turned it on as they gave up a 3rd and 21 lol
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
sounds like you‘re saying 2026 cowboys team would be a solid 1996 cowboys team
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the most quintessentially American thing I can imagine.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
The US has a long history of suffering and death as public spectacle and the administration has been tapping into that vein of US tradition since their return.
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It really wasn’t that long ago that people used to treat public executions as spectacles to bring a picnic to. While it feels like morality has changed a lot, it can flip back pretty quickly for stuff like this where the underlying cruelty never went away, but just became less visible
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The "this is not who we are folks" are going to be distressed.
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New report on academic freedom and campus repression from the middle east studies association that’s worth a look. afi.mesana.org/resource/les...
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Lessons in Repression: Silencing Campus Workers on Palestine Since October 7, 2023 | The MESA Academic Freedom Initiative
Report Preview It has been three years since campuses across the US and Canada erupted in protest against Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip. And despite public demonization, mass arrests, harassment...
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
how about a sector by sector analysis of 40 years of wage theft, particularly in fields related to public service, education, and care work?
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A College-by-College Guide to Which Majors Pay Off — or Don’t
College is one of the biggest investments you’ll ever make. We built a tool to compare the earnings of all available majors in a federal data set at nearly every school.
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Same. Its like airlines logic or something
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At Cal, some of our large classes are in rooms too small for all the students enrolled. When I learned this, I wanted to flip a table…education can’t include specifically encouraging students to not show up. www.sacbee.com/news/local/e...
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UC is hitting its enrollment targets. But permanent faculty hiring lags
Faculty say the University of California’s reputation for academic excellence and its contribution to new ideas and innovations is at stake.
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