Reposted by Trevor LiesOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp 3540921147
Reposted by Trevor LiesCoalition of Psychologists for Palestine @coalitionpsych4pal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026APARTHEID HAS GOT TO GO, LET THE VOTE FLOW! Please sign petition: bit.ly/LetTheVoteFlow to demand SPSSI ExecCommittee respect the democratic process for referenda outlined in SPSSI Bylaws & send the membership-driven resolution on Boycott, Disclosure, & Divestment for 🇵🇸 to a membership vote. 1/4 1108
Trevor Lies @trevorslies.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Critically attuned environmental psychologists, ecologically oriented social psychologists, and other psychological researchers are increasingly considering the role of racism as a foundational force in shaping human subjectivities and our everyday environments. (1/4) 111
Reposted by Trevor LiesJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism 8253951304
Reposted by Trevor LiesAdi Wiezel, Ph.D. @awiezel.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Another interesting #SPSP political psychology preconference data blitz by @trevorslies.bsky.social investigated the association between conservatism and different types of environmentalism—complicating prior work suggesting conservatism might be uniformly related to anti-environmental sentiment. 121
Reposted by Trevor Liespublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/01/2026they summarily executed a fucking nurse in the street and the best i’m hearing from our senators is “get ICE in check” 4476129
Reposted by Trevor LiesDave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 02/12/2025On this day in history, John Brown was executed for attempting to lead a slave revolt in Virginia. Some of his last words were: “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood.” 24017
Reposted by Trevor LiesDr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 08/08/2025🚨New Publication Alert! 🚨 Ecopolitical Psychology at the Capital-Climate Nexus: A Research Agenda for the Capitalocene - by yours truly* Article in Special Issue on "The Next Big Ideas in Psychology" in Review of General Psychology *Link to free download, end of 🧵 1/n doi.org/10.1177/1089...doi.orgEcopolitical Psychology at the Capital-Climate Nexus: A Research Agenda for the Capitalocene - Carlie D. Trott, 2025Psychology as a discipline has been slow to engage with capitalism as a lens through which to understand and explain the human experience, yet neoliberal capita... 1217
Reposted by Trevor LiesHarrison Schmitt @hjschmitt.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Check out our new article in the Journal of Environmental Psychology! 021
Trevor Lies @trevorslies.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Do conservatives oppose all environmentalist initiatives, or does the compatibility of conservatism with environmentalism vary by sociocultural context? (more below!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comConserving nature, resisting change: Political conservatism and evasion of anti-systemic environmentalismsConventional wisdom and scientific research suggest that political conservatism is at odds with support for environmentalism. Across two survey studie… 286
Reposted by Trevor LiesChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/06/2025My heart is with my Iranian friends and their families. May everyone live. 162585454
Reposted by Trevor LiesACLU @aclu.org · 29/05/2025Dr. Noor Abdalla should be together with her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, adjusting to life as new parents together. Instead, Mahmoud is detained in Louisiana for his political advocacy in support of Palestinian rights. We won't stop fighting until Mahmoud is reunited with Noor and baby Deen.thecut.comMotherhood Without Mahmoud KhalilWith her husband locked in a detention center 1,500 miles away, dentist Noor Abdalla is suddenly a single parent. 536882
Reposted by Trevor LiesACLU @aclu.org · 10/05/2025Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro 537310105559
Reposted by Trevor LiesMichael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below! 339647146
Reposted by Trevor LiesMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF 20332956710566
Reposted by Trevor LiesChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/04/2025“IDF materials show that soldiers reloaded their magazines multiple times while shooting at 12 aid workers who tried to identify themselves” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...haaretz.comKilling of Gaza aid workers: IDF troops fired indiscriminately for over three minutes*** 511654
Reposted by Trevor LiesPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Yale punishing students for protesting a leader of a government internationally accused of genocide comes one day after the school signed a statement saying their campus was where students are free to exchange ideas and opinions without fear of retribution or censorship 7517203
Reposted by Trevor LiesPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Wild— Mohsen Mahdawi asked Columbia to publicly admit what they did privately: that he & other students were not "threatening"—and that he in fact *confronted* an antisemitic disruptor. They ignored him. Weeks later, the Trump admin cited Columbia's own unretracted lie to justify arresting Mohsen. 4243101
Reposted by Trevor LiesJustin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 20/04/2025A person told me they changed their research agenda because of conservative threats on certain subjects. I wrinkled my nose, because I’ll be damned if I’m going to be scared away from doing my research because some white folks don’t like it. 732839
Reposted by Trevor Liesdaanis @daanis.ca · 19/04/2025From the 2003 preface of Said's Orientalism. "For all it's often noted defects and problems, the American University - and mine, Columbia, in particular - is still one of the few remaining places in the US where reflection and study can take place in an almost-utopian fashion." Welp. 0173
Reposted by Trevor LiesMikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Social science gives us the tools to understand the very forces that fear it. Kudos to @marahalkire.bsky.social for leading this piece, in which she, @clarawilkins.bsky.social, and I share how, to many people, recent pushes to root out “anti-Christian bias” serve to signal pro-White allegiance.theconversation.comClaims of ‘anti-Christian bias’ sound to some voters like a message about race, not just religionSome Americans hear claims of anti-Christian bias as a signal of white solidarity, according to a 2024 study. 2177
Reposted by Trevor LiesAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/04/2025Hundreds of students and graduates who have protested or shown support for Palestine have had their visas revoked by immigration officials since US President Donald Trump took office for a second time, with several also arrested. Here's what we know aje.io/f193q0 10271169
Reposted by Trevor Liesjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 17/04/2025It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents. New from me for @us.theguardian.com:theguardian.comWhat is a ‘criminal’ immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap | Jonathan Ben-MenachemLabels like ‘gang members’ and ‘terrorist supporters’ are an easy way to make humans disposable 21150442
Reposted by Trevor LiesCAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Free Mahmoud Khalil, free Rumeysa Ozturk, free Kilmar Abrego Garcia, free Mohsen Mahdawi, free Dogukan Dunyadin, free Andry Hernandez Romero, free them all and close the camps! Hard to express in words how horrifying this all is. 421064
Reposted by Trevor LiesVukašin Gligorić, PhD @vukasin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025🎉 Just published in Nature Human Behavior 🎉 Do liberals or conservatives in the US trust scientists more? You might assume it's liberals, but studies often fail to consider the diversity of scientific disciplines! 🔬 nature.com/articles/s41... [1/6]🧵nature.comPolitical ideology and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human BehaviourIn this Registered Report, Gligorić et al. find that liberals in the USA tend to have higher trust in most scientists compared with conservatives. However, they find no evidence that a series of inter... 1156
Reposted by Trevor LiesHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Undermine their “peace process” that entails flattening Gaza and its ethnic cleansing? In that case they’re absolutely right. 3215
Reposted by Trevor LiesDr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article 7816847522355
Reposted by Trevor LiesPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Mohsen Mahdawi at a Nov 2023 rally: "The first to stop an act of antisemitism was 5 of us—to go and tell the guy, ‘You don’t represent us because we have Jewish brothers & sisters who stand with us," arguing neither admin nor pro-Israel crowd moved to intervene Mahmoud Khalil standing right behind 1497149
Reposted by Trevor LiesSandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Ask the right questions, white folks! 062
Reposted by Trevor LiesHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Here's my piece on this in the Guardian almost two months ago where I wrote that Laken Riley was just the first step in Trump's mass deportation plan and sounded the alarm that democrats were going along with it. This has never been just a Republican agenda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comThe Laken Riley Act exposes Democrats’ hypocrisy over immigration | Heba GowayedThough party leadership called it inhumane, 48 members of Congress voted for the bill to deport immigrants accused, not convicted, of petty theft 29338
Reposted by Trevor LiesHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Of course the jackass has no comment. The thing about both Mohsen and Mahmoud is that they did everything by the book. Their faces weren’t covered, they repeated again and again their hate for all hate, including antisemitism. They spoke to people who disagreed with them. They took the best of us. 318139
Reposted by Trevor LiesPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/04/2025🚨The Trump admin is completely ignoring the courts. It's rounding people up in the streets. It's saying "homegrowns" next. If you work for the government or Congress & have any info or tips or feelings to share, please Signal me premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be protected 71315385
Reposted by Trevor LiesPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Mahmoud Khalil was a breaking point, the vertex of so many contradictions. Now, Mohsen Mahdawi presents one more chance for all of us in this country to look at each other, and to know this is not what we choose to be part of. There is nothing to be done in this moment except everything. 7422126
Reposted by Trevor LiesEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 15/04/2025The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too. 5182271749
Reposted by Trevor LiesPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/04/2025The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" 10374282944
Reposted by Trevor LiesKU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Many national parks sidestep the opportunity to educate millions and to “inspire civic engagement” around the issue of climate, according to @universityofkansas.bsky.social research appearing in the @spssi.bsky.social journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. news.ku.edu/news/article...news.ku.eduResearch explores engagement with climate change in state and national parksClick for more on paper in Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 023
Reposted by Trevor LiesThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Every actor, director, and member of the Academy be like 64141793214
Reposted by Trevor LiesYasin Koc @spyasin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This is absolute insanity. US is one of the most dangerous places to visit at the moment. Armed masked people can simply kidnap you at broad daylight. I hope Rumeysa is safe and not experiencing torture atm. It’s horrifying. DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US. 053
Reposted by Trevor Liesmosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Realize how cruel we have become to even start counting anew since March 18 as if the +60,000 people who were killed over the past 17 months died somewhere else or by different killers. 09335
Reposted by Trevor LiesHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 21/03/2025UPDATE: Palestine Studies Search is back up! They could delay us and annoy us, but they could not keep us down. Please apply, share with friends, cannot wait to meet our new colleagues. hrsa.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp/erecruit... 13771252
Reposted by Trevor Liesdr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI... 5529741081
Reposted by Trevor LiesAura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 17/03/2025A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul... 12713075213429
Reposted by Trevor LiesPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025NEW EMAIL FROM COLUMBIA ADMIN: DHS agents were in two university residences tonight — with two warrants "I am writing heartbroken to inform you that we had federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in two University residences tonight." No arrests made. 611454513