On “Modern Love,” Sam Graham-Felsen describes how he went from being a boy with a wealth of deep friendships to finding himself feeling lonely as an adult, and what he did to bring friendship back into his life.

Where Did All My Male Friendships Go? (Encore)

One man’s quest to cure his loneliness and get his friends back.

nyti.ms

I'm just going to keep screaming this until I'm hoarse, but until Trump the norm -- for 50 years -- was that sitting presidents had their taxes audited by the IRS and released to the public to show they were clean. But Trump refused repeatedly, and sued when his return was leaked, and now ... this

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

I dunno but it should probably be a bigger deal that the White House announced it wants to slap a 100% tariff on drug imports at the same time it is eliminating Medicare drug subsidies. And we’re talking about critical life-saving drugs like insulin, blood thinners, antibiotics, and heart meds.

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

That Congress is even considering confirming a guy who enabled that "settlement" between Trump and his IRS shows how deeply fascism has become embedded in the Republican DNA.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.

Senate Democrats are demanding answers from Todd Blanche about subpoenas he authorized to New York Times journalists — including whether Trump pressured the Justice Department to issue them.

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

I guess it was only a matter of time before this October 2016 New Yorker cartoon by John McNamee came to life.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 3w ago

MAGA cultist Eric Metaxas was outraged by seeing an air quality alert triggered by the Canadian wildfires that suggested people limit outdoor activity: "How dare they say that. Who has the right to tell me or you or anyone anything? It's a free country. I can do whatever I want."

GA deserves better!

Blue Georgia@bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mike Collins is getting cooked for his close ties to his white nationalist son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, who asked his followers if he should make a video on "why Gen Z doesn't hate Hitler." Jon Ossoff: Collins is allowing the spread of neo-Nazi propaganda.

this clip that CNN obtained of Georgia Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins' son in law, who has participated in Collins' campaign and reportedly lives on Collins' property, using Nazi talking points to suggest the Holocaust actually wasn't that bad is just bonkers

Warnock: “Donald Trump lost Georgia in 2020. He’s trying to sow doubt on the integrity of our elections in Georgia so he can create the pretext to interfere in 2026.” @warnock.senate.gov

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

Was speaking with my psychologist today when I got distracted by something moving in the window over his shoulder. It was two squirrels engaged in some vigorous and prolonged fucking. Make of that what you will.

This was an incredibly complex and sophisticated study conceived of and analyzed entirely by @nphillips36.bsky.social. One of those gratifying times when you realize your mentees are more than ready to fly the coop.

Nate Phillips@nphillips36.bsky.social · 3w ago

Very excited to share this registered report now in press at Clinical Psych Science! In this paper, we put a common clinical intuition in group-based treatment to the test: Are patients’ outcomes associated with the personality composition of their treatment cohort?

One month out! If you are looking to learn a thing or two about analyzing meta-analytic data, come join us before the semester kicks off 🎒

Colin Vize@vizecolin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey folks, I will be offering my SMaRT workshop on quant methods for meta-analysis in August this year (Aug. 10-11; smart-workshops.com/meta-info). There is some more info on the website and in the post below, but feel free to shoot me a message/email with any questions!

Trump has pardoned numerous people convicted of billions of dollars’ worth of health care fraud at the end of his first term and throughout his second term so far - but you wouldn't know from Fox.

Fox News ignored Trump’s pardons of health care fraudsters while promoting his administration’s efforts to fight health care fraud

President Donald Trump has pardoned numerous people convicted of billions of dollars’ worth of health care fraud at the end of his first term and throughout his second term so far. Yet Fox News and Fo...

mediamatters.org

via @camanpour.bsky.social Trump's "net worth is off the charts, bigger than what it was prior to this presidency." Maggie Haberman says we're just scratching the surface when it comes to how Trump has used the presidency to inflate his wealth.

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

Men are too emotional to handle the levers of government.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

"Mr secretary! The floor is hers. You know, there is a chairman. That's me" -- even the Republican committee chair is losing patience with Markwayne Mullin, who is gripping a stress ball as he clearly struggles to control his temper

New post! "Making Sense of Replications (and Some Nonsense about the Replication Crisis)," in which I suggest a journal club reading list of new papers on replication, and push back on claims that the replication crisis is fake. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/making-sen...

Making Sense of Replications (and Some Nonsense about the Replication Crisis)

It’s hard to overstate just how much the culture around replication in science has changed over the past 15 years.

getsyeducated.substack.com

Happy to be part of this paper. 1. Depression and personality functioning are pretty fungible. 2. It is hard to statistically work one's way around latent correlations of .75 to .87. 3. The perils of partialling remain grossly underappreciated (see www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...)

The Questionable Practice of Partialing to Refine Scores on and Inferences About Measures of Psychological Constructs

Partialing is a statistical approach researchers use with the goal of removing extraneous variance from a variable before examining its association with other variables. Controlling for confounds thro...

annualreviews.org

Josh Miller@jdmiller.bsky.social · last mo.

Excited to share a new commentary set to be published in J. of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Co-authored with @vizecolin.bsky.social (shared 1st), @nphillips36.bsky.social, and @drlynam.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excited to share a new commentary set to be published in J. of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Co-authored with @vizecolin.bsky.social (shared 1st), @nphillips36.bsky.social, and @drlynam.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

And then President Trump is going to beat up Iran's dad in front of the whole school and then President Trump is going to take us all out for McDonalds and then President Trump is finally going to tell me that he loves me and then

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Lindsey Graham: "I spent 4.5 hours with President Trump. Here's what I think will happen. If this deal fails, he's gonna take the Strait of Hormuz over by force. We'll charge a fee for all those who go through to pay for the operation... if Iran contests control of the strait we'll obliterate them"

Remember, it's only a waste of taxpayer money when it is something that is being done to help other people

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Trump says the US dropped $200,000,000 of bombs on Iran in the last two days of the war

Happy to share our latest paper, "Exploring the Lower-Order Structure of Trait Disinhibition," which was just accepted for publication at Journal of Personality Disorders. Here is a link to the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... (1/5)

This is a huge scandal. They cut your health care while spending taxpayer dollars on a golden ballroom for Donald Trump. And they lied about it.

Records reveal $600M estimate for Trump’s ballroom project, with half from taxpayers

An internal cost estimate in March by the project’s contractor ran $200 million more than Trump has said publicly and counters his claims that no taxpayer money will be spent.

washingtonpost.com

a little over a year ago elon was dancing around having successfully cut off USAID, which caused ~600,000 people to die including ~400,000 children). now he is our first trillionaire. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s....

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

hsph.harvard.edu

A real headline in the United States today

The man with the nuclear codes

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

Chris Wright has a master's in electrical engineering from MIT and absolutely understands "batteries" as well as any five-year-old child, but you see, he took a job in the Trump administration so he has to pretend he's just as stupid as the boss.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Solar is irrelevant in the winter" (this, dear reader, is false)