Norbert Schwarz
@nschwarz.bsky.social
Social psychologist at the University of Southern California. Personal account. Reposts are not endorsements.
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." ― Margaret Atwood
Megalomaniac Arc de Trump would adversely affect the sight of 37 historic locations in DC. Park Service invites comments by Thursday. No paywall. #ArcDeTrump #Arch www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Park Service Finds Trump’s Arch Could Detract From Dozens of Historic Places (Gift Article)
The 250-foot-tall edifice would alter views across Washington and Arlington Cemetery.
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RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP. Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow
Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
We’ve seen this before.
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BREAKING: Pirro has dismissed the case against Davey Hearn for vandalizing the reflecting pool, saying that there's no way vandals could have caused the damage.
New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...
Watching the show trials
Anthony Fauci and the politics of retribution
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Trump asks SCOTUS to treat sexual harassment and defamation as covered by his immunity for official acts in office. Reality beats satire. #MeToo #scotus wapo.st/4fHoABy
Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn $83 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case
Trump’s attorneys asserted a 2024 high court decision granting presidents sweeping immunity for actions taken in office shields him from liability in the case.
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Revenge is a personal thing. Trump reviews investigative interviews, eliminating any distance between White House and law enforcement. A Hallmark of autocracies. #comey #autocracy www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
Trump Demanded Details of Agents’ Interview of Comey, New Filing Says (Gift Article)
The demand suggests the intense personal involvement of President Trump in investigating one of his longtime critics, the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci read his opening statement, which discussed Rand Paul's "unhinged" pursuit of him and then invoked the 5th Amendment before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at a hearing about the origins of Covid and the government’s response to the pandemic.
Members of Trump’s own team have acknowledged Russia’s role in aiding Iran during the ongoing war. Trump could believe them, but he wants to double check with the suspected Russian war criminal and former KGB agent whose word he trusts implicitly for unexplained reasons. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Trump says he’ll ask Putin about Russia’s role in assisting Iran during U.S. war
The American president could accept his own team’s findings, but he wants to double-check with the suspected Russian war criminal and former KGB agent.
ms.now
MAGA democracy: if they don't vote for you, don't let them vote, or at least make it as hard as you can. Another chance for SCOTUS to hurt voting rights. No paywall. #voting #elections wapo.st/4c3tt6U
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow new limits on mail ballots
The appeal to the justices is part of a high-stakes push by President Donald Trump and his allies to put fresh limits on voting ahead of pivotal elections where control of the House and the Senate is ...
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Don't miss your chance to get a large, no-bid government contract from RFK Jr. You know what to do.
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 2w agoThere it is. RFK Jr’s son, “Finn” Kennedy recently launched his own investment fund focused on AI in healthcare. It should surprise no one that he worked at 8VC—the investment fund launched by Peter Thiel’s Palantir co-founder (Joe Lonsdale)—in 2025. 4/24/26 … 1/ www.facebook.com/financialtim...
Revenge counts more than the future of the planet: climate science and infrastructure grants canceled for blue states -- with blue being the only criterion. #climate #environment #corruption www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Explosive growth of AI generated advertising with misleading health information. No regulation in sight. #health #ai #misinformation #cogpsyc #socialpsyc www.nytimes.com/video/techno...
Video: The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your Feed
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The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.
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Another reduction in ICE accountability. Seems designed to keep the FBI from accidentally collecting evidence that could be used against an agent. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...
Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations (Gift Article)
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
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It’s your right and your obligation to call out corruption and abuse.
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
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Histories of spousal abuse and domestic violence do not prevent ICE employment.
Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /
No surprise: ICE cases against protesters not holding up in courts. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: How Criminal Cases Against ICE Protesters Are Crumbling
Our investigative reporter Danny Hakim describes how the government has lost or abandoned hundreds of criminal cases against protesters and immigrants.
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📣Authoritarians are predictable. They all do the same tired shit. One of their favorite moves? Undermining faith in elections to reduce turnout while laying the groundwork to contest results that don’t go their way. They are sore losers & consummate cheaters. protectdemocracy.org/work/the-aut...
The Authoritarian Playbook - Protect Democracy
Today’s authoritarian playbook is a process that happens piecemeal and is hard to distinguish from normal political jockeying.
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Megan O'Matz@megomatz.bsky.social · 3w agoPublic money is fueling a huge growth in private schools. There's no real tracking or monitoring so @propublica.org embarked on a count, finding new schools in barns, addiction treatment centers, co-working spaces, churches & a family fun center. www.propublica.org/article/priv...
ICE is informing Iran about Iranian asylum seekers. Wants to send them back. #iran #asylum #humanrights www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
Court Filings Describe Ongoing Contact Between ICE and Iran on Deportations (Gift Article)
In a sworn declaration, a lawyer says an Iranian official reported receiving regular dossiers on Iranian detainees from Immigration and Customs Enforcement for months.
nytimes.com
Screening for brains might have spared us some foolishness. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
Hegseth Plans to Screen All Troops, Including Women, for Low Testosterone
Pete Hegseth, as defense secretary, has sought to cultivate an image as a manosphere-friendly leader.
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Corruption update: How companies seeking government contracts pour millions into Trump's activities. Even the business friendly, conservative WSJ finds it worrisome. No paywall. #corruption www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The Mystery Money Powering Trump’s Second Term
The president and his allies have built a network of groups financed by wealthy donors and businesses that is advancing his priorities with little public disclosure.
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Amazing! ICE kills a man ~7:30 am. 1st news report is an hour later. ~1:30 pm, a group of 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 marches in Main Street and "storms into the Biddeford office of [U.S.] Sen. Susan Collins." Would be hard to do in NYC. Biddeford pop. = 22,000! www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...
![As the crowd marched down Main Street and gathered outside Sen. Collins’ Biddeford office, about a dozen people made it inside the entryway, chanting “Vote her out!” and banging their fists on the office’s locked doors.
Staffers inside could be seen on the phone as the crowd grew. Minutes later, five Biddeford police officers pushed through the entryway and placed themselves between protestors and the door.
“This is your fault Susan!” one man shouted.
“You're a fascist!” another person yelled at the officers.
photo of protesters with signs reading
GET THE FUCK OUT
14TH AMENDMENT: DUE PROCESS FOR ALL NO EXCEPTIONS
A woman with a bullhorn
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A group storms into the Biddeford office of Sen. Susan Collins on Monday after a man was shot in an altercation with federal immigration agents at the intersection of Hill and Pool streets. (Derek Davis/Staff Photographer)
The crowd dissipated and began marching back toward Mechanics Park after chanting at and heckling the officers.
Police did not answer questions about whether Collins’ staffers called 911 on protestors.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2wyqv44lm72vasmddeqjgy72/bafkreif2jwyo6wtnwslutdw26zy25zo5dq7mfdwbg6jwi7nsur5lx4224i)
