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Sylvia Perry

@sylviapperry.bsky.social

Assoc. Prof of Social Psych & Institute for Policy Research Fellow @NorthwesternU; Director of the Northwestern SCIP Lab

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 5d ago

My unvaccinated brother died of COVID in 2021. I was about a year and a half into my epidemiology career. Healthcare staff did absolutely everything they could but they cannot cure ignorance. They cannot cure an anti-science belief and culture. Thats YOUR responsibility. Not Dr. Fauci’s.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.

At this preliminary stage, the State has shown that it is entitled to interim relief from the District Court's injunc-tion. See Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citi-zens, 607 U. S. 一 (2025) (slip op., at 1-2). The State is likely to succeed on the merits as to both claims. As to intentional vote dilution, the District Court did not heed the presumption of legislative good faith, see Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, 602 U. S. 1, 10 (2024), because it interpreted the State's legal disagreement with the court's earlier remedial order as proof of discriminatory animus. Cf. Abbott v. Perez, 585 U. S. 579, 608-609 (2018). And, as to both claims, the District Court's analysis departed from Callais. Under Callais, the District Court was required to deny relief unless the plaintiffs' alternative map performed "just as well" with respect to all of the State's constitutionally permissible districting crite-ria. 608 U. S., at— (slip op., at 29). Yet, the District Court found a violation even though the plaintiffs' alternative map would not perform just as well as to the State's constitutionally permissible criteria of keeping together the Gulf Coast community of interest and avoiding the pairing of in-cumbents. The District Court also failed to follow our instruction in Callais that the mere fact that voters of different races vote for different parties is not relevant to proving racially polarized voting patterns. See id., at _ (slip op., at 30).
Kristian G. Andersen@kgandersen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“HHS is punishing a world-class scientist who was working to protect people against pandemics, and if he had been listened to more thoroughly, we might have been better prepared for SARS-CoV-2” This might be the most insane thing yet. www.science.org/content/arti...

Virologist accused of starting COVID-19 will fight U.S. ban on funding

HHS memo says Ralph Baric had a “pattern of deception” in describing virus studies long before pandemic

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Common Dreams@commondreams.org · 4mo ago

"They chose to send an organizer to Congress, to fight for radical change and build a better Democratic Party."

'A New World Is Possible': NJ Voters Elect Progressive, Pro-Palestinian Organizer Analilia Mejia

Progressive organizer Analilia Mejia's landslide victory in New Jersey's 11th Congressional District proves that working-class advocates can win big. Will her bold stance on Medicare for All, student debt cancellation, and corporate accountability inspire a new wave of change across the nation?

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derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.

Prof. Nicole Holliday@mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

Sylvia Perry@sylviapperry.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“In 2000, Black residents made up 22.5% of Evanston’s population, but by 2024, 14.4% of the city’s residents were Black, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.” dailynorthwestern.com/2026/04/09/c...

Evanston’s Black population shrinks as city addresses affordability

When community activist Meleika Gardner returned to Evanston as an adult, she said the city she remembered from her teenage years “felt different” due to what she described as a “mass exodus” of Black residents.  “It’s become more about green than Black,” Gardner said. “It’s about the money and who can afford to stay here.”...

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas@ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.