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Efrén Pérez
@efrenpolipsy.bsky.social
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UCLA Political Psychologist. Director of Race, Ethnicity, Politics, & Society (REPS) Lab. Newby accordionist 🪗. Arriba El Grullo, Jalisco 🇲🇽.

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 14h
Congratulations 🎉🎊🍾

And timely 😎💯

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
WELKER: What do you see in that video?

HOMAN: I've said from March -- if the hateful rhetoric doesn't decline there's going to be bloodshed. And unfortunately I was right. You gotta put yourself in the mind of the officer.

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 14h
amid bad one bright spot: “supremely polarizing” short book w @matthewhitt.bsky.social has been accepted for publication. more data showing sorting of judicial public opinion, a validated short measure of specific support, and a new measure of applied support for rule of law relation to legitimacy.
Dragging this book carcass across the finish line. Finally.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 15h
What if the thousands of Iranian protesters killed or injured just weren’t complying with law enforcement orders?

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15h
The U.S. seizing Greenland would embolden China and Russia to go after countries they covet, Mark Kelly tells @hannarosin.bsky.social, adding that it “would probably be the biggest mistake any president has made in the history of this country.” theatln.tc/EtZT0t1G

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 1d
Curiosity can lead to either support of science or conspiracies. A recent study found that what matters is how people are curious. Those who dislike uncertainty and want quick answers tend toward conspiracy theories. Those who enjoy exploration and open-ended thinking tend to trust science.
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Through three studies (Ntot = 2338), the present research examines the relationship between epistemic psychological needs, conspiratorial beliefs and trust in science, specifically investigating how ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d
The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 1d
I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.
adamjschwarz.bsky.social Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 24
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:

"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d
Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d
PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts

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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 2d
"It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."

Warriors coach Steve Kerr was asked about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Here are his full comments:

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 2d
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
Support for abolishing ICE hits a a new high
Americans have turned sharply against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and say it too often resorts to violence
open.substack.com

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 2d
🤣🤣🤣

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d
Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)

1. Pat Bagley

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d
The most chilling thing to read.
“The bottom line is this: When a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life,” Representative Wesley Hunt of Texas said on Newsmax."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
Opinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All
www.nytimes.com

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 3d
Being a member of the Pérez family 🇲🇽 has always meant rising early to work (given my family’s peasant origins in JAL).

Now I have the meme to capture this ethic 🤓

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 4d
A government run by absolute goons.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 4d
From 2020: For anyone interested in protests and counter-mobilizations, check out @waroncars.bsky.social discussion of “using a vehicle as an instrument of terror” with Ari Weil, who studies *actual* vehicular attacks, the rising trend in the US and ~72 attacks against #BlackLivesMatter protests.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d
We need to get it lodged more firmly in the discourse that Trump and Stephen Miller are prioritizing removing nonviolent immigrants over public safety. They are sinking so many resources into their ethnic purification project that they're putting us in more danger.

newrepublic.com/article/2041...

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 4d
<whispers> what if the real "childcare fraud" is that they don't want women to work outside the home? 🤔

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 4d
Growing crowd here at 34th and Portland in south Minneapolis, where witnesses tell me an ICE agent shot an observer in her car. Witnesses said she was not responsive and was taken away. Bovino is on scene along with dozens of federal agents.

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Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 4d
Academic jobs are premised on the fact that publishing is slow and hard. With agentic AI tools like Claude Code, that is about to change.

First, let's be realistic: researchers and reviewers, like their students, will use AI in their work no matter what (even if your policy forbids it).

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 5d
This.
govpritzker.illinois.gov Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d
Rather than making it more affordable for families, Trump is stripping away child care from those just trying to go to work.

Thousands depend on these programs, and now their livelihoods are at risk.

It's wrong and cruel — we'll take every step possible to defend Illinoisians.
HHS freezes $10 billion in child-care funding for 5 Democratic states, alleging fraudulent programs
The states include California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.
abcnews.go.com

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 5d
Donald Trump is trying to rewrite the history of Jan. 6 because, at a fundamental level, he does not believe in democracy or the Constitution www.gelliottmorris.com/p/pardon-my-...
Pardon my coup
Accurate political journalism requires a bias toward democracy
www.gelliottmorris.com

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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 5d
According to a new report, 33 of the January 6 rioters Trump pardoned on his first day in office have since been charged, arrested, or convicted of new crimes.

Trump is happy to put criminals back on our streets so long as they are loyal to him.
Ahead of 5-year anniversary of Jan. 6, report examines aftermath following Trump's return to office
Ahead of the five-year anniversary of Jan. 6, House Democrats are examining the aftermath of the Capitol attack during the first year of President Trump's second term.
abcnews.go.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5d
Venezuela’s government is arresting journalists and sending paramilitary forces to suppress anyone who is too happy about Maduro's removal

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Venezuela launches wave of repression after US seizure of Nicolás Maduro
Armed militias patrol the streets and journalists arrested as government crackdown on dissent widens
giftarticle.ft.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d
An ominous but essential read today, five years after January 6: "Democracies are often undone not only by successful coups, but by the normalization of failed ones."
dziblatt.bsky.social Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 5d
Some reflections from me on January 6 in comparative and historical perspective (first time on substack)

open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...
January 6 in Historical Perspective
January 6, 2026
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