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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 · 7h

This is what ya’ll are letting slip away 🤠🇲🇽🌵I aint changing, fyi

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 7h

ya‘ll need to chill out, Mexican style at my house:…🇲🇽🇲🇽🍻🍻🤠

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 8h

Pure talent 🇲🇽🍻🌵🤠

In another life i would do this for a living…

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 11h

Lucky me—I have 2 cousins I’m close to named Carlos 🤠🇲🇽🌵

Mexicans: so creative with the names 🤣

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 12h

Thirsty? 🇲🇽🌵🍻🍺🍻

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 12h

Blast off with the opening act.

Mariachi Premiere

from El Grullo, Jalisco—our hometown.

In English, El Grullo means THE Grullo 🤣🤣🤣🇲🇽🌵

Seriously, it refers to a type of grass in the area

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 15h

What these wealthy universities should be doing is taking a small fraction of the sum Trump is asking for and instead run a big social media campaign accusing the White House of attacking schools.

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 15h

Mexicans: “cuando se te cierra una puerta, Dios te habré una ventana🇲🇽”

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h

China is experiencing a population decline on a scale and at a speed the world has never seen.

The impact could hamper its economic growth and its ambitions to rival the United States.

China’s demographic crisis means it’s going to run out of workers

China is experiencing unprecedented, and probably irreversible, population decline that will hamper its economic growth and its ambitions to rival the United States.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h

China is experiencing a population decline on a scale and at a speed the world has never seen.

The impact could hamper its economic growth and its ambitions to rival the United States.

China’s demographic crisis means it’s going to run out of workers

China is experiencing unprecedented, and probably irreversible, population decline that will hamper its economic growth and its ambitions to rival the United States.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 16h

This year it will be my cousin’s truck because mine has a new paint job 😎

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 16h

The biggest story you should read today is that dozens of federal judges are willing to talk about how alarmed they are by SCOTUS’ willingness to step in on an emergency basis and allow the Trump Administration to do things that seem illegal. Their candor is unprecedented.

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 17h

T minus 4 hours. All quiet on the Western front before the noise starts
🎺🎻🪉🎶🎶 🤠🌵🇲🇽🪗🎸🥁

200 former Mexican guest workers, their kids, grandkids, and a few great grandkids —from both sides of the big fence—at my house ☺️☺️☺️

#PerezFamilyStrong

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 1d

MIT says it will reject the Trump university compact. USC, when we asked today, declined to take any further position on the proposal. @danielnmiller.bsky.social and I report:

www.latimes.com/world-nation...

As USC considers Trump’s offer tying funding to conservative policies, MIT firmly rejects it

MIT is among the first to express forceful views either in favor of or against an agreement the White House billed as providing "multiple positive benefits."

www.latimes.com

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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Surprisingly, Tammy does not complain about my music taste. Although, when we first met, she thought I was joking 🤣🤣🤣

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 1d

When my wife walks into our bedroom to tell me I’m overdoing it with 8 hours of mariachi and norteño music at our annual family party tomorrow.

She’s crazy! Right? 🇲🇽🌵🤠

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 1d

Still looking for a place to live in Southern California (Irvine, LA, Long Beach) 🏘

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Denzil Streete, PhD @drdenzilstreete.bsky.social · 1d

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

MIT Rejects Proposed Federal Compact

MIT is the first institution to reject a proposal by the Trump administration that would trade preferential treatment on federal funding in exchange for far-reaching changes.

www.insidehighered.com

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

The Trump administration sees National Guard deployments as a necessary protection for federal law enforcement in dangerous times, Marc Novicoff writes. “Taxpayers should see them as incredibly expensive”:

The National Guard Deployments Are Very, Very Expensive

If the Trump administration wants to reduce crime, it picked an inefficient way to do it.

bit.ly

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Michael Leo Owens @milophd.bsky.social · 1d

TIL: “[Metropolitan] Riverside and Miami…leapfrogged Los Angeles to claim the top two spots…”

Latino Landscapes: Where Atlanta Stands in the National Picture - 33n

Atlanta's Hispanic population has grown significantly over the last few decades... but how does that compare with other major metros?

33n.atlantaregional.com

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-C-M-F- @chrispps.bsky.social · 1d

NEW open-access piece w/ @caitybarrett.bsky.social in Political Behavior: "Needs for Security and Certainty Relate Differently to Support for Universal Basic Income Versus Other Social Safety Net Programs Across European Nations" -->

Needs for Security and Certainty Relate Differently to Support for Universal Basic Income Versus Other Social Safety Net Programs Across European Nations - Political Behavior

Needs for security and certainty (NSC) vary in their relationship with economic preferences as a function of political engagement. Among those low in engagement, NSC is directly related to left-leaning economic preferences, since social welfare can be regarded as insurance. Among those high in engagement, NSC predicts right-wing economic preferences, since engaged individuals high in NSC take cues from right-leaning elites suggesting that support for redistribution is inconsistent with conservative ideological and partisan identities. In this study, we argue that this ‘reversal’ is less applicable to universal basic income (UBI), since the latter is an unconditional benefit that detaches welfare provision from specific situations of risk (e.g., unemployment insurance). This should shift individuals to think of provision in terms of moral hazard (e.g., work avoidance) in the context of UBI. Using Round 8 of the European Social Survey, we test and find support for several hypotheses based on this argument.

link.springer.com

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 2d

You’ve inspired me to terminate my workday on this inspiring suggestion 🤣🤣🤣

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 2d

Dic pic goes public

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2d

Don’t you hate it when you think you’re DMing somebody your nudes or your illegal orders to prosecute a political opponent in violation of the US constitution and actually you are posting on main?

Trump Accidentally Posted Message That Could Destroy Entire Comey Case

It turns out Donald Trump didn’t mean to make that Truth Social post public after all.

newrepublic.com

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 2d

Working on a dissertation in American political behavior and need money for survey research? Apply for a grant worth up to $15,000 from the Rapoport Family Foundation. They’re planning on awarding up to 15 grants this cycle.

Deadline Oct. 22.

www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant

Rapoport Doctoral Dissertation Grants

Supporting projects for PhD students doing political science research, democracy and social justice.

www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2d

Trump Accidentally Posted Message That Could Destroy Entire Comey Case

It turns out Donald Trump didn’t mean to make that Truth Social post public after all.

newrepublic.com

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 2d

Pleased to share that I received an exclusive invitation this morning to the birthday party of my currently four-year-old child

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 2d

CrEatiVe CoMmUnICaTIOns are my passion.

-Republicans

William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 2d

hi this is actually antisemitic

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."