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Norbert Schwarz
@nschwarz.bsky.social
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Social psychologist at the University of Southern California. Reposts are not endorsements.

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Norbert Schwarz is Provost Professor in the Department of Psychology and the USC Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a co-director of the USC Dornsife Mind and Society Center. .. more

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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 5h
“We must be steadfast in opposition to extortion under the guise of dealmaking, and we must create alliances rooted in a common devotion to freedom of inquiry…We have rejected tyranny before, and we can do it again.” — Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com #HigherEd
What’s a College President to Do in the Trump Era?
Not going on bended knee to Washington would be a good start.
open.substack.com
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 18h
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...
How Trump’s Chicago Immigration Crackdown Escalated, in 10 Videos
www.nytimes.com

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
No Kings rallies, Oct 18 at a place near you. Consult the link for locations and knowledge about organizers and your rights.

www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
SCOTUS

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
www.nytimes.com
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
No Kings rallies -- October 18 at a place near you.

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
No Kings — Freedom (video)
Why protest is patriotic
open.substack.com
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Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Michael W. Kraus

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 1d
Does AI improve or undercut academic scholarship?

A new study finds that academics who use AI increased both the quantity & quality of their academic scholarship and it appears to reduces inequality (helping junior and non-english speaking scholars the most).
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02408
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Norbert Schwarz, Juliet B. Schor , and 3 more

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
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Reposted by Joe R. Feagin

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 2d
A long and informative thread on Trump's proposed "compact" with universities

#academicsky
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d
Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed
www.nytimes.com
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 3d
Thiel: Those who want to regulate AI are legionnaires of ‘the Antichrist’ and aim for U.S. destruction.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Marc Lynch, Jan W. Mueller , and 3 more

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d
Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed
www.nytimes.com
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 3d
ICE report.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’
www.nytimes.com
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 3d
"Mr. Trump’s ultimate goal is to acculturate Americans to seeing military officials patrolling big cities so the president can eventually use those troops to intimidate voters in Democratic jurisdictions in next year’s midterm elections."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
JB Pritzker Has Had It With Democrats Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump
www.nytimes.com
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 4d
SCOTUS clears the way for more election challenges, likely benefitting GOP attempts to limit voter rights.

#election

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Supreme Court likely to let candidates more freely challenge state election laws
Majority of Supreme Court signaled that it would allow candidates for federal office to challenge state elections laws without having to prove harm.
share.google

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 4d
This.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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Reposted by Edward Witten, Norbert Schwarz, Paul Goldstein , and 4 more

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d
Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."
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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Norbert Schwarz, Will Jennings , and 16 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
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Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Norbert Schwarz, Nicholas A. Christakis , and 22 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 5d
The daily grift: MAGA education policy as a strategy to divert funds from public education to for-profit businesses.

www.propublica.org/article/educ...
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
www.propublica.org
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 5d
Next escalation.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Calls for Jailing of Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor
The president in a social-media post says Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker have failed to protect ICE.
www.wsj.com
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 5d
#academicsky
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 5d
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
www.nobelprize.org
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 5d
The usual threats, bribes, and ideological requests.

#academicsky

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
How Trump’s Compact Threatens Higher Ed Funding, Freedom
Higher ed organizations have raised alarm over a federal government document that asks universities to agree to significant restrictions without specifying what they’ll gain—or what they’ll lose for r...
www.insidehighered.com
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Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Norbert Schwarz, Nancy Kanwisher , and 15 more

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 5d
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
www.nobelprize.org
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Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Robert W. Wallace, Anders Nilsson , and 11 more

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5d
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 5d
#health #medsky #psychscisky
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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 5d
Six former surgeons general appointed by every President since George HW Bush warn that RFK Jr. is endangering the health of the nation, calling his policies/positions a “profound, immediate + unprecedented threat”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law, Norbert Schwarz , and 10 more

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d
Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 5d
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
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Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Peter Thorne, Brendan Nyhan , and 15 more

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5d
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d
Here’s video of the incident
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Reposted by Norbert Schwarz

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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 5d
Six former surgeons general appointed by every President since George HW Bush warn that RFK Jr. is endangering the health of the nation, calling his policies/positions a “profound, immediate + unprecedented threat”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Reposted by Cas Mudde, Jan W. Mueller, Norbert Schwarz , and 28 more

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d
Here’s video of the incident
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 6d
Yes, some tiny chunk of the variance that requires amazing power to identify. As a true social psychologist I expect task and context to trump individual differences unless one constrains task and context in a way that renders the findings utterly paradigm specific.
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 6d
Hmmm? How could it NOT depend on the task? From my interest in the task to the similarity of task and distractor to...
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