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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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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 20h

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics

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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 20h

The closest I’ve found

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 20h

We're less than a decade away from cures for many forms of cancer. It's so hard to see so many people die from that damnable disease.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h

Dr Oz inviting ol Jeffrey to his V Day bash in 2016

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 23h

Professional translators cannot be replaced by AI. Your attempt to translate a menu, sure, but actual translation is an art, translating things not just across languages but cultures and idioms. Only monolingual dickburgers could think it's all the same.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 1d

It’s now official. I’ll be publishing my first book, Respectability Politics, w/ @uchicagopress.bsky.social!

Proud to join a press w/ a strong lineage in Black studies & Black politics, including Cohen’s Boundaries of Blackness, which has deeply inspired my work.

Now to get these revisions done.

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 1d

Postdoc position!

Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026.

Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

While Stanford ends programs for first generation and underrepresented students, they maintain their legacy preferences in admissions…

Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d

Stanford is doing this because it wants to

Stanford University discontinued. It’s enhancing diversity and graduate education. Dr. old Fellowship, a graduate program aimed at diversifying at student body. The Stanford daily report reported. The university also will no longer offer housing and dining support for students from outside the Bay Area who participate in summer undergraduate research fellowship. The Fellowship House in Sanford school of engineering offered an immersive research and graduate school preparation experience for first generation students and student students from historically underrepresented communities.”

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d

Stanford is doing this because it wants to

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

The NYT says Democratic proposals for reforming ICE are “facing blowback.”

But blowback from who? Not the people! Polls show support for most reforms exceeds 60%, with some ideas reaching as high as 94% of the public!

substack.com/@gelliottmor...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 2d

By age 2, toddlers understand ingroup loyalty

They realize that people have social identities and expert their social identity to take precedence in intergroup contexts even when it conflicts with their personal preferences
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 2d

Good insights from @brownphdgirl.bsky.social & @cmslaughter.bsky.social. 👇 goodauthority.org/news/what-cl...

What Clarence Thomas's ideological journey tells us about Black political thought

February 2026 marks the Centennial celebration of Black History Month, which was originally called Negro History Week in 1926. Black […]

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

Clinton's victory in 1992 is the canonical example that supposedly proves Dems win by moving to the center. There's only one problem: The data disagrees. Voters saw Clinton as more liberal than Dukakis, & simulations show even a solid progressive would have won www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-d...