Linda Tropp
@lindatropp.bsky.social
social psychologist at UMass Amherst, studying intergroup relations, social division, status inequalities, and bridging differences; passionate about translating academic research to make the world a better place.. and dogs 🐾 more at: www.lindatropp.com
feels especially poignant this #Thanksgiving in the U.S.
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
feels especially poignant this #Thanksgiving in the U.S.
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Postdoctoral Researcher Positions!
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Postdoctoral Researcher Positions!
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man, this is such a good point -- Mamdani might be the first happy, well-adjusted person Trump has seen in weeks
everyone's talking about how bright and charming zohran must be, which is true, but then you remember the spider-brained cryptkeepers trump's surrounded himself with since '15 and realize a single smile from mamdani must have hit like barbecue spare ribs down the gullet of a 12th century peasant.
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
man, this is such a good point -- Mamdani might be the first happy, well-adjusted person Trump has seen in weeks
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They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
They line up perfectly.
“If you’ve always had power, equity feels like a threat.”
"Change feels threatening, not because anything is being 'taken,' but because the ground is finally shifting toward balance."
@rabbisandra.bsky.social
"Change feels threatening, not because anything is being 'taken,' but because the ground is finally shifting toward balance."
@rabbisandra.bsky.social
“when more people gain access to what was always reserved for a few, it registers as loss rather than correction.
But that discomfort is not harm. That tension is not persecution. That feeling is what happens when the world stops centering you open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...
But that discomfort is not harm. That tension is not persecution. That feeling is what happens when the world stops centering you open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...
When Power Confuses Equity for a Threat
Last week, I was in New York City sitting with two Jewish leaders, talking through the polarization tearing through the Jewish community.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“If you’ve always had power, equity feels like a threat.”
"Change feels threatening, not because anything is being 'taken,' but because the ground is finally shifting toward balance."
@rabbisandra.bsky.social
"Change feels threatening, not because anything is being 'taken,' but because the ground is finally shifting toward balance."
@rabbisandra.bsky.social
this whole thread.
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
this whole thread.
in case anyone in the U.S. is still wondering...
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
in case anyone in the U.S. is still wondering...
knowing many directly affected, I personally asked some senior male colleagues to speak out about this during my earlier years as a professor, as i felt too vulnerable due to my stage of career.. it was shocking how much this was 'common knowledge' among women and how few male colleagues knew 😔
More voices from those also affected by Miles Hewstone‘s behavior, hitting walls when trying to be heard. Katherine Griffiths from @bloomberg.com gave everyone a voice that can no longer be silenced.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
knowing many directly affected, I personally asked some senior male colleagues to speak out about this during my earlier years as a professor, as i felt too vulnerable due to my stage of career.. it was shocking how much this was 'common knowledge' among women and how few male colleagues knew 😔
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"We are all balls of reason and emotion. To render either automatically suspect, or to embrace either unconditionally, is to diminish part of our humanity and undermine our capacity for virtue. In fact, they are so linked together that it’s impossible to truly separate them in our minds or hearts."
The new right groans under the weight of its nostalgia for a nation that did not exist. And in writing about a false enemy that destroyed a fake past, Andrews and the many other architects of the right-wing gender wars are committing the very sins they attribute to the enemies they detest.
Opinion | How Women Destroyed the West
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"We are all balls of reason and emotion. To render either automatically suspect, or to embrace either unconditionally, is to diminish part of our humanity and undermine our capacity for virtue. In fact, they are so linked together that it’s impossible to truly separate them in our minds or hearts."
"The controversy around [Mamdani's] words calls to mind a famous post from the old days of Twitter... It calls the site “the only place where well-articulated sentences get misinterpreted. You can say ‘I like pancakes’ and someone will say ‘So you hate waffles?’”"
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"The controversy around [Mamdani's] words calls to mind a famous post from the old days of Twitter... It calls the site “the only place where well-articulated sentences get misinterpreted. You can say ‘I like pancakes’ and someone will say ‘So you hate waffles?’”"
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In the late 1800s, the nativists wanted many year waiting periods for immigrant citizens to even be eligible to vote. Same bigoted shit here.
🚨BREAKING: A civil rights organization sued the Trump administration Saturday over a new policy barring nonprofits from helping new U.S. citizens register to vote. The lawsuit calls the policy part of a “broader effort to ensure that new Americans cannot exert their democratic will on the nation.”
Lawsuit Blasts Trump’s Bid to Keep New Citizens From Registering to Vote
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
In the late 1800s, the nativists wanted many year waiting periods for immigrant citizens to even be eligible to vote. Same bigoted shit here.
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Imagine hating poor people so much that not only do you cancel their food assistance, but you also go after the grocery stores that are trying to help them in a time of dire need.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Imagine hating poor people so much that not only do you cancel their food assistance, but you also go after the grocery stores that are trying to help them in a time of dire need.
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Trump and Republicans slashed over $1.1 trillion from Medicaid and cut healthcare tax credits that lower costs for millions of working families — all while delivering billions in tax breaks to insurance CEOs and Big Pharma. Join the fight to protect healthcare: economicsecurity.us/wp-content/u...
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Trump and Republicans slashed over $1.1 trillion from Medicaid and cut healthcare tax credits that lower costs for millions of working families — all while delivering billions in tax breaks to insurance CEOs and Big Pharma. Join the fight to protect healthcare: economicsecurity.us/wp-content/u...
@warren.senate.gov dressed her dog Bailey as @colbertlateshow.bsky.social for Halloween and words cannot express how much I love this 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
@warren.senate.gov dressed her dog Bailey as @colbertlateshow.bsky.social for Halloween and words cannot express how much I love this 🎃
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Democratic Wins Media
In defiance of Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban, protestors in Hungary stormed the streets to voice their opposition to authoritarianism. This is being almost entirely ignored by mainstream media. Let’s make it go viral.
In defiance of Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban, protestors in Hungary stormed the streets to voice their opposition to authoritarianism. This is being almost entirely ignored by mainstream media. Let’s make it go viral.
October 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Democratic Wins Media
In defiance of Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban, protestors in Hungary stormed the streets to voice their opposition to authoritarianism. This is being almost entirely ignored by mainstream media. Let’s make it go viral.
In defiance of Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban, protestors in Hungary stormed the streets to voice their opposition to authoritarianism. This is being almost entirely ignored by mainstream media. Let’s make it go viral.
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Now we build on the momentum. ezralevin.substack.com/p/whats-come...
What's comes after the largest peaceful protest in American history?
Indivisible's weekly newsletter with analysis and action
ezralevin.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Now we build on the momentum. ezralevin.substack.com/p/whats-come...
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After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
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Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
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After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
Co-sign: "The way out isn't about left versus right; it's about clean versus corrupt, reform versus a rigged system, the people versus oligarchs."
Not only is this a great piece by @adambonica.bsky.social but my inner nerd loves that @dmsilverman.bsky.social refers to it as a "banger" 🤓
Not only is this a great piece by @adambonica.bsky.social but my inner nerd loves that @dmsilverman.bsky.social refers to it as a "banger" 🤓
Apropos of nothing, resharing this banger from @adambonica.bsky.social about the anti-corruption pathway for Dems…
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Co-sign: "The way out isn't about left versus right; it's about clean versus corrupt, reform versus a rigged system, the people versus oligarchs."
Not only is this a great piece by @adambonica.bsky.social but my inner nerd loves that @dmsilverman.bsky.social refers to it as a "banger" 🤓
Not only is this a great piece by @adambonica.bsky.social but my inner nerd loves that @dmsilverman.bsky.social refers to it as a "banger" 🤓
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Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed
While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.
October 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed