Judge Stephanie Gallagher, a Trump appointee in MD, says the administration flagrantly and repeatedly defied her orders to provide regular updates about the man’s return. But she stops short of finding contempt. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you could be a sentient fruit, what would you be?

🐂 Nope!
It’s still there.
It just didn’t pop up this time when I searched for it. 🤷‍♀️

I’m sorry your Aldis makes you feel like that.

We love Aldis and we LOVE going through the self checkout.

Hopefully yours gets self-checkout soon 🤞

If you're interested in this topic you can watch this interview I did on Substack or read this (co)author's book: The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony asharangappa.substack.com/p/class-48-h...

Trump and Hegesth need people to be mindless zombies, only follow the orders that their given, not think more holistically about them. So literally anything that might cause someone to question: Is this order aligned with my oath? is a huge threat. To them, "treason" (which it's not) /END

What the ad does is remind servicemembers of their duty/loyalty to the Constitution, not to the person giving them orders. It is a subtle reorientation of their duty to higher principles. But for Trump and Hegseth, this is a problem 4/

Studies show, for example, that triggering someone's "civic" identity can help them evaluate information more objectively. So someone who is fiercely political actually has the capacity to be more impartial once they are empaneled on a jury and see themselves as a "juror" 3/

So, for instance, I am a mom, a lawyer, a professor, a woman, a child of immigrants, among many identities I have. Depending on which on is triggered, I may interpret and evaluate the same situation in different ways -- in other words, the lens through which I see the world can change 2/