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Norbert Schwarz is Provost Professor in the Department of Psychology and the USC Marshall School of Business at the University… more

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This.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Cathy N. Davidson

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Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
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by Norbert Schwarz

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This.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.
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by Norbert Schwarz

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Negative emotions worldwide remain far above levels from a decade ago, even after easing from their pandemic-era highs.

#PsychSciSky
#wellbeing

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Tracking the World's Emotional Health
Gallup's new report on emotional health shows negative emotions remain far above levels from a decade ago, with implications for global peace and health.
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by Norbert Schwarz

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This is a list of European options, many with open code, publicly funded, and free or cheap.

european-alternatives.eu/category/sur...
European survey tools | European Alternatives
Survey Tools allow you to create surveys.
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by Anne Applebaum — Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Mark Rice, Colin Woodard , and 1 more

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This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d
You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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by Norbert Schwarz — Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Efrén O. Pérez

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Concerns mount over increased violence among federal immigration agents www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...
Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...
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Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Stephen M. Walt, Kate Starbird

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“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.
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by Norbert Schwarz

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...
How Trump’s Chicago Immigration Crackdown Escalated, in 10 Videos
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by Norbert Schwarz

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No Kings rallies, Oct 18 at a place near you. Consult the link for locations and knowledge about organizers and your rights.

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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 ...
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by Norbert Schwarz

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SCOTUS

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
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by Norbert Schwarz

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No Kings rallies -- October 18 at a place near you.

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No Kings — Freedom (video)
Why protest is patriotic
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Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Michael W. Kraus

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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 Norbert Schwarz, Meredith Broussard, Juliet B. Schor , and 3 more

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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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by Norbert Schwarz — Reposted by Joe R. Feagin

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A long and informative thread on Trump's proposed "compact" with universities

#academicsky
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5d
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
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by Norbert Schwarz

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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 Norbert Schwarz, Cas Mudde, Marc Lynch , and 3 more

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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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by Norbert Schwarz

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ICE report.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’
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by Norbert Schwarz

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"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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by Norbert Schwarz

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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.
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by Norbert Schwarz

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This.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
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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by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Edward Witten, Paul Goldstein , and 4 more

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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 · 7d
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 Norbert Schwarz, Richard S.J. Tol, Will Jennings , and 16 more

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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 Norbert Schwarz, Anne Applebaum, Nicholas A. Christakis , and 22 more

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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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by Norbert Schwarz

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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...
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by Norbert Schwarz

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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.
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by Norbert Schwarz

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#academicsky
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 7d
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...
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by Norbert Schwarz

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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 Norbert Schwarz, Stephen M. Walt, Nancy Kanwisher , and 15 more

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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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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.
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