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You know this is 100% going to happen…

submitted 3 days ago • 369 comments

The airlines hoping to cash in on this administration's opposition to Inclusion. Inclusion means including people with disabilities in normal activities, such as flying in airplanes. The airlines would love to leave those using wheelchairs on the ground.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

What comes after they accomplish their dreams?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If humans are endowed "with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," consider that we evolved to gossip, to play, to make things, and to make love.You can try to change what the words mean, but you can't change our evolved needs for freedom.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The ones who are tearing things down are truly not like us. They don't understand art, or science, or complex ideas. After the slap dash way they "uncovered" fraud because COBOL, I'm not even sure they understand coding.🧪🖋️🖼️💻

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Real freedom is psychological freedom, when one feels free to be oneself within a caring community. Let's take back that word from free market fanatics, who equate freedom with the unregulated opportunity to dominate, to aggress, to take resources, to despoil nature, and to enslave others.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

First, we have to take back our words. They say "freedom" is free markets, no minimum wage, no regulations, and all human services privatized. We KNOW that freedom means having the hours and energy to be human beings, NOT being worked to exhaustion to be able to eat, as slaves do.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

A rare and important contribution that balances the benefits of genomics and education studies with the dangers.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

What if creating a discipline named Cognitive Science was an opportunity for male flight from the increasing numbers of women in Psychology? Check authors, citations…

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Somebody needs to channel Audre Lorde and explain to the institutional leaders of higher education that their silence will not protect us. We need to be 10 toes down and LOUD about celebrating and explaining the value of education, the importance of free inquiry, the life saving impact of research..

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

🧪 I realized today that if you cut DEI from psychological science -- that is, the stories of those who countered scientific racism, sexism, and ableism-- all you have left is a 150 year long eugenics project.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Time for a shadow cabinet, a loyal opposition, to prevent or counter every stupid move made by the Administration. See Hubbell's list for the shadow cabinet. What is yours?

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

We’re officially in full airport mode all the time now: everything is crazy expensive, sweatpants are acceptable at all times, nobody’s judging anyone for drinking more than they usually do, and we’re all just out here buying books and coffee to deal with the stress

submitted 14 days ago • 65 comments

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @margaretatwood.bsky.social @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Remember that part of the Handmaid's Tale where they confiscate all the women's bank accounts? I remember thinking, that would be impossible. Now Elon Musk has every woman's bank account number she used to receive her tax refund or to have her social security check deposited.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Demonstration at the US Treasury RIGHT NOW - 5.50pm EST, Tuesday 4-February-2025: www.youtube.com/live/1USE5Cu...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I suppose our grant proposal to provide teachers ways of encouraging creativity in STEM is toast, because we targeted "under-resourced" schools, a forbidden phrase. Ironic because many of those schools in Kansas are in rural, poor, majority-white communities.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 20 days ago • 356 comments

You think I would revise my manuscripts to suit your bigoted misogyny? Nope. Not happening.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I would like to hear from academics whose institutions are caving to demands to change curricula to omit mentions of race, equity, diversity. And from those from universities standing strong. #AAUP needs our support.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I can't think of any other way to say it.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This is how you do it. Neighbors protecting neighbors.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Look at the pleasure he feels while talking about whipping kids. Everyday sadism powers these guys. Just imagining that beating makes him feel gooooood.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Talking about the “working class” doesn’t make sense to Americans who think they are “middle class.” If you receive a paycheck, even a big one, you are a worker and you are working class. Government workers, academics, and salaried business people need to wake up to this fact.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Two Shrinks on the Farm this week talk about the psychology of liberty, freedom, authoritarianism, and resistance. #liberationpsychology #personalitypsych #therapysky

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I never dreamed I would find so many liberation psychologists here on Blue Sky. I've often felt alone writing about the psychology of liberty, and now I know there are colleagues all over the world helping people toward freedom. #LiberationPsychology

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Sure would be a shame if a bunch of PhDs who suddenly have a lot of time on their hands due to no grant writing or reviewing spent all that energy calling and writing their elected officials every single fucking day

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

submitted 36 days ago • 787 comments

Our first Zoom topic at Freedom Work will be Liberty Begins at Home. Join us to reclaim the freedom to be human that is threatened. During the Inauguration, at 11 am CST.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Concerning. Has Elon found the lesbian responsible for this yet?

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

I’m traveling into the past on my way to St. Louis, my hometown.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Please please please watch this. Please.

submitted 38 days ago • 852 comments

While it may be disappointing to clinicians to learn that knowledge and beliefs have negligible impact on target behaviors, the clear evidence for social support and access tells us that individual therapy is not enough.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Just got the draft of the book cover for Psychology of Liberty: Reclaiming Everyday Freedom.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments