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doctordavid.bsky.social
Psychology Professor, soccer fan, public health advocate. No crypto accounts please.
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A decade later I still don't understand how the response to stuff like this isn't "What the hell is wrong with you?"

submitted 5 hours ago • 98 comments

There are consequences for spreading lies that harm others. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/b...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/w...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump was just at the G-7 claiming he signed a deal between the US and the UK, thinking they were still part of the EU. Then he dropped the paper on live TV so everyone could see he signed a blank sheet of paper. But sure, Jake. Biden age = Bush falsely claiming Iraq had WMDs.

submitted 7 hours ago • 43 comments

Both sides news coverage is killing democracy and there is no place where it is more dangerous that in how legacy media covers the GOP attacks on free and fair elections. For my latest and to access all Democracy Docket premium content, sign-up now. newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-meblu...

submitted 9 hours ago • 178 comments

Exactly. No amount of money can replace knowledge.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

This is hard for some people to comprehend but even if the stock market makes you feel richer, you’re actually poorer without science

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

A politically motivated act of domestic terrorism shook Minnesota, and all of us, this weekend. And, while 5 million Americans marched to reject authoritarianism & said No Kings, U.S. Senator Mike Lee showed us what happens when cruelty replaces conscience in public office.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Digital resources, particularly eBooks and audiobooks, are going to bankrupt libraries if something isn't done to halt the extortionary pricing models of publishers.

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

🧵💉Should pregnant people get COVID-19 vaccine? 🤰 TL;DR: YES. Pregnant people, especially those with certain conditions are at increased risk of severe COVID, miscarriage, and pre-term labor. Babies < 6mo also have increased risk of severe COVID. Vaccination protects mom and baby More below 👇

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

Mike Lee should also honor them by immediately resigning from the Senate

submitted 15 hours ago • 22 comments

“As former ACIP members, we are deeply concerned that these destabilizing decisions, made without clear rationale, may roll back the achievements of US immunization policy & put families at risk of dangerous and preventable illnesses” Letter from the former ACIP members who RFK Jr fired last week:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This makes sense given that the rate of colon cancer is increasing in younger age groups.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Typical jerk behavior.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

As Senate Republicans rewrite the reconciliation bill that would gut Medicaid and SNAP, we’re making sure key GOP senators hear from their angry constituents. Help us disrupt Trump’s Tax Scam by calling voters in target states and connecting them with their senators: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

submitted 8 hours ago • 18 comments

Exactly. "Small government" will not and can not solve the existential problems we face.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

'It is impossible to act as if immigrants have no rights without, eventually, infringing on citizens’ rights to stand up for them. To demand both absolute power and absolute impunity is the demand of a tyrant" @daralind.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Tina Smith confronted her Senate colleague Mike Lee over his social media post that blamed the Minnesota lawmaker shootings on “Marxists.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 1062 comments

Vaccines save lives!

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

My law firm is currently litigating 55 voting and election cases in 24 states. Two points: This is a very large caseload for this point in the election cycle. It is more evenly spread across states than usual which reflects the creep of voter suppression laws into even safe GOP states.

submitted 1 day ago • 289 comments

Psychopathic

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All of these folks out here saying, “I voted for Trump, but I didn’t think it would be like this.” I’m not buying it. They knew exactly what they were voting for. He claimed immigrants were eating cats and dogs. FFS!

submitted 20 hours ago • 165 comments

The NAACP announced Monday the group will not invite Trump to its national convention next month in Charlotte, North Carolina — the first time the prominent civil rights organization has opted to exclude a sitting president in its 116-year history!

submitted 20 hours ago • 203 comments

Tina Smith on Mike Lee: "I went to him and I said, 'Your message on social media showed the image of the man who killed my friend ... and your message is, this is what happens? You need to take responsibility and accountability ...' And I wanted him to hear that from me directly."

submitted 19 hours ago • 464 comments

saying that someone “no longer has any legal interests” because they’re dead is the sort of claim you might wanna run by a lawyer before publishing in The Atlantic

submitted 18 hours ago • 79 comments

@smith.senate.gov: "I think [Mike Lee] was sort of stunned to be coming face to face with somebody who was really calling him out on his bullshit... The way that people like Mike Lee and others on the right take advantage of the worst kind of human tragedy and political violence... is unacceptable."

submitted 18 hours ago • 257 comments

In a different more reasonable time, Lee would have been booted from Congress for such behavior.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Reading the new American Bar Association lawsuit against the Trump administration and noticed this. It still boggles my mind that I was literally the only targeted lawyer willing to talk on camera.

submitted 22 hours ago • 103 comments

NEW: MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell found liable for defamation for his statements about Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer. Federal jury orders Lindell to pay $2.3M, far less than the $62.7M requested by Coomer’s attorneys.

submitted 22 hours ago • 200 comments

FIFA Club World Cup ticket sales tank dramatically after the Dept. of Homeland Security bragged that agents would be “suited and booted" at the stadium in a now-deleted social media post

submitted 22 hours ago • 720 comments

Yup

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Good job Senator Smith.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

This is one of the most irresponsible things a president has ever said.

submitted 22 hours ago • 219 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

submitted 23 hours ago • 379 comments

I hope she ripped him a new one.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling: "I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can."

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

as someone prone to directly confronting people for stuff they say online, that from lee is the face of someone who did not expect to be confronted for something he said online

submitted 22 hours ago • 580 comments

Not so long ago, such a person would have been thrown out of Congress.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Yup

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

🦋 Doctors at VA hospitals can refuse to treat Democrats or unmarried veterans under new Trump guidelines The doctors themselves, or any medical staff, can also be barred from working at Veterans Affairs hospitals based on their marital status, political party affiliation or union activity. 🦋

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

What a jerk

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

The First Amendment should not protect such speech. It leads directly to harm. The Constitution must not be a suicide pact.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Beyond disturbing. There are several states where the majority of voters support evil people. Disgusting.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

People who purport to be Christian and yet violate the commandment against murder. Wth

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

it’s not a government, it’s the mob

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