I’m ruled by a Mad King and his scheming advisor while the nobility pillage the commons. Across the water, the Pope is ill and there’s likely to be a conclave soon. It’s also 2025.

What are PRIVATE companies complying with… quickly!!!

There used to be a bipartisan consensus that rejected traditional gender roles. Not anymore. Republican men *and* women increasingly endorse traditional roles. Here's a 🧵 based on a new The New York Times piece by Michael Tesler, Colette Marcellin, and me.

Really pleased to announce the publication of my latest article "Evidencing alethocide: Israel's war on truth in Gaza" in Third World Quarterly. In it I argue that 'disinformation' as a concept does not capture the true scale of Israel's war on truth. I propose the concept of

.Northwestern has been removing information about DEI from their website, including the pages for the Women's Center, Multicultural Student Affairs, the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, and the trans task force that I served on as a first year graduate student.

This is genuinely surreal. The Women's Center has existed in its current form since the 80s. The project here is to make it as if feminism never took place.

This is just repackaged Manifest Destiny - which settlers used to justify Native American genocide and slavery

A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.

He was on stage at the Oscars in Los Angeles just 3 weeks ago. Now he's been brutalized and disappeared by Israeli settlers. It's like these fanatics & their genocidal government are making a point that they can get away with absolutely anything.

I activated my out of office for my research leave and I could not be more excited. 😭 Don’t expect an email response for the rest of the year, but do expect updates on some major research projects! 📚

What about the Republicans? Do they need a more moderate ideology?

Sadly, the US Academy, which awarded us an Oscar three weeks ago, declined to publicly support Hamdan Ballal while he was beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and settlers. The European Academy voiced support, as did countless other award groups and festivals. Several US

This is how the Gestapo will come for you, wearing hoodies and casually ganging up on a lone woman in the street.

The Trump administration has frozen $790 million in federal funding for Northwestern, The New York Times first reported on Tuesday. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/08/top…

Truly terrifying executive order from DJT. All local law enforcement will now use aggressive tactics to police cities, and when they break the law, those big law firms who caved will represent them pro bono. Martial Law is starting. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

How many people go to church weekly? Surveys say it's about 1 in 5 Americans. Cell phone tracker data say it's actually closer to 1 in 20 Americans. Fascinating!

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ominous…

I’ve published a bit in the last few years, but today I just submitted the first major, multi-study, all new data paper from the next phase of my research career. It’s some bold new ideas and I haven’t been this nervous going into peer review in a long time!

Here's a great study by TJ Billard 🇵🇸 in 2019 which tested how viewing habits affect prejudice. (Thread)