ProfBarbaraKerr
@barbarakerr.bsky.social
Psychologist and Distinguished Professor, Fulbright Iceland Scholar. Author of Psychology of Liberty. I study creativity and psychological freedom. Kansas Farmer, Know-it-All, Chaotic Good.
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A fun game is to go into the Epstein email docs and search for the names of people who have personally made policy decisions that hurt you or your loved ones.
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A fun game is to go into the Epstein email docs and search for the names of people who have personally made policy decisions that hurt you or your loved ones.
I'm still ranting about the New York Times bad take on why there are so many Boomers at the demonstrations compared to Gen Z. Here is my reply to their boneheaded conclusions. We are there because we remember.
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Why we protest
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November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I'm still ranting about the New York Times bad take on why there are so many Boomers at the demonstrations compared to Gen Z. Here is my reply to their boneheaded conclusions. We are there because we remember.
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Rutger Bregman's book, Humankind: A Hopeful History was foundational to my book on the psychology of liberty. To have him censored by the last reliable broadcast service is like a stab in my heart.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Rutger Bregman's book, Humankind: A Hopeful History was foundational to my book on the psychology of liberty. To have him censored by the last reliable broadcast service is like a stab in my heart.
Answering the New York Times question, "Why so many Boomers?"
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November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Answering the New York Times question, "Why so many Boomers?"
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We knew this would happen. So did the lawmakers who made these gruesome laws. I am brokenhearted for these families who have lost their beloved mothers and wives.
When Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old from Texas, asked doctors about terminating her high-risk pregnancy to save her life, they assured her she had nothing to worry about.
Then she died of preeclampsia.
Then she died of preeclampsia.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
We knew this would happen. So did the lawmakers who made these gruesome laws. I am brokenhearted for these families who have lost their beloved mothers and wives.
Although I understand that there are many professions that are critical to a civilized society (teacher, nurse), I just can't help loving writers the most. I've given them free meals, cozy stays, and free psychotherapy, wanting nothing in return except their perfect sentences.
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Although I understand that there are many professions that are critical to a civilized society (teacher, nurse), I just can't help loving writers the most. I've given them free meals, cozy stays, and free psychotherapy, wanting nothing in return except their perfect sentences.
Betrayed by her own cousin, Ms. Shlossberg is dying. Meanwhile, her doctors fear for their futures, but keep trying to give her more time.
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Betrayed by her own cousin, Ms. Shlossberg is dying. Meanwhile, her doctors fear for their futures, but keep trying to give her more time.
The thesis of my final book is that we are endowed by our evolutionary history with the need for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not as isolated humans, but within community. Oligarchs destroy our freedom and break our bonds with one another. We cannot let them.
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The thesis of my final book is that we are endowed by our evolutionary history with the need for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not as isolated humans, but within community. Oligarchs destroy our freedom and break our bonds with one another. We cannot let them.
The American Revolution documentary is indeed compelling. I do, however, blame Ken Burns for the invention of the use of the historical present (Burgoyne now finds his army surrounded!). Truly an annoying affectation that has spread throughout journalism and historical narratives of all kinds.
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The American Revolution documentary is indeed compelling. I do, however, blame Ken Burns for the invention of the use of the historical present (Burgoyne now finds his army surrounded!). Truly an annoying affectation that has spread throughout journalism and historical narratives of all kinds.
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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
How would you like your daughter or wife's life in these guys' hands?
This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
How would you like your daughter or wife's life in these guys' hands?
Peter Coyote's voice always reminds me of a road trip with my hippie friends where I threw my sleeping bag next to a guy who told me he was a Digger in SF but wanted to be an actor. "I changed my name to Peter Coyote," he said. "Yeah, that will definitely go over well in Hollywood" said I.
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Peter Coyote's voice always reminds me of a road trip with my hippie friends where I threw my sleeping bag next to a guy who told me he was a Digger in SF but wanted to be an actor. "I changed my name to Peter Coyote," he said. "Yeah, that will definitely go over well in Hollywood" said I.
"in today’s America, where the rich and powerful are increasingly... avoiding accountability, but where a majority of people would prefer to live in a world where a child does not have to sell her body to older men in order to save enough money to get braces on her teeth." Heather Cox Richardson
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
"in today’s America, where the rich and powerful are increasingly... avoiding accountability, but where a majority of people would prefer to live in a world where a child does not have to sell her body to older men in order to save enough money to get braces on her teeth." Heather Cox Richardson
Oh, the howls of the mediocre when women achieve.
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Oh, the howls of the mediocre when women achieve.
This guy has been working hard to get @lastweektonight.com to help keep his museum open. Do you have any idea what it takes for a science guy to reach out to a celebrity? Bless his heart. And help him out.
Well it seems it is going to be to late for @lastweektonight.com to help with their hiatus. Any suggestions for a big sci com/science interested news account I should play with to help save PRI?
Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe
Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This guy has been working hard to get @lastweektonight.com to help keep his museum open. Do you have any idea what it takes for a science guy to reach out to a celebrity? Bless his heart. And help him out.
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It must be magnificent to be these billionaires and foreign countries, all of whom secretly scorn Trump, giving him lavish but vulgar gifts that he doesn’t understand are elaborate expressions of their contempt for him, his taste, his principles, and his self-awareness.
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It must be magnificent to be these billionaires and foreign countries, all of whom secretly scorn Trump, giving him lavish but vulgar gifts that he doesn’t understand are elaborate expressions of their contempt for him, his taste, his principles, and his self-awareness.
@baddestmamajama.bsky.social is the funniest person on this site and I will now check in on her takes on the day's news just to preserve my sanity.
November 15, 2025 at 6:19 AM
@baddestmamajama.bsky.social is the funniest person on this site and I will now check in on her takes on the day's news just to preserve my sanity.
@nytimes.com In Nebraska, in 1980, we had a co-op that picked up a stack of NYT at the airport and delivered it to members. In 1990, we used to drive two hours to Grand Rapids to get the NYT for our faculty retreat. Until recently, we read it every day. Now I leave you, in sadness and anger.
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
@nytimes.com In Nebraska, in 1980, we had a co-op that picked up a stack of NYT at the airport and delivered it to members. In 1990, we used to drive two hours to Grand Rapids to get the NYT for our faculty retreat. Until recently, we read it every day. Now I leave you, in sadness and anger.
My daughter immigrated to Iceland where she has free healthcare, low cost daycare, low cost higher education, eighteen months parental paid leave, and a job and family she loves. Back here in the U.S., word gets around.
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My daughter immigrated to Iceland where she has free healthcare, low cost daycare, low cost higher education, eighteen months parental paid leave, and a job and family she loves. Back here in the U.S., word gets around.
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Leon has won the JCO v Elon commentary Grand Prix.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Leon has won the JCO v Elon commentary Grand Prix.
A summary of why we are here in this moment.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
A summary of why we are here in this moment.
Stages of women in the workplace: 1. We have one woman, she's one of the guys, no problem. 2. We have two women, and they're always talking to each other 3. Now 3 out of 10 of us are women, and they are taking over! 4. Guys, let's leave and form a higher status group. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
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November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Stages of women in the workplace: 1. We have one woman, she's one of the guys, no problem. 2. We have two women, and they're always talking to each other 3. Now 3 out of 10 of us are women, and they are taking over! 4. Guys, let's leave and form a higher status group. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Thank you, @mcopelov.bsky.social for the name, Ezra Douthglesius, which from this day forward shall be writ large in history of journalism.
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Thank you, @mcopelov.bsky.social for the name, Ezra Douthglesius, which from this day forward shall be writ large in history of journalism.