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Norbert Schwarz
@nschwarz.bsky.social
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Social psychologist at the University of Southern California. Reposts are not endorsements.

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Norbert Schwarz is Provost Professor in the Department of Psychology and the USC Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a co-director of the USC Dornsife Mind and Society Center. .. more

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 15h
ICE report.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’
www.nytimes.com
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 18h
"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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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
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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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
This.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
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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Reposted by Edward Witten, Norbert Schwarz, Paul Goldstein , and 4 more

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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 Richard S.J. Tol, Norbert Schwarz, Will Jennings , and 16 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
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 Anne Applebaum, Norbert Schwarz, Nicholas A. Christakis , and 22 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
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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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
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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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
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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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
#academicsky
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 1d
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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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
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 Stephen M. Walt, Norbert Schwarz, Nancy Kanwisher , and 15 more

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 1d
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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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d
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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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 2d
#health #medsky #psychscisky
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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 2d
Six former surgeons general appointed by every President since George HW Bush warn that RFK Jr. is endangering the health of the nation, calling his policies/positions a “profound, immediate + unprecedented threat”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law, Norbert Schwarz , and 10 more

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d
Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
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Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Peter Thorne, Brendan Nyhan , and 15 more

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d
Here’s video of the incident
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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 2d
Six former surgeons general appointed by every President since George HW Bush warn that RFK Jr. is endangering the health of the nation, calling his policies/positions a “profound, immediate + unprecedented threat”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Reposted by Cas Mudde, Jan W. Mueller, Norbert Schwarz , and 28 more

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d
Here’s video of the incident
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 3d
Yes, some tiny chunk of the variance that requires amazing power to identify. As a true social psychologist I expect task and context to trump individual differences unless one constrains task and context in a way that renders the findings utterly paradigm specific.
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 3d
Hmmm? How could it NOT depend on the task? From my interest in the task to the similarity of task and distractor to...
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 3d
Law enforcement or federal officers dressed up for war against the enemy within?

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: Illinois Sues Trump Over Guard Deployments, Expanding Multistate Fight
www.nytimes.com
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 3d
Rage & resentment important = more belief in bunk.

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"...these findings reveal that ressentiment is central for understanding the emotional roots of believing in conspiracy theories."

Study abstract: The ‘sour grapes’ of conspiracy theories link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The ‘sour grapes’ of conspiracy theories: how does the emotion of ressentiment predict conspiracy beliefs? - Acta Politica
This research examines how negative emotions affect the degree to which people endorse conspiracy theories. Conspiracy beliefs typically flourish in contemporary politics that evoke negative emotions. In the present article, we hypothesized that citizens in ressentiment, a particular emotional state salient in contemporary grievance politics, is a key underpinning of why people believe in conspiracy theories. Ressentiment is a multi-layered emotion, within which perceptions of unfairness, bitterness, and feelings of (suppressed) anger are central. Across three studies, we examined the role of ressentiment in predicting belief in conspiracy theories. Study 1 (United Kingdom, N = 300) and Study 2 (United States, N = 300) revealed a positive relationship between ressentiment, measured through a validated scale, and belief in conspiracy theories. This relationship was mediated by rejection of the status quo. In Study 3 (United States, N = 300, pre-registered), we used a vignette describing a fictitious country to experimentally show that evoking ressentiment (vs. control condition) significantly increased belief in conspiracy theories. Taken together, these findings reveal that ressentiment is central for understanding the emotional roots of believing in conspiracy theories.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 3d
Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 4d
The daily grift.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
He Drops Trump Jr.’s Name in Pursuit of Billion-Dollar Deals. It’s Getting Awkward.
Gentry Beach, a college friend of the president’s firstborn, has left a trail of confusion abroad as he courts foreign officials and business leaders to lock up investments in mining, oil pipelines an...
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 4d
#academicsky
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4d
@aacu.org has stepped up & called the Trump "compact" for higher ed what it is: "The compact is, in effect, an ultimatum...This is not constructive engagement." Big question is where is @aau.edu? If your university is part of AAU, write to your president & trustees now.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/aac...
AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for… | AAC&U
AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
www.aacu.org
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 4d
A detailed analysis of Trump's proposed "compact" with universities by a UCLA constitutional law prof.

#academicsky
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 5d
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
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Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, David Lazer

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4d
@aacu.org has stepped up & called the Trump "compact" for higher ed what it is: "The compact is, in effect, an ultimatum...This is not constructive engagement." Big question is where is @aau.edu? If your university is part of AAU, write to your president & trustees now.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/aac...
AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for… | AAC&U
AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
www.aacu.org
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Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Robert C. Richards

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 4d
This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 5d
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 5d
Federal Election Commission has no quorum and can't act. Another impairment of oversight

#elections

www.npr.org/2025/10/04/n...
The Federal Election Commission is down to 2 members. So its work is at a standstill
The Federal Election Commission, which regulates campaign finance, has lost another member. But the FEC has actually been without a quorum for months, leaving the agency unable to do much of its work.
www.npr.org
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