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Efrén Pérez

@efrenpolipsy.bsky.social

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UCLA Political Psychologist. Director of Race, Ethnicity, Politics, & Society (REPS) Lab. Newby accordionist 🪗. Arriba El Grullo, Jalisco 🇲🇽.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d

Miller is losing and on the defensive, and 2026 will be even worse for him.

newrepublic.com/article/2046...

Stephen Miller Is The New Republic’s 2025 Scoundrel of the Year

He was counting on a nation of haters. He was wrong.

newrepublic.com

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dr. jordie davies @jordiedavies.bsky.social · 3d

New book chapter! 🚨 Check out "Black Lives Matter in the United States and Around the World" by Emmanuel Cannady and me. A chapter in "Contemporary Social Movements: Historical and Descriptive Accounts," featuring some amazing scholars. Glad to be a part!

doi.org/10.1002/9781...

Black Lives Matter in the United States and Around the World

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a twenty-first century global civil rights and social justice movement targeting anti-Black violence and establishing justice-informed policies. The movement uplifts Black...

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a hybrid signal @unknown.garden · 4d

there are apparently ways to get a postmark at dropoff www.nstp.org/article/usps...

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 5d

Me with the original Efrén on his 50th wedding anniversary 🇲🇽🤠🌵

If I’ve learned to be patient and obliging as a man and family member, it’s because of him 😎

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 6d

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 6d

I dunno…felt cute…might delete later. Off to celebrate my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary 🇲🇽🔥

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 6d

Me chilling and relaxing knowing full well that early January is gonna be a slog when winter quarter starts🇲🇽🤓

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Charles Franklin @pollsandvotes.bsky.social · 6d

Attention to news in 2025. What we noticed and what we ignored.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

Merry Christmas.

Trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax designed to enrich the wealthy and corporations while draining money for the middle class and the poor.

Pass it on to a conservative family member near you.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 8d

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 8d

There is no escape from this in my family….

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 8d

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.

www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

Birth Lottery

If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

www.givingwhatwecan.org

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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 8d

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Reuters @reuters.com · 8d

Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added reut.rs/3NfgBky

Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added

A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled, with the host of the longtime annual performance attributing the decision to the addition of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's name to the institution in Washington.

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 9d

If you’re Mexican American and your parents took you back to their village year after year like me, you know this happens in all Mexican towns 🇲🇽

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Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 9d

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 9d

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget."

Public Universities FTW!

Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 9d

I read the og article. I, too, am flummoxed by intellectuals who get angry when people are unpersuaded by an old and crappy argument.

Try harder and/or something new. Easy fix

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.

The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates

Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.

www.theatlantic.com

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 9d

looks like trump's approval rating is heading back down fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9d

We need your help to see the full picture of how the dismantling of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, parents, school employees and their wider communities.

Here's how to reach out:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.

The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates

Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.

www.theatlantic.com

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 9d

We're all used to it by now but it's pretty weird that the guy getting rich selling electric cars and decentralized solar/battery systems is a die-hard republican.

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Morteza Dehghani @mdehghani.bsky.social · 10d

How do resource fears (realistic threat) vs. value clashes (symbolic threat) drive war & peace?

We built a virtual society of 25 autonomous agents using the Park et al. (2023) framework to find out, using a "minimal groups" paradigm (Group A vs. B).

But first, we looked under the hood. 🧠

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10d

For many Latinos, Nochebuena — the night before Christmas — shines brighter than most holidays. This year, increased immigration enforcement across the country has cast a shadow on the holiday for many Latino families.

Here are their stories:

For Latino families, Nochebuena looks different this year

Traditionally a night for celebration, the Christmas Eve holiday takes on a pall amid expanded immigration enforcement.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 10d

TL;DR: Free-speech (FS) principles are selectively applied to provide cover for racism.

When confronted with racist comments, high-prejudice individuals increased their endorsement of FS. But when the speech criticized coworkers or the police, prejudiced individuals reduced their endorsement of FS.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 10d

Higher ed fascism strikes again.

Universities must be reconstructed alongside local, state, and federal govts.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10d

A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university