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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. The rapid compliance of higher education leaders has demoralized faculty, and you have pointed out the costs.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 3d

She must be about one hundred and fifty.

ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 4d

I love to see women leaders supporting other women leaders.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 4d

Here in Kansas, authoritarianism drips slowly into our daily lives. Lose the pronouns in your official emails. Clean up your syllabus of forbidden words. Be careful what the job description says. As I drive home, I see this and say, "But at least I have this." For how long?

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote about personalities of authoritarians and non-authoritarians. The non-Nazis Thompson described do have clear pro-social personalities. What can't be accounted for among Nazis are situational conversions based on overwhelming crises or passionate romances, in addition to the Dark Tetrad.

ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 7d

I read this again with detective-like zeal, imagining each person in turn as Nazi or not Nazi. Thompson is a canny observer of individual psychology. Happy, warm people who approach others with curiosity and geniality just don't go Nazi.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 7d

Worst filler arc ever, can we please just provide for our fellow Americans necessities and do more science please?

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 8d

I never thought, that as a scholar of psychology, I would spend an hour reading a court ruling in its entirety. I have a greater admiration for the legal reasoning that goes into these decisions than I ever have.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 11d

Watching the terrifying Stephen Miller speech, I was reminded of Freud's descriptions of the two great human instincts (Eros - love, sexuality, cooperation, creativity and Thanatos - aggression, destruction, death). Miller seems motivated entirely by Thanatos.

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Rebecca 🦋 @rebecca79903973.bsky.social · 12d

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 13d

Beautiful. Keep this holy man.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 16d

Shhh

ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks. That sums up our ethical stance toward speech as academics. And it used to be faculty assemblies that made those rules, not the administration. Administrators are now making up all kinds of new rules.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 18d

I read these articles as they emerged in print. I know how hard it is to write with a broken heart from the broken heart of America, and @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has more courage than most of us to keep writing anyway.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Jan 28

Looks like some Dem voters woke up to the fact that the party has long betraying Americans and enabling Trump. Here are some articles on why: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ten-articl...

Ten Articles Explaining the 2024 Election

Some background reading

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 18d

The latest think from billionaire funded Searchlight think tank is that Biden and Harris weren't moderate enough! That thinking is so 2K24, guys. Keep up.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 18d

One of the hilarious aspects of raising kids in a nonreligious household is running smack into their developmental limitations -- little kids want concrete answers. When we lecture them on respecting what different religions offer, they say, "Yeah, but what do WE believe?"

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 27d

I realize there has been a lot of news, but Fox news host Brian Kilmeade suggesting TWICE killing mentally ill people by lethal injection ought to warrant a statement from the #APA

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · 28d

I had to google to see if it was true that a Fox News anchor said this--Brian Kilmeade. I wonder if the sponsors approve.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 5

And I think about all of you, too.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · Sep 5

I think you might be our greatest American chronicler of the end of shared reality.

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yes.

ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is an important essay. Surprisingly the comments push back, with only scant evidence to support arguments for the use of race as a biological construct.

Medicine Still Treats Race as Biology. As a Physician, I Choose Evidence Instead. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Opinion | Medicine Still Treats Race as Biology. As a Physician, I Choose Evidence Instead.

Treatment should be tailored to underlying causes of poor health

www.medpagetoday.com

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ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · Aug 24

I agree. The words we academics use are Latinate, complex, and multi-syllabic. There is almost always an Anglo-Saxon word that will do. Work, love, hate, home, kind, mean vs. occupation, affiliation, derision, domicile, and agreeable. I wrote my book, Psychology of Liberty using mostly plain words.

ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · Aug 24

I agree. She is a formidable writer.

ProfBarbaraKerr @barbarakerr.bsky.social · Aug 7

Nine months!