Steve Engel

Steve Engel

@sengelweb.bsky.social

Professor of psychology and visual neuroscience, (very) local, (very) blue political activist, dorky dad, cat owner

10.1K followers13.7K following2K posts

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about

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Ben Collins
@bencollins.bsky.social

Here's an anecdote: On 9/10/2001, The Onion staff had a New York launch party at the Bowery Ballroom to celebrate the staff's move from Madison, Wisconsin to New York City. They woke up hungover, took a week off, and then produced one of the greatest front pages in the history of newspapers.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.

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Ben Collins
@bencollins.bsky.social

New kind of racism just dropped.

The Playlist@theplaylist.bsky.social

Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”

dlvr.itPaul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”Just days after Paul Schrader revealed that he plans to make his long-gestating crime noir “Three Guns At Dawn” entirely with AI-generated performers, the filmmaker has explained why he abandoned human actors in the first place. According to Schrader, Black actors rejected the original version because all three of its Black protagonists were criminals. His solution? Make the movie without them. Schrader has spent the past week gradually clarifying his plans for “Three Guns At Dawn.” As The Playlist previously reported, the filmmaker originally conceived the South Central Los Angeles noir around three Black brothers—a corrupt cop, a drug trafficker, and a third criminal—with Antoine Fuqua attached to produce. Continue reading Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People” at The Playlist.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

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derek guy
@dieworkwear.bsky.social

native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

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Allison Gill
@muellershewrote.com

Yes.

Andrew Weinstein@andrewjweinstein.com

So let me get this straight: the goal of Trump’s war with Iran is to end up back in the Obama nuclear deal he pulled out of, and to “reopen” the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the conflict began. That’s the strategy?

Steve Engel
@sengelweb.bsky.social

Goal all along for whole Fed govt is to have political appointees pick and choose who gets $.

Science Magazine@science.org

In a potentially dramatic change to how it chooses what science to fund, NIH is ending a long-running practice at many of its institutes of establishing, and making public, a threshold peer-review score needed for a grant application’s approval. https://scim.ag/48ck2zu

scim.agNIH shake-up to grant decision-making draws concerns of political meddlingPolicy drops “paylines” based on peer-review scores and requires geography and other factors to guide approvals

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Scott Delaney
@scott-delaney.bsky.social

Update on a significant development NIH grant terms. On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons. But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July. 1/

statnews.comHHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo showsExclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.

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Molly Jong-Fast
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

Absolutely correct

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Steve Engel
@sengelweb.bsky.social

WE NEED A REAL LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION. Like other countries have. A leader of the out-of-power party who has actual power over members. Otherwise people will vote their self-interest over the party's interest - and over the country's as well.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

Steve Engel
@sengelweb.bsky.social

One party blatantly lies, and that's all its supporters hear. We must have been here before in the glided age with robber-baron-owned press. What strategies proved useful then to persuade folks who bought the lies? @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WELKER: Should the 300,000 Oklahomas who rely on ACA subsidies be prepared for their costs to skyrocket? LANKFORD: We're trying to find a way to be able to help (That's a yes!)