Legally Bondi

Emptywheel has a good take, here.

 

Pivot to Kara and Scott

 

1:09:13 of howlingly, painfully witty current events analytic sanity.

 

PS: I've been remiss. I've now placed a permanent right hand column link to The Pivot. This stuff is just too good. Been a Kara Fanboy for years. This podcast featuring Kara and Scott is just fabulous. I've cited Scott Galloway before.

 

THE BUBBLE  

 

Excess of private unregulated "credit"—recursively, circularly/repeatedly "loaned" between the Big AI players, most of whom are chronically running balance sheet red, staying afloat in part by one stock issuance round after another. Deluded by the prospect of endlessly growing end-user market demand. I sniff tangential aroma wafts of Enron subsidiaries' fake intracompany "sales" that were nothing more than ping-pong flipping phony "trades," carrying the repeated transactions as "revenue." In the current AI circumstance, it’s principally about inflating “market cap valuations.“

 

Yeah, I know, "This Time Is Different." I guess we will see.

 

ERRATUM 

Arlo & Pop today

Yet another Tropical Storm

At the edges of AI

Sandra Matz, Laurie Segall, & Moran Cerf

 

TRANSCRIPT

I urge you all to watch/listen to this intently, inclusive of the transcript.

 

I've cited Laurie Segall before. Had not encountered Sandra Matz until now. Nor Moran Cerf. I would love to see Laurie Segall do a cross-interview with Jacob Ward.

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Then follow that video up with this one.

 

 

More shortly...

Zombie Mortgages

 

This pisses me off hugely. Just saw this on PBS News Hour. Watch all of it. For some initial BobbyG background financial risk context, start here:

 

TRANCHE WARFARE

    

 

OK, A LITTLE TEASE

 

Where might this be headed?

From NPR. Click here.

I'd not intended to do any blogging tonight. They finally fixed our furnace after 33 days of freezing our butts off. We're tired. But than I saw the PBS piece. What might be nefariously afoot in TrumplGriftLand?

 

Feasible answers don't require all that much rationally speculative imagination.

 

Red my above-linked Tranche Warfare piece. Good place to start. More ASAP... 

 

UPDATE

 

My wife and i were renters from 1974 to 1992 (Seaatle, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Knoxville TN). After Cheryl was promoted by her company and transferred from Tennessee to Las Vegas in 1992 (QA Mgr, Nevada Test Site DOE nuke cleanup project), we bought our first home, a new one we watched being built across the summer out near Summerlin. 30 yr. fixed rate conventional mortgage. Eleven years later (2003), we sold and moved across town. A great property, on the near- south side, close to the Strip, 10 minutes from McCarran Airport. We did a fixed rate 15 yr note.

 

Vegas Valley residential was heating up rapidly. Our 2nd house doubled in comps value within 3 yrs.

 

Then things started going seriously south. Subprime had metastasized to the housing market, and by 2008 the financial crisis was in Code Red. Had we not done a 15 yr, we'd have been underwater when it came time to leave Vegas in 2013 and relocate to the SF Bay Area. We'd never messed with any 2nd mortgage / "HELOC" paper, and had very little consumer debt. We both maxed out our 401k contributions every year

 

We were lucky. Our second Vegas house sold in one week post-listing—for a good bit more than our Ask. We banked a good bit of dough.

 

After 6 yrs in the Bay Area (again renters), we moved to Baltimore in 2019 to be close to our Son. Last Kid Standing. We'd sat on our Vegas realty profits, so we put 50% down on our Baltimore house and, again, a 15 yr fixed note (@ 4%). We've toyed recently with doing a HELOC for some big-ticket house improvement work, avoiding too large (and taxable) IRA distribution at a time when the IRA remains very profitable. Our home equity is growing rapidly. Borrow against some of it?

 

After seeing this PBS video segment, though...

 

NAHHH...

 

 

This stuff may well be a material adverse component of the next financial crash ("AI Bubble?” “Crypto Custerfluck?”). See some of my prior Andrew Ross Sorkin posts.

 

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So, Trump wants to re-privatize Fanny Mae & Freddie Mac, wants to get the Treasury Dept into crypto, has recently been touting 50 yr residential mortgages and 15 yr car loans. What could possibly go wrong?

 

"BAD PAPER"

 

The "Zombie mortgage" is an insidious form of "Bad Paper." From "Tranche Warfare," which recounts my tenure in subprime credit risk management:

"Bad Paper" companies traffick in debt that has been deemed uncollectible by its current owners and is written off their balance sheets -- hence "charged off." You may default on a loan, but down in the fine print is the staple loan contract provision that the account still represents an "asset" which can be sold to a "holder in due course" to whom you are subsequently legally accountable. Bad paper typically trades at between a fraction of a cent to several cents on the nominal dollar, depending on the buyers' assessed "quality" of its eventual collectibility.

Beyond loan defaults going to home mortgages and HELOCS (inclusive of the "Undead" ones), cars, boats, etc., Bad Paper goes all the way up. to wit, when the huge Washington Mutual bank (WaMu) went under, it was sold off for 60 Basis Points (6 tenths of a cent on the dollar). A veritable forest of Bad Paper.

More shortly...  

Washington Post:

Rest in Peace.

 

 

One hopes that Bezos's summarily RIF'd jpurnalists and staffers will get to carry on their important work elsewhere forthwith. We certainly need them.

 

And, yeah, I know that WaPo has not yet closed its doors.

 

 

I went back decades as a reader and subscriber. I cancelled after Bezos began overtly interfering with editorial decisions to curry favor with Donald Trump.

Happy Groundhog DAY?

How about 

On Friday January 2nd, 2026 we awoke to a cold house in Baltimore. Living room temperature was 54F. The Carrier HVAC system (fairly new, and still under warranty) had failed during the night.

 

One month later, it remains in disrepair. Carrier shruggingly advises our local HVAC install vendor A.J. Michaels that the requisite replacement parts are on "90+ days' backorder." 

We moved to Baltimore in April 2019 from the San Francisco area to be close to our son. In March 2020 we replaced the HVAC through a Baltimore/BGE initiative incentivizing homeowners to upgrade to more energy-efficient heating & cooling systems. Carrier was one of the participating HVAC suppliers.

Carrier is a $22B/yr corporation HQ'd in W. Palm Beach, FL. They remain unresponsive.

In the wake of this failure (the 2nd for this unit), we've now experienced a month of getting by with (episodically fuse-blowing) AC space heaters throughout this 91-yr old house, through what has been a near- all-time record period of sub-freezing cold (3rd longest on record), strong winds, and 7-8" of snow. A week after the major snowstorm blew through, we have yet to see any snowmelt. We reportedly face yet another week of sub-freezing days and nights.

 

Moreover, on January 6th, we commenced our latest episode of Pop & Meee-mo's at-home "GreyCare" service for our newborn Grandson Arlo so his Momma could return to work. Don't need this meat locker.

 

Try to imagine my anxieties, concerns, frustrations, and anger. I'm fixin' to turn 80 a week from today. I wrassle with Parkinson's, and could certainly do without this CusterFluck.

 

I've not whined about any of this online prior to just now. There're tons of people in our nation and around the planet in far more dire circumstances.

 

Nonetheless... it sux.

________________

 

ENOUGH GROUSING: OK, MOVING RIGHT ALONG

 

 JAKE WARD

 

 Y'all recall "Total Information Awareness?" The panoptic tech gumshoe initiatives endure.

 

TIMELY ERRATUM (THANKS, SALLY)

 

    

Indeed...

 

ON DECK

 

Click here.

Interesting guy. Impressive Sheet. I'm having a bit of Shannon Vallor et al reflection. And, hmmm... AGI Transhumanist Evolution, anyone?

 

FEB 3 UPDATE

I saw her encounter with ICE agents on live CNN TV coverage. Abominable.

The absolutely humbling Ken Burns

We are unreservedly—arguably undeservingly—blessed to have this man with us at this time in history.

My wife and I attended his Baltimore Speakers Series talk a week and a half ago. It was riveting, inspiring. Listen closely to every second of the 51:30 of this Meet The Press interview with Kristen Welker.

*NOTE, there's an embedded transcript. I'm trying to extract it for you. (Got it, here.)

You're welcome. 

 

A priceless work recounting our story.

 

 Thank you for the gift of your son.

Flash-Bang Bondi

Vigorously protecting MAGAmerica from the irritating First Amendment Free Speech clause.

   

Loyal co-conspirator in Trump Obstruction of Justice?

Untying the knot of Self

Patience, grasshoppers...

Anyone who thinks the contemplative life amounts to a form of quietism or a retreat from the world’s suffering should spend some time shadowing Joan Halifax, the Zen priest and anthropologist. I’d been curious about Halifax for years, ever since I heard about an annual trek that she leads through the mountains of Nepal, bringing a cadre of doctors and dentists to remote mountain villages with little access to health care.

Each summer over the course of two weeks or so, this Nomads Clinic covers more than 100 miles on foot and horseback, at altitudes of nearly 18,000 feet. These “medical mountaineers,” as they’ve been called,  all volunteers, sleep in tents, often in freezing temperatures. But after some 40 annual trips to Nepal—Halifax is normally based in Santa Fe—she recently decided it was time to hang it up. She had just turned 80.

In addition to bringing medical care to remote mountain villages half a world away, Halifax has ministered to the dying in hospice, worked with the homeless in New Mexico, cared for prisoners on death row, and led countless protests for peace. I don’t know if Halifax has shed the last remnants of her ego—she would say she hasn’t—but the selflessness she manifests in the conduct of her life is something to behold, a reminder of what the exploration of human consciousness can lead a person to do and be. This, too, is a Buddhist principle—that overcoming one’s own small self should lead to greater compassion for others, and that the suffering alleviated when we transcend the ego is not only our own.

For more than 30 years, Halifax has been the abbot at Upaya Zen Center, the retreat she founded in Santa Fe in 1990. I’ve had the chance to meet her a couple of times; once, we appeared together on a panel to talk about psychedelics. Halifax was married to the pioneering Czech psychiatrist Stanislav Grof for several years in the 1970s. Working together, they gave transformative doses of LSD to the dying. For a period of time, Halifax regularly took large doses of LSD herself. Her first psychedelic trip, while wandering the streets of Paris in 1968, showed her “that there was beauty behind the beauty I perceived, and that mind was both in here and out there. I was dumbstruck.”

I could relate. After years of curiosity about psychoactive plants, my own experimentation with mushrooms and LSD in recent years fundamentally changed the way I understand the mysteries of consciousness and the self. So in 2024, I emailed Halifax to see if I might pay a visit to Upaya. My idea was to spend a week or so in residence, meditating with the aspiring monks, performing monkish chores, interviewing Halifax, and seeing if I could make a little more progress untying the knot of self… [Michael Pollan]

From Michael's forthcoming book (below, left).

 

  

 

On the right, above; his prior book. Tangentially apropos topic.

 

I would also recommend this awesome book for a bit of context.

 

yaje...

It is a winter’s night in Rio de Janeiro, 1987. It is raining and the boulevard in front of the Copacabana Hotel is deserted. The road is slick and shining in the light of the street-lamps. My wife, Trudie, and I are sheltering beneath an umbrella, while high above our heads two seagulls wheel recklessly in the wind; and the sea is a roaring threat in the darkness. A small car pulls up to the curbside. There are two figures silhouetted in the front seat, and an opened rear door beckons us inside. 

A series of discreet phone calls have secured us an invitation to a religious ceremony in a church somewhere in the jungles that surround the great city. Our drivers, a man and a woman, tell us only that the church is located about an hour and a half from the Copacabana, that we will be looked after, and we shouldn’t worry. The church, while nominally Christian, is the home of a syncretic religious group that uses as its core sacrament an ancient medicine derived from plant materials known as ayahuasca, and it is said to induce extraordinary and profound visions…

(Musician) Sting. Broken Music: A Memoir (pp. 1-2). (Function). Kindle Edition.

More to come... 

Obscenity. We know it when we see it.

More than ENOUGH of this shit!

MY FRIEND PAUL

My esteemed friend "St.Paul" Peterson is a Minneapolis-St Paul native. He was the keyboardist for Prince, recording and touring with him on the "Purple Rain" tour. We first met while he was playing bass for Kenny Loggins and touring with him. Paul got Kenny to come sit in with my friends' band in Las Vegas in 2008. We've emailed since this ICE debacle has ensued. He is a great guy and giant musical talent. I hope he and all of his peeps will be safe.

 

My eldest nephew David (my sister's first-born) lives in Minneapolis also. MS in Civil Engineering, doing hydrological design & construction projects in a firm he founded. He is totally pissed and anxious over this Trump ICE mess, and, father of two, at a loss over proper, effective, and lawful response measures. 

The ICE Storm

According to Donald Trump, it is now a summary on-the-spot Capital Offense to "be disrespectful" to His "Law Enforcement."
  

The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by ICE agents

There’s a moment in every country’s descent where the brutal men in fearsome uniforms and tall boots stop shoving and start shooting.
We are at that moment.

The body of Alex Pretti is still in a morgue today, still on a cold slab, his remains torn by five rounds fired in his back by an ICE agent drunk on the heady power of brutality and the promise of absolute immunity.

In America, our elite media and political classes have for a decade pretended that moment is always somebody else’s problem, some faraway place with a theocracy, a junta, or a strongman whose portrait hangs in every home and building like a warning label.

But the last few weeks have been a case study in what happens when a government decides the Constitution is an annoying speed bump and the citizenry is a crowd-control problem.

We know the horrors ICE has committed in Minneapolis and beyond. The casual brutality, the arrogant dismissal of rights, the hideous capering and laughter at the suffering they inflict on both immigrants and Americans. They are, in our digital age, recorded for grim posterity.

People of goodwill talk about de-escalation, about easing tensions, about bringing the pot down from an imminent boil to a simmer.
They are fools.

The incentives for the Trump Administration’s armed political force are entirely ratcheting in one direction, and we must consider that direction now. Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, the vast MAGA influencer and propaganda ecosystem, and DHS itself have no incentive to slow down, to turn around, to stop their war on our rights and liberties.

I beg you to understand this: everything happening in Minnesota with ICE delights them. This isn’t a crisis for them; it’s a big shove of the Overton Window toward the fascism they now openly crave.

So let’s talk about the nightmare headline hovering on the horizon: what happens when ICE fires into a crowd of protestors?

I wish I could tell you this is an impossibility, that training, doctrine, discipline, and leadership at every level of government will prevent an escalation where ICE murders Americans wholesale instead of retail, but dear friends, I cannot.

The culture of ICE and the entire MAGA political and media ecosystem is driving them toward it, a confrontation where the Trump Era moves to the next level of oppression and terror.

Here’s how I see the moment playing out, first as narrative, then as prediction… [click here]

Where is this all headed? 

 

"THE FASCISM THEY NOW OPENLY CRAVE"

Click

Until recently, I resisted using the F-word to describe President Trump. For one thing, there were too many elements of classical fascism that didn’t seem to fit. For another, the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness, especially by left-leaning types who call you a fascist if you oppose abortion or affirmative action. For yet another, the term is hazily defined, even by its adherents. From the beginning, fascism has been an incoherent doctrine, and even today scholars can’t agree on its definition. Italy’s original version differed from Germany’s, which differed from Spain’s, which differed from Japan’s.

 

I accepted President Biden’s characterization of the MAGA movement as “semi-fascist” because some parallels were glaringly apparent. Trump was definitely an authoritarian, and unquestionably a patrimonialist. Beyond that, though, the best description seemed to be a psychological one propounded by John Bolton, Trump’s first-term national security adviser: “He listens to Putin, he listens to Xi, he listens to how they talk about governing unburdened by uncooperative legislatures, unconcerned with what the judiciary may do, and he thinks to himself, Why can’t I do that? This doesn’t amount to being a fascist, in my view, [or] having a theory of how you want to govern. It’s just Why can’t I have the same fun they have?”

Writing a year ago, I argued that Trump’s governing regime is a version of patrimonialism, in which the state is treated as the personal property and family business of the leader. That is still true. But, as I also noted then, patrimonialism is a style of governing, not a formal ideology or system. It can be layered atop all kinds of organizational structures, including not just national governments but also urban political machines such as Tammany Hall, criminal gangs such as the Mafia, and even religious cults. Because its only firm principle is personal loyalty to the boss, it has no specific agenda. Fascism, in contrast, is ideological, aggressive, and, at least in its early stages, revolutionary. It seeks to dominate politics, to crush resistance, and to rewrite the social contract.

Over Trump’s past year, what originally looked like an effort to make the government his personal plaything has drifted distinctly toward doctrinal and operational fascism. Trump’s appetite for lebensraum, his claim of unlimited power, his support for the global far right, his politicization of the justice system, his deployment of performative brutality, his ostentatious violation of rights, his creation of a national paramilitary police—all of those developments bespeak something more purposeful and sinister than run-of-the-mill greed or gangsterism…

It has been an unnerving weekend.

 

 

Well, things are spiraling increasingly out of control.

 

More ASAP...

A disturbing, enervating week

 

Now, we in the Baltimore / DC area await the weekend arrival of a huge snowstorm replete with single digit ambient temperatures. 

 

A boatload of stuff on deck. to wit:

 

 

Thursday evening Cheryl and I attended a Baltimore Speakers Series Ken Burns talk. A national treasure, he is. Just wow.

 

More shortly... 

Donald Trump Davos Switzerland Address

World Economic Forum 2026

 

Unreal. An utterly bizarre day.

The most broadly, deeply, and durably aggrieved person on the planet today.

UPDATE 

 I really like Jacob Ward's work.

Donald Trump warns NATO and the wider world

"Jonas" is the Prime Minister of Norway.
Trump sent him this on Sunday.

I probably need not even note that the Norwegian government neither adninisters nor awards the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

TELL US WHAT YA REALLY THINK, CONGRESSMAN

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) was beside himself in an interview on CNN about President Donald Trump's latest threats to annex Greenland, calling the president a "madman" who is divorced from reality and needs to be treated as such.

"This is a man, again, that only cares about himself," Gallego told Anderson Cooper. "First, he doesn't like commitment to other countries that are based on alliances, based on trust, because this man has no trust in anybody else, and he would rather just break whatever he can to get what he wants. And if we pay in the process, we as Americans, he doesn't care, right? This is the danger. Now he's a problem. Let's be clear. The reason he's there is because we have cowardly republicans in the Senate, in the House that are not standing up to this man."

"Well, it seems like European leaders' strategy so far has been to basically try to de-escalate, reason with the president, find some kind of an off-ramp," said Cooper. "Do you think there is an off-ramp?"

"No," said Gallego. "And I've been very clear. He is a madman. He is insane. He's only thinking about himself."

"You really think he's insane?" Cooper pressed him. 

"Yes!" shouted Gallego. "I'm sorry, where are we at this moment where we don't understand what's happening in this country? The man is threatening war against a NATO ally. We all think this is rational, right? Let's accept what's happening here. He is not rational right now. He is destroying our world reputation or potentially our economic opportunity or economic might and power around the world because he is being petty.

NY Times: "It seems safe to assume that when Harry Truman forged NATO at the dawn of the Cold War, he never imagined that over the course of nearly eight decades the only country that would wage economic war and threaten actual war against the allies for the purpose of territorial conquest would be the United States itself.

And yet that is the reality of this upside-down, might-makes-right world of President Trump’s creation as he slaps tariffs on America’s treaty partners and holds out the possibility of using military force to strong-arm Denmark and its European friends into giving up Greenland, a territory whose citizens do not want to become part of the United States.

Never in the past century has America gone forth to seize other countries’ land and subjugate its citizens against their will. Since the days of World War I, America was the country that resisted conquest, standing up to Hitler’s Germany, Tojo’s Japan, Stalin’s Soviet Union, Kim Il-sung’s North Korea and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq when they seized foreign terrain. Now Mr. Trump aspires to put America into the category of conquerors.

Coercing a loyal ally into giving up territory over its adamant objections would have been seen not long ago as preposterous, even mad — indeed, one of Mr. Trump’s own cabinet secretaries in his first term privately considered it delusional when he raised it back then. But it is a measure of how much Mr. Trump has changed the definition of normal that his appetite for seizing land that does not belong to him is debated as a serious proposition rather than dismissed out of hand as a brazen violation of U.S. treaty obligations and international law."

The politically convenient Subjectivism Fallacy

Really? Is everyone delusional? Variants of that phrase are the tiresome, simplistic MEGO bane of undergrad Phil101 and Phil102. For the truth-claim "there is no objective independent truth; everything is subjectively perceived," you run smack into a dispositive problem of pure logic.

Uhh... for the assertion to be "true," it must also be false.

Perhaps that paradox is good for some liberal arts yucks in Animal House, but little else beyond the fictional WTFC confines of Delta House and the bored professor played by Donald Sutherland.

The above graphic comes from the website "BIG THINK." And, yeah, I get the unstated nuance of their intended gist. But "Perception is an illusion" is a categorical assertion terminally afflicted with the "false dictotomy" problem. 

Foregoing a long pedandic philo rant. I'll merely observe that the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge opened for traffic on May 27th 1937 in a highly active earthquake plate techtonics subduction zone—32,000+ days ago. I've sailed under that amazing bridge multiple times when I lived in SF

That aggregate engineering "independent objective truth" is good enough for this 80 yr old meat & potatoes washed-up guitar player.

OK, enough obtuse snark. It's been a ghastly week. One that doesn't portend better times drawing nigh. Iran? Cuba? Columbia? Panama? Mexico? Greenland? NATO writ large?

 

Below, from HuffPo:

 

In the hours following the aftermath of the fatal shooting of the unarmed Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer in Minnesota on Wednesday, video footage of the incident has been watched, rewatched, slow-mo’d and analyzed from countless angles.

Yet a starkly different interpretation has emerged, along partisan lines, about what exactly went down: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confidently told Americans “it was an act of domestic terrorism” on the part of Good.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responded: “They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly: That is bullshit.”

The fallout from this fundamental disagreement over reality — and what our eyes are actually witnessing in the footage — is at the core of the dogfight we’re currently witnessing in the press and on social media.

But how can different people look at the same footage and tell themselves entirely different stories about what they’re seeing? And how can people cope with these discrepancies and share communities with one another when they can’t seem to share a reality? HuffPost spoke with experts in psychology and group behavior to gain a better understanding of what’s happening.

The Ways We Watch Video Plays A Part

The medium of video feels fundamentally black and white, and straightforward. However, that leaves out one important factor: Our eyes.

“Video feels like an infallible witness. It doesn’t seem subjective,” Emily Balcetis, an associate professor of psychology and faculty director of research at New York University’s College of Arts and Sciences, told HuffPost. “But just as our eyes can only see what they are pointed at, so too can the camera capturing the footage. By necessity some of the surrounding context, constraints or forces contributing to what is captured never appear on camera.”

Our attention — and what it is drawn to — plays a part as well, particularly in fast-paced footage with a lot going on at once: “Our visual attention is limited, leaving us unable to see all of what is present especially in complex visual scenes,” Balcetis said. “Simply put, when we are looking to the right we can’t see what is to the left. We may be unaware of what we are unaware of, complicating our ability to fully appreciate what it is we have seen and what we might not even know we have not.”

Balcetis also notes that “WHAT we look at is often not random.” That’s because our attention is more likely to land on things that are brightly colored, quick or moving unexpectedly — and because we as individuals are potentially more likely to look in some places than others.

“As a social psychologist, my research has found that who we are — and the types of people we think share aspects of our identity and values — guides who we spend more time looking at,” she said. “Which means we might see more of what they are doing and less of what someone else is doing. We are all missing some of what is happening when we’re watching video evidence.”

Citing a 2014 paper she previously published with Yael Granot, Balcetis also notes that the personal ways that an individual identifies with a social group (for example, if you feel that policing in the U.S. aligns with your values) can color where you are likely to look while “watching altercation footage that portrays ambiguous use of police force against a civilian.”

“Those who fixated more on a target they identified with exhibited stronger differences in how they judged culpability and punishment than those who looked less,” Balcetis explained. “Thus, identification doesn’t just bias opinions — it biases how people make sense of what they attend to in the first place.”

Balcetis does note that this is something people may not be aware of and that recognizing these behaviors and approach to video can help a viewer more accurately process the information they’re receiving — which that 2014 study found after asking individuals to reframe their attention.

“When we, in fact, asked people to try to allocate their attention equally among all the people when watching a video depicting potential police use of force, we did not change whether in fact they felt a sense of connection or felt supportive of police,” she said. “Instead, we changed what they looked at in the video.”

She said that the result did see “a shift in how they looked at the evidence,” “increased the accuracy of their understanding of the actual case facts” and “removed the polarizing effect of identifying with police on their judgments of the acceptability of officers’ use of force.”

“We did not nudge people into siding with or siding against officers. Instead looking differently and more inclusively at all targets changed their understanding of case facts for the better and removed the polarizing impact of their preexisting attitudes about the people involved,” she said...

DR. EMILY BALCETIS

Just got onto her. Stay tuned...

 

ERRATUM

 

Re-watching NetFlix' "Borgen" tonight. Again timely.