Jonathan Corbin

@jonathancorbin.bsky.social

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Behavioral scientist. Psych. blogger.
“You even picked the ideal weather. Overcast and chilly. Perfect for staying inside and reading"

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Let’s all help by speculating wildly.

I don't know what happened and neither does anyone else. Your brain is going to tell you whatever you want to hear. Not knowing and never knowing is a possibility that you have to allow for.

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Dems should run ads just showing this, then slowly zooming in on "end recreational sex"

I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.

I don't know about you, but I think journalists should be 100% "biased" against would-be dictators. You know, the whole 4th estate thing...

Every toddler parent in the United States hates their neighbors just a little bit more tonight. 🎆🎇

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One of the very disorienting aspects of our current moment is that a very smart man like @adamserwer.bsky.social can sound like a fire-breathing radical as he simply tells the truth. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Supreme Court Puts Trump Above the Lawwww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

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Happy 4 of July everyone, where we celebrate America throwing of the yoke of an insane King. Sotomayor: "The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law. "

When the people selling it are making huge claims and the people who built the algorithms are cautious, that should tell you something.

If business majors could read, they'd be very upset

The media is still completely unable to handle Trump. He's a traitor. A rapist. A criminal. And we're just going along like this is normal.

Trump is such an obvious psychopath...

The fact checkers are already drunk.

Not sure how long I'm going to last with this debate... So stupid.

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people find it so hard to believe that stormtroopers from Star Wars have terrible aim probably because bad equipment it's 2024 on earth and we have two of the most valuable companies in the history of the world: one of them is making airplanes that crash, the other makes trucks that can't get wet

Would you look at that -- @ggl.bsky.social Google Bard commits the conjunction fallacy!

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Eleven years ago, SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act in #ShelbyCounty, arguing that "things have changed" since the 1960s. Today, we know that things have changed since this ruling: namely, that the turnout gap exploded in formerly-covered places 1/n www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

He knows he's a criminal through and through. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-exp...

Trump expressed concern that returning classified docs after subpoena could result in criminal charges, according to sealed notesabcnews.go.com Donald Trump expressed concern that turning over classified documents after a May 2022 subpoena could result in criminal charges, according to notes reviewed by ABC News.

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After asking the government (or private foundations) to pay for the costs of doing research, we conduct the research and write papers about it that our peers review for free, then we donate those papers to for-profit companies that sell them back to us at high prices. This is considered normal.

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

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Uh, holy shit. This is actually awesome. www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-p...

Biden preparing to offer legal status to undocumented immigrants who have lived in U.S. for 10 yearswww.cbsnews.com The program would offer work permits and deportation protections to unauthorized immigrants married to U.S. citizens, as long as they have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years, sources said.

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Using the choice to call 311 vs 911, phantom rules—frequently broken and rarely enforced codified rules—are more often enforced for Black people than White people (in US) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #psychology #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #BehSci Polisky

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Heh. 6 am 4 pm

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there are a lot of people whose response to anything illegal immigration-related is "just come here legally" and when you try to explain how the legal immigration system actually works they simply don't believe how tremendously awful it actually is

Here’s a nice simple guide to the US immigration process. Easy peasy

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If you’re not a law nerd, and you’re wondering why people who are not themselves theocratic fascists would support theocratic fascists, it’s to achieve this: to limit the power of the regulatory state.

NEW: SCOTUS could soon overturn the "Chevron doctrine," upending numerous federal regulations designed to protect the public. At least 20 right-wing groups linked to court-whisperers like Charles Koch and Leonard Leo have backed the assault on Chevron. therevolvingdoorproject.org/amicus-spotl...

Amicus Spotlight: Loper Bright & Relentless | Revolving Door Projecttherevolvingdoorproject.org 20 right-wing groups linked to court-whisperers want SCOTUS to make its most dangerous regulatory power grab yet.

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Peter Sagal

For our “Constitution USA” doc, we visited a naturalization ceremony, which is an affirmation and celebration of that very idea: that America is based not on ethnicity or culture but on a set of ideals, and anyone who embraces it can be, as much as anyone else, American.

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“It’s going to be a long process. It took us 50 years to take down Roe,” said Brent Leatherwood, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission

Largest Protestant denomination votes to oppose IVFwww.politico.com The move may signal the beginning of a broad turn on the right against IVF, an issue that many social conservatives see as the “pro-life” movement’s next frontier.

UNCA has a big off campus and "non-traditional" student population. I'd love to see some more creative solutions than cutting programs. UNCA could be a model for a truly community centered university. mountainx.com/news/14-unca...

14 UNCA academic programs highlighted for potential reductions, eliminationmountainx.com An outside consultant recommended the University of North Carolina Asheville examine 14 of its 35 academic programs for potential course reductions or program eliminations.

The capitalist consolidation behind Trump is producing some wild quotes. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

David French should've Googled the history of the Presbyterian Church (PCA). They only exist because they took the Confederacy's side in the U.S. Civil War.

Racism. Trumpism seems to always be racism. The attacks that David French, a conservative Christian, faced were not just focused on his moral opposition to Trump. The attacks grew from hate since they went after his family for adopting a 2 year old from Ethiopia. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/o...

Opinion | The Day My Old Church Canceled Me Was a Very Sad Daywww.nytimes.com There is a difference between peace and capitulation.

The convicted felon Trump can't carry a gun, but wants you to give him nukes. www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/p...

NYPD preparing to revoke Donald Trump’s license to carry a gun after felony conviction in New York | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com The New York City Police Department is preparing to revoke former President Donald Trump’s license to carry a gun, a senior police official told CNN.

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How about they call him an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon? More accurate and more informative.

The campaign of convicted felon Donald Trump understands it’s shameful that convicted felon Donald Trump is a convicted felon so they’ll try to cow reporters into *not* calling convicted felon Donald Trump a convicted felon, but convicted felon Donald Trump is, factually, a convicted felon.

One awful side effect of the GOP going full authoritarianism is that it makes people feel like they can't criticize Biden at all, lest we court disaster. This leads to polarization on the left, whereby any criticism at all attracts antagonism. Anyways, this sucks. apnews.com/article/bide...

Biden prepares an order that would shut down asylum if a daily average of 2,500 migrants arriveapnews.com The Democratic president is expected to unveil the actions — his most aggressive unilateral move yet to control the numbers at the border — at the White House at an event to which border mayors have b...