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Psychology Professor, soccer fan, public health advocate.


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Corey Rayburn Yung's avatar Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social
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Plus, he has Homelander on his payroll.

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Stephen Walker he, him's avatar Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social
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And here is the result of recent SCOTUS decisions. A person can no longer go into business for themselves if they previously performed that function for a previous employer

www.rawstory.com/trump-judge-...

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her)'s avatar Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social
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Example of an election decided by one or two votes.

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Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸]'s avatar Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸] @themckenziest.gay
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But I thought the president is a king now

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court’s big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed

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BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.

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Daniel Feldman's avatar Daniel Feldman @dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.

Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.

The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.

Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.

www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

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Doctor David's avatar Doctor David @doctordavid.bsky.social
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The people who wrote the Constitution didn't know about germ theory, dinosaurs, or relativity, but sure, let's treat their beliefs about human behavior as gospel. The inability to update our fundamental governing principles with new knowledge led us here.

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Jonathan Ladd's avatar Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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Science Friday 's avatar Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social
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Why is it bad if scientists only publish studies with positive results?

In today’s episode, we explore why the bias to only publish positive results hinders scientific progress.

Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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America can accept this Supreme Court as legitimate and its rulings as the final word - or it can have true democracy and a functioning state. But not both.
 
Wrote this a year ago - and things have only gotten worse: The Rogue Court vs Modern Democracy

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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The Court is spearheading the attempts by a radicalizing minority to install ever more authoritarian forms of minoritarianism in order to secure their status against the will of the majority. And as of right now, these radicalizing reactionaries are succeeding.

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Corey Rayburn Yung's avatar Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social
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Do you know which other Americans have immunity from criminal law at all times, forever? Absolutely no one. This is different than qualified immunity, judicial immunity, prosecutorial immunity, etc. Those only bar civil suits. Freestanding immunity from criminal law is unprecedented in the U.S.

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Tom Nichols's avatar Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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The Court has saved Trump, kneecapped Smith, and set up the conditions for an elective monarchy.

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Yup. The Constitution includes a narrowly-defined legal immunity for members of Congress in a specific circumstance. Not one word about Presidential or Supreme Court Justice immunity. Those parts were made up out of thin air.

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Stephen West's avatar Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social
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"It seems history matters to this Court only when it is convenient." From Sotomayor's dissent

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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In normal times, the Supreme Court would've smacked down claims of presidential immunity almost immediately, but we're not in normal times, and there's a reason why the conservative majority of Federalist Society bagmen waited until the last possible moment to provide this insane ruling.

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Don Zeko's avatar Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social
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It's hard to even imagine the limits of the power that SCOTUS has just handed the president. If you can keep 34 senators and the military on your side, you can do anything.

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her)'s avatar Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social
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President Biden has six months left in his first term. What official acts does he need to do that he will have immunity for?

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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Sotomayor: "Today’s decision ... makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law."

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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Uh, Roberts appears to say that you can't even use *evidence* related to a president's official acts when you're prosecuting him for unofficial acts?

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Doctor David's avatar Doctor David @doctordavid.bsky.social
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Clearly they have no standards other than maintaining their power.

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EC's avatar EC @ellcall.bsky.social
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So if he accepts 20 million dollars to pardon someone, a core constitutional duty, he’s immune from prosecution? lol this country is really circling the drain.

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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So if Joe Biden declared today that November’s election is canceled and ordered the military to keep him in power, would that be an “official act”?

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Doctor David's avatar Doctor David @doctordavid.bsky.social
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So, does this mean Biden could imprison SCOTUS and appoint new members?

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

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Rook Stone's avatar Rook Stone @rookstone.bsky.social
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1948! 7-Up had lithium in it until NINETEEN FORTY EIGHT

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David Noll 's avatar David Noll @david.noll.org
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Pretty much. As for learned, it would be interesting to know if there's a single citation in Roberts' opinion that didn't appear in an amicus brief.

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Doctor David's avatar Doctor David @doctordavid.bsky.social
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Clearly law is just politics in robes. As such, we should greatly diminish the power of the justices.

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Excited for a world where they need Brett Kavanaugh’s permission for this

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Doctor David's avatar Doctor David @doctordavid.bsky.social
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Free markets allow the powerful to harm and even kill those with less power. The playing field is not level no matter how much they claim.

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Doctor David's avatar Doctor David @doctordavid.bsky.social
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It's clear that SCOTUS wants to give itself ultimate power in areas where it has no competence. This is authoritarianism at its worst. I have family members who died fighting the Nazis and this court ignores their sacrifice.

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Doctor David's avatar Doctor David @doctordavid.bsky.social
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They clearly want luck to matter more than justice.

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Doctor David's avatar Doctor David @doctordavid.bsky.social
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Proof that they are not competent to make such decisions. Their ignorant arrogance is palpable.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Absolutely. I wrote a Science article in 1997 on how important it is to reduce non co2 GHGs and since then it’s only gotten more important 😬

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Dr. SkySkull's avatar Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social
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If you’re not checking the references in a paper you’re writing, you don’t deserve to be a scientist. Period.

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Doctor David's avatar Doctor David @doctordavid.bsky.social
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The arrogance of people who think knowledge and expertise don't matter will kill people.

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