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John Horgan

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Distinguished University Professor of psychology @ Georgia State University. I study terrorism (from above and below).📍Atlanta, GA. TERRORIST MINDS now available from Columbia University Press.

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This is getting out of control

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🚒 Our latest article is out 🚒

What do we need to know about violent extremism and schools in the United States?

Our newest paper has just been published in the Journal of School Psychology. DM or email me if you'd like a copy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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I hate the smell of firework smoke in the morning. Smells like….idiocy.

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On the sociopath thing, remember you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

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Phew. Didn’t die. It was pretty toasty out there today.

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The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit has launched a new campaign (with accompanying resources) to prevent mass violence. Check it out: www.fbi.gov/news/stories...

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There have been many attempts to explain why rural Americans consistently vote for Republicans. The scathing response to a new, best-selling book shows how a tightknit group of scholars are clamoring for more empathetic political analyses of rural Americans.

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“He was spouting idiotic rubbish on replay; this crazy Magna Carta speak, and something about missing children being in the house"

More a QAnon focus with a blend of Sovcit notions but rather concerning.

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/former-ne...

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I’d vote for a *literal* potato before a psychopathic anti-American insurrectionist convict, and Dems, if you can’t stand by your man, then shame on you, you cowards.

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Articles in Volume XVIII, Issue 2 of Perspectives on Terrorism take a closer look at how military service intersects and interacts with far-right extremism, how militant groups choose between logistical needs and ideology among much more!
pt.icct.nl/issue/xviii-...

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Everything being on fire aside, my book Extremism is now out in Arabic

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I am sympathetic to *people* being frightened by this, but I'm contemptuous of Democratic elites who couldn't wait five minutes into the debate to text their media elite pals to throw Biden under the bus. That reaction, as much as anything, has catastrophized what was already a bad night.

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Yes. Not much else to say, only yes. Pretty grim.

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🚨NEW🚨 article looking at right-wing extremism in the military based on a niche dataset of interviews with individuals who are both former extremists and have military experience.

👉 pt.icct.nl/sites/defaul...

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My interest in the Red Army Faction led me to investigate the Stammheim prison suicides, and the subsequent preservation of the brains (for "scientific" study) of Meinhof, Baader, et al.

You can read the whole crazy story via this preview of Terrorist Minds
cup.columbia.edu/sampler/9780...

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I’m reposting this amazing thread from my friend @sarahposner.bsky.social, who shares my outrage over this awful situation w/r/t suicide and abysmal mental healthcare in the military

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Furiosa was phenomenal. Totally unnecessary montage over the closing credits, but if ever there was a movie that deserved to be seen on the biggest screen possible, this was it.

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Bittersweet to finish this terrific book. Tales from a bygone era and one of my favorite movies of all time.

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A Court Watch exclusive, after being under investigation for 6 months, Trevon Boone yesterday purchased a rifle and AR-15 ammo. He was arrested quickly part of an investigation into his threats to commit a mass shooting.

“I’ll be on the news” he allegedly said.

www.courtwatch.news/p/exclusive-...

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Me: “I don’t need more notebooks. I know that.” Also me: “Ok. Just one of each. Just in case.”

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One of my better non-academic pursuits. Progress!

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Well, bollocks to that. We can’t have ONE show…

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Someone knows what “w-a-l-k” spells

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Yep. That final, *final* scene was unnecessary and undermined the emotional heft.

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John Horgan's avatar John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social
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Yeah, Godzilla Minus One was absolutely fantastic. What. A. Movie.

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"...one more thing" Me: "AN EJECTOR SEAT. IT HAS TO BE!"

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Oh sure, but if Alex Garland makes up a story about the combined forces of Texas and California, you people are all "oh that's ridiculous" lol

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"Late Night With the Devil" mostly very good. Few issues here and there (plot), but the production values were terrific. And wow, David Dastmalchian and Ian Bliss were phenomenal.

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Apparently Bo needed a “gotcha day” anniversary cake

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*beatboxing sounds*

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A former criminology professor who specialized in social deviancy and “went on an arson spree” was sentenced on Thursday to more than five years in prison after he admitted to setting four fires in California in 2021, prosecutors said.

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Maybe he can console himself with a dinner of…hush puppies

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Google Fiber: “Have you tried resetting the modem?” Me:

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