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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus

@jlazarus.bsky.social
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On here way too much. Political scientist at Georgia State University. Congress & elections. My feed is mostly politics but you’ll get some sports takes and terrible dad jokes along the way.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 5h
In the four years I was at UCLA, a frat got banned for racist/sexist activity, there were two deaths related to alcohol, one permanent injury related to alcohol, and a house known as “The rape house,” and that’s just what I remember.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21h
Posting so this gets saved in my media tab and I can use it again later.
Philip Converse with laser eyes
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21h
The American Voter is undefeated
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A new low for a journal review: The figures aren't in the paper. They're not even in the same DOCUMENT. Each figure is in its own PDF document, so every time I want to look at a figure I have to open a new document. What a spectacular waste of time.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What do you do if you're reviewing a manuscript and you think it's well crafted but just kind of boring? As in, the paper answers the research question well; you just don't think the question is really worth all the trouble. Feels kind of mean to say that in the review.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Chat I think we’re underestimating how much the GOP consultant class has been porn brained.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As I was saying, a step on the road to DV
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Ex-bodyguard arrested again, accused of having knife while trying to contact Sinema
Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-boyfriend is back in jail as court records allege he violated release conditions with an attempted contact, a knife and escalating threats.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Newsom is probably succeeding in securing the support of moneyed interests for the 2028 primary but he's ignoring the part where he's going to need people to actually vote for him.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Long Story Short Clue
ALT: Long Story Short Clue
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A great reason to be watching Phillies-Braves is that Brown-Steelers features probably the two worst quarterbacks in the NFL. Not, like, the worst quarterbacks. The two worst people who play quarterback in the league.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All of us Atlanta-based Dodgers fans are rooting for the Braves to win 13-11 in 18 innings.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah so if a president liquidates a government entity created in legislaiton passed by Congress & funded by congressional appropriations that's super-duper unconstitutional. In normal times he'd be impeached by close of business that day.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the before times this scandal would be in the news for years, take over every briefing and press conference, get referenced on the talk shows every night, singlehandedly drag down a president's approval by 10 points, and end in criminal convictions. Now it's a single article in a foreign outlet.
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
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Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pausing an unpopular during an election is usually more effective when you don't explicitly tell voters you're only pausing the unpopular war because there's an election.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 01/10/2026
Alright class, lets gather around and discuss parties as coalitions as the ability of members of legislature (MLs) to credibly challenge or defect from party leadership.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Love to see all the early 20th century diseases making comebacks.
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San Diego State football team dealing with mumps outbreak
San Diego State's football team is dealing with a mumps outbreak as it prepares for Saturday's Pac-12 opener against Texas State.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Rachel Bloom: The Situation's Nuanced
ALT: Rachel Bloom: The Situation's Nuanced
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eric Schmidt knows Blackburn and Tuberville are both running for governor and the position of America's dumbest Senator is about to be wide open, and he made his play.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula…..🦇
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Abed Nadir's Contortionist Pose
ALT: Abed Nadir's Contortionist Pose
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Should've never stopped calling these folks weird.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If those who benefited from the status quo had been willing to listen instead of sabotaging the #MeToo movement, we’d be in a very different place right now. Same story w/ BLM and so much more. But it’s not too late to rise in collective solidarity now to create a more possible world for everyone.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
100% And also, accumulation of knowledge over time (which is what leads to this type of narrowing) is a hallmark of the scientific endeavor. Some people call it *the* defining feature of science. Social science is science, y'all.
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nothing really prepared me for the whiplash that came from Israel/Palestine transforming from famous shorthand for “an extraordinarily complicated mess with no good outcomes” to something “so simple, you’re an evil moron if you disagree with me.” It literally happened in the discourse overnight.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is abusive - and a huge step on the road to domestic violence - no matter how bad you think Sinema's politics are (and I think they're pretty effing bad).
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i genuinely forgot how bad this was
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Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the firs...
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just read a paper by (fake name) Smith that's largely a rehash of another paper by (fake name) Jones from about 15 years ago, except Smith never cites Jones, not even once. And I guess I'm a petty bitch because my strongest reaction was "Oh thank God it doesn't just happen to me."
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rick Scott saying we should give health care back to the private sector is literally the fox telling the farmer to take down the fence around the henhouse.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My dear Scott, if you don't want to use the Congress I should like to borrow it for a while
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good line from Frederick Douglass:
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh great -- glad to see that this Open Access piece on why White Americans support democratic retrenchment is now in an issue (with some great other folks!) at Political Behavior: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I heard through the grapevine that Sen. Eric Schmitt has 18 staffers on his legislative team: 17 men and one woman. The woman on his staff deals exclusively with foreign policy, which means today's disaster during the hearing was all by conservative men who don't know sports.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Sean's News Network @seanchai313.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So customs and border patrol is spending $20,000,000 of your money on running old trump campaign ads on NFL games
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chat, you've got to watch Katie Britt's reaction to Eric Schmidt's beclowning himself.
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Katie Britt's face as she listens to Jack Smith refutes Sen. Eric Schmitt's blunder during hearing.
YouTube video by AL.com
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 30/09/2026
“Why are you so invested in defending Biden when that’s the past” well because if there are no consequences for smearing the most progressive President in history and he’s allowed to go down in history as “genocide Joe” based on no evidence, they’ll do worse to the next person
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 29/09/2026
This is why I'm OK voting for Abdul in spite of my lingering concerns. I'm betting that he'll end up being pretty much a party line Dem on 95% of the issues & votes which come up.
"Same with that El-Sayed guy...groomed by the elites to sell us a mirage"
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He's just looking for something he can trademark and monetize, right?
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Read the whole thread, but 1000% right here. It's literally my job to teach people how the system works. The system is imperfect and maddeningly complex, but it's also comprehensible. You can comprehend it. And you can also (as part of a group) use it to make the world better!
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reminds me of the Volkswagen Super Bowl ad that told the story of the company’s history, conveniently starting around 1950.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I find it creepy and weird that people talk about AI agents as if they are things that have identity and agency.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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