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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 7h

It’s absolutely not hyperbole to say the second Trump administration is more corrupt than every other administration in history *combined* - including Trump I - and it’s not remotely a close comparison.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 7h

Periodic reminder that the biggest scandal in American history outside of Watergate involved a grand total of $9 million (inflation adjusted) changing hands & it resulted in resignations, convictions, jail time, and new legislation, and in the Trump administration that amount is a rounding error

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7h

Unprecedented corruption

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 8h

the fact that people on this site are advocating punishing Democrats for this and *not even contextualizing that they have literally no choice that doesn't lead to cessation of funding overall* is just insane, and evidence that people have no interest in better government ever happening

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 8h

Ball hit the lip. It's not even his fault. (I'm sure that doesn't make him feel less bad about it.)

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 9h

It's getting him to shut up that's the trick.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 9h

Ossoff is gonna need hand surgery from punching Collins so hard.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 9h

I prefer this one myself. bsky.app/profile/mari...

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 9h

this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 9h

I think this is my favorite Bluesky post.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 9h

OK, y'all, I might have a new all time favorite social media post.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 9h

Y'all, I don't think Mike Collins is the sharpest crayon in the box. bsky.app/profile/mari...

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 9h

I’m sorry, did a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate just ‘Won’t somebody think of the neo-Nazis?’ during a live TV debate?

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 9h

I'm in the 98th or 99th percentile of Georgia voters in "pays attention to politics" and I have no clue who Reid Hoffman is or why Ossoff should denounce him. Collins is so bad at this.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 10h

The modern Republican party is like a specialized island species where they have no known predators. They are completely unprepared for a hostile environment. They have designed their own simulacrum and no longer how to live among us here, in the Real.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 9h

The worst stadium in baseball will always find a way to get even worse, I guess.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 9h

In addition to everything else LOLOLOL at the White House comms person quoting "Trust the process." Ask any Sixers fan how well the original "trust the process" worked out.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 9h

Why is water splashing up out of the outfield in Tropicana Field...which is a dome?

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 12h

I've said forever that I will only own two items that are connected to the internet (phone & computer). In recent years I've been persuaded to add a television to the list. I see absolutely no reason to expand it.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12h

Vouch

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 12h

Not an original thought, but all that breathless coverage of Biden being old, and I’m just not hearing enough about Trump’s full mental breakdown, with animal mauling human videos and all the other chaos.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14h

STOP LETTING JD VANCE MEET POPES

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 14h

I didn't have to realize that I was weird on my own. The bullies informed me every day, from second grade until about halfway through fifth, when my mom finally let me change schools.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 15h

I'm not a law person but presumably a judicial finding of a premeditated campaign opens up the perpetrators of said campaign to legal liability. And Elon Musk has some VERY deep pockets.

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The Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 19h

Riley Gaines, on people who can’t move past a loss.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 16h

I've never been 100% clear on whether she was forced out or if she left to care for her sick husband.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 16h

Did she get forced out or did she leave to care for her sick husband? I've never been clear.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 16h

No one - and I mean no one - in this administration has fucked anything up bigger than Hegseth.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 16h

Seriously, I'm trying to think of a man who's been fired/"asked to resign" from the Trump admin.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 16h

Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and now Kimberly Guilfoyle. They've all got something in common. It'll come to me eventually.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18h

At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18h

👇🎯 This. People still haven't internalized that structural things are structural & Harris did not do poorly & it's almost entirely certain that no one else would have done better, not least because she & Biden were the only Dems overwhelmingly favored by Black voters in 2024 (as she likely is now).

FT chart showing Dems/Harris outfperformed every other incumbent party in a developed democracy in 2024

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 18h

Still, that's a pretty good summer if I may say so.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 19h

So in May I was able to get three projects off my desk. Project 1 got accepted after a round of R&R Project 2 was just accepted after the second round of R&R Project 3...I'm still waiting to get the initial reviews. Journals, amirite?

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 19h

Article accepted! 🥳🎉 Still very cool after all these years.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

the gop is increasingly unable and unwilling to speak to anyone outside the right wing bubble.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I can’t swear I’ve ever seen that. But I have seen the sign from the Getty so it makes sense.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And get the F out of here with “she’s in a limo and facing backwards.” No! It says right in the song she’s in a cab! I care about this way too much.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Mine is geographical not historical, but it annoys the snot out of me. In Party in the USA, Miley Cyrus hops off the plane at LAX, gets in a cab, and sees the Hollywood Sign "to my right." If you know LA, you know that as you're driving away from LAX on the 10 the Hollywood sign is on your left.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Tip o’ the cap to ya if you recognize the gif.

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Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmfounder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is how all Democrats should speak to Trump.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Trump regime is flouting the authority of the courts by violating their orders left & right. They obey when they feel like it & don't when they don't because they believe their man in charge is a legitimate dictator.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There are not a lot of threads I'd describe as "monumentally important" but this fits the bill.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Krehbiel had the (mis)fortune of taking the strongest position on the wrong side the debate at the exact time we were learning it was the wrong side. He made a shitton of money (spent a career at the Stanford Graduate School of Business) but is widely famous for being wrong about everything.

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