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Chris Lawrence

@lordsutch.com
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Professor, suburban homeowner, EV driver, all-around troublemaker. Views expressed unlikely to be shared by my employer.

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Kyle Saunders @kylesaunders.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our (w/ Erin Fitz) new work "Who Considers, Who Owns? Multi-Study Evidence on the Behavioral Process of Cryptocurrency Adoption in the United States" is out! (Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services). Paper link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mhPF3SU%7... Paper explainer cite: www.erinbfitz.com/crypto
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Guys, China’s risk calculus on Taiwan is not determined by some global scale of the acceptability of aggression
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 18/02/2026
The level of orchestrated concern trolling on behalf of Jasmine Crockett would make the JournoList principals blush at how blatant it is.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 06/02/2026
Athletes' willingness to do insane stuff to their bodies for any minor advantage remains singularly impressive.
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity) 📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok 📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 04/02/2026
Fallout season 2 stuck the landing. So much fan service but still pushing its own story forward. I guess we'll see in season 3 if Caesar will get to build his palace in Vegas (and I legit LOLed at the line), but something tells me never to bet against House.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I'm defending his right to speak on a college campus where he was invited to speak. "People I don't like should not be heard" is probably not a principle you should be defending, ever, but especially not these days.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 31/01/2026
I don't think I'm ever going to top this student evaluation comment: "BRO SUCKED GIGA BALLS AT HIS JOB BRUH"
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 03/01/2026
So is it the "Donroe Doctrine" or "Donroe Document"? I need to update my foreign policy notes.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 01/01/2026
Shockingly, the people who get interviewed most frequently by the national media appear to be the most butthurt by the CBS News video.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 01/01/2026
80% of complaints about the media, in one meme.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 10/11/2025
"Party leaders in the Senate are more like administrators than bosses." Direct quote from the American government slides I've been using the past decade-plus. Caro's hagiography of LBJ aside (in which case, why did LBJ volunteer for a much weaker job in 1960?), it's been true much longer.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 10/11/2025
Probably easier to argue that the Democrats shouldn't have caved if you weren't about to have your SNAP benefits cut off or you've gotten a paycheck in the past month.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/11/2025
A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 07/11/2025
A case study of the Omnicause spreading across an organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 23/10/2025
I'm a "Democrats probably need to broaden the tent to recapture the median voter" guy but nominating a candidate who was using anti-gay slurs on Reddit in 2014 and has a Totenkopf tattoo he just covered up is not essential to successfully winning statewide in Maine.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 03/10/2025
Republicans remain so dedicated to ensuring there is evidence of election fraud that they keep going out to allegedly commit it themselves. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 02/10/2025
Doing this on the day Yom Kippur starts is certainly a choice. wapo.st/4gO1rgY
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Kash Patel ends FBI partnership with the Anti-Defamation League
The FBI director’s move follows conservative backlash against the ADL, which had described Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA as a platform for extremists.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 30/09/2025
Meanwhile, in Arizona.... www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...
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QAnon Shaman says he's rightful president, sues Trump for $40 trillion
In a rambling complaint, Jacob Chansley claims DJs are spies, that the NSA stole his work for a Batman movie and more.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 25/09/2025
At this rate, by 2031, every bill passed by the House will rename Fort Moore as Fort Benning or vice versa. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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Georgia’s Fort Benning would become Fort Moore again under House bill
Legislation passed by the U.S. House would reverse President Donald Trump's efforts to restore names to Georgia bases once tied to figures from the Confederacy.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 22/09/2025
I support un-banning TikTok if this deal comes to pass and all users are required to use PeopleSoft forms to access and post to the platform. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...
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U.S.-Run TikTok to License Algorithm, White House Says
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
News from bluesky's favorite absent political scientist, Paul Musgrave: He's on a team that's updating the Garand and Giles journal ranking survey. Information below. bsky.app/profile/eppr...
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 21/09/2025
Why do they make the "solve the NFL kickoff" problem so complicated? Just make it equivalent to 4th and 10 on the 35 and let the kicking team decide if they want to send out the special teams to punt (or fake) or go for it with the offense.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 17/09/2025
Graphic design is her passion. www.13wmaz.com/article/news...
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The Macon DA's Office spent nearly $50,000 on a promotional magazine, but some say that's illegal. Here's why
Some experts say the office’s "Justice Journal," promoting the office's work, verges too closely on political promotion. The Macon DA’s Office said it's education.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 13/09/2025
Dawg, I hear you like to do fraud to cover up your fraud. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Sues Ex-HBS Professor Gino for Defamation, Accusing Her of Falsifying Evidence | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard sued behavioral scientist Francesca Gino for defamation in August, alleging the former Harvard Business School professor sent the school a falsified dataset to prove she did not commit data fr...
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 12/09/2025
ProTip to the chronically online: someone isn't considered a "public figure" for the purposes of libel law just because their first and last name is shared with that of a person suspected of committing a crime. This concludes today's First Amendment caselaw lesson.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 11/09/2025
The Jodie Foster Fan Club might want to lawyer up, given the track record on shooter motivations in American history.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 10/09/2025
The Celina 52 Truck Stop-tier content I'm here for on Bluesky.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 10/09/2025
the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 10/09/2025
Can we get a "no snuff films" setting on this app? Asking for, uh, everyone.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 12/08/2025
Remember when MOOCs were going to take all the jobs in higher ed? Good times.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 05/08/2025
I gave up deciphering these last weekend and just went with the flow for my own sanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...
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Tech Billboards Are All Over San Francisco. Can You Decode Them?
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 28/07/2025
A reminder that some people don't have a problem with genocide and ethnic cleansing per se, they just wish their preferred side was better at doing them. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Ky. Prof. Calling for War Against Israel Pulled From Teaching
The professor’s website urges nations to attack Israel to stop a genocide. His university president suggested he was “calling for the destruction of a people based on national origin.”
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 18/07/2025
Printz v. United States rides yet again.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 18/07/2025
Looking forward to not paying for Stephen Colbert's Substack next year.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 18/07/2025
Karoline Leavitt tripping over the president's medical report like a Star Trek actor trying to deliver technobabble on their first day on set.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/07/2025
A lot of people are critical of Trump but you can’t deny that he’s really good at winning golf tournaments at clubs he owns against sycophants and lackeys.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/07/2025
Sen. Jon Ossoff: "Trump promised to release the Epstein Files. Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was gonna release the Epstein Files?"
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I am sure that comparing the Epstein Files to the Steele Dossier will put that fire *right* out. Saying that Clinton, Comey, and Biden "wrote" the Epstein Files definitely allays suspicion that there's anything bad about Trump in there. (This is all so, so stupid.)
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 13/07/2025
Wesleyan College has been "Acceleraling Equality Since 1836." But apparently not spelling.
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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
‘NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT’: Trump Roasted for Complimenting African Leader on His English — His Country’s Official Language www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
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Trump Roasted for Complimenting Liberian President's English
President Donald Trump had kind words for Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Wednesday, complimenting him for speaking English "so beautifully."
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 09/07/2025
Who'd have thought that feeding the base and influencers a steady diet of Pizzagate and Epstein pedo theories for years might eventually backfire? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/u...
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Confronted Over Epstein Files, Trump and Bondi Tell Supporters to Move On
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 03/07/2025
Starting to think this Diego Luna guy might be ok at soccer.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 02/07/2025
Having majors available (particularly cheap chalk-and-talk majors) is a recruitment and retention issue. Students who think they want a particular major won't come if you don't have it, and students who want to change to that major will transfer out.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Trump constantly relies on the public's goldfish memory to allow him to crow about great "deals" that, invariably, are worse than earlier deals he tore up out of sheer petty spite because he couldn't claim sole credit.
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Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 02/07/2025
As I've implied recently, I think Democrats may be on the verge of a Southern Strategy-style moment where they decide the benefits of courting anti-semites outweigh the reputational cost of being seen as cosying up to them.
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