Reposted by Chris LawrenceKyle Saunders @kylesaunders.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Our (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 001
Reposted by Chris LawrenceBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Guys, China’s risk calculus on Taiwan is not determined by some global scale of the acceptability of aggression 371857193
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 18/02/2026The level of orchestrated concern trolling on behalf of Jasmine Crockett would make the JournoList principals blush at how blatant it is. 000
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 06/02/2026Athletes' willingness to do insane stuff to their bodies for any minor advantage remains singularly impressive. 000
Reposted by Chris LawrenceDavid 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... 211747
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 04/02/2026Fallout 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. 000
Reposted by Chris LawrenceTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I'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. 1016611
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 31/01/2026I don't think I'm ever going to top this student evaluation comment: "BRO SUCKED GIGA BALLS AT HIS JOB BRUH" 020
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 03/01/2026So is it the "Donroe Doctrine" or "Donroe Document"? I need to update my foreign policy notes. 010
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 01/01/2026Shockingly, the people who get interviewed most frequently by the national media appear to be the most butthurt by the CBS News video. 010
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. 000
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 10/11/2025Probably 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. 010
Reposted by Chris LawrencePhilip Bump @pbump.com · 08/11/2025A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b... 7931321215
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 07/11/2025A case study of the Omnicause spreading across an organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...nytimes.comThe Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart. 010
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 23/10/2025I'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. 000
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 03/10/2025Republicans 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...slate.comMAGA’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. 030
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 03/10/2025As I've said before, the man is perpetually 80s-brained to the point he thinks the Mariel Boatlift is still happening. 010
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 02/10/2025Doing this on the day Yom Kippur starts is certainly a choice. wapo.st/4gO1rgYwapo.stKash Patel ends FBI partnership with the Anti-Defamation LeagueThe FBI director’s move follows conservative backlash against the ADL, which had described Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA as a platform for extremists. 030
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 30/09/2025Meanwhile, in Arizona.... www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...phoenixnewtimes.comQAnon Shaman says he's rightful president, sues Trump for $40 trillionIn a rambling complaint, Jacob Chansley claims DJs are spies, that the NSA stole his work for a Batman movie and more. 010
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 25/09/2025At 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...ajc.comGeorgia’s Fort Benning would become Fort Moore again under House billLegislation 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. 010
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 22/09/2025I 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...nytimes.comU.S.-Run TikTok to License Algorithm, White House Says 020
Reposted by Chris LawrenceJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025News 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... 1105
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 21/09/2025Why 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. 000
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 17/09/2025Graphic design is her passion. www.13wmaz.com/article/news...13wmaz.comThe Macon DA's Office spent nearly $50,000 on a promotional magazine, but some say that's illegal. Here's whySome 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. 030
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 13/09/2025Dawg, I hear you like to do fraud to cover up your fraud. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...thecrimson.comHarvard Sues Ex-HBS Professor Gino for Defamation, Accusing Her of Falsifying Evidence | News | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard 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... 000
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 12/09/2025Hiring departments/schools can pay to host their searches on Interfolio (and candidates get free access to apply for those jobs) but that's pretty rare in my experience. 200
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 12/09/2025We don't bother at all and just call references for people we plan to give full interviews. Model the change you want to see in the discipline/academy and all that jazz. 030
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 12/09/2025Back in the day it cost me a lot of money due to paper applications; it might be more affordable for candidates now since it mostly just hosts recs. That said I'm long past being convinced departments shouldn't request recs until after at least first round screening. 310
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 12/09/2025ProTip 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. 000
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 11/09/2025The Jodie Foster Fan Club might want to lawyer up, given the track record on shooter motivations in American history. 000
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 10/09/2025The Celina 52 Truck Stop-tier content I'm here for on Bluesky. 010
Reposted by Chris Lawrenceandy™ @andylevy.net · 10/09/2025the 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 178159662953
Reposted by Chris LawrenceEd @notdred.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I 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 298223344623
Reposted by Chris LawrenceJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025A 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. 612303486
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 10/09/2025Can we get a "no snuff films" setting on this app? Asking for, uh, everyone. 010
Reposted by Chris LawrencePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Political 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. 14578881974
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 12/08/2025Remember when MOOCs were going to take all the jobs in higher ed? Good times. 000
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 05/08/2025I gave up deciphering these last weekend and just went with the flow for my own sanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...nytimes.comTech Billboards Are All Over San Francisco. Can You Decode Them? 020
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 28/07/2025A 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...insidehighered.comKy. Prof. Calling for War Against Israel Pulled From TeachingThe 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.” 000
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 18/07/2025That's not to say that Kessler isn't getting a bit ahead of his skis in terms of proving a negative, or that there isn't plenty of smoke surrounding the Trump/Epstein relationship. 000
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 18/07/2025The media that repeatedly called the Hunter Biden laptop story fake and dismissed all the narratives that Joe was no longer fit for office? Let's not kid ourselves that the MSM doesn't do more than its fair share covering for Team Blue. 100
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 18/07/2025Looking forward to not paying for Stephen Colbert's Substack next year. 000
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 18/07/2025Karoline Leavitt tripping over the president's medical report like a Star Trek actor trying to deliver technobabble on their first day on set. 010
Reposted by Chris LawrencePhilip Bump @pbump.com · 14/07/2025A 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. 531040139
Reposted by Chris LawrenceThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/07/2025Sen. 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?" 14651861256
Reposted by Chris LawrenceJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025I 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.) 210910
Chris Lawrence @lordsutch.com · 13/07/2025Wesleyan College has been "Acceleraling Equality Since 1836." But apparently not spelling. 000