Chris Lawrence
@lordsutch.com
Professor, suburban homeowner, EV driver, all-around troublemaker. Views expressed unlikely to be shared by my employer.
"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.
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"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.
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.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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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A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
A case study of the Omnicause spreading across an organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A case study of the Omnicause spreading across an organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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.
October 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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.
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...
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.
slate.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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...
Doing this on the day Yom Kippur starts is certainly a choice. wapo.st/4gO1rgY
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.
wapo.st
October 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Doing this on the day Yom Kippur starts is certainly a choice. wapo.st/4gO1rgY
Meanwhile, in Arizona.... www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...
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.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Meanwhile, in Arizona.... www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...
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...
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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September 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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...
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...
U.S.-Run TikTok to License Algorithm, White House Says
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September 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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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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...
bsky.app/profile/eppr...
Political scientists! Scholars of international relations! We are updating the Garand and Giles journal ranking survey. If you would like to participate, please self-enroll at eppr.study .
Evaluation of Publication in Political Research
Knowing What Counts
eppr.study
September 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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...
bsky.app/profile/eppr...
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.
September 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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.
Graphic design is her passion. www.13wmaz.com/article/news...
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.
www.13wmaz.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Graphic design is her passion. www.13wmaz.com/article/news...
Dawg, I hear you like to do fraud to cover up your fraud. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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...
www.thecrimson.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Dawg, I hear you like to do fraud to cover up your fraud. www.thecrimson.com/article/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.
This concludes today's First Amendment caselaw lesson.
September 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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.
This concludes today's First Amendment caselaw lesson.
The Jodie Foster Fan Club might want to lawyer up, given the track record on shooter motivations in American history.
Trump released a video tonight promising to "find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity, and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it."
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The Jodie Foster Fan Club might want to lawyer up, given the track record on shooter motivations in American history.
The Celina 52 Truck Stop-tier content I'm here for on Bluesky.
The piss tank on the ISS is now 24% full.
September 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The Celina 52 Truck Stop-tier content I'm here for on Bluesky.
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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
September 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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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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
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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
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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.
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
September 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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.
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
Can we get a "no snuff films" setting on this app? Asking for, uh, everyone.
September 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Can we get a "no snuff films" setting on this app? Asking for, uh, everyone.
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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.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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.
Remember when MOOCs were going to take all the jobs in higher ed? Good times.
August 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Remember when MOOCs were going to take all the jobs in higher ed? Good times.
I gave up deciphering these last weekend and just went with the flow for my own sanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...
Tech Billboards Are All Over San Francisco. Can You Decode Them?
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August 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I gave up deciphering these last weekend and just went with the flow for my own sanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...