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Jeff 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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I've spent all of 2025 trying to make President Fanucci happen.
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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<Rips bong> Yo yo check this out:
Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster! 11/8/25, 8:L
November 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Stupendous Man!
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Claudine Gay's plagiarism charges which the Times wrote fourteen and a half thousand breathless stories about were less blatant than this.
NY Times Headline: " For Mamdani, Winning Is One Thing. Governing Will Be Quite Another. Being mayor of New York City is often referred to as the second hardest job in the country, but the task may be even more complicated for Zohran Mamdani." Meme from Hamilton. Chris Jackson as Washington faces Lin Manuel Miranda as Hamilton. Caption: "Winning was easy, young man. Governor's harder."
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Lin Manuel Miranda wants his line back.
Meme from Hamilton. Chris Jackson as Washington faces Lin Manuel Miranda as Hamilton. Caption: "Winning was easy, young man. Governor's harder."
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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"I could smell the onions and the mustard"
November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly.
Apparently, if Firefly had continued and grown into its own established show, Joss had considered having Spike feature in a cameo role - sitting in a bar, saying 'Nothing changes. Trust me, nothing changes.'
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Do it.
A nondescript middle age white guy sits while he's waiting to get his hair cut - you can tell he needs one - wearing an orange shirt with an "I voted"sticker on it.
November 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I promise to stop posting about the World Series…well, eventually…but this coming the day after pitching a complete game is just ice cold.

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Giants). After Prior told Roberts that Yamamoto volunteered to pitch, Roberts glanced over his shoulder down the dugout, saw the earnestness on Yamamoto's face and could not refuse him and told him to go warm up. Rojas would have been Roberts's choice as his next pitcher if Freeman had not ended the game with a walkoff homer in the 18th. "I'm not going to let us lose a World Series game," Yamamoto told Prior, "with a position player pitching." It was the same anything-it-takes look Yamamoto gave before Game 7.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I am nothing if not eternally pessimistic.
MIGUEL FUCKING ROJAS?????? Ben Frank I wasn't going to ruin it for you Now I'm just afraid the baseball gods want to let the Jays walk it off. Ben Frank You gotta assume Joe Carters in the building
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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I’m not saying it’s an omen, but I’ll take what I can get an hour before the Dodgers play game 7 of the World Series.
Your dearest wish will come true. Lucky # 11, 19, 32, 33, 36, 41
November 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Congratulations to Ross Douthat for learning the material for week one of a political science PhD seminar. Too bad he didn’t stick around for the rest of the semester, when we learn all the ways the median voter theorem is wrong.
By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist The most obvious thing in politics is often the hardest to admit: If you lose an election, the best thing that you can do to make sure you win the next one is to find a message that puts you closer to the median voter than you were the last time around.
November 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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I’m just glad I’m not the only one who thought of this.
Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social So, the Dept of Agriculture is choosing not to use the SNAP reserve fund and justifying that choice with a dubious interpretation of a written statute. So here's a wild idea - why not bring a suit seeking an induction which would force the Department to interpret the law the standard way? October 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM @ Everybody can reply 0
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This is Wadsworth, dressed up as his namesake Wadsworth the butler from Clue.
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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This article by a woman who spent a year dating men from conservative dating apps is a remarkable piece of journalism full of eye-popping anecdotes. This one might be the eye-popping-ist.
Jared's eyes became erratic - completely different from the eyes of the man I'd sat down with at the beginning of the night. "If we lived in a different time, we would be hanging white liberal whores in the town square and dragging them through the streets for the lies they spread," he roared. My immediate reaction was an attempt to de-escalate the situation. "Let's take a deep breath" I suggested. I took one, then he took one, and we repeated it. He reset. Later, though, when I had my hand on the table, he grabbed my wrist and started ranting again about how liberal white women create witch hunts. "They say horrible things about me and make everyone hate me and think I'm a bad person," he said. He was staring at a point in the distance, speaking like he was in some kind of trance. "What did they say about you?" I asked. He snapped out of it. "Oh, not me" he answered. "I meant Donald Trump."
October 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Bitch.
October 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Not a care in the world.
October 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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There is far more evidence that Graham Platner is antiSemitic than Zohran Mamdani.
Town hall guy
October 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Screenshotting for when this guy blocks me.
October 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I made this for these occasions.
A yellow hand points at a sign that says “This is illegal.”
October 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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A ratio for the ages
Talmon Joseph Smith ‪@talsmith.bsky.social‬ Follow The ACA was gutted by Democrats. you can argue those key democrats could've been sidin with what many see as the more liberal/patient centered options. or you could say it was unfortunate that Dems didnt have 60+ more liberal senators. but it was Democrats. October 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM 45 quotes 2 likes 83 45 2 Write your reply ‪hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social‬ ‪@hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social‬ · 2h It’s fine if you are too young to remember the politics of 2009 but kind of gauche to tell everyone else trying to educate you on it that they’re wrong.
October 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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From my Facebook Memories this morning
On this day 13 years ago Jeffrey Lazarus Oct 17, 2012 • 8 This is EXACTLY how I feel about coffee, but because he's a professional writer, John Scalzi says it much better than I ever could: •.. "Coffee tastes like ass... Anyone who says, "well, that's just because you haven't had really good coffee" is merely saying "well, that's because you've never tasted really good ass" as far as I am concerned. No matter how good ass tastes, it's still ass. ...Mochas and lattes are to the modern era what a gravy was to the 1600s; a concerted effort to mask the rancid taste of what lies underneath. When you have to invent things not to taste a drink, the simple solution is not to drink the drink in the first place."
October 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM