Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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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Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
I’ve got a pet theory that gas stations slowed pumps when these screens went in to force people to watch more ads, and I wish I could go back in time to see if that were true.
Little TV screens at the gas station pump blaring ads directly in your face as you spend $70 on a tank of gas is enough to radicalize a person
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I’ve got a pet theory that gas stations slowed pumps when these screens went in to force people to watch more ads, and I wish I could go back in time to see if that were true.
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I criticize all the time so credit where credit is due. Just state the plain, damning facts, without any euphemisms or both sides double speak. More please.
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I criticize all the time so credit where credit is due. Just state the plain, damning facts, without any euphemisms or both sides double speak. More please.
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Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience
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just want to add that "carpetbagger" is a white supremacist slur; it was directed first at northerners who left home to try to help build a multi-racial south. 1
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November 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
just want to add that "carpetbagger" is a white supremacist slur; it was directed first at northerners who left home to try to help build a multi-racial south. 1
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The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
The stochastic terrorist administration published a list of turbulent priests.
The White House web site now includes a "media bias" tracker with a leaderboard and an offender hall of shame. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The stochastic terrorist administration published a list of turbulent priests.
At this point the surprise isn't that Trump can be bought, it's that he can be bought so cheaply.
Swiss businessmen gave Trump an engraved gold bar worth more than $130,000. Then he agreed to cut tariffs on Swiss imports.
bit.ly/4oV46sG
bit.ly/4oV46sG
A New Era of Crony Capitalism
Washington hasn’t seen graft like this for at least a century.
www.brennancenter.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
At this point the surprise isn't that Trump can be bought, it's that he can be bought so cheaply.
Andor and it’s a full Kessel run between it and second place.
Name your tv show of the year.
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Andor and it’s a full Kessel run between it and second place.
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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Right. This is normally a prelude to imminent war. But no one knows if the us president is serious or had a bad breakfast or is making an insane joke or had a stroke or whatever.
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
Might be kicking off.
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Right. This is normally a prelude to imminent war. But no one knows if the us president is serious or had a bad breakfast or is making an insane joke or had a stroke or whatever.
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One of the most frustrating things about news reporting now is the refusal to include things we already know—such as the recent perversion of what are supposed to be science-based agencies into anti-science propaganda mills—into the framing of individual breaking stories.
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
One of the most frustrating things about news reporting now is the refusal to include things we already know—such as the recent perversion of what are supposed to be science-based agencies into anti-science propaganda mills—into the framing of individual breaking stories.
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Periodic reminder that Congress could stop this administration TODAY if they wanted to, and yet they don’t.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Periodic reminder that Congress could stop this administration TODAY if they wanted to, and yet they don’t.
A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part. Of. A. Team.
November 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part. Of. A. Team.
This. More of this. The more pro-democracy Republicans there are, the better off we all will be.
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This. More of this. The more pro-democracy Republicans there are, the better off we all will be.
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Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
There are Republicans of integrity left in the country. We must amplify their voices, because the straightest line out of <waves arms> all of this is a pro-democracy Republican Party.
Another Indiana Republican Senator makes it clear he’s still opposing the GOP push to re-gerrymander the state. dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
There are Republicans of integrity left in the country. We must amplify their voices, because the straightest line out of <waves arms> all of this is a pro-democracy Republican Party.
These are rookie numbers. I feel like I need to fucking swear more.
@jlazarus.bsky.social has swears! They've used 446 profanities in their last 5,802 posts.
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🥇 "shit" (86 times)
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November 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
These are rookie numbers. I feel like I need to fucking swear more.
Ok @profanity.accountant, I’m curious.
November 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Ok @profanity.accountant, I’m curious.
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This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
Trump literally did the meme.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Trump literally did the meme.
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One of my underrated prints is probably "Presidents, Not Kings," one that has grown only more relevant - especially as the Anti-MAGA resistance has taken on the messaging of "No Kings." www.emilyk.art/product/pres...
Prezidenten, Nisht Kaizeren! / Presidents, Not Kings! - Yiddish Resistance Print - Emily K • Cartoonist & Illustrator
The Founders of the United States had many disagreements, but "Presidents are not kings" isn't one of them. Yet the MAGA-hijacked SCOTUS determined that U.S. Presidents are immune from any prosecution...
www.emilyk.art
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
One of my underrated prints is probably "Presidents, Not Kings," one that has grown only more relevant - especially as the Anti-MAGA resistance has taken on the messaging of "No Kings." www.emilyk.art/product/pres...
I was into my 40's before I knew there were people in the world who aren't 1's.
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I was into my 40's before I knew there were people in the world who aren't 1's.
People out here driving like they’re still drunk from last night.
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
People out here driving like they’re still drunk from last night.
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Worth watching this whole clip. Indistinguishable from Nazi leaders talking about Jews in the 1930s.
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Worth watching this whole clip. Indistinguishable from Nazi leaders talking about Jews in the 1930s.