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Nomi Claire Lazar

@nomiclairelazar.bsky.social

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Professeure Titulaire, Legal / Political Theory uOttawa GSPIA Books:on Time & Politics (YaleUP); on States of Emergency (CambridgeUP) Co-Lead, British Academy Global Convening Crisis, Constitutions, Elections, Apocalypse, Extremism www.nomiclairelazar.com

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 1h

Authoritarianism on your mind? Looking for a Sunday morning podcast that’s not about Heavy T? Check out @jeremywallace.bsky.social & I on the madness of eco-authoritarianism.

** NO GREEN KINGS! **🚫🟢🤴

revdem.ceu.edu/2025/04/07/w...

Why Eco-authoritarianism Is Not the Solution – Nomi Claire Lazar and Jeremy Wallace on Why, Despite Its Many Flaws, We Should Stick to Democracy in Our Quest to Solve the Climate Crisis | Review of De...

In this conversation with Nomi Lazar, Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, and Jeremy Wallace, Professor of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced ...

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 1h

Rise and shine, Mariners, and put your li’l swim trunks on, cause you’re going down!

Go #bluejays 🇨🇦

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 7h

#India saw fossil generation fall in the first half of 2025, as clean power grew rapidly ⚡️🇮🇳

Clean power rose 40 TWh (+20%), outpacing demand growth more than THREE TIMES 📈

Coal generation and emissions fell, even as India’s economy kept growing.

https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 1d

Last night’s Mariners game Bluesky very much the funniest Bluesky in quite some time.

Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 1d

Had forgotten that. Hmmm. Should I add ‘Medium of manifestation’ to my bio?

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 1d

TFW you get to write a reference letter for a student you're so proud of, & who you just *know* will go on to do great things for their community.

Bell of a trumpet.

Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 1d

Well, now that you mention it, I *am* in London most of late October. (haha!)

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 1d

🎉Happy @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org royalty statement day to all who celebrate! 🎉

One fun game is to divide your royalties by the hours it took to write your book. 🤑

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 1d

At a certain point, the ALCS doesn't actually "start." The Jays just show up and take over a dugout from one of these teams and the game continues.

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I’m writing a book on apocalyptic politics.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Say no to drugs, kids

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone recommend a good political history of the early church? (Constantine to 500ish?)

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 1d

Hadn’t visited X in many moons, popped back and … good lord in heaven.

Finally deleted my account.

Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 1d

That makes excellent sense. Thank you!

Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 2d

Remember early in 2025 when there was a plane crash nearly every day? Interesting that that just… stopped? I mean good interesting. But interesting.

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 2d

Dawn wishes to remind you that it reliably follows Night.

(Rideau Canal aching with beauty and draped in mist this morning.)

Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 2d

Are you from Cape Breton?

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Maximilian Filsinger @mfilsinger.bsky.social · 2d

Steffen Wamsler and I have a new paper in @ejprjournal.bsky.social !

We show that citizens who perceive their in-group to be disadvantaged express lower support for democracy and higher openness towards authoritarian alternatives!

tinyurl.com/y78hj253 @espol-lab.bsky.social @lifbi.bsky.social

Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 2d

Nestled in the St. Paul’s library and suddenly *overcome* by a sense of loss for...card catalogues??

I miss the tactile, the full physicality of library life. I miss being hidden in stacks. I miss dust. I miss random learned-looking spiders. I miss the smell of old paper. Paper made learning sexy.

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, the snail children. Take years off our lives.

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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 3d

Solar is crushing gas power in California this year #energysky -- via Canary Media:

Solar is crushing gas power in California this year

The state’s combination of solar and battery plants has pushed clean generation of electricity to new heights, offering a welcome reprieve from high gas…

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t help but wonder if the Not Being In Cars is both effect AND cause, right @toondreessen.bsky.social ?

(I typoed this and had to repost)

Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 3d

Every day is a good day for reading Heine.

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4d

Ludwig Börne offering to spy on himself for half the price the police spy is being paid. (From Heinrich Heine’s book on Börne.)

And yet he knew that he was surrounded by spies, and he once said to me, "there's a fellow walking constantly behind me, following me through all the streets, standing in front of all the buildings I go into, and certainly is well paid by some government for it. If I only knew which government, I would write to it to say that I should like to earn the money myself, that I myself would submit a reliable daily report about how I had spent the whole day, with whom I had spoken, where I had gone; yes, I am ready to deliver this report at a much cheaper price,

Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 3d

In my already super neighbourly area, COVID only brought out more mutual care. Kids walk to school together. People greet crossing guards (who have treats for 🐕) by name. Those few in cars make room: for 👧🚲&🚙. My brother in Utah finds the difference in felt community so stark he wants to move home.

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 3d

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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