Andrew Sinclair
@jandrewsinclair.bsky.social
Ast. Prof. of Gov't, Claremont McKenna College. Interested in political reform, public policy process, public administration, electoral institutions, and political behavior. Polling at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.
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A theory. Everyone who cares about politics on bluesky ALSO needs to make a habit out of posting about their other interests and hobbies. Making bluesky work for many communities of interest will increase the political reach of the experts here.
If you are in LA County, this is a story to follow: laist.com/news/politic...
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
If you are in LA County, this is a story to follow: laist.com/news/politic...
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So I’ve made it official folks: I’ve filed the paperwork to run for Governor of Alabama. It’s time to remind this state of who we are and what we can accomplish together.
#DougForAlabama
#DougForAlabama
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
So I’ve made it official folks: I’ve filed the paperwork to run for Governor of Alabama. It’s time to remind this state of who we are and what we can accomplish together.
#DougForAlabama
#DougForAlabama
This is ridiculous. laist.com/news/la-coun...
LA County’s $2M CEO payout was over claims she was harmed by ballot measure
Davenport requested the settlement for “reputational harm, embarrassment and physical, emotional and mental distress caused by the Measure G.”
laist.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is ridiculous. laist.com/news/la-coun...
We should be fighting for Australia instead of thinking about an attack on Venezuela. That’s still worth 2 extra armies but there is only one entry-point.
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We should be fighting for Australia instead of thinking about an attack on Venezuela. That’s still worth 2 extra armies but there is only one entry-point.
Oof
I’m reading a book about former congressman Mark Foley but it’s just got too many pages for me to handle.
I’m reading a book on anti gravity. It’s impossible to put down
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Oof
Look out! They are also competing for longest road!
November 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Look out! They are also competing for longest road!
Ken Burns Am Rev. has some great music in it. If I’m not mistaken, in the Ep2 segment on the American retreat to Île aux Noix it is “Neil Gow's Lament for his second wife” in the background.
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Ken Burns Am Rev. has some great music in it. If I’m not mistaken, in the Ep2 segment on the American retreat to Île aux Noix it is “Neil Gow's Lament for his second wife” in the background.
“This is fun.”
Utterly lawless
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
“This is fun.”
The conflict between the Russian government and Ukraine is one of those few conflicts in which one side is clearly and unambiguously right. The United States should support Zelensky’s peace plan: Russian troops leave Ukraine, war over.
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The conflict between the Russian government and Ukraine is one of those few conflicts in which one side is clearly and unambiguously right. The United States should support Zelensky’s peace plan: Russian troops leave Ukraine, war over.
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Americans remain “frustrated” about rising prices and have a dimming view of their personal finances, a survey found.
Economic Confidence Improved Slightly After Shutdown Ended—But Remains Near Historic Lows
Americans remain “frustrated” about rising prices and have a dimming view of their personal finances, a survey found.
www.forbes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Americans remain “frustrated” about rising prices and have a dimming view of their personal finances, a survey found.
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I lived life as an autistic person for 41 years, and frankly it's wild to see someone who views your existence as a blight elevated to a position of such consequence. I generally see no reason to discuss being on the spectrum publicly, but I'll make an exception for this vile eugenicist. 1/x
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I lived life as an autistic person for 41 years, and frankly it's wild to see someone who views your existence as a blight elevated to a position of such consequence. I generally see no reason to discuss being on the spectrum publicly, but I'll make an exception for this vile eugenicist. 1/x
Los Angeles in the rain.
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Los Angeles in the rain.
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hahahaha just got an email from someone who was using Claude to generate a boilerplate #QuartoPub document and the LLM *used my name* as the author. The computers are literally trying to be me now 😂🤣🙃🫠
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
hahahaha just got an email from someone who was using Claude to generate a boilerplate #QuartoPub document and the LLM *used my name* as the author. The computers are literally trying to be me now 😂🤣🙃🫠
This is not good.
A blockbuster investigation by the AP, out today.
So much in it, give it a read, but starts with: "The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious."
So much in it, give it a read, but starts with: "The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious."
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is not good.
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A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
A staggering quotation: ““There is no world where this is legal,” said a current JAG, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes
The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources...
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A staggering quotation: ““There is no world where this is legal,” said a current JAG, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea […] could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea […] could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
If you have never had the good fortune to read Wodehouse stories such as “Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey,” I regret to inform you that you have not yet lived.
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
If you have never had the good fortune to read Wodehouse stories such as “Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey,” I regret to inform you that you have not yet lived.
If you have a copy handy, I'd encourage re-reading Al Smith's speech on widows' pensions in the 1912 NY State legislature on p. 124 of The Power Broker. 1/
VIDEO: Federal Agents Bust Into Queens Apartment, Pointing Guns at Mother and Her Four Kids www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/19/q...
On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens
The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived in the apartment, the shellshocked mother told THE CITY. Days later, her children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.
www.thecity.nyc
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
If you have a copy handy, I'd encourage re-reading Al Smith's speech on widows' pensions in the 1912 NY State legislature on p. 124 of The Power Broker. 1/
“The remedy […] is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them, by different modes of election and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions and their common dependence on the society will admit.”
Breaking: The House voted unanimously, 426-0, to strip a provision in the funding bill that allowed senators to sue the government for $500K if their phone data was searched without their knowledge.
The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.
The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
“The remedy […] is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them, by different modes of election and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions and their common dependence on the society will admit.”
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the level of incompetence, far too much www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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There's very little uncertainty left here.
It's looking extremely likely that Utah will be using this new congressional map next year that's all but guaranteed to flip a seat to Democrats, resulting in a 3R-1D delegation.
It's looking extremely likely that Utah will be using this new congressional map next year that's all but guaranteed to flip a seat to Democrats, resulting in a 3R-1D delegation.
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
There's very little uncertainty left here.
It's looking extremely likely that Utah will be using this new congressional map next year that's all but guaranteed to flip a seat to Democrats, resulting in a 3R-1D delegation.
It's looking extremely likely that Utah will be using this new congressional map next year that's all but guaranteed to flip a seat to Democrats, resulting in a 3R-1D delegation.
The redistricting mess really goes to show the limits of what courts can achieve. What is really needed is a group of reasonable people to make a political judgment about a fair way to do redistricting nationwide (if we are to have single-member districts). 1/2
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The redistricting mess really goes to show the limits of what courts can achieve. What is really needed is a group of reasonable people to make a political judgment about a fair way to do redistricting nationwide (if we are to have single-member districts). 1/2
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More on this point here from @rickhasen.bsky.social: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
More on this point here from @rickhasen.bsky.social: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...