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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting and good to know!

Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 3d

It is an extremely complicated mix of modes and samples but doesn’t seem much different from 2020.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 4d

The 2024 @electionstudies.bsky.social has the share of "pure independents" in the US at its lowest level since 1952 (7%)

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 5d

This is real, stupid, and the 113th most important and terrible action coming out of the administration

Axios @axios.com · 6d

President Trump said today the UFC fight at the White House that's part of celebrations marking 250 years since the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence will take place on June 14 — which coincides with his 80th birthday.

Trump to host UFC fight at White House on his 80th birthday

Trump said the event that Conor McGregor has said he'll take part in will be held "at the White House on the grounds."

www.axios.com

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Axios @axios.com · 6d

President Trump said today the UFC fight at the White House that's part of celebrations marking 250 years since the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence will take place on June 14 — which coincides with his 80th birthday.

Trump to host UFC fight at White House on his 80th birthday

Trump said the event that Conor McGregor has said he'll take part in will be held "at the White House on the grounds."

www.axios.com

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 10d

Why are federal troops not being deployed to Springfield to stop illegal immigrants from eating cats and dogs?

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 12d

In other words, the GOP does not “need” Dem voters to pass a budget. They actually have votes to spare.

Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 12d

Non-trivial government shutdowns are rare under unified government. When a single party is in control, it can use the regular reconciliation process to enact a budget without any minority votes. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Timeline of US government shutdowns over last 50 years

With another US government partial shutdown looming, a look at how often Congress and the White House faced off over budgets since 1976.

www.usatoday.com

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 12d

Non-trivial government shutdowns are rare under unified government. When a single party is in control, it can use the regular reconciliation process to enact a budget without any minority votes. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Timeline of US government shutdowns over last 50 years

With another US government partial shutdown looming, a look at how often Congress and the White House faced off over budgets since 1976.

www.usatoday.com

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 18d

Charlie Kirk had an unmistakable & lasting effect in galvanizing young conservatives, but he's actually fairly unpopular among young people

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20d

An open endorsement of hate - precisely what you do not want the President to do after an assassination when messages from leaders disavowing violence are especially important www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 23d

Unconstitutional, petty, and authoritarian behavior of the kind that led the colonists to declare their independence from the king www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Trump suggests FCC should consider revoking TV licenses over negative coverage of him

President Trump said overwhelming negative coverage about him by TV networks should be grounds for the FCC to revoke their broadcast licenses.

www.usatoday.com

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 23d

No administration in my lifetime has been this hostile to the free speech protections of the First Amendment

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 23d

Thank goodness because we were told it was Antifa that attacked the Capitol on January 6

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24d

Trump says he’s designating “antifa” a terrorist group and launching a probe into finding of antifa activities. The FBI has long said antifa doesn’t really have a centralized structure or leadership.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24d

Trump says he’s designating “antifa” a terrorist group and launching a probe into finding of antifa activities. The FBI has long said antifa doesn’t really have a centralized structure or leadership.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 25d

Kash Patel running the FBI, Trump suing the NYT, and RFK Jr trying to stop vaccinations can only mean that our government actually AI slop

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 26d

It’s the study of politics around environmental policy.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 28d

My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · Sep 10

Please let me know when you actually want to do something about gun violence directed at politicians and school children

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State Democracy Research Initiative @uwlawdemocracy.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join us for the next installment in our Election Matters panel series on "Money, Politics, and the First Amendment." This event will explore the impacts of increasingly expensive elections and the tension between campaign finance regulation and free speech. Register here: go.wisc.edu/190re6

Election Matters 2025 Flyer - Money, Politics and the First Amendment
Friday, October 3, 3-4:15 pm in room 2260 of the UW Law School
Live Stream Option Available
featuring Barry Burden, Benjamin Ginsberg, Saurav Ghosh, Raymond La Raja, and Abby Wood
register and learn more at go.wisc.edu/190re6

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · Aug 28

There’s also an accompany purge of competence, expertise, and independence in government and other institutions

Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · Aug 28

No longer a full democracy. The US has already become a (competitive) authoritarian system. And it’s getting worse. The receipts from @donmoyn.bsky.social donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

The authoritarian checklist

It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · Aug 28

No longer a full democracy. The US has already become a (competitive) authoritarian system. And it’s getting worse. The receipts from @donmoyn.bsky.social donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

The authoritarian checklist

It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · Aug 26

Trump learning what Biden folks did not get about branding of the Inflation Reduction Act

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Aug 26

President Trump says he wants to rebrand the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: "So the bill that — I'm not going to use the term 'great big beautiful' — that was good for getting it approved. But it's not good for explaining to people what it's all about. It's a massive tax cut for the middle class."

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Aug 26

President Trump says he wants to rebrand the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: "So the bill that — I'm not going to use the term 'great big beautiful' — that was good for getting it approved. But it's not good for explaining to people what it's all about. It's a massive tax cut for the middle class."

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Aug 26

🗺️ Do bigger districts make gerrymandering easier?
@bcburden.bsky.social & Veronica J. Judson find that larger district populations give mapmakers more “raw material” to distort boundaries, leading to less compact and more biased maps.

Read now: 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

District Populations and Partisan Bias

We investigate whether the differing population sizes of legislative districts affect the ability to engage in partisan gerrymandering. We conjecture that larger populations facilitate partisan gerry...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · Aug 26

New @misofact.bsky.social bit from me: party activists both sides of the aisle believe extremism hurts Democrats but helps Republicans misofact.substack.com/p/democrats-...

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · Aug 25

New open access @lsqjournal.bsky.social article from me & Veronica Judson shows that legislative districts with larger populations experience more partisan gerrymandering onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · Aug 21

Zero public chatter about who might run for Wisconsin AG in 2026 if Kaul runs for gov www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · Aug 20

Our follow-up study in APR: perceived electability is affected more by fundraising from donors than self-funding by the candidate.

Campaign money is apparently seen as a measure of public support and not merely a resource to win elections.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · Aug 20

Our new @polbehavior.bsky.social article uses survey experiments in real state primaries to show that perceptions of candidate electability are boosted by moderating among Democrats and by fundraising among Republicans link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · Aug 18

Trump himself votes by mail

He does not have this power (& wouldn’t allow a Dem president to control state elections this way)

Creates pretense to challenge midterms if GOP loses ground as expected

Distraction from Epstein files

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump vows to target mail-in ballots ahead of midterm election

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order ahead of next year's midterm elections, saying he would lead "a movement" targeting mail-in balloting and voting machines across the country.

www.reuters.com

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