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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · 15d

According to the USDA, 17.9% of households with children experienced food insecurity in 2023. Yesterday, the USDA said it was cancelling its annual food insecurity report. Today, they placed the economists responsible for the survey on indefinite leave.

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Governance Journal @govjournal.bsky.social · 15d

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: The Politics and Governance of Migration

Guest editors: Tiziana Caponio, Maria Schiller, & Cathrine Talleraas

#Pasky
#Policysky
#Polisky

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks, this is great.

Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · 27d

Hey friends, recently someone posted a very nice in-class worksheet for discussing assigned readings. If that was you, or you have something similar, please share.

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 29d

Excited to see my new paper "Conflating Lobbying and PACs: The Surprisingly Low Overlap in Organizational Lobbying and Campaign Expenditures" with @timlapira.bsky.social and @clarebrock.bsky.social out at @pspolisci.bsky.social!

Conflating Lobbying and PACs: The
Surprisingly Low Overlap in
Organizational Lobbying and Campaign
Expenditures
Alexander C. Furnas, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA
Timothy M. LaPira, James Madison University, USA
Clare Brock, Colorado State University, USA
ABSTRACT This article investigates whether campaign contributions and lobbying are com-
plementary, substitutive, or distinct forms of organizational political engagement. Our study
reveals minimal overlap between organizations that engage in lobbying and those that make
campaign contributions despite the perception that these activities are interchangeable forms
of “money in politics.” Using comprehensive contribution and lobbying report data from 1998
to 2018, we find that most politically active organizations focus exclusively on either lobbying
or making campaign contributions. Only a small percentage of organizations engage in both
activities. This finding challenges the assumption that these forms of political activity are
inherently linked. The majority of organizations engaged in political activity do so exclusively
through lobbying. However, the top lobbying groups spend the most money and almost
always have affiliated political action committees (PACs). Most lobbying money is spent by a
small number of big spenders—organizations that also have affiliated PACs. Organizations
that both lobby and make campaign contributions tend to be well resourced and rare.

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · Aug 19

I wrote this short reflection back in May and decided to share it now as we embark on another semester. For my political science colleagues gearing up to teach an intro course in U.S. politics, keep the faith.

What I learned teaching American Politics in the age of Trump

Democracy is a matter of faith

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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · Aug 1

A few scattered thoughts on BLS:

Trump would have done better to install a loyalist before the jobs numbers started looking like trouble. The post-revision tantrum and sacking will make it, if anything, harder rather than easier to cook the books without anyone taking notice (1/x)

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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · Jul 27

This is amazing, entirely justified and just makes me love Tom Lehrer even more.

Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · Jul 27

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · Jul 24

Boston remains THE WORST.

"The largest increase was 292 percent in Boston and the second highest was a 289 percent increase in San Diego."

immresearch.org/publications...

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Jul 19

Been a busy year in the data mines.📊 Just published my mid-year roundup: 29 data visualizations on the state of US democracy, tracking everything from judicial resistance to billionaire influence to why Dems have a mobilization crisis, not a moderation problem.

All charts free to use:

On Data and Democracy (Mid-Year Roundup): Charting the Assault on American Democracy and A Path Forward

A narrative of a democracy in the balance, told through 29 data visualizations.

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · Jul 17

The new platform from @wiley.com is an unmitigated disaster. The journal I co-edit (@govjournal.bsky.social) receives more than 80 submissions per month. Since the transition on July 1, we've received only 9 new papers. The new platform has half the functionality of the old one. #enshittification

Wiley @wiley.com · Jul 9

We're making manuscript submission easier.👍

Over 1,400 Wiley journals now use our streamlined platform, designed to simplify workflows for authors and editors.

Hear how our authors are spending less time submitting: ow.ly/p3BM50WmNqI

#ResearchExchangeEvolution #AcademicPublishing

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · Jul 7

Here's a similar figure for SNAP recipients

Sankey diagram of SNAP recipients by age, disability, family status, and employment.

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · Jul 6

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · Jul 5

The Department of Homeland Security has spend over $800k worth of ads on Facebook and Instagram clearly targeted at people with Latin American / Mexican background telling them that "if you are here illegaly we will find you and we will deport you".

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Jun 29

60% of jobs in advanced economies face AI disruption. We're sleepwalking into a future where a handful of billionaires own all the AI infrastructure while millions lose their livelihoods.

But what if everyone received a monthly dividend funded by the engine driving AI?

Meet The AI Dividend 🧵

The AI Dividend: Turning Computational Power into Shared Prosperity

How to fund an AI Dividend from the engine of automation itself: make cloud computing a public utility, set prices above raw computational cost, and channel the difference into universal basic income.

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · Jun 10

I've spent much of my career studying the legal institution known as "the posse comitatus" as well as "The Posse Comitatus Act." Here's a quick thread. Cites at the end.

Posse comitatus is Latin for "power of the county," or temporarily deputized people obligated to assist law enforcers.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jun 12

My friends, it's not just happening in a galaxy far, far away.

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Jun 10

From my undergraduate lecture notes on the Weimar Republic's collapse

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · May 17

GOP fixation with work requirements in Medicaid and SNAP is based on a logical fallacy at the heart of US social policy:
If you work hard, you will succeed
If you are lazy, you are undeserving
If you do not succeed, you are lazy and undeserving.

Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · May 17

Conditioning Medicaid and health care services on work is cruel, counterproductive, and defeats the whole purpose of having insurance

Excellent column from @mattbruenig.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...

A Sankey diagram by Taylor Maggiacomo from the linked column by Matt Bruenig that shows the distribution of age and employment status of Medicaid recipients in 2022. In particular it shows that only 3% of Medicaid recipients were working age but not working long term

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · Apr 19

I think this reflects a real feature of the Democratic Party, an Obama era hangover from the ‘08 and ‘12 elections that led to the fetishization of data analytics as the lens through which all strategic questions should be answered. A very specific consultant ecosystem evolved as a result.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Apr 19

reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness"

neocons: abolish ICE

david brooks: communist manifesto

Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · Apr 2

www.thewarathome.tv

The War at Home

www.thewarathome.tv

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · Mar 25

This article by Jeff Jenkins is a good place to start if you want to see how contested elections would likely play out if the GOP clings to congressional majorities in 2026

Partisanship and Contested Election Cases in the House of Representatives, 1789–2002 | Studies in American Political Development | Cambridge Core

Partisanship and Contested Election Cases in the House of Representatives, 1789–2002 - Volume 18 Issue 2

www.cambridge.org

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · Mar 15

This is exactly the position our university leadership needs to adopt right now. Higher education is under attack, not because of what it does wrong, but because of what it does that is right: seek truth, expand opportunity, and promote the values of a free society.

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · Mar 15

American politics scholars to comparative politics colleagues:

2017: What should I read on democratic backsliding?
2025: What should I read on democratic transitions?

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Adam Sheingate @adamsheingate.bsky.social · Mar 8

This how the regime consolidates power. Cruelty and corruption. Supplicants will be spared. At this point, little can be done to stop further entrenchment absent a large, pro-democracy movement on the scale of the civil rights or abolition movements.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Mar 8

These walk-backs are not happening in blue districts.

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