Adam Sheingate
@adamsheingate.bsky.social
Political Science Johns Hopkins University US politics, Ag policy, American political development.
Here's the Eight Democratic Senators who voted to end the shutdown arrayed from left to right using their first dimension nominate scores. No real surprise. As many noted, Coons and Warner (both to the right of Kaine) are up for reelection in '26.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Here's the Eight Democratic Senators who voted to end the shutdown arrayed from left to right using their first dimension nominate scores. No real surprise. As many noted, Coons and Warner (both to the right of Kaine) are up for reelection in '26.
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Dems who voted with GOP on ending shutdown:
DURBIN
SHAHEEN
HASSAN
FETTERMAN
ROSEN
CORTEZ MASTO
KAINE
And KING (I)
On track for 60-40 vote
DURBIN
SHAHEEN
HASSAN
FETTERMAN
ROSEN
CORTEZ MASTO
KAINE
And KING (I)
On track for 60-40 vote
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Dems who voted with GOP on ending shutdown:
DURBIN
SHAHEEN
HASSAN
FETTERMAN
ROSEN
CORTEZ MASTO
KAINE
And KING (I)
On track for 60-40 vote
DURBIN
SHAHEEN
HASSAN
FETTERMAN
ROSEN
CORTEZ MASTO
KAINE
And KING (I)
On track for 60-40 vote
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Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling?
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.
What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.
What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:
Why America’s Government Shutdowns Exist and How to End Them
One Legal Memo Created The Shutdown Era. Another Can End It.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling?
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.
What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.
What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:
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Myths about our ancestors' meaty diets animate modern politics and culture wars about food and identity. But the history of human diets tells a different story about food's past and lets us be more rational about its future.
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The myth of the carnivore caveman
You are not going to like where our ancestors got their protein.
www.vox.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Myths about our ancestors' meaty diets animate modern politics and culture wars about food and identity. But the history of human diets tells a different story about food's past and lets us be more rational about its future.
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Reading Umberto Eco’s “How to write a thesis” in my undergraduate honors seminar. Eco is a big believer in using index cards to catalog research, which prompted me to dig out my PhD notes from 30 years ago. Passed them around with my students like a sacred artifact from an analog past.
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Reading Umberto Eco’s “How to write a thesis” in my undergraduate honors seminar. Eco is a big believer in using index cards to catalog research, which prompted me to dig out my PhD notes from 30 years ago. Passed them around with my students like a sacred artifact from an analog past.
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For a long time, Congress linked farm subsidies and food stamps when it passed a multi-year farm bill. That coalition is now effectively dead, but it is still worth noting which counties depend on farm subsidies, SNAP, or both.
October 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
For a long time, Congress linked farm subsidies and food stamps when it passed a multi-year farm bill. That coalition is now effectively dead, but it is still worth noting which counties depend on farm subsidies, SNAP, or both.
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Was curious about the relationship between congressional district politics and SNAP recipients. While there are more households receiving SNAP in Harris-voting districts, there are more vulnerable people (kids, disabled and elderly) receiving them in Trump-voting ones. www.pbump.net/o/breaking-d...
Breaking down SNAP benefits by congressional district
Thanks to the government shutdown, participants in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) are not expected to receive that aid next month. The effects of this could be dire; SNAP, ofte...
www.pbump.net
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Was curious about the relationship between congressional district politics and SNAP recipients. While there are more households receiving SNAP in Harris-voting districts, there are more vulnerable people (kids, disabled and elderly) receiving them in Trump-voting ones. www.pbump.net/o/breaking-d...
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It’s not a dissertation, but there is a growing field of ethnography focused on how organizations accept outsider advice
Doing Corporate Ethnography as an Outsider (Consultant) | 11 | Advanci
This chapter explains Vidar Heps's account of experiences informed by doing ethnographic work for more than 20 years as an 'insider' employee at a large
www.taylorfrancis.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It’s not a dissertation, but there is a growing field of ethnography focused on how organizations accept outsider advice
Would you start a massive reno of your home if you were planning to move in three years? I didn't think so.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Would you start a massive reno of your home if you were planning to move in three years? I didn't think so.
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Congratulations, you're department chair.
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Congratulations, you're department chair.
Re-upping this post from February showing location of fed employees by House district. The pain of a shutdown reaches far and wide.
Lots of GOP House members have large numbers of federal employees in their districts. Yes, DC metro is hardest hit by DOGE, but the pain from cuts will be felt across the country. crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...
October 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Re-upping this post from February showing location of fed employees by House district. The pain of a shutdown reaches far and wide.
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"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
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"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...
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.
September 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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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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...
Guest editors: Tiziana Caponio, Maria Schiller, & Cathrine Talleraas
#Pasky
#Policysky
#Polisky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
September 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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...
Guest editors: Tiziana Caponio, Maria Schiller, & Cathrine Talleraas
#Pasky
#Policysky
#Polisky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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.
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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.
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
sheingate.medium.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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.
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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)
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)
August 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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)
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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This is amazing, entirely justified and just makes me love Tom Lehrer even more.
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.
July 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This is amazing, entirely justified and just makes me love Tom Lehrer even more.
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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...
"The largest increase was 292 percent in Boston and the second highest was a 289 percent increase in San Diego."
immresearch.org/publications...
July 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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...
"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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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:
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.
open.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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:
All charts free to use:
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
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
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
July 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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
Here's a similar figure for SNAP recipients
July 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Here's a similar figure for SNAP recipients
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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".
July 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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