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Adam Sheingate

@adamsheingate.bsky.social

Political Science Johns Hopkins University US politics, Ag policy, American political development.

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Adam Sheingate@adamsheingate.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wrote this five years ago in an attempt to explain to my undergraduates what 9/11 means to me personally and how I still grapple with its significance. Twenty-five years later, perhaps we are beginning to understand what was wrought. medium.com/@sheingate/t...

To my students on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11

It was a day very much like today. A clear, blue sky. Perfect weather. I was preparing to teach my first class of the semester when a…

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Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 4w ago

The business model of spam fundraising depends on hooking a group of elderly donors who give at a disturbing frequency, summing to sizable amounts. Most of them don't appear especially wealthy. I've compiled a handful of these cases. There are thousands of cases like these in the FEC data. 🧵

A data graphic detailing recurring political donations by a 79-year-old Kansas resident charged 45,331 times since 2018 for a total of $153,856. The top timeline chart shows daily donation frequency from November 2019 through December 2020, highlighting a sharp increase leading up to the 2020 election that peaked at 352 charges in a single day. The bottom horizontal bar chart lists the top 12 recipient committees out of 485 total—led by the Congressional Black Caucus PAC ($7,521 across 2,250 charges), NDTC, and Stop Republicans—noting that the 10 largest recipients represent only 24% of all contributions, with the remainder dispersed across hundreds of PACs, party committees, and candidates.
Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:

Adam Sheingate@adamsheingate.bsky.social · last mo.

Just updated my syllabus (24 students, 75 mins., upper level seminar). Some highlights -Class starts with 15 min. reading and annotating text -Entry/exit tickets, low stakes writing tasks (50% of grade) -Paper: draft, then R&R w/AI-prompt for comparison -Syllabus insert on un/acceptable AI use

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · last mo.

There are four overlapping scandals here: 1. Fundraising spam tactics are hallmarks of elder financial exploitation 2. The Dem establishment is in on it 3. Most of what is raised goes to fundraising consultants 4. Capitulation to legal threats by NYT and The Bulwark on a fully vetted story 🧵👇

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A characteristically sharp read from @himself.bsky.social that picks up on my argument on AI hyperregulation and traces how national security tools have become instruments of domestic political control. You cannot build sweeping discretionary powers abroad and then be surprised when they come home.

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"the Amodei and Biden administration position that you could have your cake and eat it too, depended on a semi-explicit consensus on what US national security was, and how sweeping powers with ambiguous constraints could or could not be used to pursue it. That consensus has now shattered"

Adam Sheingate@adamsheingate.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: The Replacements Fishbone Galactic Violent Femmes Grateful Dead The Blasters St. Vincent The Hold Steady Foo Fighters King Sunny Adé

Jonathan Bernstein@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: The Police XTC The Waitresses Rancid Ramones Elvis Costello & the Attractions Rickie Lee Jones Harry Chapin Katrina & the Waves The Who (sort of, no Moon)

Adam Sheingate@adamsheingate.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This “5 classes question” guides my approach to teaching. I tell my students when they are old like me they might remember five classes they took as undergrads. My goal as a teacher is to be one of them.

Adam Sheingate@adamsheingate.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I think the answer is in how Congress handled disputed elections in the past, esp. the 1870s and 1880s. Art 1, Sec 5: "Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns, and Qualifications of its own Members." What stops the GOP House refusing to seat Dem members, esp. in close races?

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 8mo ago

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

Adam Sheingate@adamsheingate.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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.

Figure showing eight senate dems who voted to end the shutdown on a left right scale using first dimension nominate scores.