A while back @philiprocco.bsky.social wrote about how the Trump administration was already using government resources for propaganda messages in Social Security messaging. Is it illegal? Part of the problem is defining what counts as propaganda... donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-federa...

The Federal Government is Emailing You Campaign Literature – Can Anyone Stop It?

Is it legal for Social Security to send you partisan propaganda? In theory, no…

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Mike Levin@mikelevin.org · 4d ago

This week the Trump administration ran a 30-second campaign spot on Fox News and Newsmax, labeled "Paid for by the U.S. Government." This kind of propaganda using taxpayer dollars is unacceptable and very likely illegal.

Litigation may stop this rule. Only states and cities, working with the organizations their residents trust, can make sure the count survives it. trib.al/YnaIlH7

The Fight to Save the Census From Trump Starts Now

The administration’s proposed changes to the 2030 census will harm states and cities. Here is how they can fight back.

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Still about two weeks to submit comments on this hideous proposed rule: handsoffourcens.us

Hands Off Our Census

The Census Bureau has proposed unprecedented changes to the 2030 Census. Public comment closes October 13, 2026. Here's what's proposed and how to weigh in.

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Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3d ago

Proposed Changes to the U.S. Census Could Decrease Federal Funding and Reduce Representation in Congress for States with Large Immigrant Populations www.kff.org/racial-equit...

Not @npr.org erasing the history of labor struggle in a segment on the origins of the eight-hour day.

The 2030 Census is now squarely in the Trump admin's crosshairs. But states, cities, counties, NGOs, and (yes) you can fight back. New from me in @newrepublic.com: newrepublic.com/article/2153...

The Fight to Save the Census From Trump Starts Now

The administration’s proposed changes to the 2030 census will harm states and cities. Here is how they can fight back.

newrepublic.com

This is a thread about an all-day academic conference of early research findings about the effects of Operation Metro Surge. Kind of harrowing to seeing the damage of the federal government’s combination ethnic cleansing/ideological terror campaign laid out like this.

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · 7d ago

Economist Jose Pacas of CoLab welcoming attendees to the conference

Low-hanging fruit in next WI legislative session: a bill to require that the state print and distribute a ballot pamphlet with a plain-language summary of any referenda, along with analysis, pro-cons, supporters/opponents.

Senate Democrats release a report that says immigration officers got little training and “magic” data when looking for noncitizen voters.

Whistleblower Says DHS’s Hunt for Unlawful Voting May Have Broken State Laws

Senate Democrats release a report that says immigration officers got little training and “magic” data when looking for noncitizen voters.

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The Douthat piece where he talks about the importance of AI closes with a sponsorship notice from a healthcare company using AI to deny claims.

Program's up! 30+ teams share evidence abt impacts on health, educ, & econ + community response. Great folks @ziibiing.com @ottergoose.net @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @chrisuggen.bsky.social @casemcnich.bsky.social @ngraetz.bsky.social @craigstetter.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/u/1...

USPS Rejects Florida County’s Mail Ballot Envelope Design over Return Address Being 0.014 of An Inch Too Close electionlawblog.org/2026/usps-re...

USPS Rejects Florida County’s Mail Ballot Envelope Design over Return Address Being 0.014 of An Inch Too Close #ELB

A taste of what would happen if the USPS mail ballot rules were in effect: The U.S. Postal Service — which President Donald Trump hopes to deploy to restrict mail voting in the November election — rec...

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All I ask is for political journalists to get merely as angry about this as they did when Obama tried to move Fox News's seat to the second row in the WH briefing room.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3w ago

shit like this is why i say the press are a bunch of chickenshits. "oh they yelled at us so we just dumped it on youtube" you fucking cowards, air it anyways and dare them to sue you then put the threats in the court record. air a title card saying "THE US GOVERNMENT ORDERED THIS NOT AIR", come on

This is extremely well done.

Rick Hasen@rickhasen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Press Release from UCLA’s Safeguarding Democracy Project: “New Report Offers Judges Guidance on Potential Law Enforcement Efforts to Seize Election Materials During an Ongoing Election” electionlawblog.org/2026/press-r...

Today, the Trump administration proposed a draft rule (which we've known was coming for months) that, among other things, would take the unprecedented step of excluding a large number of noncitizens from population data in violation of the text of the 14th amendment. Two thoughts on this: 🧵

Finally, book reviews! @philiprocco.bsky.social reviewed "Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta: Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda" by the late David Kline Jones, which examines the stark disparities that define life in the Mississippi Delta. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

If you’re at #APSA26, stop by our Annual Review of American Federalism Roundtable today at 2 pm in the Westin (Parliament). Some excellent work on federal extortion, the federalization of the National Guard, party nationalization, Medicaid retrenchment, and AI policy conflicts.

Note “the possibility of communities forming compacts that establish minimum terms for data center development, allowing them to prevent firms from playing various jurisdictions against one another in a race to the bottom.” www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...

At this point, I am increasingly attracted to the notion of creating a national parastatal organization that follows the data protocols CDC is ignoring here. Not the only agency that relies on state inputs to which this idea might be profitably applied, I’m sad to say.

B Jarosz@datageekb.bsky.social · 4w ago

I have always maintained that mortality records, while imperfect, are among the best data we have. This is bonkers: www.phillyvoice.com/cdc-measles-...

It's really looking like AI-free classrooms will be for students at "elite" or "top" schools.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last mo.

cognitive sabotage, you can ban it extra credit to U Chicago for bans on professional AND undergrad programs; smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...

Would be curious to see how opinion on “hardball” (bad term) moves when you connect it to material stakes. One of the big failures of the Dem. institutional reform talk imo is that it never articulates what would happen if, say, court reform occurred. Student debt jubilee? Health care? &c

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · last mo.

Support for constitutional hardball — seeking advantage via actions that are allowed under formal rules but break with established norms — has declined sharply among both parties since 2019, especially for previously popular tactics among Democrats

Unlike AI, the benefit-cost ratio for cheese is certainly >1.

condescending to a Wisconsin audience with a cheese-based analogy is…a choice.

Simply a terrible opening play. Allows Tiffany to flatly lie (which he obv has no problem doing) to outflank on this.

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. The Narrative™️ cannot fail (it can only be failed).

Phil Rocco@philiprocco.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Totally irresponsible for columnists, journalists, and electeds to keep parroting this nonsense. See Young et al. “The most striking finding of this research is how little elites seem willing to move to exploit tax advantages across state lines in the United States.” www.jstor.org/stable/24756...

I feel like Wisconsin should at this point be able to create a strategic publicly owned cheese reserve.

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...

Cheese banks a truly missed opportunity for conceptual work in Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket”

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...

Wouldn’t be a bad idea to see an ad buy or two in WI general election that explicitly name checks the three (3) or so billionaires financing the Tiffany campaign.

“Modern digital platforms possess the capacity to tailor compliance on a jurisdiction-specific basis, undermining claims that state regulation of online services is inherently extraterritorial or imposes unavoidable burdens on interstate commerce.” harvardlawreview.org/blog/2026/01...

Executive Preemption and the Dormant Commerce Clause After Pataki and Paxton Harvard Law Review

I. An Executive Order at Odds with Doctrinal Evolution In December, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to challenge...

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Totally irresponsible for columnists, journalists, and electeds to keep parroting this nonsense. See Young et al. “The most striking finding of this research is how little elites seem willing to move to exploit tax advantages across state lines in the United States.” www.jstor.org/stable/24756...

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lolol the wapo opinion page now

It would, once again, be great if WI electeds and others would stop unconsciously repeating myths about millionaire tax flight and instead consult the scholarship on this non-phenomenon: www.sup.org/books/sociol...