His $ makes this formidable bc it solves common minor party hurdles: ballot access, legal battles, & advertising Might pull off victories in a a few districts but GOP unity on the big bill says it’s not much of a wedge The party will not represent anything like “the middle”

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October 1999: Trump officially joins Reform Party cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/st…

Misleading NYT clickbait featuring the giant basket next to my elementary school. The building is in disrepair & not open to the public. Have fun driving by on route 16!

All eyes on next Coldplay show in Madison tomorrow night abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/co…

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Jeffrey Epstein client list is "sitting on my desk right now" foxnews.com/politics/bondi…

The amazing legacy of my friend and coauthor Bob Stein who we lost today news.rice.edu/news/2025/rice…

Anything Trump can do to get Epstein out of the headlines

And building a wall on the southern border and having a Mexico pay for it

Got my first manuscript to review where the author disclosed using AI (to assist with writing).

I asked ChatGPT to write a review of the paper. It came out bland & flattering, but generally correct. Seems fine if you don’t want or are unable to be more discerning on your own.

Administration demanding emails and drafts of a faculty resolution? Petty. Undemocratic. Probably illegal. nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/…

Note that a gain of 5 GOP seats also means a loss of 5 Dem seats = net swing of TEN seats politico.com/news/2025/07/3…

Just this week: Random tariff rates announced again Firing BLS director over bad jobs numbers Trump removed from Smithsonian exhibit on impeachment CPB announces its demise Ghislaine Maxwell moved to minimum security President exempted from proposed ban on stock trading

As mid-decade redistricting wars heat up, keep in mind that in some states with early 2026 primaries, candidates need to file for office just a few months from now ncsl.org/elections-and-…

ICYMI: new edition of the classic text on political parties is now available for beach reading and fall classes

A quickie census won’t be accurate and probably won’t be constitutional npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-…

New article: "Path to the Polls: A Study of How Poll Workers Become Poll Workers" by Matt Lamb, Bob Stein, & me in APR shows that veteran poll workers are recruited by different pathways than new recruits. News you can use for election officials. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Politics is so disgusting at the moment that we all need what is happening with the Brewers espn.com/mlb/game/_/gam…

Corrected headline: "To create fake jobs statistics, Trump replaces esteemed economist with inexperienced loyalist."