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Brooke Shannon

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Asst Prof at U Memphis. UT Austin PhD. Into the local level, policy agendas, REP. First gen. Solidarity forever. ✨Be the gold you wanna hold, my g's✨ Ⓥ

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Ok that rules! I want a wide awake baseball tee 😂

08.03.2026 13:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🏙️ Do district-based elections change who gets elected locally?

➡️ Studying California's recent shift, M Cushing-Daniels, D Jones & @brookenshannon.bsky.social show they increased representation from lower-income areas and reduced business influence www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

08.03.2026 07:48 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I love the incredulousness; “these numbers are of course opposite of what we predicted” lol

06.03.2026 14:02 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 5

Converse (1964)

03.03.2026 03:38 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Logo of Political Science Research and Methods featuring the initials "PSRM" in a stylized grey font on a black background.

Logo of Political Science Research and Methods featuring the initials "PSRM" in a stylized grey font on a black background.

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social -

District-based elections and class-based representation: evidence from the California Voting Rights Act - https://cup.org/40uOd1d

- Michaela Cushing-Daniels, Daniel Jones & @brookenshannon.bsky.social

#FirstView

26.02.2026 11:20 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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States United Democracy Center - Research Associate (Polling & Public Opinion) States United Democracy Center, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to the rule of law and free, fair, and secure elections, is seeking a Research Associate (Polling & Public Opini...

The research and analytics team at @statesunited.org is searching for a researcher to support our survey research program. Come join our fully remote team! Great mission, great pay, and excellent benefits.

recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

25.02.2026 20:22 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Texas isn't a conservative state, it's a suppressed state! That's why they make it so hard for poor people and minorities to vote, they know we'd evict them with a quickness lol

23.02.2026 16:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bad news for Republicans: I saw a billboard that said, “Executing citizens is not protecting the border” on the highway outside of Temple, Texas. Oh, y’all are cooked cooked!

23.02.2026 04:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM.
BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

20.02.2026 15:32 👍 23756 🔁 4854 💬 175 📌 118
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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

14.02.2026 21:47 👍 11919 🔁 3593 💬 146 📌 469

He can say whatever he wants and issue whatever executive order he wants, but he has no legitimate power to actually do anything like this.

Panicked posts like this one give the impression that he can make good on his threats. He can't.

14.02.2026 15:21 👍 1831 🔁 403 💬 120 📌 17

Girl what? Impeachable, one count for every time they bring it up

14.02.2026 17:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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“Cut ICE’s budget to restore federal health care funding” is an extremely popular message www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

11.02.2026 13:48 👍 2712 🔁 825 💬 12 📌 36

Thank you! The one on the right was a foster, who we miss a lot. Mr Chicken on the left though, he stays 🥰

11.02.2026 14:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The white supremacist halftime show got about 5 million views, which signals there’s only like 5 million racist old white men left?? Excellent news, that’s not enough to win an election

09.02.2026 13:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

04.02.2026 19:41 👍 26878 🔁 6377 💬 385 📌 224

I love The Pitt, but S2 has me annoyed at how every advanced or attending doctor is portrayed as cold and rigid compared to the male doctors’ empathetic rugged know how. Petition for a cool woman doctor character for once?

04.02.2026 03:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm dying for someone to go, "Hey fuck you, buddy" one of these days

03.02.2026 22:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I need you all to know that it snowed/ iced NINE days ago, and we are still asynchronous. The city is so unprepared for weather that occurs at least once every 2-3 years that our only option is to wait for it to melt before resuming life. That is a policy failure!

02.02.2026 23:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Ice out

02.02.2026 02:18 👍 5790 🔁 1213 💬 61 📌 163

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

30.01.2026 16:53 👍 32620 🔁 12309 💬 628 📌 276
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Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now.
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...

29.01.2026 01:38 👍 669 🔁 556 💬 75 📌 111
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Read the Search Warrant, Obtained by ProPublica, for Federal Officials to Seize Physical Ballots and Electronic Records from Fulton County Related to the 2020 Election; This is a Danger Sign for 2026 ... The warrant is here. (As Justin notes, it is hard to imagine what probable cause there may be for getting this information.) One way of looking at this search warrant is that Trump has put the might o...

Read the Search Warrant, Obtained by ProPublica, for Federal Officials to Seize Physical Ballots and Electronic Records from Fulton County Related to the 2020 Election; This is a Danger Sign for 2026 electionlawblog.org?p=154020

28.01.2026 23:58 👍 186 🔁 110 💬 9 📌 8

Ironic that Demon mentions liking Catcher in the Rye in the book!

28.01.2026 17:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 3
Image of Rep. McClellan’s father’s poll tax receipt from 1947 in Davidson County, Tennessee.

Image of Rep. McClellan’s father’s poll tax receipt from 1947 in Davidson County, Tennessee.

Like many across the Jim Crow South, my father paid a poll tax to register to vote. He kept this receipt in his Bible as a reminder of the price he had to pay to exercise the sacred right to vote.

The 24th Amendment, ratified 62 years ago today, ended the use of poll taxes in federal elections.

23.01.2026 21:04 👍 455 🔁 132 💬 8 📌 5
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

23.01.2026 16:01 👍 16358 🔁 20421 💬 218 📌 351

It's -17 btw

23.01.2026 16:04 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
whataburger cup on a spigot

whataburger cup on a spigot

my favorite thing about a texas freeze is the very serious advice from the news and government on how to use a whataburger cup to insulate your outdoor spigots.

it is always a whataburger cup.

22.01.2026 19:02 👍 829 🔁 177 💬 28 📌 26
Howard Lutnick heckled at Davos dinner as Christine Lagarde walks out Event hosted by Larry Fink descended into uproar after combative remarks by US commerce secretary

LOL -- much respect

"One of the hecklers was Al Gore, the former US vice-president, according to two executives present.

The US commerce department said: 'Only one person booed, and it was Al Gore.'"

www.ft.com/content/e2ae...

21.01.2026 18:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anyway, shoutout to unions

15.01.2026 15:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0