Today the UVA School of Nursing passed, with overwhelming support, a resolution demanding that the rector and interim president reject the compact. bit.ly/3KPRMKV

Spoke with the great Francis Rose about the shutdown. (Before the absurd OMB draft pay memo today) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Can't wait to see all our @sualums.bsky.social at Orange Central Homecoming next month! 🧡 Join Maxwell experts for a timely and engaging discussion on national security policy. ➡️ Register to attend this panel event on Friday, Oct. 17 at 3 p.m.: https://bit.ly/483AR1c

I can watch this all day.

Washington Spirit clinched an NWSL playoff spot in outstanding fashion today, beating Houston Dash 4-0 on a Gift Monday hat trick and extra goal by Sofia Cantore.

The audacity to that....

I'm not a big MLS fan, but I see the Portland Timbers are playing all their games and even doing pretty well, despite playing in a war ravaged city. And Powell's Books, the world's largest independent bookstore, is holding book readings pretty much every night. Impressive. Like London 1940.

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

GAO warns that Trump-era downsizing is delaying upgrades to wildfire communications and resource tracking, even as tech gaps risk lives in the field. 🔥 #Wildfires

This crystallizes the incredible shrinking Congress under Trump: MAGA Republicans think that public employees should not communicate with Congress even when members of Congress make clear that they want to hear from them. Because they believe legislative oversight of Trump is fundamentally wrong.

Interesting shutdown politics thread by health policy expert and former OMB official Topher Spiro.

I was happy to share my views with Jason Miller on OMB’s latest threat GAO and accountability, transparency, and independent oversight. @maxwellsu.bsky.social federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/202...

FRANCIS FUKUYAMA (@frankfukuyama.bsky.social): I actually like the deep state. I think that any functioning political system has to have a civil service that meets these basic Weberian requirements of being nonpartisan, expert, professional.

GAO and normal humans understand that things outside of an agency's control can cause delays on budget execution. GAO holds up Trump admin's NIH & Head Start deferrals as examples of stuff that obviously isn't allowed. You may not defer for policy reasons. The admin's just claiming unlimited power.

The four-week MLS transfer/trade window closes today. Barring last-minute deal(s), DCU will finish with three moves yielding one young player, $125,000 GAM and a third-round draft pick — no intl signings, DP additions or major trades. Another winter rebuild under another new coach awaits.

Climate and biodiversity are connected – applying the Nexus lens can help tackle the dual crisis. The WGEA published the Climate and Biodiversity project snapshot, in addition to an audit source criteria and question bank that auditors can use. Find these materials here: wgea.org/projects/nex...

GAO’s direct answer: No www.gao.gov/blog/what-po...

For folks keeping track at home, GAO has now found 5 Impoundment Control Act violations by the second Trump Administration. And they have at least 30 more ongoing ICA investigations.

Hearing Trump speak is often like hearing the voices of enslavers echoing down the centuries.

We will, for years to come, have to live with the degradation and harm DOGE has done to public expertise

Social Search and Rescue: A Modest Proposal There are social media websites that were built many years ago that have declined in quality. They provide less content created by interesting humans in favor of more content created by computers to sell you garbage. But the change happened slowly. 1/

Congratulations to @chrismihm.bsky.social, adjunct professor of public administration and international affairs, who has been honored with the 2025 Arnold Steigman Excellence in Teaching Award from the New York State Academy for Public Administration.

Huge new illegal action from OMB in pursuit of carrying out Project 2025. Sounds boring but super important. OMB has illegally stopped sharing info whose entire purpose is to help ensure they follow budget laws. They're breaking a reporting law to facilitate breaking spending laws. Technical 🧵

Unprecedented and illegal: Russ Vought refuses to release White House budget as required by law. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Wonderful to see. Proud of DE. spotlightdelaware.org/2025/07/14/d...

My latest @npr.org story: Republicans in Congress are reviving a push to exclude millions of people living in the states without U.S. citizenship from #2030Census counts that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”

Trump tours catastrophic flood damage in central Texas, defends state and federal response www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... The President should stop calling reporters “bad” and “evil” and respond to questions like a competent top leader.

One minor silver lining to a very bad situation is that you have Dem politicians talk about administrative burdens in clear and understandable ways. Not the case in the Clinton era, and not bowing down deservingness tropes.

New at Can We Still Govern: I talk with Jen Pahlka about what abundance means, how to rebuild state capacity, what DOGE got wrong and the future of civic tech open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

A child dies of malnutrition every 15 seconds, as 185,535 boxes of special food for starving children are stacked in a warehouse in Rhode Island, paid for by American taxpayers. After shutting USAID, the Trump administration is just sitting on the boxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

5. A peer-reviewed study has found adding a citizenship question to the #2030Census would likely undermine the accuracy of census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”

COMMENTARY: OPM’s new SMART goals policy aims to boost federal performance—but real change will depend on empowered workers, trained managers, and shifting agency culture. buff.ly/pdqS639

From @talkingpointsmemo.com Great and accurate title to the article talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

I asked @chrismihm.bsky.social, who held a senior role at GAO for a long time about the threats to the organization. He is not prone to overstatement, and you should read what he has to say: "it is all about retribution." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/congress-f...

Another attack on the Article I branch

Going to post something v soon about why CBO/GAO are so important but basically this: the executive branch is always reluctant to hold itself accountable and absolutely averse to accountability rn. So we should be worried about GOPers attacking those institutions

Check out this and prior year’s Sammies winners to get a vivid sense of the amazing and often anonymous work that federal employees do every day. This is what is being systematically destroyed. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Also means 3) they think as long as they hide the data, no one will notice how bad the service has become.

And not just SSA. Since the Clinton Administration, all Administrations have worked to improve federal customer service/the customer experience—even Trump I. Hiding the data now means 1) the current data are awful and 2) they could not care less. @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social can add more history.

Plenty of steps before this becomes final but needless to say it would be catastrophic: “The deepest cuts in the bill are to the Government Accountability Office, an arm of Congress that would see a $396.5 million reduction from current levels to $415.4 million.” www.politico.com/live-updates...

Just in time for #UNPublicServiceDay, Dean David M. Van Slyke writes to alumni about the challenges of the changing federal landscape and the importance of public service. ⬇️

Power, performance, satisfaction: curated articles, June 9-15, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance- bit.ly/3HCrri3

“For 2nd time this yr, fed govt’s top watchdog concluded #Trump admin violated law by wholding $ Congress already approved. This time, GAO found Trump admin flouted the law by clawing back federal cash Congress enacted to support libraries, archives and museums” www.politico.com/live-updates...

Great crowd with lots of supportive car honking this morning in Bethany Beach, DE. #NoKings @indivisiblesode.bsky.social

No Kings! at Bethany Beach DE. Great crowd and community support. Huge thanks to @indivisiblesode.bsky.social and others for organizing.