The public sector workforce is broadly comprised of skilled and caring professionals who create tremendous value in society.

Gadsden hits differently when you remove the individualized, self-centeredness!

Being a member of ICE is like a white supremacy turducken. You get to be half as competent to get twice the power, all in the service of oppressing black and brown folks.

Dramatic Christmas Day clouds in Long Beach #photography #LongBeach #clouds #canonphotography #ocean #naturephotography

Every last inch of this house is covered in Christmas decorations. Complete sickos really, but a fun disease spreading whimsy and holiday cheer!

My wife is playing Amy Grant's Christmas Album. It's officially holiday season!

I’m calling it now: CA SB79, which legalizes apartments near mass transit stops, will improve rather than ruin neighborhood character

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Hotel Europe Building in Vancouver’s Gastown neighborhood. This flatiron beauty was built in 1908 and is simply stunning! #photography #streetphotography #vancouver #architecture

After exploring Vancouver we trekked it to Denman Island, and stayed at this gorgeous property. Deer were frolicking in the meadow. Felt like I was in a dream. #vacation #canada #denmanisland #photography #canonphotography

My first ever book review is published at @jsepajournal.bsky.social. @ctburks.bsky.social and I reviewed Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's seminal work, "Race for Profit", and offered key lessons for public administrators pursuing social equity in housing policy: jsepajournal.org/index.php/js...

View of Vancouver from my window seat! Gorgeous city. #vacation #familyvacation

Brint Milward’s cautionary insights about the hollow state and public service delivery are worth your time.

*chef’s kiss*

Under the “L” tracks #photography #streetphotography #chicago #urbanism

New Public Service paradigm needs to contend with the reality that broad swaths of U.S. society openly reject the notion of the public good.

Now Playing - Linda Lindas, Growing Up #vinyl #records #lindalindas

Regressive tax hike on everything you buy plus tax cuts weighted toward the wealthy plus increased deficits plus slashing cuts to all public services and the social safety net... this is a very bad combination.

Need more urbanism in children's books and toys. Farm themes are overrepresented. Everything seems to have either a cow or sheep involved.

Now Playing - Morrissey, Bona Drag (on beautiful teal colored vinyl) #vinyl #records #music

Dandelion fountain outside Brotman Hall, CSULB #university #universitylife #campus #photography #fountain #csulb

My son got vax shots and I’m singing this West Side Story banger on repeat to keep the fever at bay. “Keep it cool boy, real cool.” youtu.be/wugWGhItaQA?...

What makes the subway fear mongering especially stupid is that riding public transit is much safer than driving! Statistically speaking, you are much more likely to get injured or perish in a car than riding transit.

From the same people who deny socially constructed aspects of race, gender, etc.

Saturday Spin - Alvvays, Antisocialites Alvvays is a Canadian based band with a dreamy indie rock vibe that I can’t get enough of! #vinyl #alvvays #indierock

Put a white noise machine in our room for the baby, and now I’m sleeping like one.

Imagine the fire-breathing racist vitriol if Obama and his unofficial co-president had 19 children with 8 different women, while hawking cars on the White House lawn.

Nothing antisemitic about a gentile president unilaterally stripping the ethnic identity of prominent Jewish people.

Vernal Falls, Yosemite National Park (July 2024) Standing in solidarity with our talented and dedicated National Park staff. #photography #publicservice

The obsession with housing is so needed by energy folks. Can't solve the energy crisis without solving the housing crisis

And, frankly, in these last decades there has been little effort to produce a counter narrative that government is good. That government services are high quality. And that government is pretty efficient. Instead Reagan’s point, untrue as it is, is gleefully conceded. And here we are.

The federal-level personnel cuts are devastating to morale and service provision, but ironically, decades of devolution and new federalism will help preserve the bulk of the public sector workforce.

They’ll cut Social Security by gutting the capacity to actually deliver the benefits. Policymaking by other means. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-is-t...

Just read Where The Wild Things Are with my son. Parental achievement unlocked!

Sunday spin - Green Day, Kerplunk Released in 1991 this album holds up and is my fav Green Day offering (it even rises above Dookie in my view) #vinyl #greenday

When I’m on a panel and someone in the audience has more of a comment than a question.

Watched “Mississippi Burning” tonight in honor of Gene Hackman. Holy crap that movie is truth and has incredible relevance right now. If you’re looking for a way to understand why so many people are acting so afraid right now, watch this movie about 1960s Jim Crow.

RIP Gene Hackman! Hoosiers was one of my favorite childhood movies.

Excited to announce that I recently accepted an important new position: Dad!