Thrilled to share that my paper with @judgelord.bsky.social and Justin Grimmer:"How shifting priorities and capacity affect policy work and constituency service: Evidence from a census of legislator requests to U.S. federal agencies" is out at the AJPS!

New in AJPS: "How shifting priorities and capacity affect policy work and constituency service" with @ellieneffpowell.bsky.social & Justin Grimmer +Data on 611,239 legislator requests to federal agencies on @harvarddataverse.bsky.social Paper and data are both open access: doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Have you read Dr. @triofrancos.bsky.social’s new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism? Check out this interview in @thebaffler.com to learn more about her maxim for economies transitioning to clean energy: “Minimize extraction, maximize public good.” thebaffler.com/latest/schro...

Incredible personal reflections on organising from @alybatt.bsky.social Spadework www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/pol...

One of the q's on the new citizenship test is incorrect. 1920 is not when "all women" got the right to vote. The 19th A prohibited sex-based disenfranchisement, but didn't guarantee voting. Many women, esp. women of color, remained disenfranchised. #WeTheMen www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

near-term public health strategy: give junior a large stake in an mRNA company?

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Heritage gloating that they've made Democrats lurch to the right. 20 years later conservatives will then concoct a conspiracy theory that this was all a Democratic Party plan to destroy the US.

"Net Worth Held by the Top 0.1% (99.9th to 100th Wealth Percentiles)" Federal Reserve Economic Data

It couldnt figure out a bag of chips or an ROTC uniform but it could figure out he was black?

Profiles in "Knowing which way the wind is blowing."

my most lib opinion: so long as we have law enforcement officers, they should probably be able to pass an exam about what the law allows them to do without consulting notes

Why Are Electricity Prices Rising? www.distilled.earth/p/why-are-el...

wild asymmetric polarization against the idea of merit-based civil service. j

The real estate industry & its Wall Street financiers would greatly prefer that we pretend climate change doesn't exist. So imagine the challenge they now face with Trump's proposed privatization of mortgage giants Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac. @scrawford.bsky.social explores how this could play out.

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm. The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now! Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows. FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Molly Roberts has a nice piece at @lawfaremedia.org on the Hatch Act during the shutdown. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Calling political sociologists and political scientists! Submissions are open for the 2nd People-ing Politics Mini-Conference at ESS! This year's theme is "Bringing the People Back In." To submit a paper, please use the ESS conference portal and be sure to choose our mini-conference. www.essnet.org

Befuddled scientists should understand that their animosity isn't mainly to our research; it is toward *us* and expertise as a source of independent voice they don't control. "We have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country...The professors are the enemy."-Vance, 2021

IRS layoffs are costly for the U.S., redistributing wealth to the top 1% (who lie on their taxes at jaw-dropping rates). The bottom 99% generally pay their taxes. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Government shutdowns offer a rare opportunity to un-submerge the submerged state. Something Democrats could/should be doing is every day of shutdown, pick some agency and focus on it for the day. Highlight what it does and what we're losing each day their staff are furloughed.

thanks! @commiedharma.bsky.social I also wrote a response to that piece from Commune, years ago when it was published fwiw viewpointmag.com/2019/05/16/p...

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns. It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets. Via @heatmap.news

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Important reminder here that the US is not the only place where fossil fuel interests are pushing back hard against climate science and clean energy 👇

This has been the time eternal argument about new technologies. It’s not the technology. It’s a policy choice. It’s why places like Belgium are reducing their workweek, while American tech gods want us to sleep on pullouts in our offices.

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

One significant thing about this video: this is WGN news. This is what my grandparents watched every night when they lived in the northwest suburbs. And although they’re not saying it outright, they are absolutely representing federal law enforcement as the bad guys.

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Maybe it's because I'm a parent, but avoidable harm to kids really gets to me. My kids can be difficult when they don't get an afternoon snack at the usual time. I'm sure various parents and teachers can say the same. Watching a kid starve to death? And the US govt did it on purpose? Unconscionable.

Hahrie is such an inspiring and brilliant scholar, and I’m so glad she’s getting this well-deserved recognition! (That’s my boss y’all!!!)

I’ve read this book twice now and I’ve appreciated the chance to grapple with a new conceptual framework for climate policy analysis. If (like me) you’re a proponent of carbon pricing, it’s your responsibility to read this and explain exactly where you disagree.

I haven't seen the actual memo but I cannot come up with any plausible interpretation that would support the White House's interpretation. The early shutdown guidance even acknowledged furloughed employees were entitled to post. It's all a bluff seeking more leverage in negotiations.

Governor Newsom has a bill on his desk to hold utilities accountable, and get them to stop passing along their dark money campaigns to everyday Californians. Is he going to side with utilities, or side with the public and help lower electricity rates? energyandpolicy.org/california-l...

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Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Remedies in the Officer Removal Cases," by Sam Bray. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...

Student protests are basically a necessary condition for any democracy movement open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

APSA Grants for Indigenous Politics Research. apsanet.org/DIVERSITY/AP...

A bill is sitting on @GavinNewsom’s desk that would lower Californians’ utility bills – all he has to do is sign it. But rumors are swirling that he plans to do the opposite - a move that could prove disastrous for California and for Newsom. A 🧵:

There are reasons for what’s going on with this administration and the military

"The last, and perhaps most important, thing that I want to impress upon anyone considering entering The Compact is that it’s the beginning, not the end... Campuses will be forced to comply with yet unspecified demands to meet the Trump administration’s assessment of The Compact’s obligations."

It's Dem Senators today, but if the Executive can selectively impound federal funds for certain districts & shutter businesses in certain districts as a cudgel, every legislator's power is reduced to what they get by kissing the ring. The scale of self-sacrifice for Team Unitary Executive is wild.

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy! Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster. Competence matters.

Well, if only there were a large supply of foreign students who would happily pay a premium price to get access to American higher education.

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

The decimation of public goods through staffing cuts is a problem. Even if we wanted these goods to be provided by the market (and some scholars believe they are best provided by the market), it would need to be done through a systematic and meaningful transfer of expertise and equipment. 1/2