“The system of funding science is fundamentally broken. In some respects, it’s been an unmitigated disaster. It was a house of cards, and it’s not surprising that it’s now falling apart.” -Mike Lauer, former director of extramural research 🧪 www.statecraft.pub/p/whats-wron...

I had a great time talking with Santi Ruiz @ifp.bsky.social about how to reduce infrastructure costs. Here's the podcast. www.statecraft.pub/p/what-is-am...

A lot of the credit goes to Santi Ruiz for being really well prepared and asking great questions … but this is probably the best market wide and historical conversation I’ve had on apartments. And how it affects “apartments for families” open.spotify.com/episode/63C6...

Development econ legend Dean Karlan, on DOGE, RCTs, and how to fix foreign aid. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix...

Amtrak says it'd cost more than $100 billion to build high-speed rail on the Northeast Corridor. @alonlevy.bsky.social says Amtrak's wrong. New Statecraft on why. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-cheapl...

Map showing every general-purpose local government in the US. "The most eye-catching thing about this map is that the Northeast and Midwest are administered very differently from the South and West". More insights at source: fakeisthenewreal.org/local/. h/t @salimfurth.bsky.social from LinkedIn.

Apparently before the St. Lawrence Seaway opened when they wanted to get large ships into the Great Lakes they just brought them up the Mississippi and shoved them through the Chicago River

Statecraft crossover event: @kyla.bsky.social and I talk DOGE, Direct File, and deficits with the former #2 at Treasury, Wally Adeyemo. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-run...

Really great interview and deep dive into transit financing and the politics of the MBTA Green Line Extension (as well as the Big Dig). There's a lot to talk about here on costs, planning, etc about how things turned out. But this is a very good discussion about how things actually played out.

We need to talk more about how government can do better at delivering what people want and need, including infrastructure. Santi Ruiz and I talked about this in his recently-posted Statecraft podcast on rescuing the troubled Green Line extension from cancellation. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-sal...

In most states and counties, different "human services" systems aren't synced up. You can't easily cross-reference CPS calls with substance abuse databases, for instance. In Allegheny County, you can. Here are the results. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix...

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I went on @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social’s show to talk DOGE www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

Before EcoHealth Alliance got NIH money to do gain-of-function research in Wuhan, it pitched the project to DARPA. Today's interviewee reviewed that pitch. New Statecraft on risky research, Ebola, and why the CDC is not a response organization. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-bui...

So far my impression of the culture on here is that it incorporates all the most annoying features of 2019 Twitter with none of its strengths relative to 2024 X.

I’m in The Free Press this AM, outlining how the next administration can make the federal government more effective and efficient. www.thefp.com/p/the-five-t...

cool piece from @regressstudies.substack.com https://regressstudies.substack.com/p/why-writing-needs-speaking into the idea of talking as ~ first draft tool! also the concept of "intonation units"…could be a useful step in the drafting process, like songwriting techniques applied to prose

real?

that scene from Tár where she corrects her wife on the BPM in that Duke Ellington song but it’s me correcting Nicole on move order in the Tarrasch Swedish Variation

mm u have a very nice umwelt ☺️

Kreayshawn revival

would it be so wrong to put pasta sauce over stray pantry carbs? stale bread, chips, crackers, etc

the day my kid catches me sneaking into the kitchen at night for one more slice of cheese it’s over for household discipline

no one at my dinner party is eating the figs

natty bodybuilders 🤝 English aristocrats high T is so important

you guys should try posting your good stuff whenever I’m up burping the baby. could be fun for all of us

We need a complete and total shutdown on GPT-aided poetry posting

took the baby to his first Dimes function can I get a W

thoughts on the Vince Gironda steak and eggs diet for a week? 🧐

Has any discourse topic been as completely strip-mined for goodies as flight etiquette discourse? I defy you to come up with a new scissor statement on flight etiquette

I have to stop watching Jeremy Fragrance videos for my psychic health

disturbingly often these days I find myself saying “give me a little more poop” to an infant

he’s going infantmode. he’s babypilled. he’s tinymaxxing.

They should invent a task that makes sense to complete while holding a baby and low on sleep

dying

"But you said you're nondual, no self!" "No I said: nondual? No, self!"

This is great. “A favored tactic of the self-identified iconoclast is to argue that things that have already happened need, still, to happen.”

my wife 🤝 BAP bigoted against polenta

gm

holding the baby so much with left arm I think it is bulking noticeably more, like an old timey tennis player

like spreading pesto on your toast, spreading butt paste on your firstborn is an experience that transcends time

to replace twitter, this platform will have to generate multiple posters who are like “we need a new religion that will energize our society”

is it gauche to crosspost on secondary text social media platforms

only two types of people in the world people who have administered butt paste people who have not yet administered butt paste

bbbut im here for threads on how to maximize my side hustles