"Diageo has temporarily ceased whiskey production at its Balcones and George Dickel distilleries with the loss of 17 jobs, as it re-evaluates its ‘productivity goals’" www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2025/09/diag...

I would say that conservative rural America should wholeheartedly embrace distributed alternative energy generation in all its forms. I know there is utility resistance to plugging into the grid, but it is the most libertarian thing households could do to achieve financial independence.

Behind every powerful woman is a man who's job it is to look exquisite, like a fine handbag. Adonis was that man for Aphrodite. Glorious equinox is upon us. Good riddance summer. Time to tip one. #cocktails 🍸🍹

The hard part is that the 72% and 80% are on balance right.

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Democracy, authoritarianism, and all the rest are value propositions. We err when we assume otherwise.

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I know, 'never give up the ship', but no one reading takes on a certain podcaster is going to be persuaded by it either way. They've decided a long time ago. There are opportunity costs and all. Site has kind of become Crossfire with itself.

Agree with this. Also, policy implementation is much more central to democracy than discussions usually reflect. Fiscal federalism (everything Biden did) as a method for delivering policy, in an era where sabotage should be expected, is (as always) a lowsy and lazy mode of delivery.

The real problem with the Biden-era Democratic Party? They pursued policy goals rather than build the party. @johnsides.bsky.social shares insight from @samrosenfeld.bsky.social & Danny Scholzman: goodauthority.org/news/the-rea...

Really great energy sector coverage here from @tatecurtis.bsky.social - not only for substantive policy, but for journalism properly understanding "efficiency." Give it some eyes. 💡🔌 🏛️ www.lpm.org/news/2025-09...

Cocktail Sunday afternoon this week is the Pegu Club, AKA, "Margaritas are better with gin." Time to tip one. #cocktails 🍸 🍹

How 'bout' 'em 'Eers? #WVU #BackyardBrawl

Check out our new little paper with a simple but surprising (to many) fact: most “special interests” that lie by the govt don’t have a PAC for campaign donations. All too often lobbying and campaign contributions are conflated. With @clarebrock.bsky.social and @alexanderfurnas.com

In 2019, 70% of Republicans said science has had a mostly positive effect on society. A few years later, fewer than half of Republicans (47%) said so. www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐

As summer wanes, our spirits are in transition to colder, darker, better days. Rum is a spirit that soldiers on into Fall/Winter. This one is turn of the last century old, a president among cocktails. 🍸🍹 #cocktails

Remember being a kid and having to use kerosene lamps when the power was out for snow/ice (sometimes for weeks). I loved it. Meant no school and reading books I wanted to read. Alas, climate change made this scarce.

Extremely wholesome thread of replies in praise of husbands

This week's cocktail packs a lot of flavor in a low ABV drink. Restorative and elegant as a quiet bamboo forest. #cocktails 🍸 🍹

We often receive inquiry emails regarding PT&P. PT&P (Policy Theory and Practice) is a special collection of PSJ articles aimed at fostering some meaningful conversation between scholars and practitioners. You can find the inaugural PT&P issue here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15410072...,

TBF, I'm kind of shocked that 100k of us had internet of any type.

Come work with us at The Better Government Lab! Looking for a postdoc/ABD to join a team studying how to reduce administrative burdens in public services, particular focus on the role of tech tools. Evaluation skills valued. Starting ASAP. @sebjilke.bsky.social www.bettergovernmentlab.org

A few too many of these and you will assuredly see the lord. This week's cocktail is the Angel Face. #cocktails 🍸🍹

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Data centers are like climate change. They're not leaving. Going to need a lot of good science, FUNDED science, to mitigate the externalities. 💡🔌💦

Great looking job folks. Give it a look.

Voronoff thought grafting in a monkeys testicles would extend life and vitality. This definitely won't make you live longer, but you'll be more vigorous for the weekend. 🍸🍹 #cocktails

On other words, Business School 101 trumps AI.

Drop some scientific jargon and suddenly you sound like an expert. To the public, technical language is less about clarity and more about signaling authority.

This discussion misses something different and important about the renewed debate on property taxes - the urban-rural divide, the withering of public school systems, and what the rural poor actually own. A 🧵... www.yahoo.com/news/article...

As we get close to job market season, I recall one of my interviews where someone told me that no one should have lunch because it wastes lots of hours of productivity (had it calculated for his department). As you head out on the market, remember that you're interviewing them too. 🏛️🌐🗺️ #academicsky

This week's cocktail has its roots in The Levant - home to beautiful flavor combinations that stoke something ancient inside us. This is Byblos. 🍸🍹 #cocktails

It was great to talk to Scott Detrow about the Heritage Foundation's relationship to the Republican Party and Trump Administration. www.npr.org/2025/08/17/n...

Good piece.

Our normal fall schedules in the Academy are upon us. There are many aspects of public policy or policy processes that the public doesn't understand very well. I've taught public policy for a long time. In my experience, the following are extremely difficult for citizens to grasp. A 🧵... 🏛️ 🌐 🗺️

Let's ease into the weekend with a sunrise fit for sunset. Midnight Sun. 🍸🍹 #cocktails #poliscidrinks #appalachiadrinks

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) doing the lord's work adding rates for West Virginia. 💡🔌 WV #publicpolicy

Investing in providing people with clean water is incredibly cost effective.

Reality check. Headlines describe Trump approval: "crashing", "record low", "major decline". These are driven by cherry picking single polls The polling average HAS shown a decline from Jan but nothing that justifies "crashing". Apr low, small recovery, recent slip Now 43.6-52.1

This seems like a good opinion, too strongly held, but Schattschneider would agree in principle. Lots of (not all) surveys tell us more about the actors than the mass public, if we're willing to entertain the notion. Against Polling www.unpopularfront.news/p/against-po...

Several residents who showed up at a meeting Tuesday night in Morgantown say they are against the MidAtlantic Resiliency Link, a high-voltage power line planned from Pennsylvania to Virginia, via a handful of counties in the Mountain State.

This is on point. Piling on to say that govt production of information fuels all sorts of endeavors completely unrelated to benefits, including state and local economic development strategies, business siting and diversification, and a host of other societal calculations and decision-making.

US president fires the BLS head after a poor jobs report and the S&P 500 is up by 1.5% the next day Y'all are gonna have a fun year 😬

Yeah, I mean this and the insider trading tell you who they are, at least at the top. Totally on brand for their scam system to scam them in typical hapless fashion.

This and it only scratches the surface. Hard to imagine a bigger mistake than judicial review. What would we call a man who believed in expansive power for a democratically unaccountable, forever-appointed bench? Marshall was an authoritarian if ever there was one.

This week's cocktail is a summer treat and true blending of cultures. Pick a ripe one and the balls will make it shine. All hail Cantaloupe. #cocktails 🍸🍹

And speaking of Harahorn Gin 🇳🇴, it makes an excellent Gimlet to ease you into Friday. 🍸🍹 #cocktails

For those, like me, who love all things Norway 🇳🇴, Harahorn Gin is awesome. #gin #cocktails #norway harahorngin.com

This is a fun read about someone drinking his way through the IBA list. 🍸