🚀 Join our Reboot Democracy Workshops this fall, an @innovateus.bsky.social series led by @bethnoveck.bsky.social, and Danielle Allen, @harvardash.bsky.social Real practitioners, real tools starts Sept 11! Learn more and register for workshops: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/reboot2...

*Attention public servants leaving service* Departure Dialogues offers a meaningful way to pass along what you’ve learned about strengthening the programs you've spent years implementing, without the politics. Thank you for your service! 🫡popvox.org/departure

Stop saying this! It is not the enlightened judo you think it is. Militarized policing of urban centers in red states is a briar patch that some would be very happy to be thrown into. JUST. STOP.

There’s a widespread myth that Americans hate traffic cameras. It’s simply not true. On the contrary, researchers have consistently found that Americans broadly support using automatic enforcement to curb crashes. And for good reason: It works. Me, in Bloomberg 🧵

I have had SO many questions about the Abundance™️ debates & at times felt aligned, at times opposed, confused, excited… and SO lost for a clear definition. This new piece from @niskanencenter.bsky.social’s Steve Teles on “Abundance Varieties” is SO clarifying! www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-va...

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Smart update for Login.gov! (& yes am speaking from personal experience as someone still having issues w/ new drivers license being mailed to correct address & having perfectly good passport for ID verification) www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Perfect: “I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit. I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

More of this please! “After some delays, the Amtrak Mardi Gras Service will launch on Aug. 18, 2025, running twice daily between New Orleans and Mobile. This route will include stops in Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, Biloxi and Pascagoula.”

Good to know, actually: "Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers to the federal government. xAI was on the list—until MechaHitler happened." www.wired.com/story/xai-gr...

Shared some thoughts on the ratcheting up of redistricting rhetoric between Texas and California, which illustrates "The Reformer's Dilemma" (unilateral reform creates a strategic disadvantage for reformers) open.substack.com/pub/reconsti...

Voting age lowered to 16 in the UK www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

Voting age lowered to 16 in the UK www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

REALLY ominous crossing of a threshold here with Grok going even beyond passive bias to actually *asserting* a point of view and issuing calls to action

How does one get on this mailing list?

And THIS is a very good use for LLMs 👇

My very non-ag boyfriend when I ask if he knows what that machine is cutting the wheat: “I dunno.. a wheat Zamboni?” 😂😂😂

“To be serious about reclaiming its constitutional role, Congress must start by rebuilding its own capacity.” - @marcidale.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/cong...

On the 1-yr anniversary of SCOTUS overturning the Chevron doctrine, Congress has not only failed to step up, but is now slashing sources of nonpartisan expertise. The First Branch is sadly validating critics & failing the Loper Bright test. t.co/Es622hMHPP

Spare a thought for the Senate clerks, parls, SAA staff, pages, & other nonpartisan staff spending their weekend in OBBB land 🫡

Something something Loper Bright…

Found a new favorite follow bsky.app/profile/artb...

Did someone already do the “Dr. Pep-per” joke yet?

One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. A day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four. Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

The solution here is that we need to treat governance as a critical job that demands physical stamina and presence. We need to normalize requiring the disclosure of health limitations from those who are responsible for national security, the economy, etc.

I know now is not the time but FOLKS, can someone please schedule a neutral time in the near future to discuss the f$%$# gerontocracy?

quality headline

Started the day talking AI in legislatures with the organizers of AFRIPAL — the first African Parliaments Conference coming this June in Kampala www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond...

I was happy to join Hannah Muzee this morning to record a podcast previewing the first AFRIPAL conference, which will convene in Kampala from June 8–10. We explored how AI can help parliaments overcome the perennial "pacing problem." www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond...

Is this the first-ever betting market for a tax markup? (Former tax staffer in me is very conflicted on this) www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-h...

Whoever was in charge of branding on this needs to… not be in charge of branding in the future. “moderate talent” is not exactly inspiring… like a 3 on 1-5 scale www.thirdway.org/moderatepowe...

“The world is not going to get simpler, so we better get used to complex systems and dealing with failures that do not have a clear culprit.” HIGHLY recommend this review by ⁦‪Lars Schönander‬⁩ of “The Unaccountability Machine” commonplace.org/2025/05/09/r...

*Fascinating* that the next tax bill might need a clarifying the tax reporting requirements of an American pope! Especially complicated: Americans abroad have to report any foreign accounts over which they have “signature authority”. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Peak Canada

Fascinating FOIA questions in the UK re use of “Redbox” AI “The Cabinet Office, which supports the prime minister, said that 3000 people in its department had taken part in a total of 30,000 chats with Redbox.” www.newscientist.com/article/2478...

Notable #LoperBright citation in Abrego Garcia decision by Judge Wilkinson of the 4th Circuit re: definition of "facilitate" 👇 "We are not bound in this context by a definition crafted by an administrative agency and contained in a mere policy directive." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Am so impressed w/the @ukparliament.parliament.uk legislative drafting system “LawMaker” that @beatrizrey.bsky.social covers in this month's @modparl.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/modparl/...

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS announces that it’s going to hold oral argument in the birthright citizenship cases on May 15—on whether the injunctions blocking Trump’s executive order should be limited to the parties. This will be just the fourth oral argument on emergency applications since 1971:

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

"Like using a calculator to check the work of a supercomputer" Our @popvoxfdn.bsky.social Dir of Gov Innovation Aubrey Wilson quoted in @washingtonexaminer.bsky.social on why Congress has to embrace AI to maintain it's capacity to oversee the exec branch www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaig...

Our @popvoxfdn.bsky.social fellow @beatrizrey.bsky.social's post on the German Parliament's Office of Technology Assessment (TAB) featured on the "TABlog" I learn SO much from her on parliamentary modernization around the world --> @modparl.bsky.social www.tab-beim-bundestag.de/english/a-vi...

This baby has participated in more notices of intent to offer a motion to discharge than like 99% of the House of Representatives.

Fed Techies & friends! Check out the Gov to Gov Virtual Hiring event 4/29 — specifically organized this for federal tech folks navigating transitions right now. State + local agencies will be on hand with open roles! bit.ly/GovtoGovReg. Please share. ❤️ app.brazenconnect.com/a/the_volcke...

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough." Corey Booker, just now.

In German, mansplaining is often called Herrklären, which is an even better-sounding pun

Great @techpolicypress.bsky.social episode on why the tech press is SO ahead of the political press in meeting this moment. W/ @mmasnick.bsky.social @telliotter.bsky.social @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Can we please remember that John Adams literally represented the Redcoats who did the Boston Massacre. Like, if you’re going to wave the goddamn flag and say that lawyers ought not to represent clients you disagree with or who are allegedly guilty, then you’re just confused about American lawyers.

SO excited to be on the Hill today @ 2 PM ET w/ @pahlkadot.bsky.social & Andrew Greenway discussing their report "The How We Need Now" and how to close the "implementation gap" b/w Legis & Exec branches. Join us! @popvoxfdn.bsky.social & @niskanencenter.bsky.social www.popvox.org/events/imple...

The ACA was cool because it made it illegal to deny you access to health care for needing access to health care the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real