I’ve been reading one presidential biography a year in order. William McKinley is next. Any suggestions?

So all of this so a few Senate Republicans will go on the record as a no on the enhanced subsidies. Great job everyone.

Asleep on the job yet again.

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi just announced she will not seek reelection after nearly 40 years serving in congress and leading the Democrats for 20. Former Carl Albert Center Directors Ron Peters and Cindy Simon Rosenthal published a book about her time in office in 2010.

Why are there snipers on campus is a question I've never really wanted to have to ask. www.oudaily.com/news/conserv...

Update: Breadstick the dog pic is in Delta Faucet support group chat.

I'm trying to process a warranty claim on my faucet and they required a picture of the faucet. My picture:

We went trick or treating in the fancy neighborhood and I learned there is a pumpkin delivery service that will deliver, set up, and remove fancy pumpkins.

We are a Derpy household.

Out Now! "The California Camera Club: Collective Visions in the Making of the American West" by Carolin Görgen. www.oupress.com/978080619603...

Out Now! "Mormon Settler Colonialism: Inventing the Lamanite" by Elise Boxer. www.oupress.com/978080619604...

One of our jack-o-lanterns disappeared the other night and today I caught the thieves in the act.

A little elevation change can mean a world of difference.

That’s a negative on summiting. Maybe next time.

I’m boarding a southwest flight and am about to bear witness to some jet-bridge miracles.

Someone isn’t messing around.

The Carl Albert Center at the University of Oklahoma is recruiting graduate students who wish to earn PhDs in political science. We want students who are interested in American Politics in a area that can be supervised by one of our three faculty (Rachel Blum, Chuck Finocchiaro and myself).

We hope everyone enjoyed our 22nd Rothbaum Lecture Series in Representative Government. Our speaker this year was Professor @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social from NYU Law. Her talk was titled "Colonial Administration: Empire, Civilization, and the Making of Political Science"

Is this the world’s longest mayoral campaign in history?

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration” We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress. 🧵1/4

Someone on the other site used to post a figure keeping track of journal submissions, time to decision, etc of their own work. Does anyone recall who that was? I'd like to show students how long it takes to publish something.

One week until we kick off the 22nd Rothbaum Lecture Series! If you can't join us in person, you can watch online here: youtube.com/@cacarchives...

The shutdown is just the start. Appropriations fights will only get harder — with House & Senate GOP divided on topline numbers, Dems demanding talks and billions separating defense & health funding. punchbowl.news/article/hous...

OU is hiring in Public Administration. Feel free to reach out to me with questions. Looking at the Assistant or Associate level. Job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/174095

Which one of you did this?

Jane Goodall passed away today. Here is a letter from she wrote to Rep. Glenn English from our congressional archive.

For public policy scholars: JPIPE published our article that uses machine learning to code the universe of congressional and state legislative data since 2009 by the Comparative Agenda Project policy codes. That's 1.68 million bills. OPEN-ACCESS here: www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

This would be good for deficit hawks since the status quo is usually less spending.

This is cool but needs a fat finger margin of error.

The campus robot mower now lives in a cage instead of being free. I wonder if the cage is to keep the mower in or people out.

My book is now available for pre-order with Cambridge University Press (cup.org/4nfM2IM). Here, I reflected on America's acceleration of reliance on Medicare Advantage and the new traditional Medicare prior auth administrered with AI, through the lens of my findings open.substack.com/pub/miranday...

Looks like the MPSA postcards are supersized this year.

lol. Some of us do read outside our specific fields and maybe know a few things about history.

I hear it is national coffee day

At the very least this statement overstates the amount of money departments have to bring in people for talks. One talk per faculty member would be a lot of money!

Eight years ago today I got to throw my old sofa off of the deck. The backstory is the new sofa wouldn't fit through the front door so it had to go up over the deck too.

Kiddo’s first homework. That’s my girl.

Congress held a hackathon this past week, so of course we wrote about it. Lots of clever tools and new initiatives from the legislative branch.

The Senate nuclear option in 2025: a backgrounder. open.substack.com/pub/stevesno...

I didn't expect to be reading up on the history of hummus this morning but here I am.

I’ll probably never write a book but if I did it would be a coffee table book of politicians looking ridiculous doing normal things.

I’m watching K-Pop Demon Hunters. Wish me luck.

I'm excited about our upcoming Rothbaum Lectures given by Maggie Blackhawk! Lectures are free and open to the public.

What would you do if you thought one of your manuscript reviews was written by AI? I'm not contesting the decision as I thought that was fair.

If you are thinking about teaching students about archival research, be sure to check out congressarchives.org. This @nehgov.bsky.social and NHPRC funded project combines digitized documents from six institutions.

When the pilot says Oak City…

Had a great time at APSA. Now it’s back to the grind.

I’m here in Vancouver and…4.9 stars!