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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I cross-referenced my database of candidates against credible voter fraud cases. GOP politicians are implicated at 50x–38,000x the general public's rate. Yet even if every American voted with the integrity of a GOP candidate, it still wouldn't come close to justifying making voting one iota harder.

Bar chart titled "Voter fraud among Republican politicians vastly exceeds the public's. That rate is still just 1 in 850." The chart shows that 0.118% of Republican politicians (17 out of 14,442 DIME candidates from 2016–2026) have been credibly implicated in voter fraud. This rate is represented by a tall red bar that dwarfs the microscopic rates for the general electorate, making the politicians' rate 50x to 38,000x higher than the documented rates for everyone else.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

absolutely wild to see people out here saying that it is responsibility of peer reviewers to check for hallucinated references. it is hard enough to persuade people to read articles and provide reviews. expecting them to spend hours cross reffing literature is unreal.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Impeach Trump.

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We (@karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social) are re-building the field of Public Administration from the ground up! Well, okay, we built a website with a table of papers. The Archive of PA outside PA is a living archive of PA research published outside PA journals. Go see: www.paopa.org

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We got a paper in @pspolisci.bsky.social l on public administration beyond public administration journals A substantial share of quantitatively oriented PA research is being produced in top economics journals! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social Five stylized facts:

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Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

If you've been to any decently-old cemetery you'll have noticed the dozens of tiny gravestones marking the graves of dead babies. There's a reason modern cemeteries don't have those, and we're just throwing it away.

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APPAM @appam.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

New from APPAM: The Journal of Policy Implementation & Evaluation (JPIE)! JPIE will publish short, peer-reviewed articles with timely, real-world insights on policy design, implementation & evaluation. Learn more: ow.ly/TPNW50YmzVr

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

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Trump's Schedule F Rule Finalized

A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 08/11/2025

Two of the most counterproductive political system choices you can make, which increase corruption but sound good, are: 1) low salaries for elected office holders and bureaucrats 2) term limits for legislators

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

If there exists a category of people who don't have due process rights, then either there's a process for determining who fits in that category or there isn't. In the first case due process is still being observed for everyone, and in the second it can be denied to anyone. There are no other options

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Think of an economy as like baking a cake. H1-B visas exist so that if you're out of a specific ingredient, you can Instacart it and keep baking. Add a $100k delivery charge and you'll choose to: 1. Quit baking; or 2. Use an inferior recipe; or 3. Import cake instead of making it

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

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Services
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Memorandum
TO:
Associate Directors,
Deputy Associate Directors, Program Office Chiefs
FROM:
JOSEPH B
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JOSEPH B EDLOW
Joseph B. Edlow
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Date: 2025.09.20
Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services **00
SUBJECT: Proclamation, Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers, H-IB
On September 19, 2025, the President issued a Proclamation, Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers, to address systemic abuse of H-1B nonimmigrant visas. Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C.
1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000. This guidance applies to H-IB employment-based petitions filed after 12:01 AM ET on September 21, 2025.|
This proclamation only applies prospectively to petitions that have not yet been filed. The proclamation does not apply to aliens who: are the beneficiaries of petitions that were filed prior to the effective date of the proclamation, are the beneficiaries of currently approved petitions, or are in possession of validly issued H-1B non-immigrant visas. All officers of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services shall ensure that their decisions are consistent with this guidance. The proclamation does not impact the ability of any current visa holder to travel to or rom the United States.
cc: David V. Roy, Chief Counsel (A)
FOUO, For Official Use Only

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

This H1B thing is a DISASTER for the USA. Phone your representative and senator NOW and demand action to protect America. This is an attack on the American economy and American technological and scientific advancement. Not to mention a truly awful thing to do to half a million people.

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

From Princeton Professor of Politics and International Affairs, @jshapiro.bsky.social.

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Gary Hollibaugh @gholliba.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Come to SPIA at the University of Pittsburgh for your MPA and you too can become like Jessica Chastain

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

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The authoritarian checklist

It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Our constitutional republic does not have any provision which allows a president to enact a criminal statute by executive order that would put people in prison. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com · 13/08/2025

I know this won’t reach folks who don’t already know it but just in case: If you are a parent and your kid is going to college, there’s no time when you reaching out to their professors, choosing their classes, or doing their assignments is helping them. Go get a hobby.

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

In 1949, Superman told schoolchildren “our country is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions and national origins. So… “…if YOU hear anybody talk against anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don’t wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.”

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Brown's capitulation to the state is as great a threat to academic freedom in America as Columbia's cowardice. Anonymous student course evaluations have been potentially weaponized to punish speech that might anger students in the classroom. A serious chilling effect. www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/07/2025

Can someone smarter than the New York Times explain to me what exactly the $200M fine that Columbia is paying is *for*? Because in my naiveté and with $400M in grant funding canceled, this is indistinguishable from a protection racket. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...

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Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Columbia’s leadership has managed to make the wrong decision at every single point here

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 17/07/2025

look, it’s just a fired prosecutor and an inexplicable tape gap. since when has that ever indicated anything

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Gary Hollibaugh @gholliba.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Disagree. This is the United States of America and we categorically reject the idea of the Divine Right of Kings.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

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Gary Hollibaugh @gholliba.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

New motto for dealing with reviewers.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

New, from me: Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...

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Why the Supreme Court decision on firing independent agency heads is a big deal

The demise of Humphrey's Executor and the rise of unitary executive theory

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Excellent piece on Miller on habeas. Far superior to the surprisingly both-sides-ish coverage by some media. What Miller is claiming the power to do isn’t questionable or dubious. It would be anti-constitutional usurpation. www.stevevladeck.com/p/148-suspen...

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148. Suspending Habeas Corpus

In response to adverse rulings in numerous immigration cases, Stephen Miller is raising the specter of suspending habeas. His argument is factually and legally nuts, but it's worth explaining *why.*

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Reid Wilson @reidwilson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

My wife just bought me a gerrymandered chocolate bar. How funny is that

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox. “In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"Vote for the guy who would help me take over your country" is an incredible closing message

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

From February 2025 - Does the Presence or Absence of Elections Remove Gender Differences in Ambition for Public Service? - cup.org/41lAmeU - @hjghassell.bsky.social, @gholliba.bsky.social & Matthew R. Miles #OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the influence of political ambition, gender, and the bureaucratic and judicial services on elections and public service, highlighted within a green-bordered box.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

People don’t need to “learn to use AI”. They need to learn how to think and make connections themselves and thus will facilitate their efficient use of whatever technology comes along. Crafting the right prompt for AI doesn’t take AI training, it takes liberal arts training.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I don't know how I'm going to make it through the next four years being in a job where I have to pay attention to all of this.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Today marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolution. Our nation was founded on resistance to arbitrary authority and monarchical power. We built a democracy in the face of impossible odds. We must continue to protect it.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Not only is this not accurate—many autistic people do all those things every day—it’s utterly dehumanizing. He’s basically calling people useless eaters. I really don’t like making direct comparisons to Nazism, but this feels hard to separate this from the rhetoric behind T4.

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Gary Hollibaugh @gholliba.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Rochester! Proud to be an alum.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My autistic daughter wouldn't be caught dead playing baseball because she thinks it's boring as hell but she's about to finish her junior year in college and has already held multiple jobs and internships in her chosen field. What I'm trying to say is, RFK Jr. can fuck off all the way into the sun.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Where we are as a country. What Trump is doing to us.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Seems like so much of today’s world could be righted with the general acceptance that people different than you should be treated fairly and with dignity

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