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Center for Progressive Reform @progressivereform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“It is possible that the court will rule in a way that preserves at least some, if not all, of state tort claims related to climate harms,” said CPR Member Scholar Rachel Rothschild of Michigan Law School. @umichlaw.bsky.social

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This whole @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social post is great. But as a guy who’s still out here fighting for the rights of trans people, immigrants, etc., I really want to endorse his last point. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/whats-gone...

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What’s Gone Wrong For the GOP

And some speculation about why.

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 29/09/2026

Several civic technologists, civil servants, and concerned citizens signed on to an open letter to GSA leadership and members of congress asking them to protect USWDS as a piece of critical digital infrastructure. I'm proud to be one of them. fedscoop.com/websites-jeo...

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Websites ‘in jeopardy’ amid U.S. Web Design System takeover, coalition tells GSA

The letter comes after administration officials changed leadership for the system, implemented new AI tooling, and shut out members of an open-source community.

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

exposure to these tears is uneven millions of white people go months not thinking about ethnic cleansing at all --- sharing these stories matters

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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ren Farley, a giant among sociologists and Detroit scholars. As a student I got to take his legendary Detroit class. We were in touch again a few years ago about a project I was working on using data he had collected years before. I'll always remember him as a kind and generous scholar. RIP.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for giving a platform to Lauren Supplee to highlight this important issue. This is something I wrote about early in the Trump administration when DOGE was running rampant... substack.com/inbox/post/2...

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The System for Using Evidence to Improve Federal Programs Has Been Gutted

Here’s How We Fix It

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Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Job alert! @harbatkat.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoc to help lead research on Michigan's Partnership Model of school and district turnaround. We're looking for qualitative or mixed-method researcher, and hoping to hire ASAP. Reach out with any questions! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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RESEARCH FELLOW (Hybrid) | U-M Careers

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Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A reminder that Bowdoin College is looking for two new colleagues in Government -- in public policy, with a focus on AI (regulation of same is one obvious angle, but hardly the only possibility), and in African politics. Review of applications begins soon - details in the thread below! #polisky

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Spending $2 billion to pay companies to *not* build new cheap clean energy projects should have been a huge scandal. Looks like we paid far more for civil servants to *not* go to work. Breathtaking waste, fraud, abuse, and inefficiency. Also read and follow @nicholasbednar.bsky.social

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The Use and Abuse of Administrative Leave

Understanding a central tool in DOGE’s war against the federal workforce.

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Important questions that any member of Congress could ask.👇 Many of us predicted that agencies would end up doing a lot of costly re-hiring. The public ought to know what last year's effort to traumatize the civil service cost us (and will cost us). presentofcoding.substack.com/p/what-happe...

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What Happened to the Federal Workforce?

And are there mice in your building or not?

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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My research over the last several years has convinced me that organized tenants can transform our broken politics. But some folks don't yet discern the possibilities of tenant power. This piece offers insights on the real possibilities of power from the margins. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

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Why more tenants are forming unions

Tenant unions are becoming more common across the country as tenants struggle to afford rent.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On 9-11, I was in college. I went to class - ancient political thought. The prof gave a lecture on the nature of empire and blowback in imperial Rome. She didn’t get fired. Her comments were not so “outrageous” that everyone who she ever met had to answer for her. Miss those days

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From a grad school classmate and #OBGYN I have a great amount of respect for: All of this.

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Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 09/09/2026

If you want to understand how fucked the social safety net system is, just watch this by @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Deloitte's made over $6 billion to make it harder for Americans to get healthcare & food aid. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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We Investigated The Biggest Welfare Scam In The Country

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Very cool. From the thread: "For researchers, this change in models approach unlocks opportunity for iterative, collaborative work with the models, allowing the models to do what they do well (counting) freeing time of expert researchers to do what we do best, using judgment to infer meaning."

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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The Use and Abuse of Administrative Leave

Understanding a central tool in DOGE’s war against the federal workforce.

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A call to journalists to check an underappreciated bias. Speaking truth to power does not mean that government must be the villan of of every story --- landlords, contractors, even potholes can be antagonists. The truth is, sometimes government works, and sometimes it does not.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

14/ Are workers with these skills required anywhere else in the economy? HVAC, Utility, Construction, Electricians @jwmason.bsky.social. Union Jobs & skill shortages & training was supposed to be part of green boom. The Economist on US job creation from AI boom: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I talked to @donmoyn.bsky.social about the state of the government for my newsletter "It's sort of like if you had a car and you took out 10 percent of the parts of the car. It's not that the car is going to be 10 percent slower. The car is not going to work."

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The federal government is falling apart

Don Moynihan on what's been broken within the federal government.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/08/2026

Anti cross dressing ordinances over time in the US. What's remarkable is how much of this nucleated around St Louis and the Mississippi River in the mid 19th century. There's a story there to find.

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University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy @fordschool.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Multigenerational housing is on the rise. What is driving this increase? @natashap.bsky.social told @sfstandard.com, “The increase is likely driven by a lack of affordable housing, childcare, and eldercare, and the increase in single parents." Read: myumi.ch/e7722

Multigenerational family baking together in the kitchen.

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 03/09/2026

New preprint w/ Jian Gao, @yianyin.bsky.social & @dashunwang.bsky.social. We link campaign finance, faculty rosters, voter files, a ~7,000-scientist survey & bibliometrics to ask if scientists' politics show up in the science that gets made & used. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

party composition of donors from 1980-2022

voter registration (E) and partisan self identification from a survey (F)

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Andrew Trexler @atrexler.com · 26/08/2026

UW-Madison Poli Sci has THREE searches for TT assistant professors: Environmental politics: go.wisc.edu/1gk366 Chinese politics: go.wisc.edu/847082 American political thought: go.wisc.edu/lfwg6o I am not on any of the search committees, but happy to chat about the dept/UW/Madison/etc at APSA!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Brown, Pietrzak, & @alexandersahn.bsky.social have a cool new working paper showing that people who live near new homeless shelters & supportive housing actually *increase* their support for more spending on homeless services ungated osf.io/preprints/so...

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

possible milestone for @mirandayaver.bsky.social's book: lent to a grad student *and returned*

A copy of Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States (2026) outside my office door.

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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Texas Tech is using A.I. to ferret out books and other materials that touch on topics like sexual orientation and gender identity. Professors describe the effort as a dystopian academic nightmare, in which ideologues are wielding technology to sideline subject-matter experts."

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A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul

Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

First consideration will be given to applications received by September 13

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

An exemplary scholar and mentor. Well deserved. Come to his Gaus Award Lecture: "Varieties of Expertise: Engaging Stakeholders through Constructed Collaboration" on Friday, Sept. 4, at 6:30pm at #APSA2026

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The U.S. has long used the promise of papers to incentivize - cooperation with police in solving crimes - cooperation in counter-narcotics operations - cooperation with the military & CIA - serving in the military The credibility of the U.S. government is on fire.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My paper w/ @robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social--on how Black migration via the Great Migration led northern cities to replace mayors with appointed city managers--has found a home at Journal of Historical Political Economy (JHPE) ungated page proofs: drive.google.com/file/d/1bFea...

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The bigger scandal is what the other 4% cost us.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New working paper w/ Hanna Folsz In Jan 2025 Trump issued an executive order targeting corporate DEI programs. Many companies ended DEI fearing financial risk We find that firms that kept DEI performed just as well in financial markets, revenue, etc democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

The Trump administration has used executive authority to influence the behavior of civil society organizations such as law firms, universities, and corporations.
Do corporations that resist executive orders perform worse financially? In January 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order directing federal
agencies to investigate and compel firms to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Some firms complied with the order, whereas other firms
resisted by reaffirming their DEI programs. We find that S&P 500 firms that
maintained their DEI programs performed just as well as compliant firms, both
in terms of stock market returns and revenue. The results are robust across various measures of maintaining DEI, including measures based on executives’ public
statements about DEI programs, interest group ratings, firm financial statements,
and shareholder rejections of anti-DEI resolutions. The results suggest that, at
least in some areas, firms can resist pressure from the executive branch with
minimal costs to financial performance.

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Jason Dove Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Despite its partial repeal, the IRA has fared better than many other climate policies....The IRA has proved relatively resilient because it instead was designed to make clean energy cheaper." An important read from @leahstokes.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think

Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨🚨🚨 We're hiring a junior professor in Policy Analysis/Public Administration/Public Management here at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy 🚨🚨🚨 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05497

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Assistant Professor - General Public Policy and Administration: Policy Analysis, Public Administration and Management - Goldman School of Public Policy

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

*whispers* BLM was popular

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Agencies often publish the number of supportive vs opposing comments in the final rule. What will the Employee Benefits Security Administration do now that Noah Buhayar & @jeffykao.bsky.social have exposed the support as mostly astroturf? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... What can we do about it?🧵

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Trump’s 401(k) Proposal Shows Evidence of Phony Public Support

A review of almost 12,000 comments in favor of the administration’s proposed rule found submissions in the names of dead people.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hot takes suggest that spending more on public schools doesn't help. But this cool paper (political scientists publishing in an econ journal 😎) shows that increasing public school spending improves test scores and graduation rates. gated: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 17/07/2026

I am thrilled to announce the 1st Michigan Science & Tech Policy fellowship! We're looking for someone w/AI expertise & policy interests, to work in the MI Dept of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. App deadline Aug 9. Learn about the MiST fellowships: stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/fellowships/...

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State Legislative Science, Technology, and Public Policy Fellow | U-M Careers

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Science, Technology, and Public Policy program (@stpp-um.bsky.social) is hiring a Managing Director to support research, educational programs, community partnerships.

Job Summary
The Science, Technology, and Public Policy program at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy is looking for a Managing Director to join our research center. The Managing Director is responsible for day-to-day operations of the STPP program, participating in and providing support for research activities, supervising educational programs, overseeing partnerships, and participating in strategic planning. You will report to the STPP Faculty Director.

Established in 2006, the STPP Program is a research center at the Ford School of Public Policy that is dedicated to advancing the public interest, and specifically social equity and justice, in the development and governance of science and technology through education, research, and community and policy engagement. Our highly interdisciplinary work addresses the ethical, political, social, environmental, health, and equity dimensions of science, technology, and related public policies. This includes a vibrant Community Partnerships Initiative that supports civil society in contributing to public and policy discussions related to science and technology policies, the Technology Assessment Project that analyzes emerging technologies and their implications by drawing lessons from historical analogs, the MiST fellowship that places experts in Michigan state government, a graduate certificate program, and undergraduate programming, among other activities. Our 74 faculty affiliates come from across UM's schools and colleges. We continue to expand STPP to meet the moment, as science and technology become increasingly central to people's daily lives around the world.

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Alexander F. Gazmararian @agazmararian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Arriving September 29 👀 Preorder link below...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

Community Engagement and Public Safety: Evidence from
Crime Enforcement Targeting Immigrantst
By FELIPE GONÇALVES, ELISA JÁCOME, AND EMILY WEISBURST*
We study the role of victim reporting in the production of public safety.
We examine the Secure Communities program, a crime-reduction policy that involved police in detecting unauthorized immigrants and increased deportation fears in immigrant communities. We find that the policy reduced the likelihood that Hispanic victims report crimes to police and increased offending against Hispanics. The number of reported crimes is unchanged, masking these opposing effects. We show that reduced reporting drives the offending increase and provide the first elasticity of offending to victim reporting in the liter-ature, calculating that a 10 percent decline in reporting increases offending by 7.9 percent. (JEL J15, K37, K42)

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We're hiring. Associate/Full Professor of Democracy Policy apply.interfolio.com/188470

The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan invites applications for a tenured faculty position focused on teaching, research, and public engagement in the emerging field of democracy policy: an area of public policy research that treats democracy as a policy domain with identifiable problems, measurable outcomes, and actionable interventions.

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Instead of working to keep a major US fishery from collapsing, this PhD scientist now spends her days tallying the things her office does as "deregulatory" vs "regulatory." + Half her team took deferred resignation & had to be replaced with contractors at 3x the cost. Massive waste of tax dollars.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The point is that "Chinese interference" is a theater whose audience is purely domestic. It's purpose is to enable more federal control of elections to ensure that the ruling regime stays in power.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

No-one is giving Don Jr. money because they think he is a skilled fund manager. They are giving him money because they assume that in one way or another he will provide favorable government treatment for them.

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Check out Seyla Benhabib’s incisive critique of Roberts’ Barbara opinion, which deployed Hannah Arendt’s phrase “the right to have rights” (without citation, of course), while the Court in Mullin v. Doe effectively deprives refugees of such rights.

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Hannah Arendt v. The Roberts Court

by Seyla Benhabib

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Shutting down USAID literally made Africa darker.

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

PM2.5 tariffs! NOx tariffs! Formaldehyde, acrolein, acetaldehyde, and benzene tariffs! 100% social "cost of pollution" tariffs on all sources, domestic and foreign!

A large majority of registered voters support strengthening enforcement of industrial pollution limits in disproportionately impacted communities.

A large majority of registered voters across the political spectrum (79%) support strengthening enforcement of industrial pollution limits in low-income communities and communities of color that are disproportionately impacted by air and water pollution. This includes 97% of liberal Democrats, 89% of moderate/conservative Democrats, 72% of liberal/moderate Republicans, and 58% of conservative Republicans (+11 percentage points since we last asked this question in Fall 2024).

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