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Good government should be like good poetry. Mostly public admin hot takes

The best thing about LLMs existing is that the DOJ can finally put together a comprehensive list of criminal statues with case law and regulatory penalties after giving up on it in 2011 for being too manpower intensive


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being a US citizen should come with a .gov.citizen email address. There should be social media that only US citizens can access. There should be apps that let you in only if you have citizenship


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actually, the lesson from Helene is the opposite from that being promoted. In 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority was given the mandate for flood control in the valley of the Tennessee River and its tributaries. Over the next 40 years, they built 49 dams, which, for the most…

To all the people going apeshit about Hurricane Helene and the flooding associated with its remnants, whatever happened to the rule “weather ≠ climate”? Does that rule only apply to skeptics who [incorrectly] attempt to use cold air outbreaks or snowstorm as evidence against…



Not trying to get too political or anything but we live in a society


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Forever and always.

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Every book about any policy in America should start with (from "American Bonds" by Sarah Quinn):

xenocryptsite's tweet image. Every book about any policy in America should start with (from "American Bonds" by Sarah Quinn):

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What did you think "running government like a business" meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.

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jdcmedlock's tweet image. What did you think "running government like a business" meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.

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This new report by @RepGallagher and @CongressmanRaja's House China Committee says US investment firms, headquartered in the US, are being bullied & pressured by the Chinese government in a bid to halt their cooperation with US Congress selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subs…

RobbieGramer's tweet image. This new report by @RepGallagher and @CongressmanRaja's House China Committee says US investment firms, headquartered in the US, are being bullied & pressured by the Chinese government in a bid to halt their cooperation with US Congress

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The ontological security problem in international relations and the concept of Duḥkha in Buddhism are the same issue at different scales


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Sort your life out man. Move to Santa Monica. Date a woman who works at RAND and does something she can’t talk about. Get into cold water therapy. Run on the beach. Open a combined climbing gym wine bar. Black out on IPAs and scream at tourists. Get it together dude.


Back from the self imposed exile


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This might get an APSA hit squad sent after me but at the undergraduate level poli sci might work better split into several different sub-disciplines.


Increasingly convinced that HHS as a department is incapable focusing on the human services mission - should be moved somewhere else


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Measuring the length of a coastline is a famously hard problem - do you measure every inlet? Every tidepool? What about every rock? Do you measure at high tide or low? How much does it change from yr/yr? Etc I get the feeling most real things are like this


“We do campaign consulting but only for corporate board elections”


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1) In some cases, it's much simpler to have a single federal regulatory regime to comply with than 50 different state ones 2) In some cases, the federal authority can beat back the overzealous regulatory impulses of states and localities


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Half your role as an engineer at a defense company is knowing what all the acronyms are


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