Congrats! Very well deserved.

Impeach Trump.

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

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:

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.

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: https://ow.ly/TPNW50YmzVr

Trump's Schedule F Rule Finalized A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services

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...

$3 gets you two big hot dogs and two drinks from Costco. What more do you need?

Wonder what @mirandayaver.bsky.social thinks of this

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

An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel

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

Just find someone with the last name of Lewis or Lewison and mumble a lot.

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

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

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

J.S. Citizenshit and Immigratior Services September 20, 2025 Memorandum TO: Associate Directors, Deputy Associate Directors, Program Office Chiefs FROM: JOSEPH B Digitaly signed by JOSEPH B EDLOW Joseph B. Edlow EDLOW 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

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...

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.

Don’t call me out like this when I’m not even at APSA this year!

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

Maybe, but I guarantee a bootlegging course would be way more interesting and fun.

Acceptable answers are much shorter than you think (I am so very sorry)

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

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

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

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...

@purekimminess.bsky.social mentioned this during the faculty assembly meeting today, so now it’s in the official minutes which means you HAVE to do it.

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...

More Than a Feeling Whatever you think about the widening divide between Democrats and Republicans, ideological differences do not explain why politicians from the same parties, who share the same goals and policy prefer...

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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.

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