We’re proud to celebrate Rory Renzy on accepting a tenure-track position in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida. This is an incredible achievement and a testament to Rory’s hard work, scholarship, and dedication. Join us in congratulating Rory on this exciting next chapter! #AcademicSuccess #HigherEd #PoliticalScience #PublicAdministrat

We’re proud to celebrate Rory Renzy on accepting a tenure-track position in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida.

This is an incredible achievement and a testament to Rory’s hard work, scholarship, and dedication.

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This Artemis voyage has so cool to follow. The astronauts must be honored to be regarded in the same way as Katy Perry and other such pioneers.

New in @govjournal.bsky.social

How Trump repurposed exec tools for personalist consolidation: gut agency capacity where it benefits elite allies, expand state power where it energizes base. Congress, courts, and new personnel systems like Schedule P/C are now aligned to lock it in.

Free access:

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As Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Dean of Public Policy at UM, put it: producing rigorous, publicly accessible scholarship is precisely what schools of public service should be doing right now. These projects are generating the data infrastructure & analytical frameworks we will rely on for years to come.

@donmoyn.bsky.social (U of Michigan) examines the IRS modernization effort funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, including the development and subsequent discontinuation of Direct File, as a case study in how new investments in core government functions can be built up and abruptly reversed. (...)

Ben Brunjes (University of Washington) will investigate how centralizing civilian purchasing authority in GSA, reducing the procurement workforce, and deploying AI across federal contracting have affected expertise, accountability, and system performance. (...)

Abby André (Ohio State/The Impact Project) will document federal workforce loss state by state, down to the occupation level, producing publicly available dashboards to help local and state policymakers identify service gaps. (...)

M. Blake Emidy, PhD (Texas A&M), Anmol Soni (Louisiana State), and Evan Mistur (UT Arlington) will analyze who left federal service in 2025 and how those separations differ from the prior decade in terms of expertise, experience, and appointment type. (...)

Lefteris Anastasopoulos (UGA) and Greg Porumbescu (Rutgers–Newark) will examine how agency performance, ideological orientation, and programmatic focus under Biden & Trump 1.0 predict layoffs, including whether an "America First" orientation independently predicts workforce reductions. (...)

Mark Richardson (Georgetown) will track the size, composition, and geographic distribution of the federal workforce during recent contractions, placing current patterns in historical context and building a publicly available data repository and dashboard from FOIA and OPM data. (...)

Accountability and Reform Research Consortium (ARRC) | The Volcker Alliance Documenting the impact of changes to the federal workforce on public service delivery, citizens, and democratic governance

Six research teams across nine universities will move us from anecdote to evidence on federal workforce changes. Each project aligns with the research agenda set by ARRC's Workforce and Expertise Community of Practice: (...)
www.volckeralliance.org/initiatives/...

I'm proud to announce that the Accountability and Reform Research Consortium (ARRC) has awarded its inaugural round of research stipends, funded through @volckeralliance.bsky.social with support from the Henry Luce Foundation Inc and ARRC's Founding Member Schools. (...)

NASA might have been the coolest organization on planet earth — a real life/larger than life organization that the smartest people in the world respected, kids dreamed their whole life of working for, & even Hollywood couldn’t make larger than it already was.

So of course Trump ruined it in a year.

#ASPA2026 Conference -Building a Bridge to Renewal and Resilience...Hollywood, CA
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The Golden Age of Transnational Repression | Journal of Democracy Authoritarian regimes are targeting exiles and diaspora communities in more places than ever before. Activists, journalists, and regular people living abroad must watch their backs…

Authoritarian regimes are targeting exiles and diaspora communities in more places than ever before. Activists, journalists, and regular people living abroad must watch their backs, because these governments now have the power to suppress dissent even outside their borders.

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Join the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance – GSU Chapter for Paths into Purpose, a conversation with Ben Spears on career transitions, local advocacy, international work, and nonprofit leadership.
Wednesday, March 11th from 3PM-4PM at 55 Park Place, Room 701
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@gsupmap.bsky.social's Ross Rubenstein on why Georgia state tax cuts will likely leave schools and communities holding the bag.

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

I already pay for a subscription but apparently not "premium." I'm guessing this article would not sway me to that upgrade, but at least give me the chance to find that out. Jeez.

Full page "ad" in The Onion for "60 Minutes": "Is NBC Hiring? Lesley Stahl investigates."

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Thrilled to share that Dr. Can Chen’s article, “Advancing Social Equity in Public Budgeting: The Role of Minority Political Representation in Local Government"

Trump Labor Secretary Caught Using Govt Funds for Her Birthday Party The birthday party was “renamed” in order to avoid greater scrutiny about using public funds.

Would just remind folks that a GSA employee named Jeff Neely went to federal prison for throwing lavish parties during a 2010 government conference, then claiming it was all business. He was sentenced to 90 days.

You can absolutely imprison dipshits for flamboyantly wasting taxpayer dollars.

Lachlan Murdoch Says Ellison-Backed CNN Will Be “Strong Competitor” Of Fox News, But “Running News Is Hard” At a Wall Street conference, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch discussed the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, NFL relations, streaming progress and more.

competition in the right-wing-agitprop-pretending-to-be-real-news sector is heating up!

"You don’t need to agree with Dario Amodei on whether we are about to see the rapid deployment of 'countries of geniuses in a datacenter' to worry about what an untrammeled Hegsethian wannabe-Department-of-War might try to do with this technology..."

No. This is the foreign-policy equivalent of bad jazz, not free jazz. My ESL wife has a saying: "don't bad jazz me," meaning "don't put bullshit noise in my ears." That's what this is.

Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

you can have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or a dinner that features Donald Trump but you cannot have both