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Melvin Dubnick
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Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration; Professor emeritus, University of New Hampshire & Rutgers University. Interested in all things related to accountability. Attempting to take retirement seriously.

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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Oct 10
Up at my substack: a long lost "paper"....
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On accountability: An unexpected find from 1992....
When an “empty nest” opportunity arose a few years ago I moved my home office from a windowless basement to a now unoccupied bedroom.
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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Oct 6
The colors are heading this way!!!!
christinehallquist.bsky.social Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · Oct 6
Smuggler's Notchnin Jeffesonville Vermont

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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Oct 6
Raised in B'klyn as a Dodger fan in the 50s & had inherent bias against the Yankees. Now living in Boston area I am a committed Red Sox fan -- which reinforced that anti-Yankee attitude. Their collapse in the ALDS is made all the more pleasurable by the fact that it is at hands of a Canadian team!
theathletic.com The Athletic @theathletic.com · Oct 6
The Yankees are one loss away from the offseason.

And playoff elimination means another wasted year of prime Aaron Judge.

http://dlvr.it/TNVlPq

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · Oct 6
The Yankees are one loss away from the offseason.

And playoff elimination means another wasted year of prime Aaron Judge.

http://dlvr.it/TNVlPq

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · Oct 6
Smuggler's Notchnin Jeffesonville Vermont

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William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · Sep 29
Bombshell! - Caleb Nelson, one of the most respected originalist scholars in the country, comes out against the unitary executive interpretation of Article II democracyproject.org/posts/must-a...

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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Sep 18
Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki...
Reinstate Jimmy Kimmel and stop caving to authoritarian censorship!
Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they ...
sign.moveon.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 3
For a long time, it was a conventional wisdom that the President did not really affect the economy. But it turns out they can do a lot to fuck it up.

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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Mar 17
Better scrub those phones before heading overseas. (Keep in mind that birthright citizenship may not sufficient to allow reentry, so plan on a stay in Paris on your agenda....)
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Prosecutors say deported R.I. doctor had photos of Hezbollah, Iran leaders on her phone - The Boston Globe
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, was questioned about the photos after she arrived at Logan Airport and border patrol found “her true intentions in the United States could not be determined,” court documents sa...
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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Feb 8
The response to the Trump-Musk chaos should not start with agreeing that some of what they are doing is necessary, but rather to demand that they offer evidence to back the "bloated" and "corruption" claims and then carefully examine their examples to see if there is any basis for their assertions.

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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Feb 8
It is time to cut out the indefensible reactionary bullsh*t and demand evidence to support the myth of "bloated" federal bureaucracies "riddled with corruption." It's Bill Maher-level BS that feeds the crowds cheering on Muskovite lions and is itself riddled with stereotypical lies and half-truths.

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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Feb 6
This is insanity....
www.wired.com/story/noaa-e...
NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’
An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”
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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Feb 5
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal — theonion.com/think-tank-c...
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
WASHINGTON—In an effort to assuage any fears over the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s flurry of executive actions, a D.C.-area think tank called The Himmler Institute reportedly assure...
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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Feb 2
What is happening is not merely a tragedy in the making. It is ironic as well. The very tools developed to construct and facilitate the Liberal Administrative State are now being used to destroy it and construct and Authoritarian State.

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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Feb 1
Not quite sure how they do their programming, but the TCM Channel seems to be focused on the political lately. Today they replayed Chaplin's 1940 THE GREAT DICTATOR. One hopes there is a film in the works that can carry the message about the fast emerging Trumpist regime.

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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Feb 1
Is tghis tghe premise of the next King novel?
stephenking.bsky.social Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · Feb 1
I had the sweetest dream last night. I was driving on the LIE and there was Donald Trump in a red jumpsuit, picking up trash beside the highway.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · Feb 1
This is a national emergency:

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · Feb 1
I had the sweetest dream last night. I was driving on the LIE and there was Donald Trump in a red jumpsuit, picking up trash beside the highway.

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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Jan 29
Two items to highlight: (1) the number of authoritarian regimes with high trust averages, and (2) the number of so-called democracies (including the US) at the low end of the scale.

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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Jan 29
When asked what I teach (or, more recently, taught), rather than say Political Science my spouse would respond "Advanced Cynicism and General Despair." While drawing a chuckle or two, in recent years it has become a pretty good description of my attitude toward politics and governance.

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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Jan 29
My "general despair":

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jan 29
New, from me: Looking closer at the effort to induce mass civil servant resignations.
*The offers are not real buyouts
*Feds should read the fine print
*If mass resignations occur, it is really bad for the rest of us
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/compelling...
Compelling Mass Civil Servant Resignations Will Create Chaos
Twitter is not a model for government reform
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Melvin Dubnick @mdubnick.bsky.social · Dec 8
As a peer reviewer for several public administration journals, I assume the integrity of the research I am being asked to assess, just as the journal editors themselves assume the credibility of the submissions they are forwarding. Perhaps we need a "trust but verify" approach.
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The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
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