Matt Dull
@mattdull.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
Good government.
Good government.
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We have already hired one Great American this year under this program: the very estimable James Peace of the special counsel's office. We are preparing to create other fellowships too. Help us help people coming out of government with important things to say. givebutter.com/f7fpQk
Public Service Fellowship
Alumni of the federal workforce and civil service with expertise in national security, law, and policy
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June 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We have already hired one Great American this year under this program: the very estimable James Peace of the special counsel's office. We are preparing to create other fellowships too. Help us help people coming out of government with important things to say. givebutter.com/f7fpQk
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I'm super excited to receive this in the mail today and even more excited to pore through this timely and incredibly important work by Jaime Kucinskas!!! 🧵 1/3
May 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I'm super excited to receive this in the mail today and even more excited to pore through this timely and incredibly important work by Jaime Kucinskas!!! 🧵 1/3
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Really key point.
Why does this matter for state capacity?
Because with unitary executive theory, there is no actor that can make credible long-term commitments to public servants.
The public sector becomes permanently viewed as an unstable and chaotic workplace that we are seeing now. Good employees will not join.
Because with unitary executive theory, there is no actor that can make credible long-term commitments to public servants.
The public sector becomes permanently viewed as an unstable and chaotic workplace that we are seeing now. Good employees will not join.
May 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Really key point.
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The Trump administration will do anything to rid this country of the slightest hint of anti-Semitism, unless anti-Semites have a million dollars available to bribe the president, of course.
50 Trump crypto dinner invitees hold tokens linked to alt-right symbols and racist language - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Fifty of the $TRUMP memecoin dinner invitees hold crypto assets named for alt-right symbol Pepe the Frog as well as swastikas.
www.citizensforethics.org
May 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Trump administration will do anything to rid this country of the slightest hint of anti-Semitism, unless anti-Semites have a million dollars available to bribe the president, of course.
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Via @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social in NYT Opinion.
"Digging deeper into the bill, the pattern of using burdens to quietly kick off eligible beneficiaries becomes undeniable."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
"Digging deeper into the bill, the pattern of using burdens to quietly kick off eligible beneficiaries becomes undeniable."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
Opinion | Republicans Will Use Paperwork to Kick Americans Off Health Care
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Via @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social in NYT Opinion.
"Digging deeper into the bill, the pattern of using burdens to quietly kick off eligible beneficiaries becomes undeniable."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
"Digging deeper into the bill, the pattern of using burdens to quietly kick off eligible beneficiaries becomes undeniable."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
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Whether it's the Library of Congress, the Government Accountability Office, the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, or any other legislative branch entity, the White House does not have a right to take over those agencies and its attempts to do so should be repulsed.
May 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Whether it's the Library of Congress, the Government Accountability Office, the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, or any other legislative branch entity, the White House does not have a right to take over those agencies and its attempts to do so should be repulsed.
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Many of the major changes Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or are being reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction.
How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring
The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s disruptive cost-cutting team.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Many of the major changes Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or are being reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction.
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New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services
Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
Happy Amphibian Week!
Thank you Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC) for this reminder of our common roots.
Read more here: www.thoughtco.com/300-million-...
Image by: N. B. McDonnell
Thank you Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC) for this reminder of our common roots.
Read more here: www.thoughtco.com/300-million-...
Image by: N. B. McDonnell
May 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Happy Amphibian Week!
Thank you Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC) for this reminder of our common roots.
Read more here: www.thoughtco.com/300-million-...
Image by: N. B. McDonnell
Thank you Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC) for this reminder of our common roots.
Read more here: www.thoughtco.com/300-million-...
Image by: N. B. McDonnell
Article I!
Make Article I great again
“If our nation is to thrive for another 250 years, each co-equal branch of government must be willing to courageously exert the authority entrusted to it by our Founders.”
—Judge Royce Lamberth, Reagan appointee, in order backing public media storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
—Judge Royce Lamberth, Reagan appointee, in order backing public media storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Article I!
@cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social thank you for your help.
@mayorbowser.bsky.social please fix this net.
“the 6-year anniversary of the work order to fix the torn net approaches” - PoPville
"Dear PoPville, As the 6-year anniversary of the work order to fix the torn net approaches, DPR has continued to refuse to address this dangerous situation. I am attaching DGS Oversight Hearing Testim...
www.popville.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social thank you for your help.
@mayorbowser.bsky.social please fix this net.
“the 6-year anniversary of the work order to fix the torn net approaches” - PoPville
"Dear PoPville, As the 6-year anniversary of the work order to fix the torn net approaches, DPR has continued to refuse to address this dangerous situation. I am attaching DGS Oversight Hearing Testim...
www.popville.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
@mayorbowser.bsky.social please fix this net.
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🚨NEW investigation from me and @jeremykohler.bsky.social
We dug into the past of Ed Martin, Trump's top prosecutor in D.C. What we found is remarkable.
Best of all: We got the receipts.
Pls read and share.
www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...
We dug into the past of Ed Martin, Trump's top prosecutor in D.C. What we found is remarkable.
Best of all: We got the receipts.
Pls read and share.
www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...
The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge — and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor
Martin’s career is dotted with ethical and professional questions, records show. Some of the most serious ones about the interim U.S. attorney for D.C. have remained buried in court filings, overlooke...
www.propublica.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🚨NEW investigation from me and @jeremykohler.bsky.social
We dug into the past of Ed Martin, Trump's top prosecutor in D.C. What we found is remarkable.
Best of all: We got the receipts.
Pls read and share.
www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...
We dug into the past of Ed Martin, Trump's top prosecutor in D.C. What we found is remarkable.
Best of all: We got the receipts.
Pls read and share.
www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...
What he said: presidents don’t have the power to eliminate agencies created by congress.
Just to add: this is all illegal. MCC was created by Congress. Presidents don't have the power to eliminate agencies
This is a disaster & the final nail in the coffin of Trump's efforts (gutting USAID, sidelining State's DRL, and slashing funds to NED) to completely destroy the US's ability to project influence through diplomacy & development. Decades of relationships & partnerships senselessly destroyed.
April 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
What he said: presidents don’t have the power to eliminate agencies created by congress.
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Pope Francis lifted the world as he led the Church with his profound moral voice. As he returns to God, may his call to humility and concern for the least among us continue to resound.
April 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Pope Francis lifted the world as he led the Church with his profound moral voice. As he returns to God, may his call to humility and concern for the least among us continue to resound.
April 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Found a red-backed salamander yesterday under a rock along Piney Branch Creek with @mattdull.bsky.social. Thought we'd let 'em know that they are now DC's official state amphibian!
March 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Found a red-backed salamander yesterday under a rock along Piney Branch Creek with @mattdull.bsky.social. Thought we'd let 'em know that they are now DC's official state amphibian!
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Less than 10% of Republican voters viewed p25 favorably during the campaign www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Poll: Project 2025 is broadly known and severely unpopular with voters
Democrats have sought to tie Trump to the conservative policy road map linked to some of his top supporters, even as he distances himself.
www.nbcnews.com
March 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Less than 10% of Republican voters viewed p25 favorably during the campaign www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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I regularly lament just how much consensus it takes to make law in the US. This makes the fact that Trump and Musk think they can overturn the results of that consensual process more maddening.
February 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I regularly lament just how much consensus it takes to make law in the US. This makes the fact that Trump and Musk think they can overturn the results of that consensual process more maddening.
Elon Musk reportedly spent $40 million dollars on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID
wasteful. Here are just a few ways we would’ve spent $40M:
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
wasteful. Here are just a few ways we would’ve spent $40M:
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
Save Foreign Aid
YouTube video by friendsofUSAID
youtu.be
February 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Elon Musk reportedly spent $40 million dollars on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID
wasteful. Here are just a few ways we would’ve spent $40M:
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
wasteful. Here are just a few ways we would’ve spent $40M:
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
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NEW: Welcome to the "try and stop me" presidency.
Donald Trump's onslaught of executive actions, summary firings and outright breaches of laws meant to check executive power are an implicit bet that courts and Congress ultimately won't check him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Donald Trump's onslaught of executive actions, summary firings and outright breaches of laws meant to check executive power are an implicit bet that courts and Congress ultimately won't check him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
January 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
NEW: Welcome to the "try and stop me" presidency.
Donald Trump's onslaught of executive actions, summary firings and outright breaches of laws meant to check executive power are an implicit bet that courts and Congress ultimately won't check him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Donald Trump's onslaught of executive actions, summary firings and outright breaches of laws meant to check executive power are an implicit bet that courts and Congress ultimately won't check him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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There is a legal infrastructure being created that undoes any form of presidential accountability
The US Justice Department's senior career official overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations resigned after the Trump administration tried to re-assign him to a new role working on immigration issues, a letter shows reut.rs/3CmnjQX
Career US Justice Department official in charge of public corruption cases resigns
Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, resigned on Monday after the Trump administration tried to re-assign him to a new role working on immigration issues, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
reut.rs
January 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
There is a legal infrastructure being created that undoes any form of presidential accountability
