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Abby Wood
@yesthatabbywood.bsky.social
Law & politics, campaign finance, bureaucracy, transparency. Writing a book about government allocation of risk. Here in my personal capacity.
Eight minutes in, here's Ticketmaster vs. StubHub (I'm in the room, just can't buy).
July 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I’m coding state ethics laws this summer and just ran across this requirement that members of the Illinois State Board of Elections post a $100k bond within 10 days of appointment. 😳

Refusing to go down rabbit trails right now, but this seems like it would disincentivize service.
June 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
with K-2nd grade kiddos in Oak Cliff. Americorps grants kept us fed and housed and payed us a small stipend while we learned to lead and provided free summer camp for families that needed it.

PT now runs after school programs, too. They help a thousand kids in North Texas, alone, each year.+
May 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
DOGE came for a program that shaped me. (Donate link below.) Project Transformation is a Methodist program that connects college students & local volunteers w/ elementary students. It has a HEAVY focus on reading & maintaining literacy, especially over the summer. I lived at SMU & worked +
May 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Oh, dear. We haven’t even wrapped up the final draft of the ongoing project about governing under fifty different state-wide emergency declarations, and here comes the next one. 😐
December 18, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Movies are unnecessarily loud. We were watching Wicked when I got this noise notification. I bring high fidelity earplugs to movies (Loops), but most don’t.
December 6, 2024 at 2:38 AM
Unsolicited shopping advice for writers who drink tea all day: As a tea drinker and generally impatient/forgetful person, this thing has materially improved my days.
November 14, 2024 at 4:08 PM
The consistency of Los Angeles tippers here…
November 1, 2024 at 5:04 PM