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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 21h

It's like an undergrad trying to hit the five page mark came up with the defaults for MS Word.

Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 21h

One week until we kick off the 22nd Rothbaum Lecture Series! If you can't join us in person, you can watch online here: youtube.com/@cacarchives...

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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 5d

The shutdown is just the start.

Appropriations fights will only get harder — with House & Senate GOP divided on topline numbers, Dems demanding talks and billions separating defense & health funding.
punchbowl.news/article/hous...

The approps battles won’t get easier after the shutdown

Getting out of the shutdown will be hard. Funding the government for next year isn’t going to get any easier after that.

punchbowl.news

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 5d

When the Hope Scholarship covered more it was hard to beat the price. My wife was valedictorian at a large ATL school and went to UGA. I'm thankful she didn't have any student loans.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 5d

OU is hiring in Public Administration. Feel free to reach out to me with questions. Looking at the Assistant or Associate level. Job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/174095

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 6d

More or less yes.

Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 6d

Which one of you did this?

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall passed away today. Here is a letter from she wrote to Rep. Glenn English from our congressional archive.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 6d

My kiddo says "I'm cold and there are wolves after me" but has no idea why, lol.

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Alex Garlick @garlicksauce.bsky.social · 6d

For public policy scholars: JPIPE published our article that uses machine learning to code the universe of congressional and state legislative data since 2009 by the Comparative Agenda Project policy codes. That's 1.68 million bills. OPEN-ACCESS here: www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 6d

This would be good for deficit hawks since the status quo is usually less spending.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 6d

Government shutdowns are dumb. The way funding works is a policy choice, not inherent to the Constitution. Congress could pass a law today that automatically authorizes spending in perpetuity at the levels of the most recent appropriations bill. This is how other countries do it!

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 7d

This is cool but needs a fat finger margin of error.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7d

Inspired by a Perry Bacon post, I created a little game to see how well you understand the presidential electorate.

Digging deep on the presidential electorate

After every federal election, Pew Research Center conducts an incredibly useful bit of polling: asking Americans what they did on Election Day and validating that those who reported voting were actual...

www.pbump.net

Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 7d

The mower only gets out of jail for yard time.

a drawing of a person playing drums with the words ba dum tsss

ALT: a drawing of a person playing drums with the words ba dum tsss

media.tenor.com

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 7d

The campus robot mower now lives in a cage instead of being free. I wonder if the cage is to keep the mower in or people out.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 8d

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 9d

My book is now available for pre-order with Cambridge University Press (cup.org/4nfM2IM). Here, I reflected on America's acceleration of reliance on Medicare Advantage and the new traditional Medicare prior auth administrered with AI, through the lens of my findings
open.substack.com/pub/miranday...

The American Exceptionalism of Health Insurance Barriers

My forthcoming book Coverage Denied just became available for pre-order, and proofing and now promoting this work has given me an opportunity to reflect on contemporary health policy developments thro...

open.substack.com

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 8d

Looks like the MPSA postcards are supersized this year.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 8d

And it looks like someone else is doing the job. Maybe he will be the new chair by default journals.sagepub.com/editorial-bo...

Editorial Board: Political Research Quarterly: Sage Journals

The editorial board of Political Research Quarterly

journals.sagepub.com

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 8d

To answer your question I think we are in the public opinion majority but the Bluesky minority.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 8d

I was asked once to fact check a statement that a candidate voted to “shut down the government 5 times.” Every vote was in favor of a CR (or rule) so I said the person voted to keep the government open. My fact check was ignored.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 8d

Serving as managing editor for PRQ is an interesting job for a chair.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 8d

I’m probably in the minority but it’s hard to blame the Republicans if they have a majority to pass a clean CR. It’s easy to blame the Democrats who vote no.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 8d

I once got into an online debate with a comparativist who tried to make the case that only they knew things about civil wars like the US Civil War is not the most written about event in US History.*
*Made up fact but probably true.

Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 8d

lol. Some of us do read outside our specific fields and maybe know a few things about history.

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Mike Crespin @mikecrespin.bsky.social · 8d

I hear it is national coffee day