Stuart Shapiro

A brief summary of everything I have written on RIFs to date. RIFs are insanely complex and procedurally difficult to implement. Most RIFs are challenged on procedural grounds. 1/7

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But that’s no excuse for not showing up.

Show up to a protest on the 18th. It’s a way to stand up and be counted for the proposition that what these people are doing to your country is not right, not acceptable.

Democracy Needs the Administrative State A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.

🟣💡 Idea #28 — Gillian Metzger @columbialawschool.bsky.social — “Democracy Needs the Administrative State”

Part of the @nyulaw.bsky.social Democracy Project: "100 Ideas in 100 Days" series

👉 Read here:
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Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

Rutgers alum!

A woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” Viva Maria Corina Machado and may Venezuela once again regain its freedom.

Aside from that how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as of August 2024, more than 42,600 New Jerseyans—approximately 0.5% of the population—were being served by 346 Medicare-certified nursing homes: policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...

Sherrill and Ciattarelli clash on costs, energy, transit and Trump in New Jersey governor’s debate as exchanges turn personal Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli debated the issues for an hour in a fiery second debate Wednesday.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli clashed for an hour over the cost of living, energy policy, transit, and President Donald Trump on Wednesday night in a fiery second New Jersey gubernatorial debate.

First they came for habeas corpus.

At the NJ governor's race debate tonight:

Grades given to Donald Trump:
Jack Ciattarelli: A
Mikie Sherrill: F

Grades given to Phil Murphy:
Jack Ciattarelli: F
Mikie Sherrill: B

I would like to see that but suspect it is unlikely.

Not sure you are wrong yet. If the Republicans come back with just an increase to the Obamacare subsidies and no curbing of trump, there is little political recourse for the Democrats not to accept.

Cuomo actually lost three times to koch, there was a runoff in the Democratic primary.

Opinion | Government shutdowns wouldn’t happen if they caused more pain Democratic leaders play a dangerous game as Trump threatens not to pay furloughed federal workers.

This editorial from @washingtonpost.com is disappointing because it is sloppy and misleading---if not factually wrong. As a piece by the Editorial Board (the voice of the paper), it threatens Washington Post's credibility and integrity. 1/15

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trump threatened shutdown layoffs. So far, he hasn’t followed through. One week into a shutdown that shows no sign of ending, there’s also no sign of the dire consequences that President Donald Trump predicted.

It's been one week. The promise for mass RIFs has not come to fruition. This could indicate that it is taking agencies longer to prepare RIF plans than the administration expected. Or it could indicate this is all a bluff. I lean more toward the latter. 1/4

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four mlb playoff elimination games tomorrow lol 🤮

Aaron Judge is hitting .524 with a 1.345 OPS in the postseason. The Yankees may still get bounced tonight but he’s been the least of their problems

Vin Scully probably watched Connie Mack manage a game and certainly saw Mike Trout play one.

It's how everyone should preface every comment:

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so we're going to go get pizza."

Presidential campaign analysis is always bedeviled by small sample size problems. And each takes place under different circumstances. The best ones (Reagan 1980, Clinton 1992, Obama 2008) have only this in common, they answer the call appropriate for the time in which they are run.

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

New Jersey Superior Court Upholds New Affordable Housing Process – NJ State Policy Updates - New Jersey State Policy Lab Public Administration Second Gubernatorial Debate to be Held on Wednesday, October 8th Hosted by the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy - On Wednesday, October 8th from 7:00-8:00pm guberna...

The second gubernatorial debate between candidates @mikiesherrill.bsky.social & Jack Ciattarelli will be held on Oct. 8th, hosted by the @bloustein.rutgers.edu; an #NJ Superior Court dismissed lawsuits from several municipalities that sought to block the state's affordable housing law; Read more:

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Call for Seed Funding Research Proposals – Due October 17th - New Jersey State Policy Lab The New Jersey State Policy Lab (NJSPL) is excited to announce that we will once again be seeking proposals for seed funding* to support research projects that focus on a wide array of policy challeng...

The New Jersey State Policy Lab is excited to announce that we will once again be seeking #proposals for seed #funding to support #research projects that focus on a wide array of policy challenges impacting #NJ. Proposals are due by end of day Friday, October 17th:

My hypothesis is that the electorate is fundamentally backward looking. Because law sort of constrained Trump during his first administration, people thought they'd get the same thing again.

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?