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Well put.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

🤔 @pahlkadot.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you all for the kind words about my opinion piece yesterday. What no one is talking about is the incredible animation the lovely folks at the NYT did for it. Look closely. Who is wielding the clippers? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Anyone who cares about the core principles our of government will need to protect civil servants who defend the law. But a defensive crouch is the wrong response. If you’re mad about what Musk is doing to government, it’s time to go on the offense to reform it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

Jen Pahlka on the difference in good faith efforts to reform government versus Musk's wrecking ball approach. "But my goal — the goal of many Democrats and Republicans alike — has been to revitalize government. Mr. Musk seems to be trying to destroy it." - @pahlkadot.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Today is Fork in the Road Day, and we should be thinking about legacy code all over government. www.eatingpolicy.com/p/jed

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Seems like a good time to say this again.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Government reform on its face isn’t a partisan issue, so why does it seem to fall under the purview of Republicans? @pahlkadot.bsky.social tells @jerusalem.bsky.social why she thinks Democrats need to “get in the game” of reduction.

submitted 36 days ago • 62 comments

The piping of American government has multiple channels: civil service, contractors, consultants. That system was built to make orgs run lean, but it came with a fatal flaw: communication. In Hypertext, we unpack that.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

@niskanencenter.bsky.social enter will be hosting a Law of abundance conference in early 2026, chaired by @nbagley.bsky.social and Zach Liscow. Here is the call for papers: www.niskanencenter.org/law-of-abund...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

As you know, fixing federal hiring has been at the top of my wishlist for a long time. I had the chance to talk about this on OddLots with the amazing @tracyalloway.bsky.social and @thestalwartt.bsky.social , and it's out today. We cover some other stuff too. :) bloom.bg/3Cfti9V

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Lessons from our past- how the federal government taught its managers to cut red tape: "Eisenhower's Bureaucrats" @KHawickhorst @pahlkadot.bsky.social @vgr.bsky.social (Plus- Eisenhower's 6th State of the Union) Fix it instead of throwing it away: roughlydaily.com/2025/01/10/d...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

"The actual implementation of regulations has become far too invisible to the political class — and that has made achieving policy goals much more difficult across the government," @pahlkadot.bsky.social tells @jeffstein.bsky.social. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Wild story: A TVA dam was famously halted in the 1970s over fears that it would threaten a rare endangered fish known as the snail darter. (Congress later approved the dam anyway.) Now, new genetic evidence suggests the snail darter was never even a real species: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/s...

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

Great piece by @pahlkadot.bsky.social on how broken US government hiring is. Someone needs to fix it, and I'll give full credit to Republicans if they get to it before Democrats do. www.eatingpolicy.com/p/dear-mr-ku...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

New post, a short and odd one, but one you might like. What does politics look like from space? www.eatingpolicy.com/p/the-view-f...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

“The obstacles that thwart the designs of one’s political opponents today become the frustrations your side faces when the political cycle turns again.” - @pahlkadot.bsky.social Nicely sums up what’s so frustrating about debt ceilings and government shutdowns (and filibusters, too).

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

🚨Massive new report from @pahlkadot.bsky.social + @andrewgreenway.bsky.social: Our roadmap for effective, efficient government.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

SO appreciate @pahlkadot.bsky.social making the case that Congress is going to need to invest in its own capacity to play its role (as authorizer, funder, and overseer) of #DOGE or any other attempts to reform government. open.substack.com/pub/eatingpo...

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

We must do better by public servants. In so many ways.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Most interesting DOGE take I’ve seen yet: www.eatingpolicy.com/p/um-congres... From @pahlkadot.bsky.social

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

@pahlkadot.bsky.social article below on DOGE is essential reading. It also raises the question of what to try if DOGE fails?

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Huge respect for what @pahlkadot.bsky.social has done, and even more for what she tried and failed to accomplish, in actually improving government efficiency. I share the fear and the conflicted hope she articulates so beautifully Bringing Elon to a knife fight www.eatingpolicy.com/p/bringing-e...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Elon’s ambitions should not serve as cover for Dems to abdicate responsibility for thinking seriously about government reform, says @pahlkadot.bsky.social "Let’s not pretend that change was going to come from Democrats if they’d only had another term." www.eatingpolicy.com/p/bringing-e...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Schedule F is NOT civil service reform, @pahlkadot.bsky.social says. There is nothing in there about performance. It just lets you fire people on any basis - including loyalty. Firing low performers and hiring the right ones is the point of the merit system principles.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

“A lot of the government tech community… just grabbed a bag of popcorn and are watching in real time as Elon and Vivek learn all the things they’ve known, lived, and absolutely hated for their entire time in public service.” - @pahlkadot.bsky.social www.eatingpolicy.com/p/bringing-e...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

This from @pahlkadot.bsky.social is frustratingly amazingly accurate. www.eatingpolicy.com/p/bringing-e...

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

An excellent and important op-ed by @ArnabDatta321 — very glad to see it in The New York Times. Things are changing. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...

submitted 80 days ago • 7 comments

I'm discussing my recent paper, "State Capacity for Building Infrastructure" next Thursday (12/12) at 3:00pm ET at a webinar hosted hosted by the Niskanen Center, with @pahlkadot.bsky.social and Marshall Kosloff. More on the paper: bsky.app/profile/zlis... www.niskanencenter.org/virtual-even...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

New, from @giannella.bsky.social & I: It is very likely that the Trump administration will add administrative burdens to safety net programs. What can state and local govts do? We talk about one simple innovation to increase SNAP take-up. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 82 days ago • 8 comments

This is perhaps the best post-election podcast that I’ve heard so far. Immediately bought @pahlkadot.bsky.social’s book after listening. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4C5Z...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment