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27 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Government as a means of personal enrichment, not public service. Kushner began his government career selling real estate by promising big Chinese investors US visas. His current gig is shaking down Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds. nytimes.com/2021/11/26/us/…
No sane person would give Kushner money based on his actual business record, which is terrible.
So what is Kushner selling? The promise of political influence. Governments who did not back Kushner’s failed businesses before believe they were punished, and are worried about a second Trump administration. Their worries are not unfounded.
Saudi sovereign wealth funds are interested in funding Kushner. Why not? He facilitated their interests in US foreign policy, and protected their Crown Prince from accountability for a brutal murder.
One takeaway here is that even if Trump does not intend to run he will give the impression that he will as long as possible so his family can extract as much resources from his political influence.

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28 Nov
It’s never really been about free speech, but about imposing their own speech.
UK conservatives took a page from the US, claiming there were “woke hate mobs” on campus to justify policing speech.
Now they are excluding experts whose speech they dislike from briefing the govt.
UK civil servants have been warned to screen potential speakers at Whitehall events for any comments critical of government policies and exclude them on that basis. thenational.scot/news/19747206.…
When I was in the UK in 2018-2019, I was invited to give talks to Whitehall officials a couple of times about my research. Under this new guidance the inviter would be obliged to check my social media and would exclude me on that basis for my comments critical of Brexit.
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23 Nov
We only hear about government administration when things go wrong.
So here's something positive you haven't heard about: the Biden admin is working to reduce the administrative burdens that government imposes on the public.

New from me:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-biden-ad…
You can't find a single speech where Biden talks about administrative burdens. But its embedded in a series of policy documents: his equity executive order, internal OMB guidance to agencies, a public OMB report to the President, and the new President's Management Agenda.
There are lots of wonks in specific policy domains doing this work. So what's the value of articulating an overall administrative philosophy to reduce burdens?
It helps to increase salience, legibility and knowledge dissemination of the topic. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-biden-ad…
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19 Nov
This piece lays out the roadmap for how Republicans in Wisconsin continue to move further toward competitive authoritarianism. Increasingly likely that even if Democrats win the most votes, the gerrymandered legislature will overturn the outcome. 1/ nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/…
I say "move further toward competitive authoritarianism" because Wisconsin Republicans have already moved away from a reasonably fair democracy. Most of it occurred very quickly, in the last decade. No punishment for this slide, no reason to think it will stop. 2/ Image
Starting in 2010, you have perhaps the most efficient gerrymander in the country, one that essentially guarantees that Republicans cannot lose the legislature, regardless of their action. SCOTUS could have intervened, but Kennedy punted. Green light for more of this. 3/ ImageImage
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18 Nov
Two observations:
1) I worked at UW-Madison in social sciences for 13 years and never heard reference to CRT once
2) You could teach an entire course about CRT just using the career of Robin Vos. Let me explain. 1/
We know that lead in water hurts kids brain development. In WI, the kids most at risk from lead are Black kids living in in Milwaukee. Robin Vos has been the biggest opponent of helping those kids. 2/ jsonline.com/story/news/pol…
Vos and colleagues have turned efforts to honor Black leaders during Black history month into an annual troll fest.
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18 Nov
New President's Management Agenda released from Biden via @OMBPress. Emphasis on rebuilding federal workforce, excellent & equitable federal customer service, and capacity improvements to enable the BBB agenda.
performance.gov/pma/
The Presidential management agenda lays out what the President says are their top nuts-and-bolts plan for fixing the types of problems that don't get much attention. Not surprising there is an emphasis on reinvesting in the federal workforce, but there are longstanding problems.
The second priority area is the one most interesting to me, since it relates to administrative burden. It marries the idea of customer service and reducing burdens, and includes language about access: assets.performance.gov/PMA/Biden-Harr…
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18 Nov
New from me: Efforts to ban books are up by 60%, reflecting a new censoriousness and a culture of fear in schools.
The people who say they want patriotic education seem indifferent to American values like free speech and due process.
Plz share & subscribe.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-book-ban…
It's not just that efforts to ban books are on the increase, they are targeting books related to race, gender, and sexuality identity. From @DanikaEllis's analysis of the 850 books a Texas legislator targeted. bookriot.com/texas-book-ban… 2/
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