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Nick Bednar

@nicholasbednar.bsky.social

McKnight Land-Grant Professor, Law and Political Science at U. of Minnesota. AdLaw, Admin. Capacity, and the Federal Workforce. Contributing Editor for Lawfare; Nonresident Fellow at Brookings. Signal: Nbednar.46 Opinions are my own; Not UMN.

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Devin Judge-Lord@judgelord.bsky.social · 6d ago

Spending $2 billion to pay companies to *not* build new cheap clean energy projects should have been a huge scandal. Looks like we paid far more for civil servants to *not* go to work. Breathtaking waste, fraud, abuse, and inefficiency. Also read and follow @nicholasbednar.bsky.social

The Use and Abuse of Administrative Leave

Understanding a central tool in DOGE’s war against the federal workforce.

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Kevin Bogardus@kevinbogardus.bsky.social · 6d ago

I wanted to know how much EPA spent on admin leave after 1000s were paid not to work, often for months So I filed a #FOIA —> EPA denied me —> I appealed —> I won And EPA spent almost $200M on leave Many never returned to work #FOIA4eva More here: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

Alton B.H. Worthington@abhw.bsky.social · 7d ago

Lot of other positives here: 1) Our International Policy students are great (have loved working on projects and Diplomacy Lab with them) 2) You get to work with great folks like Don (and all my colleagues) 3) All the coffee you can/should drink Please share w your grad students/early career folks

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.

Deadline for an amazing postdoc focusing on international public policy @fordschool.bsky.social U Michigan coming up on Sept 13. Postdoc can transition into a full time tenure track position. apply.interfolio.com/189148

Jenn@jennburrill.bsky.social · 2w ago

Minnesota prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has been fired Matthew Evans objected to DoJ stopping him from filing criminal civil rights violations "I objected in the strongest possible terms & fought it as hard as I could. It wasn't enough"

Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say

A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

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Jenn@jennburrill.bsky.social · last mo.

When an influencer called for Miami prosecutor Will Rosenzweig to be fired - he was She bragged: “Got this guy fired”, which is in his lawsuit “Justice for Americans ... should not be contingent on what someone in the Department of Justice sees in their social media feed" 🎁 link @nytimes.com

Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 3w ago

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

Rachel Porter@rachelporter.bsky.social · 3w ago

Very happy to meet with anyone interested in our Quantitative Political Science line at APSA! If you're on the fence about applying, this is primarily a *substantive* line. If your research uses LLMs, networks, large datasets, causal inference, etc., you’re who we’re looking for!

Rachel Porter@rachelporter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise. apply.interfolio.com/189477

Sara Hobolt@sarahobolt.bsky.social · 4w ago

📢 LSE Political Theory job opening We’re looking for a political theorist to join us at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - it is an open rank search, so we welcome applications at Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level Reach out with questions & please share widely! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Assistant/Associate/Professor in Political Theory

Assistant/Associate/Professor in Political Theory, , <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;">LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</p> <p style="margin:...

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4w ago

At the abstract level it’s hard to talk about areas of overlap for governance reform. This is why organizing dialogues around specific challenges (eg civil service reform, safety net policy, tech in govt) would be better

• State capacity types are deeply interested in permitting reform. This extends all the way from the right to Mamdani in NYC, who has been co-opting abundance themes. But this is not really on the agenda for people who care about democratic backsliding. Their instinctive reaction might be assume this is going to be a gift to powerful interests seeking to be deregulated. (And in some cases, it might be! The devil is in the details!) • Procurement is another area where reform is desperately needed, but could be a gateway to corruption. How do we get the balance right? • We have not had a substantive civil service legislation since 1978: what would a modern model look like? • It should be possible to engage in the sharing of administrative data that helps people and protects privacy, while punishing willful violations of privacy law. • The end of Loper Bright has changed the dynamics of policymaking in a way that needs to be better understood. The future will not look like the past - so what good government possibilities are created? What does Congress need to do to catch up?
Charlotte Garden@charlottegarden.bsky.social · last mo.

TW: Suicide I used to volunteer on a crisis line, and I thought it might be useful to share what I was taught there about helping people who might be having suicidal ideations. (To be clear, I'm not a trained professional of any kind.)

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · last mo.

TW: Suicide If you tell people you have SI, many are likely to suggest you call 988 or text the suicide lifeline. These are good resources *if you need to be kept physically safe;* they are not as helpful if your ideations are passive. Allow me to share some things that have helped me. /1

Nick Bednar@nicholasbednar.bsky.social · last mo.

Updated on SSRN with new textual analysis about how AI revision changes student work product. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Artificial Intelligence and Human Legal Reasoning

<div> Empirical evidence increasingly demonstrates that generative artificial intelligence has the capacity to improve the speed and quality of legal work, yet

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Daniel Schwarcz@danielschwarcz.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m delighted to share that the Northwestern University Law Review will publish Artificial Intelligence and Human Legal Reasoning, co-authored with @nicholasbednar.bsky.social, Allan Erbsen, and David Cleveland. 1/4

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last mo.

This was a really fun conversation with @klonick.bsky.social about my paper on the declining relationship between the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts and its mounting costs (a draft of which is available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....). Thanks to Kate and Lawfare for hosting me!

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · last mo.

On Lawfare Daily, @klonick.bsky.social sat down for a live discussion on Substack with @stevevladeck.bsky.social to discuss his forthcoming Harvard Law Review Foreword, “The Court Against the Courts,” which chronicles institutional attacks on the lower federal courts. youtu.be/VGJP_kO5av4

Nick Bednar@nicholasbednar.bsky.social · last mo.

You don't say? www.lawfaremedia.org/article/did-...

Did DOGE Take Credit for Spending Cuts Related to President Carter’s Death?

Inaccuracies on DOGE’s website raise questions about DOGE’s activities and transparency.

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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last mo.

Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service consistently overstated its savings, taking credit for lease cancellations initiated before the group existed, a government watchdog found. DOGE also claimed contracts were terminated that had not been, the report said.