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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
8h ago“When a career in public service quietly shapes thousands of lives, why do we usually only hear about it when something goes wrong?”
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Regional Administrative Culture and Property Governance in the Rural Northern Plains: A Sociological Field Analysis Abstract This paper examines a distinctive pattern of property governance present in the rural counties of Northeast Nebraska and southeastern South Dakota.... Is there a deep state?: Reformers
Neither schedule F nor status quo Look, I have worked in government for fourteen years and I have seen both failure modes from the inside. I have watched a career official slow-walk a lawful directive because she disagreed with the policy.... Is there a deep state?: Structural analysis
The tenure gap Average tenure of a senior FDA regulator: 22 years. Average tenure of the political appointee nominally in charge: 18 months. Those two numbers explain more about American governance than either the phrase "deep state" or the phrase "public service" ever will.... Is there a deep state?: Institutional defenders
The data and the briefing On a Saturday morning in February 2020, a career epidemiologist named Nancy Messonnier held a press briefing and said what nobody in the administration wanted her to say: disruption to everyday life may be severe. The stock market dropped 1,000 points.... Is there a deep state?: Deep state critics
The pattern Comey briefed Trump. CNN reported the briefing existed. BuzzFeed published the dossier. That is not a conspiracy theory. That is a communications strategy. Peter Strzok texted about an insurance policy. McCabe authorized a leak and lied about it.... Is there a deep state?: The Story
725 to 1 The federal government employs roughly 2.9 million civilian workers. A new president appoints about 4,000 of them. That is a ratio of 725 to 1.... - taurus12...
- Godless Guru...
'At core', the topic began as preventing corruption. What something 'at core' happens to be called or labeled, relates only to the perspective of the labelers. Advocates of hierarchic, authoritarian regulation by and large equate anarchy with chaos.... Thanks, never knew this. I also laughed out loud at “socialist wet dream” what do you think makes this possible on military bases? Some things that come to mind are plenty of funding, strict hierarchy, military command and control culture, and size limits....