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Public admin prof | MPA Director @ CSUF | Governance, equity, environmental & energy policy nerd ⚖️🌎⚡ | Researcher, Linux tinkerer 🐧, dad, card-slinger | Trying to make public service better | Views = mine
If your paper is done but the LaTeX is melting down at 2am: outsource the pain, keep the control.
Clean code, clear scope, fixed quote. Rush slots exist (limited).
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Clean code, clear scope, fixed quote. Rush slots exist (limited).
dadams.cc
[email protected]
You have better things to do than fight LaTeX — dadams.cc
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dadams.cc
February 8, 2026 at 7:58 AM
If your paper is done but the LaTeX is melting down at 2am: outsource the pain, keep the control.
Clean code, clear scope, fixed quote. Rush slots exist (limited).
dadams.cc
[email protected]
Clean code, clear scope, fixed quote. Rush slots exist (limited).
dadams.cc
[email protected]
I'm sharing in support of good journalism and verisimilitude. Which means I'm 100% against this bullshit national parks order.
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 6, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I'm sharing in support of good journalism and verisimilitude. Which means I'm 100% against this bullshit national parks order.
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Clean lines—in pipe, moulding, landscape, or typeset—carry certain parallels. An honest day’s work and a finished project are orthogonals.
I wrote that yesterday in an email to a friend. He replied, Ha ha. That's good.
After reading it again, I like it enough to share.
I wrote that yesterday in an email to a friend. He replied, Ha ha. That's good.
After reading it again, I like it enough to share.
July 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Clean lines—in pipe, moulding, landscape, or typeset—carry certain parallels. An honest day’s work and a finished project are orthogonals.
I wrote that yesterday in an email to a friend. He replied, Ha ha. That's good.
After reading it again, I like it enough to share.
I wrote that yesterday in an email to a friend. He replied, Ha ha. That's good.
After reading it again, I like it enough to share.
i just realized the only people who follow me on here are me from another project and maybe Jesus. Not sure if the rest of the followers are real. Is anyone real? Jesus is old right? And shouldn't they be on Twitter?
July 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
i just realized the only people who follow me on here are me from another project and maybe Jesus. Not sure if the rest of the followers are real. Is anyone real? Jesus is old right? And shouldn't they be on Twitter?
Far cry from spirit of '76 critical mass of public engagement. Here it's just more shill for show.
"The Bitcoin Conference’s Code + Country day ended with Code, Country, and Cocktails, an open-bar VIP party for America250 that featured women in cow onesies dancing to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony."
"The Bitcoin Conference’s Code + Country day ended with Code, Country, and Cocktails, an open-bar VIP party for America250 that featured women in cow onesies dancing to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony."
Today I learned that America250, a nonprofit set up to orchestrate the nation's semiquincentennial celebration, has hired a consulting firm named Event Strategies Inc. that received $179,000 to oversee preparations for Trump's January 6, 2021 rally. Seems bad. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How MAGA took over America’s 250th birthday
Trump's military parade is just the beginning.
www.motherjones.com
July 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Far cry from spirit of '76 critical mass of public engagement. Here it's just more shill for show.
"The Bitcoin Conference’s Code + Country day ended with Code, Country, and Cocktails, an open-bar VIP party for America250 that featured women in cow onesies dancing to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony."
"The Bitcoin Conference’s Code + Country day ended with Code, Country, and Cocktails, an open-bar VIP party for America250 that featured women in cow onesies dancing to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony."
In Alabama, a Social Media Influencer Really Gets Wild www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/c...
I love this story from Sweet Home
I love this story from Sweet Home
In Alabama, a Social Media Influencer Really Gets Wild
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
In Alabama, a Social Media Influencer Really Gets Wild www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/c...
I love this story from Sweet Home
I love this story from Sweet Home
A federal court just let Trump keep control of California’s National Guard—overriding the governor.
This isn’t about military takeovers. It’s about shifting the chain of command—quietly, legally.
I wrote about it here: medium.dadams.io/command-and-...
This isn’t about military takeovers. It’s about shifting the chain of command—quietly, legally.
I wrote about it here: medium.dadams.io/command-and-...
Command and Consent: What the National Guard Ruling Tells Us About Power
Image: Federalized National Guard in Alabama, 1965. Source: U.S. National Archives (Public Domain)
medium.dadams.io
June 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A federal court just let Trump keep control of California’s National Guard—overriding the governor.
This isn’t about military takeovers. It’s about shifting the chain of command—quietly, legally.
I wrote about it here: medium.dadams.io/command-and-...
This isn’t about military takeovers. It’s about shifting the chain of command—quietly, legally.
I wrote about it here: medium.dadams.io/command-and-...
medium.dadams.io/leaving-mexi...
just wrapped a slow, grounding week in mexico with my kids. zip lines, sea turtles, no headlines.
and yet… back home, the state flexes in two directions: one that still serves, one that intimidates.
new blog post: Two Compacts
just wrapped a slow, grounding week in mexico with my kids. zip lines, sea turtles, no headlines.
and yet… back home, the state flexes in two directions: one that still serves, one that intimidates.
new blog post: Two Compacts
Two Compacts
Summer is easy. That’s the gift of it. Slow mornings. Slow work. Even writing slows down—less urgency, more breath between thoughts. This…
medium.dadams.io
June 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
medium.dadams.io/leaving-mexi...
just wrapped a slow, grounding week in mexico with my kids. zip lines, sea turtles, no headlines.
and yet… back home, the state flexes in two directions: one that still serves, one that intimidates.
new blog post: Two Compacts
just wrapped a slow, grounding week in mexico with my kids. zip lines, sea turtles, no headlines.
and yet… back home, the state flexes in two directions: one that still serves, one that intimidates.
new blog post: Two Compacts
www.tandfonline.com
May 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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They did halt it! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
They did halt it! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Company towns and generational factories isn't the future I imagined as a kid growing up in the 1980s.
May 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Company towns and generational factories isn't the future I imagined as a kid growing up in the 1980s.
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Apologies to Shel
May 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Apologies to Shel
Reposted by dadams
💥 BREAKING: The Heritage Foundation withdrew its anti-DEI proposal to IBM for shareholder vote today, originally submitted for vote at IBM's annual meeting. Why Heritage withdrew its anti-DEI proposal is unknown.
Earlier today, shareholders at American Express voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal.
Earlier today, shareholders at American Express voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal.
April 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
💥 BREAKING: The Heritage Foundation withdrew its anti-DEI proposal to IBM for shareholder vote today, originally submitted for vote at IBM's annual meeting. Why Heritage withdrew its anti-DEI proposal is unknown.
Earlier today, shareholders at American Express voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal.
Earlier today, shareholders at American Express voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal.
Policy problem definitions that people can understand
A set of chemicals found in food packaging, plastics, and lotions and shampoos has been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal eBioMedicine.
Common chemicals in plastic linked to over 350,000 deaths from heart disease
Researchers estimate that exposure to phthalates contributes to 13 percent of all heart disease deaths in people between 55 and 64 years old each year.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Policy problem definitions that people can understand
Push day sacrificed for committee work 🥺
April 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Push day sacrificed for committee work 🥺
The only reason I use Dave is bc I can type it with one hand.
April 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The only reason I use Dave is bc I can type it with one hand.
Is the reprieve for grad students just a bait and switch move?
April 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Is the reprieve for grad students just a bait and switch move?
Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...
Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump
A recent group statement showed that the nation’s academic leaders, at first reluctant to oppose the president’s moves, are beginning to unite.
www.nytimes.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...