Dr. John C. Ronquillo

How I often feel on the sporadic occasions I come back here

Excellent experience from the beginning to the end! I enjoyed my time this weekend attending the Inaugural Public Leadership Research Summit at UMD's School of Public Policy. Thank you Cullen C. Merritt, @johnron, and the IPL team for the invitation and the opportunity!!!

I was happy to chime in on @amieparnes’s story today on the rise of Wes Moore and and his potential as a presidential contender in 2028.

"While Trump retains the ceremonial position of Head of State, signing executive orders with flourish and basking in symbolic pageantry, Musk has effectively become Head of Government, wielding unprecedented control over federal agencies." -@johnron hubs.ly/Q03bKm6w0

New from me on @DemocracyDocket. Happy Presidents’ Day.

@Carrasquillo A great write-up, by the way!

Relatedly, kind of the vibe of my story today

Mitch McConnell breaks with GOP on Gabbard confirmation. #block-67acce808f086b794010ad64" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…

GOP lawmaker proposes renaming Greenland “Red, White, and Blueland.” I wish I were joking. thehill.com/homenews/house…

Major kudos to @HoCoGovExec Calvin Ball for this local response to the dismantling of the federal government and its effect on the area workforce.

More slash and burn: the Federal Executive Institute is being eliminated. This effectively kills a fundamental and crucial program for leadership development and training in our government. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

Black history is American history.

Do everything you can to retain what you know to be right, true, and just. We're gonna need it.

You cannot tell us nothin’. Seriously on cloud TEN. Many MANY thanks to our Journalism Alumni Network, @merrillcollege @UMDPublicPolicy @johnron @PositivelyBrie @meganpratz @media_politics for what truly was a successful evening. SO MUCH MORE to come.

@SpeakerJohnson Do you have a mirror in your office, by any chance?

Bishop Budde hijacked the National Prayer Service to promote her radical ideology. This was an opportunity to unify the country in prayer, but she used it to sow division. Even worse, she’s continued her political crusade in media interviews. Shameful.

Bluesky: johnron.bsky.social IG & Threads: drjohnronquillo Not that I’m sure anyone will even see this. 👀

@jaredpolis @RobertKennedyJr @HHSGov Jared gonna Jared! But wow. This is so undercooked and you’re still gonna eat it. Again, wow.

I’m excited by the news that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov. He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health. Before you mock him or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through show why I’m excited: “Level the playing field for Americans internationally on drug costs…cap drug prices so that companies can’t charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay." YES! Colorado currently has an application just SITTING at FDA for us to import low-cost prescription drugs from Canada and we just need their approval. "In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are – that have to go, that are not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids," YES! The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good “We’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.” YES! We have tried unsuccessfully to better protect people and pollinators from harmful pesticides here in Colorado and we need all the help we can get to take on big chemical companies and improve human health and the environment! For our pollinators and our people! 🦋 He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues.

We’re proud to announce that 18 of our faculty and staff will be representing the University of Maryland School of Public Policy at the 2024 Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (@naspaa) Annual Conference in D.C. this week! 🌎 conta.cc/4f1AGEl

@KyleClark @cprwarner @ehernandez @MileHighRobert @MicahSmith_TV @Briancbs4 @AnushaRoyNews @CarolAMcKinley @nbminor @JenBrownColo @Marshall9News @OldNewsman You just listed many of the reasons I miss Colorado.

Colorado has a ton of terrific journalists you could follow and engage with instead of whining about me. To name a few: @cprwarner, @ehernandez, @MileHighRobert, @MicahSmith_TV, @Briancbs4, @AnushaRoyNews, @CarolAMcKinley, @nbminor, @JenBrownColo, @Marshall9News, @OldNewsman

Absolutely tasteless.

I lived in Aurora, CO for nearly a decade. I narrowly lost an at-large city council seat there in ‘21 because I was outspent 10:1 by those fueling the hyperbolic lies Trump is telling. Aurora has always had a conservative majority on council. Trump knows nothing about Aurora.