So many big stories @3streamsblog.bsky.social in 2025 cc @billresh.bsky.social @sam-workman.bsky.social @cmwitko.bsky.social: one of the biggest was @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social on historical precedents for Mayor Mamdani medium.com/3streams/zoh...

Another big 2025 @3streamsblog.bsky.social story was @billresh.bsky.social from this summer on federal staffing medium.com/3streams/how...

This is a complete and naked abdication of commitment to our allies and all the world is aware. This republic and its former standing in the world is dead. There is no redemption from this administration forward. We are definitively weakened and the scraps of this empire have already been sold.

“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”

Yes! @billresh.bsky.social knows. Neoliberalism unleashed rent-seeking like never before. The state couldn’t continue to be an effective counterbalance to the market when public officials just opened the doors and said, “come on in and take what you want (just leave us a tip).”

Our entire political-economic-cultural era is one defined by the dominance of rent-seeking interlopers. www.instagram.com/reel/DSyZ-4O...

late stage capitalism

We have been keeping this gift until the holidays to announce that we're expecting a new family member, quite unexpectedly. Our baby's name is Atticus, who we're eager to introduce to the world by March. We look forward to welcoming this special gift into our lives and sharing with our loved ones.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

“If the standard for airing a story becomes ‘the government must agree to be interviewed,’ then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi wrote. www.theverge.com/policy/84943...

Someone should let him know that South America is also another continent.

Weird how this keeps happening.

ATTACKED www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/is-...

ARRC invites proposals on timely research projects that advance work aligned with its Workforce & Expertise Community of Practice research priorities & advance understanding of how federal workforce capacity, expertise & attrition intersect w/ agency performance, equity & democratic accountability.

What a chart. "This line goes down to nearly -10%"

1/ This op-ed is like 75% of the way to getting it ... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

🧵Here's a research-backed answer: No. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics” Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics! (The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)

Another data story highlighting nihilistic voting behavior.

Trump is an infirm, sundowning grifter owned by a collection of notorious criminals and it's not even a secret. If this were a functioning country we would have already ended this.

I was going to just share an excerpt of this great @donmoyn.bsky.social piece, but there are too many excerpts worth sharing. Just read the whole thing. If you care about governance, democracy, and the rule of law, these issues are crucial. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

"...it’s so insular. But just because it’s stupid doesn’t mean it won’t inherit the Earth.” www.ft.com/content/b127...

Me when I cite myself:

Yes

"The applause is the point. When billionaires are cast as heroes, no one has to admit that the system has collapsed so thoroughly that private charity is now doing the work of the state." www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/04/t...

The key provision of this flow chart doesn’t even make logical or grammatical sense.

This isn’t just a kakistocracy anymore; it’s outright aristoclasm. In a kakistocracy, the worst people rise to power and run things badly through incompetence, corruption, or sheer malice. Aristoclasm goes a step further:

"The irony is striking: Even as Musk and his friends attack Wikipedia for supposed bias, he is building something far more opaque and unaccountable." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"The very fact that this nefarious, ethically vacant man...could twice win the presidency and in all likelihood retire with billions in ill-gotten gains suggests that America is dangerously close to falling into a political sinkhole." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...

“Don’t give up the ship. You can refuse illegal orders. We have your back.” 🇺🇸Veterans offer support to those in active service.🇺🇸

Earlier this year, Trump fired a Democrat on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission without cause, an unprecedented move. 13 Dems just voted to advance Trump's pick to fill the vacancy. Coons Duckworth Heinrich Kelly King Klobuchar Ossoff Padilla Warner Warnock Welch Whitehouse

I talked with Atlanta's 11Alive for their show "The Take" today to discuss the prospect of yet another shutdown and the continuing impacts of the recent one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGaD...

"The greatest risk of putting the tenure of all federal employees at the whim of the president is not that he will fire them all; it’s that people like Ms. Comey will not seek out the work in the first place.' www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...

the guardian also had a White House correspondent weigh in and, ngl, I think our take is better

Maybe allowing betting on everything everywhere with a nation filled with broke brained lunatics who can't handle money was not a good idea.

Stunning. Archives are everything.

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so, no actual audit or report of what doge cut exactly?

Really important work by folks like @billresh.bsky.social and @davidlewisvu.bsky.social. The FEVS is an invaluable tool for assessing the health of the civil service. It's even better off in the hands of private researchers. ourpublicservice.org/public-servi...

This is my shocked face:

A systematic attack on the rule of law. Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening every day.

Just posted on @3streamsblog.bsky.social from @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social on the Mamdani win in New York cc @cmwitko.bsky.social @billresh.bsky.social @dcinbox.bsky.social @sam-workman.bsky.social medium.com/3streams/zoh...

41.7 million people are losing their SNAP support... illegally. But here's one of the shiny toilets from where our president will be online trolling these families.

I miss US federal data releases :(

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Currently hooked on "Mussolini: Son of the Century" on MUBI. It strips away the myth and exposes a hollow showman driven almost entirely by self-preservation and power. It may also be the most singularly relevant entertainment at any point in the last 20 years.

Seeing folks say this is socialism when almost certainly the model in Trump's head is the Gulf states