I'm proud to announce that the Accountability and Reform Research Consortium (ARRC) has awarded its inaugural round of research stipends, funded through @volckeralliance.bsky.social with support from the Henry Luce Foundation Inc and ARRC's Founding Member Schools. (...)

NASA might have been the coolest organization on planet earth — a real life/larger than life organization that the smartest people in the world respected, kids dreamed their whole life of working for, & even Hollywood couldn’t make larger than it already was. So of course Trump ruined it in a year.

#ASPA2026 Conference -Building a Bridge to Renewal and Resilience...Hollywood, CA @billresh.bsky.social

Authoritarian regimes are targeting exiles and diaspora communities in more places than ever before. Activists, journalists, and regular people living abroad must watch their backs, because these governments now have the power to suppress dissent even outside their borders.

Join the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance – GSU Chapter for Paths into Purpose, a conversation with Ben Spears on career transitions, local advocacy, international work, and nonprofit leadership. Wednesday, March 11th from 3PM-4PM at 55 Park Place, Room 701 @billresh.bsky.social

@gsupmap.bsky.social's Ross Rubenstein on why Georgia state tax cuts will likely leave schools and communities holding the bag.

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

@billresh.bsky.social Thrilled to share that Dr. Can Chen’s article, “Advancing Social Equity in Public Budgeting: The Role of Minority Political Representation in Local Government"

Would just remind folks that a GSA employee named Jeff Neely went to federal prison for throwing lavish parties during a 2010 government conference, then claiming it was all business. He was sentenced to 90 days. You can absolutely imprison dipshits for flamboyantly wasting taxpayer dollars.

competition in the right-wing-agitprop-pretending-to-be-real-news sector is heating up!

"You don’t need to agree with Dario Amodei on whether we are about to see the rapid deployment of 'countries of geniuses in a datacenter' to worry about what an untrammeled Hegsethian wannabe-Department-of-War might try to do with this technology..."

No. This is the foreign-policy equivalent of bad jazz, not free jazz. My ESL wife has a saying: "don't bad jazz me," meaning "don't put bullshit noise in my ears." That's what this is.

Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

you can have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or a dinner that features Donald Trump but you cannot have both

Peace is war. War is peace.

I’m excited to share a new call for research on the structural and societal impacts of federal workforce changes. We’re looking for work that examines what happens downstream when administrative capacity shifts, including effects on service delivery, communities, and institutional resilience.

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

@billresh.bsky.social Thrilled to share that Dr. Can Chen has been awarded a Samuels Public Affairs Fellowship—supporting research that bridges disciplines and drives real-world impact.

Big congratulations to Minji Hong! We are so proud to celebrate this incredible achievement and can’t wait to see all that she accomplishes in this next chapter. #AcademicSuccess #PublicFinance #HigherEd #GeorgiaState #AndrewYoungSchool @billresh.bsky.social

I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

And if you're wondering why it is that it's so easy for the federal government to control where a habeas petition is filed simply by moving a detainee around after their arrest, allow me to introduce you to #SCOTUS's (5-4) 2004 ruling in the Jose Padilla case: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

bad bunny 500 electoral votes

fuck this Ring commercial hiding fascism behind dogs

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Nazi propaganda portrayed the Sturmabteilung (SA or Storm Troopers) not as agents of terror, but as the essential, disciplined guardians of safety, order, and national renewal.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

I was on BBC News yesterday to talk about the latest shutdown (taking place at least over this weekend) to tell overseas audiences, once again, why we repeatedly go through this. You can find the audio here: drive.google.com/file/d/13C7m...

"America First... well, *first* is actually a half billion dollars of grift for me and my family, then some special market treatment for the UAE, then sure... America!" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

@billresh.bsky.social’s book on the Bush II Admin also points out that second term presidents tend to go harder on leveraging the administrative state to enact their policy goals—in this case, accelerating the democratic backsliding that was well previewed in Trump I

We now have a cabal in leadership positions that abetted a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. Now our states have to conduct at least 2 national elections in the face of active meddling and obstruction, all to appease a sundowning clown's fragile ego. This is banana republic madness.

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Welcome, global audience watching the World Economic Forum, to our daily hell of listening to the stream of incoherent nightmares conjured by Trump's babble.

BRENNAN: What percentage of those you have in custody have committed crimes? NOEM: 70% of them B: It's not 70% N: Yes it is. You guys pick and choose numbers B: Your agency says 47% have criminal convictions N: Wrong again. We'll get you the correct numbers B: Well, that's from your agency

The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit.

I talked with Bloomberg Law's Khori Atkinson about three legal cases that could determine whether statutory civil service protections can be overridden by presidential loyalty tests, consolidating presidential power over the federal workforce at the expense of a neutral, expertise-based bureaucracy.

Is there anyone who could unequivocally say that NATO's Article 5 remains a credible commitment by this administration? Americans who aren't paying attention have no idea how cataclysmic an open threat to annex Greenland is to security of the United States and it's allies. 1/3

The tragedy in Minneapolis was as inevitable as it was unnecessary. This administration is at war with quite literally *most* of the people it's supposed to represent. They are arming thousands of pretend "patriots" who are cosplaying soldiers and law enforcement to terrorize communities. 1/3

My position on impeachment is the same as it was six months ago: Impeachment is first about driving public attention to Trump’s crimes and corruption. Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort. Performative public investigations matter.

Exactly! The fact that they're able to pull off these isolated assaults successfully isn't remarkable. The US military & intelligence agencies have long had the capacity for these things. It's the irresponsible, illegal, & incompetent activation of those capacities that is remarkable & dangerous.

Number 1 for @3streamsblog.bsky.social in 2025 has been the MSIRA partnership with @dadakim.bsky.social Marissa Brookes and Jennifer Merolla and their team of excellent research assistants cc @cmwitko.bsky.social @sam-workman.bsky.social @billresh.bsky.social medium.com/3streams/str...

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”