Bill Resh
Chair & Professor of Public Management and Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University;
Director, CLEAR Initiative; Co-Chair, ARRC
- 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.
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- 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...
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- 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.
- Reposted by Bill ReshThis 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.
- Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
- 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.
- Reposted by Bill Resh"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." MLK, 1968
- Reposted by Bill ReshBRENNAN: 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
- Reposted by Bill ReshThe 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
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- 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.
- Reposted by Bill ReshNumber 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...
- Reposted by Bill ReshSo 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...
- Reposted by Bill ReshAnother 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.
- Reposted by Bill Resh“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”
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- Our entire political-economic-cultural era is one defined by the dominance of rent-seeking interlopers. www.instagram.com/reel/DSyZ-4O...
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- 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.
- Reposted by Bill ReshThe 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.
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- 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.
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- Reposted by Bill ReshHiring 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.
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- "...it’s so insular. But just because it’s stupid doesn’t mean it won’t inherit the Earth.” www.ft.com/content/b127...
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- "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...
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- 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...
- Reposted by Bill ReshThis 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...
- Reposted by Bill Resh“Don’t give up the ship. You can refuse illegal orders. We have your back.” 🇺🇸Veterans offer support to those in active service.🇺🇸
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- 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...
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- Are you a US federal employee? In the absence of the FEVS this year, the Partnership for Public Service is administering a survey to the fed workforce to assess today’s federal employee experience. Learn more and take the survey: ourpublicservice.org/psvs
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- 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.
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- Reposted by Bill ReshThe 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.
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- Reposted by Bill ReshAll the things folks pretended were happening in 2022-23 under Joe Biden are actually happening now under Donald Trump
- "Any strategy that takes on Trump must find a way to incorporate and exploit this truth: Trump and his key followers are criminal parasites on American society." open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...
- Reposted by Bill Reshthe president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
- When you lose the Washington Times... www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...
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- It's pretty laughable to listen to the most Stalin-esque administration in the history of our Republic label government programs and other public servants "communist."
- "...it’s hard for the administration to make accusations that workers are redundant, non-essential, or not carrying out its priorities when it doesn’t appear to have a transparent 'accounting of exactly who is in what position and what they’re doing.'”
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- I was on Atlanta's 11Alive this morning to talk about the shutdown and our research on the topic @gsupmap.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgRU...
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