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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 17h

i do not like living under a government run by the worst facebook posts you've ever seen

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Latest on government shutdown: Georgia State professor joins The Take

YouTube video by 11Alive

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 2d

By the time the MSPB resolves pending cases, many employees will have found other jobs. Most people cannot afford to remain out of work while their claims go through the system. And most won't want to leave those new jobs to return to an employer who has spent the last year making their life hell.

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 2d

Many federal employees accept lower pay relative to the private sector in exchange for stability, an opportunity to serve the public, and a degree of autonomy. As those incentives are reduced, there are fewer reasons to remain or join the civil service.

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 2d

Ultimately, I think this is the right question. The government is losing credibility as an employer. The private sector cannot absorb all federal jobs but those with the greatest expertise and experience will have less difficulty finding jobs--especially in fields like health care.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 4d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Nancy Calo 2028hope @2028hope.bsky.social · 4d

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Trump: “We're only gonna cut Democrat programs”

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social · 5d

Our new open-access article in @pareview.bsky.social offers a stark warning about the latest shutdown through analysis of the last one (2019).
Turning this one into an instrument of political control will further hollow out institutional memory, weaken professionalism, and erode long-term capacity.

<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library

As shutdowns have increased in frequency and length for the US federal government, such dysfunction may impact the federal government's ability to retain talent. In December of 2018 through January o...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social · 8d

Was I asleep when the people of Chicago, Portland, DC, LA, etc voted for Trump or Stephen Miller to militarize their neighborhoods? While I was asleep, did I dream of the principle of federalism as a fundamental check against concentrated national power as a central tenet of American conservatism?

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Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social · 8d

I'm less than optimistic on this.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8d

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social · 8d

"The Free Press is attractive to someone like Ellison for its choice of enemies... lustily punching down and left at the critics and adversaries of the ownership class. As a billionaire [seeking] to consolidate and expand power and influence, you could not find a more eager servant than Weiss."

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

defector.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9d

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social · 9d

And that is true even by the Trump administration's own legal arguments.

Scott Easterly @scotteasterly.bsky.social · 10d

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 9d

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

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Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social · 9d

For a regime that hates "bureaucrats" and the modern administrative state, they sure have endowed one bureaucrat (who simultaneously occupies 2(!) positions created for said state) an unprecedented amount of arbitrary power to ignore two other constitutional branches.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9d

In the American system of government, a legislature of the people’s elected representatives decide how to allocate the people’s money, then an unelected appointee in the executive branch called “OMB Director” decides if he feels like distributing the people’s money that way or if he’d rather not.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9d

In the American system of government, a legislature of the people’s elected representatives decide how to allocate the people’s money, then an unelected appointee in the executive branch called “OMB Director” decides if he feels like distributing the people’s money that way or if he’d rather not.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10d

Russ Vought is a protege of Phil Gramm, which is a useful reminder that this aggressively destructive Republican administration did not fall out of a coconut tree. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

How Russell Vought Broke the U.S. Government

Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 10/04/2025 · 36m

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11d

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

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Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social · 11d

"by the president’s own words, the U.S. military is engaged in armed conflict with undefined enemies he has unilaterally labeled 'unlawful combatants'... Yet he has refused to inform Congress or the public.”

Let's just govern on an old man's vibes. What could possibly go wrong?

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social · 13d

Today, I was interviewed by the BBC on the shutdown and its political and substantive implications. You can find the interview here:

youtu.be/igY-iRuAzxI?...

October 1, 2025

YouTube video by William Resh

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Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social · 13d

I was interviewed yesterday by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for their "Radio National Breakfast" about the shutdown. The permanent structural, legislative, and electoral implications of this are vast, particularly if Ds don't cave and force Rs to consider eliminating the filibuster.

White House faces first shutdown in seven years - ABC listen

A shutdown is looming in the United States, unless Republicans and Democrats can reach a last-minute deal on a spending bill. As strange as that may sound, it's a familiar scenario. But this time the...

www.abc.net.au

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14d

My guess is this was coordinated across the entire executive branch, like a Hands Across the Hatch Act Violation event or something

Breaking: HHS, Commerce, Probably Other Agencies Send Entire Staff Email Blaming Democrats for Shutdown

Please forgive the multiple editions in one day — occasionally I'll send breaking news out such as this. On Tuesday afternoon, employees at the Department for Health and Human Services and the Depart...

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