Bill Resh

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.

Man on a local news street interview: The earth is a resort for like 500 rich people and the rest of us are just the staff.

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:

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Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.

"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!"
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@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

FBI raid in Georgia has little legal basis – but serves Trump’s goal to weaken trust in election results Raid on Fulton county election office is part of the Trump administration’s wider US push to fuel false claims of fraud

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.

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." MLK, 1968

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.

Fired Federal Workers Test New Claims Over Political Retaliation Federal employees alleging the Trump administration fired them in retaliation for their politics will need judges and an independent body that handles federal worker disputes to determine how establis...

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.

The very bluster is enough to shift incredible investments in military, intelligence, and resources with *generational* impacts. Any actual movements in that direction will have exponential impacts. This is lunacy. 2/3

As @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social said on "Washington Week" tonight, "I feel like we're playing Risk on ketamine right now."

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

All while punishing, libeling, and attacking actual public servants. The power, coercion, weapons have been pointed primarily at the most vulnerable to this point. So a lot of people out there have been quiet, which has the darkly ironic result of making us all more vulnerable to the same. 3/3

The selective deployment of these neo-gestapo clowns is based purely on the arbitrary whims of a regime that is drunk with power, lacking all respect for anything close to rule of law, and extracting every public good for their own personal interests as fast and as completely as they can. 2/3

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.

Streamlining with strings attached? Recent research shows allies of major powers often come out ahead when the World Bank reforms.

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...

Zohran Mamdani and the Other “Boy Mayor” What today’s mayor-elect can learn from the ghosts of New York City government

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...

How Will DRPs Impact Agencies? The Answer at USDA Might Frighten You The staffing figures in the following analysis derive from an anonymous yet credible source in the United States Department of Agriculture…

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).”

Damion “Damizza” Young on Instagram: "$50B industry. $12.6B to one label. €186M in artist advances. When you actually do the math, the problem isn’t talent or effort — it’s allocation. Creators out... The music industry's $50 billion revenue is a mystery that has long been shrouded in secrecy. Recent figures reveal that Universal Music Group's $12.6 billion revenue is comprised of 1.86 million euro...

Our entire political-economic-cultural era is one defined by the dominance of rent-seeking interlopers.
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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