@gsupmap.bsky.social's Ross Rubenstein on why Georgia state tax cuts will likely leave schools and communities holding the bag.
09.03.2026 14:01
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@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.
I already pay for a subscription but apparently not "premium." I'm guessing this article would not sway me to that upgrade, but at least give me the chance to find that out. Jeez.
Full page "ad" in The Onion for "60 Minutes": "Is NBC Hiring? Lesley Stahl investigates."
@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:
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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.
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:
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.
