Will Hatcher
@profhat.bsky.social
Professor of Public Administration | Chair of Social Sciences Augusta University | The Curious Public Administrator
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One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers.
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January 11, 2026 at 3:17 PM
One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers.
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This really is painful to watch. I don’t know if they believe what they say or they believe they have to say it. Regardless, these are people opposed to American democracy who will be given a lifelong opportunity to corrupt it.
PAINFUL to watch. There’s a clear Trump judicial nominee loyalty test.
They must forever deny, deny, deny that he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Fragile.
They must forever deny, deny, deny that he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Fragile.
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This really is painful to watch. I don’t know if they believe what they say or they believe they have to say it. Regardless, these are people opposed to American democracy who will be given a lifelong opportunity to corrupt it.
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“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
October 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
The Worst Way to Cut Government Spending - The Atlantic
October 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The Worst Way to Cut Government Spending - The Atlantic
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Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued.
Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.
Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.
Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.
Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.
September 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued.
Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.
Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.
Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.
Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.
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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
September 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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“Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in America today,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. The key to conquering it may be seeing your dread as part of “the great opportunity and adventure of life”:
How to Turn Anxiety Into Adventure
The secret is to turn your feeling of dread into the excitement of opportunity.
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September 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in America today,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. The key to conquering it may be seeing your dread as part of “the great opportunity and adventure of life”:
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“He said, ‘We’ll notify next of kin if she dies.’ And at that moment, I knew that I was no longer dealing with humans.” www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
ICE released this Mass. mom with no phone, 30 miles from home in the rain after detainment for a sealed marijuana conviction
Federal authorities refused to tell the Canton woman's husband or lawyer on what grounds she was being detained until shortly before her release.
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August 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“He said, ‘We’ll notify next of kin if she dies.’ And at that moment, I knew that I was no longer dealing with humans.” www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
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Essential reading (by @jasonstanley.bsky.social) for every American. The media, aided by a handful of reactionary academics and compliant university administrations, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The mainstream media has enabled Trump’s war on universities | Jason Stanley
For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right’s assault
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June 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Essential reading (by @jasonstanley.bsky.social) for every American. The media, aided by a handful of reactionary academics and compliant university administrations, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If you see reactionary centrist takes that universities did this to themselves by being too woke, or not being friendly enough to conservatives, remember there are always people willing to make the arguments of the authoritarian respectable
May 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
If you see reactionary centrist takes that universities did this to themselves by being too woke, or not being friendly enough to conservatives, remember there are always people willing to make the arguments of the authoritarian respectable
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How soon they forget.
In WWII, US Army hired sociologists to advise on how to integrate troops, improve morale, organize units & pay structures. Some current practices still based on this work.
In 1990s, West Point sent officers to Stanford to earn Sociology PhDs, then hired them as faculty/deans.
In WWII, US Army hired sociologists to advise on how to integrate troops, improve morale, organize units & pay structures. Some current practices still based on this work.
In 1990s, West Point sent officers to Stanford to earn Sociology PhDs, then hired them as faculty/deans.
West Point apparently disolved its sociology major and canceled classes on race and gender in response to Trump and Hegseth’s threats. It’s amazing that these supposedly manly men are terrified of ideas. So cowardly.
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Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
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May 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
How soon they forget.
In WWII, US Army hired sociologists to advise on how to integrate troops, improve morale, organize units & pay structures. Some current practices still based on this work.
In 1990s, West Point sent officers to Stanford to earn Sociology PhDs, then hired them as faculty/deans.
In WWII, US Army hired sociologists to advise on how to integrate troops, improve morale, organize units & pay structures. Some current practices still based on this work.
In 1990s, West Point sent officers to Stanford to earn Sociology PhDs, then hired them as faculty/deans.
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Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back?
The answer is due process.
The answer is due process.
April 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back?
The answer is due process.
The answer is due process.
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The destruction of the US State is happening so fast, and being reported with such earnest pragmatism, I cannot fathom the capital it will cost to repair it, should we have the opportunity in my lifetime.
April 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The destruction of the US State is happening so fast, and being reported with such earnest pragmatism, I cannot fathom the capital it will cost to repair it, should we have the opportunity in my lifetime.
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When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.
April 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.
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WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥
March 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥
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Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
March 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
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God’s work from the @nytimes.com aka math www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
See How Elon Musk’s Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its Savings Claims
The cost-cutting group removed hundreds of contracts from its “wall of receipts,” added back many of them, and inflated savings values.
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March 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
God’s work from the @nytimes.com aka math www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
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The “shutdown would have been worse” argument is only true if you assume oppositional forces are stagnant. Voting with the GOP to avoid shutdown is the embodiment of feeble opposition and it enables the GOP rampage to continue. If only the 10 could imagine an alternative, more assertive use of power
March 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The “shutdown would have been worse” argument is only true if you assume oppositional forces are stagnant. Voting with the GOP to avoid shutdown is the embodiment of feeble opposition and it enables the GOP rampage to continue. If only the 10 could imagine an alternative, more assertive use of power
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One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
March 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
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The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.
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When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism
March 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism
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Gosh this is just vile
This is a terrible affront to the veterans posthumously dishonored and canceled and to their families. It is a pathological statement that the MAGA government cannot even accept inclusion in death. taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...
Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans
The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.
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March 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Gosh this is just vile