Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Bruins stand up! Congratulations to the UCLA Women’s Basketball Team! 030
Reposted by Chad WilliamsThe Athletic @theathletic.com · 05/04/2026The moment UCLA became women's basketball national champions 🏆🔥 633845
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 05/04/2026One more quarter for that chip! Let’s go Bruins! 000
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Trump and Netanyahu are determined to completely break the world. 062
Reposted by Chad WilliamsJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Just as Iraq had no WMD, Iran has no nuclear weapons. America has entered another unnecessary war in the Middle East 423112372624
Reposted by Chad Williamsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president 4155138811266
Reposted by Chad WilliamsThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2025JUST NOW: Bernie tells the crowd about Trump attacking Iran, the crowd erupts into “NO MORE WAR!” chants Bernie calls the attack “grossly unconstitutional” 14671582056
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Appreciated the opportunity to share a few thoughts for this article.nytimes.comHow Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past 0158
Reposted by Chad WilliamsChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time. 18263626416137
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 26/03/2025So Gabbard and Ratcliffe purjured themselves yesterday, right? 020
Reposted by Chad WilliamsPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Gift link: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signaltheatlantic.comHere Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on SignalThe administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief. 531169526
Reposted by Chad WilliamsCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book. 565373356042
Reposted by Chad Williamsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/03/2025my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing 405170593488
Reposted by Chad WilliamsAAUP @aaup.org · 22/03/2025Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.nytimes.comColumbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are StrippedThe administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules. 412122758
Reposted by Chad WilliamsTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025This is an abject failure on the part of Columbia’s leadership to defend academic freedom and institutional integrity. It should lead to resignations. 1644179
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 21/03/2025We are in a very dangerous place. With more shameful moments to come. 020
Reposted by Chad WilliamsVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/03/2025The media can (and should) reject the Right's deceptive frame. This is not about "references to diversity, equity, and inclusion." It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history. 6132581310
Reposted by Chad WilliamsAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I’m not sure that the Trump Democrats strategy of letting the bully take their lunch money today in the hopes the bully will be nice to them tomorrow will be all that effective 623660739
Reposted by Chad WilliamsCNN @cnn.com · 05/03/2025Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.cnn.comA 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company | CNN BusinessTarget is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. 1733259977904
Reposted by Chad WilliamsHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 28/02/2025Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... 1543214
Reposted by Chad Williamsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right nownytimes.comOpinion | There Is No Going BackThe president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was. 1374285666464
Reposted by Chad WilliamsLos Angeles Times @latimes.com · 02/02/2025Kendrick Lamar's smash hit "Not Like Us" has already won multiple Grammys.latimes.comKendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' has already won multiple GrammysKendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' wins TK Grammys 38920
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 02/02/2025"There's people that fit the culture and there's people that come in and add to the culture. And those are two distinct things. And I believe the people that we're coming in are adding to the culture." 👀 Luka revenge game is going to be a movie. 🍿espn.comAD pivotal to Mavs' 'vision,' 'culture,' GM saysDallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison, sitting alongside coach Jason Kidd on Sunday, emphasized the importance of "culture" in explaining his stunning decision to trade Luka Doncic to the Los... 000
Reposted by Chad WilliamsClint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Black Lives Matter fundamentally broke these people’s brains. They couldn’t bear the idea that they might have to tell a different story about this country and thus tell a different story about themselves. They hated it, and now they are using everything they have to never feel that way again. 8463261330
Reposted by Chad Williamsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country 221112617524431
Reposted by Chad WilliamsChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2025One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙 4435181283
Reposted by Chad WilliamsPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025The Air Force confirmed it has dropped a training video with the famed Tuskegee Airmen following Trump’s DEI crackdownwhatimreading.netAir Force drop videos with Tuskegee Airmen after Trump’s DEI crackdownThe Tuskegee Airmen were the country’s first all-Black military airmen who fought during World War II. 1411568662
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 24/01/2025A modern-day "red scare." Not hyperbole to say that we are entering a period that will potentially be worse and have more lasting consequences than 1950s McCarthyism. 141
Reposted by Chad WilliamsSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/01/2025If you are a lawyer, you advocate to save democracy. If you are an elected rep you use legislative power to protect your country. If you are a journalist you write truth in the face of threats to democracy. If you are a faith leader, you do this. Everyone has a role. Stand upright in yours. 713107660
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Just so we're clear, with his executive order Trump has reversed 60 years of federal affirmative action and civil rights policy dating back to LBJ and 1965 and weaponized the government to attack any major private institution that actively values equity and inclusion. 030
Reposted by Chad WilliamsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter. But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident. 12973601765
Reposted by Chad WilliamsHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 20/01/2025“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley 21080366
Reposted by Chad WilliamsAustin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025My thoughts on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s radical labor politics and the times to come for my MLK Day piece for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/as-...truthout.orgAs Billionaires Consolidate Power, We Need to Recommit to MLK’s Radical VisionMLK was assassinated on the cusp of a strike wave in a time of counterrevolution. We need his “revolution in values.”… 220181
Reposted by Chad WilliamsCongresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 20/01/2025As the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wisely said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Today and every day, I pledge to never silence my voice in the fight for what is right, and I will continue to march in the path he forged toward justice. 612215775492
Reposted by Chad WilliamsSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/01/2025My MLK day piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...open.substack.comIt Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do.With delicious anticipation, we imagined it. 14467022069
Reposted by Chad WilliamsBoston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 17/01/2025This year MLK Day coincides with Inauguration Day. In this 2018 forum, Brandon M. Terry—with @keeanga.bsky.social, @elizabethkai.bsky.social, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, and others—discusses the substance of King’s commitments, and why his vision for a revolution in U.S. society remains unfinished.bostonreview.netMLK Now - Boston ReviewCanonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments. 02720
Reposted by Chad WilliamsPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025The last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre said the Justice Department’s recent report “falls heartbreakingly short” and are still calling for reparative actionwhatimreading.net‘This is a call to action’: Tulsa race massacre survivors express frustration with DOJ report"At 110 years old, we are weary, but we will not rest until justice for Greenwood is secured.” 8160431596
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Long overdue.apnews.comBiden posthumously pardons Black nationalist Marcus GarveyPresident Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. 1106
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Shared some thoughts on Biden's legacy on this @gbhnews.bsky.social roundtable.youtu.beHow will Black Americans remember President Biden?YouTube video by GBH News 010