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Crystal Williams

@crystalpolicy.bsky.social
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Policy and political wonk, feminist, progressive, former Democratic elected, wife and mom, profanity expert, no fucking DMs.💙💙💙 KC, Heart of the MidBest, Go Royals, home of American Jazz Museum, art galleries, theaters, Kauffman Performing Arts Center

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Crystal Williams @crystalpolicy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In Missouri our Supremes just rule unanimously to throw out the GOP gerrymandering bullshit, and put our referendum to reverse it on the November ballot. This is how we resist!!!!
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Fight The Right… 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿 @wtafc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
P.S. No one is scared of a socialist when we have literal Nazis working in the White House...
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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
He is demented.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/11/2025
Good lord
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Crystal Williams @crystalpolicy.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Ditto
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Perhaps you’ve noticed; the more immigrants they detain and deport…the more violent the United States is becoming. I see a clear connection.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Meiselas: You’re saying to Donald Trump, to Senator Thune, to JD Vance: show up at the Capitol. We’re going to do this in front of the press and address these issues before the American people, correct? Jeffries: That’s my position—and we’ll even let Mike Johnson into the meeting as well.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
There is no bailout that will solve this problem. It took decades to create the markets for beans and months to devastate the markets for beans. NY Times: China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. [52% of exports] Now, It’s $0.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
If Trump would just release the damn Epstein files he wouldn’t have to shut down the government to distract from them.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
So, Hegseth called all the flag officers to Quantico so he could peacock on stage and film it for his clips and Trump just big footed him and is showing up. It’s so on brand for this perpetual clown show of narcissists.
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Crystal Williams @crystalpolicy.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
JFC
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
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Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)
My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
this most "this could have been an email" thing i've ever heard
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Crystal Williams @crystalpolicy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Guess our calls to advertisers paid off.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
NEW: Jimmy Kimmel Live is returning to Sinclair Broadcasting.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
When the President uses federal law enforcement for his personal revenge, it puts all of us in danger.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Trump doesn’t get to “give some of the tariff money to farmers.” The tariff money is in the US Treasury, not a Trump slush fund. Congress has to appropriate taxpayer dollars to put farmers on welfare. Although Trump should pay it out of his crypto profits since he caused it.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
No one will stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo until they stop acting like the Gestapo
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Crystal Williams @crystalpolicy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Ed is a lunatic. We Missourians have known so for decades.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com. I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team. Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2025
Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.
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Crystal Williams @crystalpolicy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
They are evil in precisely this way.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES!!!
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Violence is never justice. I condemn it without caveat. But condemning an act of violence does not mean canonizing the person who was killed. Compassion for the family does not mean sainthood for the father. Mourning does not mean whitewashing the movement he built. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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You’re Not Crazy — They Just Want You to Feel That Way
The gaslighting of Charlie Kirk’s legacy and why truth still matters
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
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🇺🇸💙💙🤔🤨CJ🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Interesting Concept. Hmmmmm? 🤔🤔🤔
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
For a month Trump said he was personally paying for the ballroom. Now we learn he’s been shaking down corporations to pay for it who want something from the govt. Another corrupt scam between Trump and CEOs that he lied about. I doubt he pays a penny.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
A) yes it is B) By “bad” he means calling out his lies
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Crystal Williams @crystalpolicy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
How does this work with her late husband's directive that women should "submit" to men? Will she be allowed to do this until she marries again?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Congrats on the new role, but yeah, how’s that going to work in practice?
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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Crystal Williams @crystalpolicy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We're in upside down world.
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/09/2025
They are definitely going to try to takedown Bluesky.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” -Benjamin Franklin
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.
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Crystal Williams @crystalpolicy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I love this man.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Way to go, UK! 🇬🇧 Channel 4 is airing a one-hour marathon of Trump’s lies to mark his arrival.
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Crystal Williams @crystalpolicy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Lying assholes.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Democratic elected officials, here's some unsolicited advice. People are looking for leadership. Right now. This moment. Someone, anyone, take the konch and forcefully respond to JD Vance and Stephen Miller's promise to declare war against America. Speak up now. Press conference today.
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Crystal Williams @crystalpolicy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
WaPo has turned into absolute trash. I know so many who've cancelled subscriptions, myself included. Do they honestly think maga world is going to keep that publication afloat? Delusional.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
JB Pritzker: "Do you carry with you citizenship papers? How do you prove to somebody that you're a US citizen? Your accent? The color or your skin? That's not the country we live in. You shouldn't have to walk around with papers the way they did in Nazi Germany"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
"Reality is super-inconvenient, y'all!!!"
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