Sign in

DW

@dwilliamesq.bsky.social
331 followers 209 following 6.2K posts

attorney, Terry Pratchett fan, subscriber to the Sam Vimes boots theory of inequality.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by DW
Tove Danovich @tkdano.bsky.social · 15h
I’ve become obsessed with the disappearing night sky. I miss going outside wherever I was and seeing the stars! Glad to be able to write about this for @us.theguardian.com. Thanks to the kind readers who have already sent me emails about their own night skies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures
621065
Reposted by DW
Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
231612443
Reposted by DW
Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone demanding Senator Schmidtt apologize to Jack Smith are again setting the bar too low. They should be demanding his resignation from the Judiciary Committe. He's unfit to serve Pound the table. Make some noise. Turn this into a multi-day story
535970
Reposted by DW
justin | Destroy ICE @wcfk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bulldoze every Chi Phi house
71925
Reposted by DW
Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not saying that a guy who sprints to the front to defend every rapist and attack every victim is himself a rapist because I have no information upon which to base such a claim. But I would bet a million bucks that this guy would risk his life to keep any of us from seeing his hard drive.
13674115
Reposted by DW
Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The experiment has been run. In Quebec low cost daycare resulting in tens of thousands of additional women joining the workforce. The increase in taxes to both provincial and federal governments were more than the cost of the subsidy.
ippr.org
Lessons from Quebec's universal low-fee childcare programme | IPPR
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.
423663
Reposted by DW
neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is ragebait written by a 25 year old but it's still funny that the atlantic's standards have slipped so badly they'll publish this garbage. universal daycare makes more sense because it incentivizes economic production for both parents, in your misogynistic hate you forgot how capitalism works
2152
Reposted by DW
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
3149412707
Reposted by DW
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If Trump invades Cuba and the Cubans manage to blow something up in Florida, they're going to try to spin it as a post-9/11 time for unity type bullshit and I want to put down in writing in advance that's stupid and you don't have to be a communist to see it.
1146781
DW @dwilliamesq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Utterly deranged point of view. I can *maybe* understand the ice being distracting but *any* beverage? I have been offered a beverage at damn near every job interview I’ve ever had. Why on earth would I mind if someone I’m interviewing brings a drink?
010
Reposted by DW
Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is utterly enraging and I gotta be honest, I have no idea how to fix it. It’s a symptom of a much, much deeper problem. The next two years are just going to be a slog.
40845146
Reposted by DW
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We simply are not going to get out of this by just winning the next election & going back to governing. We can't keep doing this total failure of elite accountability. We've been doing it since Iran-Contra, & really since 1865. And we keep not fixing our broken anti-democratic institutions. Enough.
13427111
Reposted by DW
POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Once again, hopium levels far beyond lethal range. Scientists have begun to study my blood to develop "a Narcan for hopium" bsky.app/profile/gell...
0183
Reposted by DW
Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We need to do a goddamn puritanical anticorruption drive the moment we have a real fucking government again. That, or just get used to ubiquitous public corruption like nothing since the worst outrages of the Gilded Age.
212835
Reposted by DW
Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
33931779
Reposted by DW
Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Really hard not to see Hanania being in the pages of all the legacy media and not come to the conclusion that the ‘elite’ media class in the United States are all degenerates that support sexual abuse, racism and cruelty. Hanania is actively creating the permission structure for Jeff Epstein II.
58319
Reposted by DW
Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
yeah look, making this guy gush about you is a massive propaganda coup. and again, last time he did this he got several NYCers freed from ICE immediately. he has material needs to deliver for NYC to protect them from fascism. he ain't smiling and praising Trump, he's making Trump like him.
314425
Reposted by DW
Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We are going to win. The effort we put in from now to November helps decide how big that win will be. The more we win this november, the more we can do in opposition in 2027, the more we can do when we take back the government in 2029, the more we can do to protect the census in 2030. So much to do!
58527
Reposted by DW
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Republicans know that too, but they also know this is something they can make Dems flinch and equivocate about, which makes them look overall weak and indecisive. They did it with immigration last cycle, they did it with gay marriage 20 years ago. The only way to win is to tell them to eat shit
212749524
Reposted by DW
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Can DC journalists use all that access they've been curating to learn what's going on here? We're 1.5 months from the elections and the mad king president who doesn't want to cede power is building military facilities across the Capitol. Maybe it's a joke, maybe not, Reporting would sure help. 2/
411426
Reposted by DW
Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!
152534619
DW @dwilliamesq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This, uh, seems bad.
000
Reposted by DW
Brian Colligan @colligan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here's the story:
cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
1196
Reposted by DW
Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Facially disqualifying shit
310117
Reposted by DW
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 18/09/2026
I appreciate Matthew Yglesias owning up to his worldview that calling out attacks on democracy is "resistance maximalism." A lot of people in the mainstream press aren't as honest about the institutional bias toward both-sidesing democracy for fear of alienating Republicans, but he just says it!
2625346
Reposted by DW
Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨An alarm is being sounded for the American public. Sitting federal judges go on the record with the NYT. On threats to democracy by DOJ/administration actions. Includes 90 minute interview with conservative Judge Patrick Schiltz. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
nytimes.com
Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
211106496
Reposted by DW
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the thing that haunts me is the sure knowledge for every horror that's reported at least two will become known years after anything could be done about it.
534857
Reposted by DW
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.
963767993
Reposted by DW
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...
Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”
6749131109
Reposted by DW
CNN @cnn.com · 11/09/2026
Keith Roma died saving lives on 9/11, but his name can't be found among the famous 343 count of firefighters lost that day. His father has spent 25 years trying to change that: cnn.it/4h2kBAs
415752
Reposted by DW
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2026
Promoting an illegal war in the Middle East by fear mongering over weapons of mass destruction on the 9/11 anniversary is a little on the nose
1081934501
Reposted by DW
Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think that's true. I think he is very aware of crypto scams
902555303
DW @dwilliamesq.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People are fucking weird, man. Just had a guy on the subway who had brought a whole-ass electric scooter (non-folding!) on the subway during rush hour gesture at *me* to move further away from him because apparently half a foot of space between us isn’t sufficient for the emperor of the rails.
000
Reposted by DW
Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the specific insanity of “what if i started a perpetually-escalating trade war with Canada two months before control of the senate is determined by voters in Maine and Michigan” is under-discussed here, just wild how unmoored from public opinion concerns the Trump admin has gotten
341300181
DW @dwilliamesq.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Want to second @clairewillett.bsky.social , The Return by Will Shatner fucking ruled. Also on this genre, a Stitch in Time, written by the incomparable Andy Robinson who played Garak on DS9. I had watched the show but was young enough I didn’t know the actors’ names so I didn’t realize for years
110
Reposted by DW
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
also everyone read William Shatner's THE RETURN, an unexpectedly delightful "Generations" fix-it fic which at one point has Ambassador Spock doing science in Quark's holodeck with Data's positronic brain. also Picard and Crusher are doing it, Riker and Troi are doing it, and there are BORG DOGS
21393
Reposted by DW
Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Going to toss a tiny pebble into the ocean here by saying this is completely insane and unacceptable and it's absolutely surreal that we tolerate it today and every day.
341361269
Reposted by DW
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you have a problem with Mayor Mamdani attending the 9/11 ceremony you’re simply a racist piece of shit, I’m sorry, that’s on you, you’re gonna have to live with that until you figure out how to be a better human being
543393653
Reposted by DW
George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
232746736
Reposted by DW
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
STAR TREK: VOYAGER, "Fair Haven" (S6, E11) (01/12/2000)
17613
DW @dwilliamesq.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Forgive me for switching briefly from political posts and "Jerry, no" for just a bit. I want to talk about my grandfather. He's 93 years old, in the final stages of congestive heart failure, and likely won't be around for much longer. (It's OK. He had a great life, he and we knew this was coming.)
120
Reposted by DW
David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/09/2026
This seems absurdly simple, but: Republicans talk *all the time* about how Democrats are bad. Not this or that individual Democrat, but the party, the ideology, the very idea of Democrats. Democrats almost never do this about Republicans. Not in a coordinated, concerted way.
881595302
Reposted by DW
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
JD Vance told El-Sayed to stop invoking Usha after AES said: "Do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no." But it turns out AES offered this *in response* to something vile that JD previously said about how Papaw would have viewed AES: newrepublic.com/article/2149...
201512302
Reposted by DW
Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If a Democratic policy even somewhat could connect to the death of a sympathetic young person, such as Laken Riley, Republicans would show no qualms about campaigning on it. Democrats should take note. This isn’t even tangential. Pierre Damas Bel’s death is what Stephen Miller wanted.
16319
Reposted by DW
Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Setting aside all the pro social reasons to raise taxes, we need a sufficiently high tax rate to protect guys from the way absurd wealth cooks their brains. No one around him has told this guy he’s a moron in decades and it shows.
317126
DW @dwilliamesq.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This ain’t it. Folks, we are going to have to drag Dem electeds kicking and screaming into saving our democracy and de-tariffing our allies. Schiff is useless. So are many others. We are going to have to continue to clean house.
051
Reposted by DW
Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hey, look, a frequent White House visitor, informal Trump adviser, former Republican congressional candidate, and conservative activist is an unrepentant and blatant racist to a Black Senate candidate. Can the media ask every Republican about her, please?
26812
Reposted by DW
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
25733111055