Reposted by kevinwilliamsJustin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 20hWhat if you like music being unsolved? 6416
Reposted by kevinwilliamsandré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it truly is just perfect that a republican — you know, the party that so badly wants to protect women athletes — used a senate hearing to confidently, and falsely, accuse a lawyer of perjury because he and his entire staff forgot that women’s sports exists 660496
Reposted by kevinwilliamsAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23hEric Schmitt is what happens when a state becomes so red that you don’t need to be a talented politician to become a US Senator. And to be fair, there are examples of this in blue states too. Iron sharpens iron. 44397431422
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In my @Covers that were better than the originals," the Isley Brotthers turning Todd Rundgren's "Hello, It's Me" into one of the all-time pelvis lockers has make the list. 000
Reposted by kevinwilliamsMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake 111446213
Reposted by kevinwilliamsNatalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026objectify women over and over forever without any consequences and you can't be all that surprised when men treat us like objects 2376
Reposted by kevinwilliamsNatalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026our culture i think has more visibility and consequence for gender based violence than most throughout human history, but we have allowed the ugliness that feeds it to thrive unabated in tandem 2475
Reposted by kevinwilliamsNatalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026dave portnoy sexual "misconduct," barstool as commodification and expansion of frat culture...it's obviously not everything but it's also not nothing 28813
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Of course they never had nukes, even when they did a deal.not to have them. But if he doesn't talk up a nonexistent threat, it makes his war look even more futile. 010
Reposted by kevinwilliamsMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the cornell case has me thinking about how existing as a woman means knowing you could be the victim of sexual violence at any moment, all while knowing there's a high likelihood no one will believe it even happened if you come forward. 91168139
Reposted by kevinwilliamsMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed: 172268440
Reposted by kevinwilliamsMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential. 353678767
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I suspect that as with Susan Collins and her rare votes against Trump, he is confident that even without his vote, the worst thing will still happen. 030
Reposted by kevinwilliams@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell? 46733288
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Of course as differentiated from protecting women, which they could give two shits about. Just the great "men playing women's sports" scare bullshit, which doesn't stand up to any sort of scrutiny, scientific or statistical. 020
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump is an absolute idiot who is handing the Dems a gift that they are still going to screw up at midterms. 000
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We should also expect ICE at polling places, to "monitor" the situation. 000
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think people honestly thought that there were actual guardrails, that democracy was more than an agreement between like-minded parties and fascism in America would be more complex than a despot saying, "Yeah, no." 163
Reposted by kevinwilliamsDean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...paydayreport.comX Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back LulaPolls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference. 581253700
Reposted by kevinwilliamsCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Let's see the essays. Make them public. Let us read these scrawled golden tickets offered up by Cornell administrators to allow rapists to continue on with their lives unscathed. Was there a required word count? Did any of them use AI to write their "sorry for raping you" pieces? Let us read them. 381672400
Reposted by kevinwilliamsMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime. 363576829
Reposted by kevinwilliamsMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m starting a new daily Bluesky post that I call Dictator Move of the Day. This is today’s. 2830385
Reposted by kevinwilliamsAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026Johnson: "When people are promising free things to you, you must ask what the real price is. It's your freedom. It will drive costs up. It will make people more dependent upon govt, & that's the communist's ultimate goal." (Trump literally just proposed giving people $5k if they vote Republican...) 1672190522
Reposted by kevinwilliamsMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Evanston RoundTable in my Chicago suburb interviewed 2 people who saw ICE agents beat up a citizen and leave him lying on the ground last weekend. One witness said the man “was screaming ‘I'm a U.S. citizen. Leave me alone.’” Another witness said the feds told an “absolute lie” about the case.evanstonroundtable.comWitnesses recount Sunday's ICE incident: ‘He was screaming, "I’m a U.S. citizen. Leave me alone."' - Evanston RoundTableWhen federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempted to detain a resident — who they later discovered was a U.S. citizen — last Sunday 25614388
Reposted by kevinwilliamsDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t. 7833161102
Reposted by kevinwilliamsJack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is why it's not 'just football.' 'Politics has no place in sport' is a really convenient line if you're actively engaging in genocide and would rather the world didn't discuss it. Israel are well aware of the power of sportswashing. They're usually just too shit to take advantage of it. 45128
Reposted by kevinwilliamsPhilip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The only only sportsman and the only real man among them, standing head and shoulders above the cowards in the squad, the coaching staff and the FAI. This is how simple it is to do the right thing. 114738
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You know a country is broken when a 71-year-old woman gets run over and killed by a person driving a cement truck and people in the story comments say the equivalent of, "What was she doing in the street," or "She should have been paying attention." 110
Reposted by kevinwilliamsBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026An 87-year-old woman lived in the same Madrid apartment for 70 years. Then a real estate firm bought it and forced her out. The housing crisis is global because the underlying logic is the same: your home is someone else's investment vehicle.nytimes.com87-Year-Old Evicted From Her Home Tells Spaniards to ‘Fight’ to Avoid Same FateMaría del Carmen Abascal, whose case has become a symbol of Spain’s housing crisis, appeared in a video from her hospital bed after police officers removed her from her apartment. 8509190
Reposted by kevinwilliamsMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Personally I think it's fine to point out that policies intended to harm minorities also harm the majority! People respond to messages rooted in self-interest and it also emphasizes that we're all connected. "Trans bathroom bans harm cis people" isn't the only argument, but it's true & worth noting 521192114
Reposted by kevinwilliamsNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Saudis gave: -book many rooms at Trump hotels, sometimes overpaying -real estate deals with the Trump Org -fees to host LIV Golf -$2b to Jared Kushner's investment firm over financial advisor objection -more Saudis got: -arms deal -Khashoggi murder investigation dropped -end of JCPOA -uranium dealforeignpolicy.comSaudi Arabia Bribed the Wrong PeopleRiyadh’s bet on Trumpism has failed. 730751
Reposted by kevinwilliamsNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Saudi Arabia is in big trouble, with their oil industry under attack from multiple directions. The Saudis spent years bribing Trump and Kushner. At first, it seemed like a good investment. But the Iran war screwed them, now they really need help, and the US can't/won't. Me, in @foreignpolicy.com:foreignpolicy.comSaudi Arabia Bribed the Wrong PeopleRiyadh’s bet on Trumpism has failed. 72905227
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Again, I wonder if the Republicans think people are that stupid (they are), that they can scream any distraction, from Furries to "they are transing your kids in a single school day!" When you have nothing to run on, it just becomes appeals to bigotry and stupidity. (It will work, sadly.) 000
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It stuns me that there are people in the comments, questioning the idea of American isolationism. Maybe it shouldn't, for as much as I note the widespread ignorance of Americans. But holy shit. 110
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We have some budgies across the way, who like jazz. They sing along to our music. Today, I had my The Jam playlist going, and it was silence. I just assumed they were not active. But fired up Branford Marsalis, and the happy chirping began. 310
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I want to hate this and call it stupid and a thing nobody needs, but hear me out. As someone who had a debilitating stutter for so much of their life, making calls to places to ask about stuff used to bring about the sweats. The person on the other end doesn't know you're struggling to speak. 120
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In Despatches From Grouchland, people revere this album, but only "Getchoo" was worth pressing "play" on. 010
Reposted by kevinwilliamssmokey eunuch™ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this is what being an anti-trans democrat who goes out in public and says shit like "theres male, female, and a tiny percentage of intersex people, and then heheh yeah theres some OTHER PEOPLE" buys you 545366
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Are we entering the, "I was against this all along" phase of the MAGA situation? 000
Reposted by kevinwilliamsAlex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Three years ago tonight, I was in the presence of the most remarkable supercell thunderstorm that I have ever had the privilege of witnessing. For over an hour, I watched it dance beneath the starts, spinning like a top. Mother nature will never cease to amaze, inspire, and humble me. 15555157
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For those wondering why Paxton won't debate Talarico, why would he? All he has to do is rely on that reliable, "which one has the R by his name?" voting bloc. All he can do by debating Talarico is fuck everything up. 010
kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Before retirement, I wasn't a "sit down and eat a baguette" kinda guy, likely because there weren't baguettes in Highland Park that were worth just sitting down and eating. Life changes. 110
Reposted by kevinwilliamsNatalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026they will all still vote for him. best case they stay home (credit @andreagrimes.com) 2629
