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kevinwilliams

@kevvwill.bsky.social
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Cyclist, powerlifter, football nerd, high functioning misanthrope

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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 16h
Portugal an the U.S. have a reciprocal tax treaty, so we get to write off our U.S. taxes against Portuguese taxes. When they extended the time necessary for PT citizenship, they cost themselves money from folks like me, who want to renounce U.S. citizenship.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 16h
What is funny is that Americans say, "Why do I have to pay taxes here, I paid taxes in America." I don't have the heart to explain it to them. Nor the patience.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 16h
Haha, no he won't, and he knows he won't. But he has figured out that parroting his opponent could be the way forward for him.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 16h
Other side of that question is whether Americans want to pay the taxes necessary. One of the main complaints of Americans moving to Portugal is high taxes. And of course those taxes help pay for the public health care system, so ...
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Until Americans understand that at some point everybody gets their turn in the barrel, to cite the old joke, everything will continue to fail. Without empathy, misery continues. Nobody thinks, "That could be me." Ever. Then one day, it is and they wonder who could have stopped it.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They don't care, because their life is fine. There was a time when Jewish people were victims of the same racism now being suffered by Muslim, Black, brown people, but it's, "I'm fine now, so yay, fascism. Fuck the rest of them."
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So many Americans will focus on a single issue without giving a single shit about the country. This person is saying, "I will support fascism as I embrace my bigotry." People like this, everything under the bus for a single issue, is why America is in the state it is in.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The elephant in the room of course is the candidate. It was the same thing with Kamala Harris. If El-Sayed was a white male with the exact same platform in every way, I bet my house this person would vote for him. America is what it is.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dictator Move of the Day.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This post turned into a column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Christa Pike's botched execution is a moral stain on America | Opinion
I understand the shock over Tennessee's botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike. But it never should have happened in the first place.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve been a media witness to two federal executions. One was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The other, a week later, was a drug kingpin named Juan Raul Garza. My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We have a church/headquarters near us. Got buttonholed by a couple and I asked for sister wives. Was a short effort at conversion.
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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There was no reason for her to be.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Plus, there is a significant risk of sexual assault or harassment *by* police during the reporting process. I always think about Lauren McCluskey's story of calling the police over 30 times before she was murdered. They didn't help her, but they did do this:
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University of Utah police officer showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey to his co-worker
<b>UPDATE</b><i>: Logan police announced </i><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/05/17/logan-police-will" target=_blank><i>an internal affairs investigation into Officer Miguel Deras</...
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Backpack should be in a rap video.
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What if you like music being unsolved?
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fingers crossed for you.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That rain up your way don't play. I distinctly remember riding back fom St. Jean de Fos and getting caught in a sudden burst around Gignac. All you could see was a wall of water. It was madness. Stay safe.
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it 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
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Eric 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.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In 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.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 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
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
objectify women over and over forever without any consequences and you can't be all that surprised when men treat us like objects
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
our 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
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
dave portnoy sexual "misconduct," barstool as commodification and expansion of frat culture...it's obviously not everything but it's also not nothing
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of 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.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the 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.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the 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:
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the 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.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I 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.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 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?
1:55 to 2:25 pm Reforms at CMS

Chris Klomp Chief Counselor HHS

Mehmet Oz, Administrator CMS

Moderated by Russell BRand, comedian and brodcaster
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of 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.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is an absolute idiot who is handing the Dems a gift that they are still going to screw up at midterms.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should also expect ICE at polling places, to "monitor" the situation.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Exactly. Rahm Emanuel is a vile little cretin but also the only Dem presidential candidate I think who is mean enough to go after all of them with every means at his disposal. Of course then he would make a self-serving deal, but still.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If a Dem ever gets near the White House again that person should make their job one to prosecute and jail every last one of them. There is no other way anuthing will be learned from this. DeMAGAfication, like Denazification.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Democracy in America is an ideal that no longer exists, and will continue to erode at the hands of bad actors, fools and ignoramuses who think "everything will be fine. We have laws."
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And you can no longer trust voters to take care of things because of the island-like schisms within the Dem voting base. I had countless debates with Gaza-focused voters about implications for trans people, people of color, women. They said it would all be worth it.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump isn't in prison right now mostly because Biden was hewing to that unspoken agreement, rather than moving mountains to ensure Trump would face a reckoning. The apparatus is self-protecting, even when it fails utterly.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I 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."
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon 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...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let'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.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You 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.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
(emits the deepest sigh humanly possible)
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It was incredible when they got within ten seconds of him, then fanned out again like, "You do it. I'm not helping you." And men's racing fans will talk about women racing negatively.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was dreading pens there because the Korean keeper was standing on her head. Spain was a mess, especially in the final third.
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
McNulty is gone. Almost a miinute up with the others looking at each other, waiting for someone else to solve the problem. The women's race was a LOT more fun.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m starting a new daily Bluesky post that I call Dictator Move of the Day. This is today’s.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Johnson: "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...)
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