Reposted by Kelly Williamsmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Remembering how during the Claudine Gay scandal, one of its biggest promoters of the story was Bill Ackman. Then someone uncovered that Ackman's own wife was a professor alleged to have committed much more serious academic misconduct than Gay and then nothing happened to her. 344249804
Reposted by Kelly WilliamsNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I wrote about Ross Douthat's last column and why conservative white supremacists like Ross always claim that fascists have no agency. It's because they know the fascists are working for them but they want to pretend they don't know that. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ross-douth...everythingishorrible.netRoss Douthat Knows the Fascists are On His SideConsensus white supremacy relies on fascism to crush its foes. 20619161
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This is one of the first books I dnf’d. It’s so bad. 000
Reposted by Kelly Williamsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none. 360215404714
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Castro released prisoners and mental patients during the Mariel boatlift in 1980. Dementia patient that he is, Dumpy may recall this historical kernel and apply it to all present refugees. 010
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Eric’s recent grievance book + news show bookings give me spidey sense that he’s trying to be next. Any Trump as long as the name stays in power. Otherwise the grift is over especially if Sr. kicks it. Kids are idiots but they have the money and infrastructure to pull it off. 010
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 04/02/2026No. Burn ICE and the surveillance state to the ground. 000
Reposted by Kelly WilliamsGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/01/2026What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along. 6842121321
Reposted by Kelly WilliamsAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/01/2026ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms 11893672617
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 08/01/2026They don’t need to coordinate, they need to leave!! 050
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Larry Summers was cued up to write their economic agenda after being consistently wrong for thirty years. Nothing has been learned. 020
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Nooooo! I feel like I’ve been saying “Larry Summers is wrong about everything” for thirty years. Can he fk off forever please? 010
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Have you seen Myranda Kazos Sievers’ research? That was where I first learned of Noem’s nesting doll of self dealing. 080
Reposted by Kelly WilliamsPatrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 11/11/2025I’ll say it again: the Senate Democratic leadership’s approach to handle a bully stealing their lunch money every day is to simply carry more lunch money and see what happens. 1442268
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 11/11/2025My electric bill being up $200/mo. and my health insurance up $800/mo. makes the price of groceries more impactful than this time last year. 191
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 11/11/2025For real and then there’s the whole co-pay aspect I haven’t wrapped my head around. 100
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 11/11/20252025 was the first year we made just enough to not qualify for ACA subsidies. I can pay “less” in premiums for $18-20k deductible. I have 2 kids in college this year so haven’t decided where I’m at on the risk-affordability spectrum. Do I waste a ton of money or risk medical bankruptcy or both? 130
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 11/11/2025$2100 to $2990, $9000 deductible. Family of four. 2216
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 05/11/2025As promised, my existing ACA plan will cost an additional $800 per month for a total of $36,000/yr for family of four. 000
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I’ve been thinking a lot about the “Waldo Moment” episode of Black Mirror. A cabal of his less charismatic progeny and oligarchs ruling behind an AI/cartoon version of the departed Dear Leader. 010
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 12/10/2025So they can temporarily allow exemptions for Dump and reach final judgment against future Democrats. 030
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 12/10/2025She’s failing upward with weaponized grievance and simping for billionaires. I’ll save my feminist solidarity for someone who deserves it. 0672
Reposted by Kelly WilliamsRagnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 12/10/2025The Trump ceasefire deal is the Biden ceasefire deal Trump begged Bibi not to accept in 2024 because it would've hurt Trump's chances of winning the election and I wish this was the first time a GOP candidate for president won by meddling in American foreign policy. See: Nixon '68 and Reagan '80. 11405192
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Drumpf has long standing craving for his own Tiananmen Square massacre. 000
Reposted by Kelly WilliamsLove Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 29/09/2025This is the world Trumpists want: where with help from the state, any bigot can—just for fun—ruin the life and career of a POC or LGBT professional with as little as an accusation; and the professionalism and accomplishments of the victim make them more of a target, not less. G*mergate's endpoint. 2509
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Daughter just laid off congressional internship. Shut down happening. 020
Reposted by Kelly WilliamsMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/08/2025if you work in media and aren't loudly and unambiguously using your platform to fight this dictatorship, then you are failing. 321877446
Reposted by Kelly WilliamsKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/07/2025anyhoodamemagazine.comAmerica’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal - Dame MagazineAmerica’s descent into mass delusion isn’t happenstance. The demise of courageous journalism isn’t a happy accident. Its replacement with engagement-chasing infotainment and propaganda isn’t an error.... 16913
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 20/07/2025I’m on an OK ACA marketplace plan. I’ll know my increase in 90 days. 020
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Coffee up $1 at Costco. Date of increase: 7/14. 010
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Because I have to exist in rural Oklahoma. Notice I didn’t say friends. 010
Kelly Williams @kikwilliams.bsky.social · 15/07/2025My MAGA acquaintances think everything is going amazingly. 000
Reposted by Kelly Williamsryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/07/2025it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act 1165557868
Reposted by Kelly WilliamsDenise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025🧵Let the gravity of this sink in. The Qatari royal family bankrolls Hamas. This is Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, relative of the man who funded the mastermind of the Sept 11 attacks & helped him evade capture for years. They now just bought their way into Trump’s inner circle. 20181102
