Reposted by David WilliamsJames Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 8hYou're welcome to run for Congress any time you want, shitbird 37119
Reposted by David WilliamsScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The greatest playoff performer in Atlanta Hawks history 1053552
David Williams @se7en-driver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026OpenAI: "You're right - good catch. We hacked your government systems which we shouldn't have done and that's on us." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/w...nytimes.comOpenAI Apologizes for Australia Medicare HackThe company detailed how A.I. agents gained access to four government websites and acknowledged mishandling its response. 000
Reposted by David Williamsryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...themomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 12352921369
Reposted by David WilliamsSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Communism has no place in America, the President declares the day before rolling out his new state television station. 571472417
Reposted by David WilliamsCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Oh my dear god, let your college kids fail. Let them fail courses. Let them fail paying rent. Let them fail doing their laundry. Let them fail basic hygiene. Let them fail and experience consequences. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/w...nytimes.comWorried About Your College Kid? Now You Can Hire a Local Mom. (Gift Article)At some universities, parents can pay to make sure their children are cared for, the way they were back home. 1142797399
Reposted by David WilliamsBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Very telling that a year into the maritime murders, the Trump admin has not: --released the OLC permission slip for the killing spree --allowed Hill staff counsel (as opposed to members) to see the memo --defended strikes in court (admin handed off survivors rather than detain or prosecute them) 7625191
Reposted by David WilliamsMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The fact that Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post for nothing is just peak 2026 19463511244
Reposted by David WilliamsKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The Republican Project for literally my entire life has been to warn us that the Federal Government was Too Powerful and Overreaching and would Strip Our Freedoms and now they have gotten into lockstep behind this loon who's like "I might fuck around and ban muffins" 261745422
Reposted by David WilliamsNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Doctors say that the measles outbreak in Pennsylvania is likely due to low rates of vaccination. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and drives around with dead bear cubs in his van says it’s caused by chemtrails. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust. 221126244
Reposted by David WilliamsAndrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026lol at this chart and the disclaimer 30958180
Reposted by David WilliamsCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark. 5614241
Reposted by David WilliamsEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Trump is dead serious. See this chart from March: www.politico.com/news/2026/03... 451267492
Reposted by David WilliamsJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If, as seems to be the majority view here, you dislike the prospect of a world where human journalism and analysis is displaced by AI slop, have the self-awareness not to act annoyed and offended that the human labor of writing sometimes requires compensation. 465078
Reposted by David WilliamsScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I think the argument that it would be better for anyone on any time horizon for Paxton to win is ludicrous, but if that's what you believe then at least stand up for it. Don't do this "I'm just saying don't vote for the Democratic candidate, what heppens is out of my hands" chickenshit nonsense 841945
Reposted by David WilliamsMonica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026When people complain that they came out of nowhere and they didn't know who was making the decisions, it's partly because there used to be reporters sitting in almost every council meeting across the country, usually bored to tears. Their eyes would have caught this trend early on. 2306
David Williams @se7en-driver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026What a fing insane policy. One of the biggest (bogus) talking points against foreign students in US higher ed has always been that they'd take that education back oversees and the US wouldn't realize its benefit. This just makes sure to incentive exactly that. 010
Reposted by David WilliamsStephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 11/09/2026If you’re ever wondering why your tiny rural police force has a DHS supplied APC, fucktons of riot gear, tear gas, automatic weapons and sniper rifles, well, today’s why. 7592144
Reposted by David WilliamsDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years.🥺 most years i read tom junod's falling man out of respect/grief for the victims. my memories of the day are mixed with sadness/anger for what our govt did after, parts which i know too well. this is well known but worth remembering, i think 47837
Reposted by David WilliamsEd @notdred.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Why the hell do you need a “premise” Jesus Christ the muppets are just putting on a show with a different celebrity every episode that’s the whole goddamn premise right there 1033252
Reposted by David WilliamsAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/04/2026a midterm convention is actually the worst political idea ive ever heard, whoever originally pitched it should never have another job in politics ever again 1628425
Reposted by David WilliamsTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026imagine my surprise here's Hunter Biden $LAPTOP grift/rug pull what a massive pos 3352
Reposted by David WilliamsRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is the sort of thing that would get you labeled a conspiratorial nut if you had tried to warn about it. 14395126
Reposted by David WilliamsAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews. 391309747717
Reposted by David WilliamsDavid Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous. 271809519
Reposted by David Williamsprofpolisci.bsky.social @profpolisci.bsky.social · 04/09/2026For forty years right wingers were like: If only we had a businessman as President. Can we put that to rest at long last? 1765045
Reposted by David WilliamsShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe 13139991091
Reposted by David WilliamsA cat like that @onesparkfire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026What the fuck is this headline? Critics are questioning the legality? No it's just illegal!!! There's a law that says that you can't put living people on money. The king is striking coins in his own image. The fucking headline. Jesus wept, can any of you do your jobs? 1123
Reposted by David WilliamsToo Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Increasingly of the opinion that somewhere in the curia there is a priest who despises JD Vance specifically so much that he has made it his mission in life to force Vance to publicly renounce Catholicism. 67315
Reposted by David WilliamsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Trump says that Ken Paxton was the best state attorney general in any state over the last decade, which should be news in Texas, where he was indicted on three felony charges and then impeached by his own party. 39813209
Reposted by David WilliamsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you. 966135562214
Reposted by David WilliamsWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026We’re talking here about Col. Josh Gaspard, who parachuted into Bashur during the 2003 invasion as a 2LT, then a year in Afg, then company command in surge-era Iraq. His Columbia degrees aren’t even in the “woke” social sciences, they’re in industrial engineering and engineering management systems. 201051273
Reposted by David WilliamsChris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026That's a lot of words to say 'this was supposed to happen to other people but not me'. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comDeported Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ‘ashamed’ of support for TrumpBritish far-right pundit breaks silence on ICE arrest and deportation and says he was ‘really, really terrified’ 1117522
Reposted by David WilliamsCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This recursion never ends once you eliminate birthright citizenship. My parents' parents may or may not have been naturalized after they came from Germany. What, then, is my parents' status, who were born in the US? And mine? 77431
Reposted by David WilliamsMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party. 362475768
Reposted by David WilliamsHeidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The thing that I keep coming back to is that people like this young man are the very best of us, and they're being destroyed by the very worst of us. 110647
Reposted by David WilliamsJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Does anyone think Hegseth would balk at ordering troops into the streets of DC to prevent a Democratic president from assuming office if Trump told him to? How many officers who would will still have their jobs in two years? 523429
Reposted by David WilliamsMikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Fun fact, you do not actually have to use 9/11 to frame discussion about every single Muslim American in 2026. You can simply choose to treat them as different unrelated topics, because they are. Hope this helps, media! 731856291
Reposted by David WilliamsBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 31/08/2026We are Jews. We don’t make jokes about these things. We don’t dehumanize like this. Shame on Gvir. This is the type of commentary the Nazis would have made about us. Shame. 3135882
Reposted by David WilliamsKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This man is depraved 96315
Reposted by David WilliamsBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right. 2154893819
Reposted by David WilliamsPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Between October 2025 and July 2026, the U.S. accepted 10,258 refugees. All but three (3!) were white South Africans. Regardless of your opinion of South Africa's laws and government, I don't know how you could call this anything other than an explicitly racist policy. 301944569
Reposted by David WilliamsPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“There’s this famous 80-year old we need to you to bring in.” Grim Reaper: “Done!” “Hold on, not that one. This one appeared in Home Alone 2.” Grim Reaper: “Done!” “Would you please stop and just listen to the rest of the instructions?” 833481
