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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Am I reading this wrong or does the lede to this article state the opposite of what his paper argued: "he won an award for a paper arguing the Constitution only protects non-whites." Didn't his paper say the constitution only protects white Americans?

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Taking the advice of these wise scholars of fascism and relocating my family from one elite enclave to another

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Wow what a courageous decision to leave Yale for professorships in Toronto what exactly are the rest of us supposed to do

nytimes.com

Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

American Pope sounds like a Troma film

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

If you're going to Coachella this weekend remember it's not too late for you to become a person of substance

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

There are also chats and discords with tons of people all using aliases which means you often don’t really know who you’re talking to and people feel they can say whatever they want and it’s secure. Is this security or we just larping?

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The whole point of a march or a protest is taking some level of risk (very little in the case of most marches, which are police-sanctioned and escorted) to make a public-facing political statement.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We should be smart about how we communicate and conduct certain actions, but feels like "security culture" among activists is making us worse at it. Particularly insistence on anonymity when people who are relatively safe are doing public-facing, legal demonstrations.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Annual reminder that sharing false information on the internet is sociopathic behavior

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Letterboxd interviews would have me believe that everyone is sitting around watching Goodfellas all the time and I simply do not believe it

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It is like Trump help up a piece of paper on day one that said “racism and transphobia are good actually” and every hospital, university, corporation, government agency, and the entire Democratic Party were like welp it says it right there what can we do

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

World has serious early March 2020 vibes right now

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The EIC ran a letter in response defending the need for "fact-based information" and noting that this data is in the public record, which does not suggest they are going to do any better.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Two poisonous men who both have absolute shit for brains talking about how social security is a scam and they want to fuck robots and what will the robots genitals be like and NYT is like, in a freewheeling and unconventional conversation...

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The Times is really going to keep writing like these are serious human beings calling Elon "world-famous and often undisciplined billionaire" it is so embarrassing

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

They all think that if they confess that they believe in anything they’re violating their little fraternity's oath of objectivity. That entire standard is just made up! It's not real. www.welcometohellworld.com/youre-perfor...

There has never been such a thing as a completely neutral journalist but it's even more apparent today. And yet many of them still don't seem to realize it or refuse to admit it. And for what? What are they holding on to besides their professional stature? They all think that if they confess that they believe in anything they’re violating their little fraternity's oath of objectivity. That entire standard is just made up! It's not real. Journalists are like you can’t say Macbeth in the theatre and we’re all supposed to buy into their delusion.

I'd rather be a decent human being than a journalist in good standing but maybe that's just me.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Go ahead and do that one-day boycott if you are so moved but please do not give that guy your money. Donate to literally anything else.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"I'm just going to leave this here, do what you want with it" isolates this list of targets from any sense of values, right and wrong, or potential consequences.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This could have been a call on foundations to defend their values, for example, but instead reads like a how-to guide for the trump administration complete with a searchable list (!).

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I've always found the Chronicle's ever-neutral, bridging divides stance to be problematic. This strikes me as what happens when a news outlet won't take a stand.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

What's worse than complying with fascists? Overcomplying!

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

There are evidence-based policies that actually work, but Dems and Reps keep doubling down on punishment and incarceration. newrepublic.com/article/1911...

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Many of the cruelest policies criminalizing poverty and mutual aid are coming from deep blue cities and states. Must read by @rickpaulas.bsky.social for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/hurt-the-hel...

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Entering the constant condolences era (giving and receiving)

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Jessie Singer @jessiesinger.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

in his statement "cancelling" congestion pricing, sean duffy calls people who ride the subway "an elite few" and i just feel as a communication professional that they gotta decide if they're going with that or crime-ridden drug den homeless shelter

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I really don’t mean this as an attack on your work just pointing out what gets missed in these discussions and hoping the city can do better by its people - all of its people.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I read you all the time. I agree with you often (hell of a lot more than Blake). I don’t agree your dismissal of this survey and your assessment of what Tucsonans want.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

All of which is to say, there is almost never true public engagement in these decisions and “what I hear from Tucsonans” certainly means the upper middle class. Also vote no on Prop 414.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Incidentally many unhoused people filled out the survey in question, on paper by hand, and only thanks to advocate pressure. The city said there were paper copies - there were none until we demanded them. Unhoused people rarely feel welcome in these theatrical town halls.

copies.here

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is a constant failure in discussions of homelessness. Only the housed get the benefit of being considered part of “the public.” The unhoused merely a nuisance the public must contend with.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

That said, I’d recommend actually talking to some of the “street people” he derogatorily lumps together. They are, after all, Tucsonans just as much as any of us are. Not a problem to be disposed of.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

“What I hear” is an odd way to counter the only data we have on what Tucsonans want. Did @timsteller.bsky.social talk to more than 358 people? If he doesn’t like the sample size, seems like more public engagement is the answer instead of man on the street divination.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Tucson if you’re out there vote no on Prop 414. It sucks

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

In addition to being one of the best family restaurants in Tucson, La Indita prepares Indigenous foods and has hosted dinners for immigrant rights activists. It's a beloved pillar of the community and it's being targeted for that reason.

tucsonsentinel.com

ICE probes Tucson restaurant La Indita, known for Indigenous focus & activism

On Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials launched an investigation into La Indita — a Tucson restaurant known for its legacy of activism and focus on Indigenous food and culture.

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

“I’m getting more and more furious,” Mr. Schumer told me. “At first the voters were just down in the dumps..." Imagine thinking that Americans have been just kind of bummed out since the election like he was thinking of sending a fruit basket at first

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Tate Williams @tatejw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

"...they’re rolling over, like a submissive dog showing its belly, and alternately casting this posture as either a principled commitment to constitutional order or as an unfortunate inevitability for which they can’t be blamed." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...