Thomas Chatterton Williams
@thomaschattwillStaff writer: @TheAtlantic. Faculty: @BardCollege. Trustee: @AmericanAcademy. Fellow: @GuggFellows, @AEI. Representation: @APBspeakers, Wylie. Next 📖: @AAKnopf
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The fact that so many Americans of all ethnicities, geographies and colors wanted to see Democrats pay a resounding price not just for policy decisions but for a larger circa-2020 indulgence paid to so many deeply unpopular activist perspectives simply has to be taken seriously.
House Speaker says it would be a "terrible precedent" for the government to release a tax-payer funded report into the ethics of a future Attorney General.
Also, pro-Palestinian voters get an Ambassador to Israel who said “there’s no such thing as a Palestinian.”
So to recap... rule-of-law voters get an alleged sex trafficker junkie as the country's top cop pro-life voters get an abortion enthusiast leading HHS America-First voters get a Kremlin stooge coordinating our intelligence ops ...but sure, go on believing in a "binary choice"
So to recap... rule-of-law voters get an alleged sex trafficker junkie as the country's top cop pro-life voters get an abortion enthusiast leading HHS America-First voters get a Kremlin stooge coordinating our intelligence ops ...but sure, go on believing in a "binary choice"
Read @ezraklein on the mysterious power of the groups. What I was told about this by members who back the bill is that EJ groups with no concrete leverage were just very effective at persuading non-specialist staffers — more a question of epistemics than power.
honestly where did we reach the point as a Democratic party where the answer to “getting screamed at on the subway by a crazy person” is “shut up, you privileged fascist” or “welp there’s nothing we can do”
Over the edge. Down the rabbit hole. Completely insane. Would not have believed this possible until right now. Completely independent of politics, this must be seen as unacceptable in 2024.
I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it…
More true today than ever.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), on whose board of directors I have the honor to serve, has written to the Senate Judiciary Committee to express its grave concerns about the nomination of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General: "As an elected member of Congress, Mr.…
Me: “At least things can't get any worse” Things:
This is blatantly dishonest. If Joe Biden HADN'T welcomed Trump to the White House, Greenwald and Musk would have raised holy hell. But because he DID—as presidents are supposed to do, only Trump didn't—they suggest he's somehow a hypocrite. Bad faith takes are all they have.
"It's a terrible idea," @AEI's @KoriSchake says of reports #Trump may circumvent #FBI vetting for appointees. "It will create the perception of corruption and foreign influence in a way that will actually be bad for the Trump administration, in addition to bad for the country."
The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.
The worst thing about Bluesky is how soft people are/want you to be. Twice now I’ve posted negative reviews of movies and gotten “a lot of people worked really hard on that. Leave this kind of thing on Twitter” replies from grown adults. Kind of embarrassing
Took a peek at Bluesky and every post I saw was either happy that it wasn't twitter or talking about twitter.
When Prigozhin briefly threatened to invade Moscow in 2023, I mostly just couldn't believe that a chef-caterer, ex-convict with zero qualifications could ever have risen within the power structure of a superpower to the level of commanding something so serious as Wagner... 🙃
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