kevinwilliams
@kevvwill.bsky.social
Cyclist, powerlifter, football nerd, high functioning misanthrope
Hey, happy merry Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. Over here it's just Thursday, or Quinta-feira in the native tongue.
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Hey, happy merry Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. Over here it's just Thursday, or Quinta-feira in the native tongue.
In thinking about the noted fabulists that journalism discovered and shunned, the Nuzzi and Lizza stuff is even more surprising to me in the rehabilitation, propping up, etc. And not to be a snob, but they are shitty writers. You don't even prop up that kind of talent WITHOUT a scandal.
November 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
In thinking about the noted fabulists that journalism discovered and shunned, the Nuzzi and Lizza stuff is even more surprising to me in the rehabilitation, propping up, etc. And not to be a snob, but they are shitty writers. You don't even prop up that kind of talent WITHOUT a scandal.
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I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
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yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...
So the editor of New York Magazine said there was no bias or ethical problems with Olivia's articles?
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...
This is one of the best pieces of writing I have read in a very long time, and I can even say that as a longtime devotee of Phillips. Holy shit. And may I add, HOW THE FUCK is Nuzzi still at Vanity Fair?
I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This is one of the best pieces of writing I have read in a very long time, and I can even say that as a longtime devotee of Phillips. Holy shit. And may I add, HOW THE FUCK is Nuzzi still at Vanity Fair?
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Can confirm this is true
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Can confirm this is true
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Like I dunno man, yeah it’s juicy gossip and obviously it’s a political scandal of epic proportions. But I show up every day and try and do a good, ethical job and this is fucking absolutely infuriating on a personal pride in my job and profession level.
And, man, I just cover soccer tor a living.
And, man, I just cover soccer tor a living.
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Like I dunno man, yeah it’s juicy gossip and obviously it’s a political scandal of epic proportions. But I show up every day and try and do a good, ethical job and this is fucking absolutely infuriating on a personal pride in my job and profession level.
And, man, I just cover soccer tor a living.
And, man, I just cover soccer tor a living.
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Journalists in America expend hours of hard work and personal capital and trust trying to convince people that the world of journalism does not look like what Olivia Nuzzi used every inch of herself (and apparently I do mean every inch though god do I wish I didn’t know that) to make it look like.
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Journalists in America expend hours of hard work and personal capital and trust trying to convince people that the world of journalism does not look like what Olivia Nuzzi used every inch of herself (and apparently I do mean every inch though god do I wish I didn’t know that) to make it look like.
There is a moment in every writer's life where you drop the keyboard and walk away, saying "This is my masterpiece."
Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
There is a moment in every writer's life where you drop the keyboard and walk away, saying "This is my masterpiece."
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Exclusive: The US-backed 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, which became public last week, drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October reut.rs/3XQq2ZT
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Because America is being run amok by a sociopathic man-child?
US-Venezuela relations have reached one of their most volatile moments in decades. Here is how we got here.
Timeline: 26 years of fraught US-Venezuela relations
US-Venezuela relations have reached one of their most volatile moments in decades. Here is how we got here.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Because America is being run amok by a sociopathic man-child?
Fittingly for this day and age, "Simone" just landed on Netflix.
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Fittingly for this day and age, "Simone" just landed on Netflix.
Taking an example from America, when what a potential leader says is reflected in the views of significant parts of the country, what then? Trump was elected essentially by being a racist with grievances, promising mass deportations, denigrating Black and brown people. Voters said, "He's our guy."
All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Taking an example from America, when what a potential leader says is reflected in the views of significant parts of the country, what then? Trump was elected essentially by being a racist with grievances, promising mass deportations, denigrating Black and brown people. Voters said, "He's our guy."
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It's possible to balance the moral necessity of pointing out Farage's racism with the need to be analytically clear about how many British voters share it
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
It's possible to balance the moral necessity of pointing out Farage's racism with the need to be analytically clear about how many British voters share it
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Trumpian politics has, as a hallmark, transferee the idea of political vote to expression of personal identity. Trump actively argues that supporting Trump (or opposing him then by definition) makes your life better or worse.
Thing is. It doesn’t. And it takes people about eight months to get it.
Thing is. It doesn’t. And it takes people about eight months to get it.
Like the Afghanistan pullout it also came at the same time people started getting mad about the economy and was the moment people who weakly supported him were like well I didn't vote for this.
it's very fitting that in retrospect, Trump's failure to oust Jimmy Kimmel was the point that his administration turned. It's been all losses ever since
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Trumpian politics has, as a hallmark, transferee the idea of political vote to expression of personal identity. Trump actively argues that supporting Trump (or opposing him then by definition) makes your life better or worse.
Thing is. It doesn’t. And it takes people about eight months to get it.
Thing is. It doesn’t. And it takes people about eight months to get it.
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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NEW: Senators have called for an investigation after a ProPublica story revealed that Kristi Noem-connected firm the Strategy Group was secretly hired as a subcontractor on a $220 million DHS ad campaign.
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
NEW: Senators have called for an investigation after a ProPublica story revealed that Kristi Noem-connected firm the Strategy Group was secretly hired as a subcontractor on a $220 million DHS ad campaign.
It seemed easy to see, last November when people were fooling around with their votes or staying home, that angry, bigoted white men with grievances were going to target the one clear object of all their ire.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It seemed easy to see, last November when people were fooling around with their votes or staying home, that angry, bigoted white men with grievances were going to target the one clear object of all their ire.
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Crisis (a Democrat is president): grocery prices rise 2% annually
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
The media is saving the "it's a crisis" takes for when a Dem president takes over and starts arresting the people responsible.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Crisis (a Democrat is president): grocery prices rise 2% annually
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
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If you took away any one part of Messi’s game that he’s one of the all-time greats at — dribbling, passing, shooting, off-ball movement — the only one that would knock him out of the top spot is the movement
I’ll never stop being amazed at how often Messi ends up completely unmarked in the box, despite being the focal point of every defense he plays against. Best off-ball mover in the history of the game.
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
If you took away any one part of Messi’s game that he’s one of the all-time greats at — dribbling, passing, shooting, off-ball movement — the only one that would knock him out of the top spot is the movement
Because ... he is?
The incoming NYC mayor says he still believes the US president is a fascist, two days after they had a friendly meeting.
Mamdani maintains Trump a ‘fascist’ despite cordial White House meeting
The incoming NYC mayor says he still believes the US president is a fascist, two days after they had a friendly meeting.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Because ... he is?