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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@chatterton.bsky.social

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Writer (The Atlantic). Current 📕: SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT (Knopf). Non-resident fellow (AEI). Senior fellow, visiting prof. of humanities (Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College). Representation (APB; Wylie). Student & Teacher. Instagram: @chattertonwilliams.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · Aug 18

I want to thank from the bottom of my heart everyone who has gone out and bought a copy of Summer of Our Discontent or spread the word about it. It’s reaching readers on Amazon and beyond, and I am profoundly grateful 🙏🏽

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The Future of Free Speech @futurefreespeech.org · 4d

What does cancel culture mean in the year 2025? Michael Moynihan chats with @chatterton.bsky.social and John Wood Jr. at #freespeechsummit2025

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 4d

Spoke for three hours with Anna and Dasha🎙️🍷 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 5d

Keep exemplifying that good old Blue Sky charm 😀

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 6d

“Just as the left used [George] Floyd’s death to justify and hasten all manner of political ends, the right is invoking [Charlie] Kirk’s name to advance illiberal aims and silence opponents,” @chatterton.bsky.social argues:

MAGA Finds Its George Floyd

Charlie Kirk isn’t the first martyr to be used as a cudgel.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote about Charlie Kirk and George Floyd: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

MAGA Finds Its George Floyd

Charlie Kirk isn’t the first martyr to be used as a cudgel.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 7d

Blue sky

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 10d

He lost the popular vote in 24?

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 11d

How was he a nobody?

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 11d

Switch search to “latest” and you’ll see it’s all the same thing. It hasn’t stopped. There is a meltdown on Bluesky about Klein.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 11d

Search his name for yourself. Just endless examples without a single dissenting statement between them. You can scroll and see dozens and dozens of responses that all come to the same conclusion. As toxic as Twitter really is, I’ve never seen a dozen posts in a row with zero disagreement.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 11d

Very hard to understand Trump and MAGA’s animus towards Comey. He’s the decisive factor in there ever even being a president Trump. You’d think he’d never have to buy a drink for the rest of his life in MAGAland.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 11d

That would be “an overly”

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 11d

Bless your heart www.amazon.com/Defense-Loot...

In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action

In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action [Osterweil, Vicky] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 11d

lol you sound like you’re really well-connected in that world and in the know

Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 11d

In my experience doing his show, judging by the responses, I think a lot of people are still listening to him.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 11d

Excellent

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New Rule: Let's Make a Deal | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

YouTube video by Real Time with Bill Maher

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Gurwinder @gurwinder.bsky.social · 11d

It's easier to win an argument with a genius than an idiot.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 11d

(dark) blue sky

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 14d

Ahead of the October publication of Summer Of Our Discontent (Toxische Gerechtigkeit) in Germany, thank you @zeit.de Magazin for the spread 🙏🏽: www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin...

Thomas Chatterton Williams: "Ein Klima, in dem viele lieber schwiegen. Das machte Woke so wirksam"

Woke ist vorbei – aber woher kommt die neue rechte Härte? Der Autor Thomas Chatterton Williams sagt: Was 2020 schief lief, verfolgt uns bis heute

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 14d

In a nutshell

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 17d

I feel more at home in spots where I can’t read the road signs than here.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 17d

I’ve spent half of my adult life living in one foreign country or another and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so estranged from the surrounding culture as I am from the aesthetics and sensibilities of this movement. Not even a criticism, I just feel more at home in Greece than in these images.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · 18d

The effort to turn Kirk into a saint is genuinely bizarre. And it should go without saying that the impulse to resist this propaganda in no way excuses or condones the horrific violence.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19d

"25 percent of the black male vote he got. This is the least racially polarized election since the 1970s. He has a multiethnic coalition behind him." And at least some of it is driven by the toxicity of the Democratic brand and not love of Trump.

@chatterton.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social

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