David Williams
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David Williams
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· Mar 21
Sometimes I feel like all posts about current abuses need to have an automated signature block kind-of-thing stating "All other examples of US and world horribleness are incorporated by reference."
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This administration lied about the people it sent to an overseas torture prison. It lies about the people it’s deporting. It lies every day to gain political advantage. Not a chance in hell they won’t lie about huge swaths of people they suspect might vote for the other party.
December 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This administration lied about the people it sent to an overseas torture prison. It lies about the people it’s deporting. It lies every day to gain political advantage. Not a chance in hell they won’t lie about huge swaths of people they suspect might vote for the other party.
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So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
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This is pretty egregious when you look at the actual context of the quote. And people are praising that book?
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is pretty egregious when you look at the actual context of the quote. And people are praising that book?
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“We couldn’t report on the sinking of the Titanic until we spoke to Captain Smith.”
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“We couldn’t report on the sinking of the Titanic until we spoke to Captain Smith.”
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The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
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An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼
December 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼
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If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now
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I don't think we are obliged to take people of any opinion who have this sort of relationship to empirics seriously. It's just that simple, Yglesias is a troll and we shouldn't take anything he says seriously.
matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I don't think we are obliged to take people of any opinion who have this sort of relationship to empirics seriously. It's just that simple, Yglesias is a troll and we shouldn't take anything he says seriously.
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Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
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That was one of the worst Trump speeches I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them.
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
That was one of the worst Trump speeches I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them.
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“All we got in return was a country that offered millions of people a better life than what they left behind” is some really fine reasoning from the guy who’s biggest regret is that he was born too late to serve as a kapo during World War II.
Stephen Miller: "America’s might will secure America’s rights. America’s military will defend America’s destiny."
December 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“All we got in return was a country that offered millions of people a better life than what they left behind” is some really fine reasoning from the guy who’s biggest regret is that he was born too late to serve as a kapo during World War II.
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These people are nuts. NCAR developed the GPS dropsonde, which revolutionized the understanding of TC structure, improved forecasts, and validated remote sensing platforms, as documented in over 400 peer-reviewed publications in the last 25 years. And that’s just one of NCAR’s countless advances.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
These people are nuts. NCAR developed the GPS dropsonde, which revolutionized the understanding of TC structure, improved forecasts, and validated remote sensing platforms, as documented in over 400 peer-reviewed publications in the last 25 years. And that’s just one of NCAR’s countless advances.
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Just to be clear, this ban would have prevented me from coming to the US, had it existed in 1983.
NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Just to be clear, this ban would have prevented me from coming to the US, had it existed in 1983.
This has been unfortunately memory holed, but the impact of the ACA on ability of people to have health insurance was really huge.
It basically halved the uninsured rate.
It basically halved the uninsured rate.
December 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This has been unfortunately memory holed, but the impact of the ACA on ability of people to have health insurance was really huge.
It basically halved the uninsured rate.
It basically halved the uninsured rate.
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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If you think it’s more likely that someone who didn’t hate Jews was hired by Israeli Jews to murder Jews to move public opinion in favour of Israel, you believe horrible things about the character of Jewish people around the globe, which is a kind of bigotry known as antisemitism.
December 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If you think it’s more likely that someone who didn’t hate Jews was hired by Israeli Jews to murder Jews to move public opinion in favour of Israel, you believe horrible things about the character of Jewish people around the globe, which is a kind of bigotry known as antisemitism.
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On top of everything that’s wrong with this, Republicans JUST succeeded, after screaming about the need for it for YEARS, in forcing literally everyone to go and get their stupid, expensive replacement licenses, and now they’re no good anyway.
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
On top of everything that’s wrong with this, Republicans JUST succeeded, after screaming about the need for it for YEARS, in forcing literally everyone to go and get their stupid, expensive replacement licenses, and now they’re no good anyway.
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the entire post 9/11 apparatus is now being fully utilized
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
the entire post 9/11 apparatus is now being fully utilized
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December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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This is such a special moment for families, when they finally take the oath to become a U.S. citizen. Grabbing people and disappearing them is horrendous, but this - this is especially sickening.
They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report
Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the ceremony. The incident comes after USCIS told employees to halt all immigrat...
people.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This is such a special moment for families, when they finally take the oath to become a U.S. citizen. Grabbing people and disappearing them is horrendous, but this - this is especially sickening.
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I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
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don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job
Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job
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Giving credit where credit is due #FIFA #FIFApeaceprize
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Giving credit where credit is due #FIFA #FIFApeaceprize
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So the party of no more soft cuck wokeness just watched their sleepy dictator receive the biggest participation trophy of all time
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
So the party of no more soft cuck wokeness just watched their sleepy dictator receive the biggest participation trophy of all time