V.A. Williams
@vicsmix.bsky.social
Writer, Nevadan by choice, Californian by birth, Lutheran seeker, liberal thinker. Find me in the kitchen.
If he doesn’t finally go down for this, America is beyond redemption.
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
If he doesn’t finally go down for this, America is beyond redemption.
Memo to Schumer, King, Hassan et. al., especially Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto: Thanks for nothing. Thanks for throwing millions under the bus again. Now fuck off.
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Memo to Schumer, King, Hassan et. al., especially Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto: Thanks for nothing. Thanks for throwing millions under the bus again. Now fuck off.
Public libraries are receiving a clear mandate from voters this November: when presented with the choice, communities are willing to invest in their information infrastructure, programming, and future.
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What A Week for Libraries
Your donations and support helped make these wins possible!
www.everylibrary.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Public libraries are receiving a clear mandate from voters this November: when presented with the choice, communities are willing to invest in their information infrastructure, programming, and future.
www.everylibrary.org/what_a_week_... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
www.everylibrary.org/what_a_week_... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
What a speech. What a night. Hope abides.
"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women Trump has fired, a single mom waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with your back against the wall. Your struggle is ours too."
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
What a speech. What a night. Hope abides.
Thank you New Jersey, Virginia, NYC, and my beloved birth state of California. You give us hope. Justice and decency and equity will prevail.
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Thank you New Jersey, Virginia, NYC, and my beloved birth state of California. You give us hope. Justice and decency and equity will prevail.
Bari Weiss is in the CBS News seat less than a month and Trump is on “60 Minutes” to spew his bullshit. Coincidence? I think not.
November 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Bari Weiss is in the CBS News seat less than a month and Trump is on “60 Minutes” to spew his bullshit. Coincidence? I think not.
My latest “Meet Me At the Corner” post takes me to the Owens Valley of my youth to check out some petroglyphs, commune with nature, revisit some history, and escapeif only for a few moments last January, the coming political storm.
Meet Me At The Corner of … Chidago Canyon and Benton Crossing Road
Where Ancient Petroglyphs Preserve The Deep Desert’s Simpler Past
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October 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
My latest “Meet Me At the Corner” post takes me to the Owens Valley of my youth to check out some petroglyphs, commune with nature, revisit some history, and escapeif only for a few moments last January, the coming political storm.
Just for fun and in honor of the Ryder Cup this week, I turn the page 20 years to an interview I did with golfer and longtime TV commentator David Feherty, in 2005 for Fairways & Greens magazine.
Ryder Cup Week Flashback: A 2005 Interview With David Feherty
That Time I Went To Texas to Hang With The Former Player, Longtime CBS Commentator and Current LIV Tour Lead Announcer
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September 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Just for fun and in honor of the Ryder Cup this week, I turn the page 20 years to an interview I did with golfer and longtime TV commentator David Feherty, in 2005 for Fairways & Greens magazine.
As a Christian, this column resonates and tells the truth. MAGA is a corrupt, damaged, and dangerous twisting of faith. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
Opinion | How Can You Cheer Love and Hate at the Same Time?
www.nytimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
As a Christian, this column resonates and tells the truth. MAGA is a corrupt, damaged, and dangerous twisting of faith. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
Been a while, but here goes.
Meet Me at the Corner of Olive and Larkin, San Francisco
Where Art and Freedom Are of the Essence
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September 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Been a while, but here goes.
Haven’t been in the Sky in a while. What’s up?
June 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Haven’t been in the Sky in a while. What’s up?
So much gratitude as another Easter winds down. A spouse who loves me. Four incredible kids. A roof. Food in the fridge. Many, many friends. Continued good health. May our nation join me in gratitude and the spirit of love, though hate, greed and ignorance knock on the door and, yes, hold the keys.
April 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
So much gratitude as another Easter winds down. A spouse who loves me. Four incredible kids. A roof. Food in the fridge. Many, many friends. Continued good health. May our nation join me in gratitude and the spirit of love, though hate, greed and ignorance knock on the door and, yes, hold the keys.
Thank you, Wisconsin!
April 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Thank you, Wisconsin!
My man Tim Noah lays out a detailed guide to joining The Resistance, by any means available, doable, or necessary. Or all three.
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
Ordinary people have more power than they know.
newrepublic.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My man Tim Noah lays out a detailed guide to joining The Resistance, by any means available, doable, or necessary. Or all three.
More lies, lies, lies. Nothing but lies.
March 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
More lies, lies, lies. Nothing but lies.
A good ad by one of us, with no agenda but the truth.
This is fabulous!
I've been protesting, but I decided to do something different. I made an ad. I've given a lot of thought as to how to communicate without confrontation to Republican voters, non-voters, or Trumpers who are beginning to be concerned. I hope you'll watch - it's only 30 seconds. youtu.be/bp6XUjteeV4
March 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A good ad by one of us, with no agenda but the truth.
Is The Brutalist worth the three-hour-plus investment, as was Killers of the Flower Moon?
March 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Is The Brutalist worth the three-hour-plus investment, as was Killers of the Flower Moon?
If even half of the traitorous and cowardly senators up for re-election in 2026 are retained, America is finished.
20% of federal civilian employees are veterans
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
If even half of the traitorous and cowardly senators up for re-election in 2026 are retained, America is finished.
What remained of the rest of the free world’s trust in America evaporated today, thanks to the Traitor-in-Chief and his sniveling sidekick. We are no longer a world power and don’t deserve to be.
March 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
What remained of the rest of the free world’s trust in America evaporated today, thanks to the Traitor-in-Chief and his sniveling sidekick. We are no longer a world power and don’t deserve to be.
A spot-on, unvarnished, infuriatingly factual summation of what American voters unleashed on the world, and themselves, in November.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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America Joins the Jackals
Ukraine is only the first victim.
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February 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
A spot-on, unvarnished, infuriatingly factual summation of what American voters unleashed on the world, and themselves, in November.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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After 55 years as a fan and nearly 30 years as a golf journalist, the PGA Tour is dead to me now. Bending the knee to Lump and MBS signals the end of the enterprise as we know it. Tiger, Adam Scott, Rory: Greed got the best of them. A sad, sad day for pro golf fans.
February 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
After 55 years as a fan and nearly 30 years as a golf journalist, the PGA Tour is dead to me now. Bending the knee to Lump and MBS signals the end of the enterprise as we know it. Tiger, Adam Scott, Rory: Greed got the best of them. A sad, sad day for pro golf fans.
An unmitigated disaster in the making. Planning to visit Yosemite or any other National Park this year? Brace yourselves—then ask how this could have happened to our most beloved and once-protected landscapes. This is what the electorate hath wrought.
www.sfgate.com/california-p...
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'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos
The Trump administration is derailing decades of conservation efforts in California's most loved park.
www.sfgate.com
February 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
An unmitigated disaster in the making. Planning to visit Yosemite or any other National Park this year? Brace yourselves—then ask how this could have happened to our most beloved and once-protected landscapes. This is what the electorate hath wrought.
www.sfgate.com/california-p...
www.sfgate.com/california-p...
Of course!
February 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Of course!
Welcome back, polio. Door’s wide open.
February 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Welcome back, polio. Door’s wide open.
Everyone OK with this?
The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034 (Important reporting here by NYT Minho Kim)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
Trump’s Declaration Allows Musk’s Efficiency Team to Skirt Open Records Laws (Gift Article)
Government watchdog groups say they will challenge the Trump administration’s decision to put the initiative under the Presidential Records Act, which shields its work from public disclosure.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Everyone OK with this?