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Conor P. Williams

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Writer and researcher in DC. Lotta ed policy and immigration issues. Just my views here. Dopily pro-America, stridently anti-fascist. Also: Brewery magnate. Former stay-at-home dad. Primary caregiver.

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The ways of my people

06.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This most of all. We’re incurring stress and trauma debts that we’ll collectively be paying for decades as these kids age

06.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The immigrants being detained in Northern Michigan Who they are and how to support them

"The immigrants being detained in Northern Michigan" hannahreviewseverything.substack.com/p/the-immigr...

06.03.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats to the lucky couple

06.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Just Asking

Reminds me of this old David Foster Wallace thought experiment. It was about civil liberties tradeoffs for safety, but still. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

06.03.2026 13:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Being governed by baby murderers and pedophiles and the guy with a worm in his brain and the bald Peter Brimelow wannabe and the Tampa pedophile defender and the former professional wrestling executive and the Russian asset who wants to be Carmen Sandiego and the mega Christian Nationalist sucks.

06.03.2026 04:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We’re twins, apparently

06.03.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No jokeβ€”it's delicious

05.03.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is why I keep saying that the U.S. literally can’t win in confrontations with Canadians. They’ve got the juice we lack.

05.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Making Us Poorerβ€”and Sicker Despite what the president says, evidence shows that immigrants do far more to aid the American labor force than to hinder it.

"Immigrants have helped reduce deficits every year between 1994 and 2023, in large part because the amount they pay in taxes outstrips the cost of the benefits they receive." trib.al/njoop3l

05.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Ten goddamn years of the US right insisting it hates Middle East military adventures just to snap back cheering for the next step in the β€œAxis of Evil”

05.03.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 1224 πŸ” 170 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 11

The Platner-Hegseth Axiom

05.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And 165 non-artificial schoolchildren were blown up by all this advanced and precise targeting. Congrats to everyone involved on achieving this brave new world.

05.03.2026 03:20 πŸ‘ 789 πŸ” 290 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 5
Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com
@nancyayoussef
The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me.
12:20 PM β€’ 3/4/26 β€’ 44K Views

Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM β€’ 3/4/26 β€’ 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

04.03.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 1660 πŸ” 722 πŸ’¬ 130 πŸ“Œ 339

As an overeducated white progressive, I gotta say that the best thing I know to do on this is to talk and listen to people of colorβ€”across class lines. Skip the race part of inequality politics and you’re gonna make some really dumb mistakes.

04.03.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s the thing about living in an epistemologically unstable country and society!

04.03.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Moral: it’s not enough for a society to become wildly rich. It needs to distribute that wealth equitably. And equitable distribution does not happen all by itself.

04.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I wish there were any warrant, any hint at all, that would let us believe that the people who started this have thought through any of the consequences

04.03.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The life of a skinny, middle-aged education researcher is nothing if not debonair and fraught with intrigue

04.03.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Despite Protected Status, 261 DACA Recipients Have Been Arrested and 86 Deported Brought here as children, thousands of DACA recipients are educators. Immigrant advocates say ICE’s targeting of them is a betrayal.

β€œICE’s targeting of them is a betrayal.” www.the74million.org/article/desp...

04.03.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This dude...well, I want to leave this as a subtweet, so I'm not going to add details.

03.03.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lived another funny instance of Man Confidently Citing Incorrect Info from AI yesterday.

The best part was, when challenged by experts, he fell back on β€œwell, that’s what Claude said,” as though that proved his point.

03.03.2026 19:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
MTA Chair and CEO statement on latest congestion pricing lawsuit court decision.

MTA Chair and CEO statement on latest congestion pricing lawsuit court decision.

03.03.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 149 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 8
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Lamine Yamal’s historic β€˜work of art’ offers a liberation from the pressure | Sid Lowe Hat-trick against Villarreal, his first at 18 years and 230 days, made him the youngest BarΓ§a player to score one in the league

Always read @sidlowe.bsky.social.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

02.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jfc that's correct

02.03.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This hits way closer to home than I like to admit.

02.03.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I try to believe that the left wants to win power and use it to build a better, fairer society for all of us. But the evidence for this belief is not great!~

02.03.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A constellation of virtues straight from the authoritarian playbook!

02.03.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, you guys are trying to cancel @jamellebouie.net? I've ignored the "Bluesky is getting weird and toxic" discourse b/c it seemed overwrought, but if you're coming for Jamelle.....?

02.03.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Fight for Plyler Is the Fight for All Students’ Rights Events of the past monthsβ€”particularly the last few lethally violent weeks in Minnesotaβ€”have centered undocumented and immigrant-origin students and their

Remember

tcf.org/content/comm...

02.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0