The ways of my people
@conorpwilliams
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.
The ways of my people
This most of all. Weβre incurring stress and trauma debts that weβll collectively be paying for decades as these kids age
"The immigrants being detained in Northern Michigan" hannahreviewseverything.substack.com/p/the-immigr...
Congrats to the lucky couple
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...
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.
Weβre twins, apparently
No jokeβit's delicious
This is why I keep saying that the U.S. literally canβt win in confrontations with Canadians. Theyβve got the juice we lack.
"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
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 βAxis of Evilβ
The Platner-Hegseth Axiom
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.
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.
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 colorβacross class lines. Skip the race part of inequality politics and youβre gonna make some really dumb mistakes.
Thatβs the thing about living in an epistemologically unstable country and society!
Moral: itβs 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.
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
The life of a skinny, middle-aged education researcher is nothing if not debonair and fraught with intrigue
βICEβs targeting of them is a betrayal.β www.the74million.org/article/desp...
This dude...well, I want to leave this as a subtweet, so I'm not going to add details.
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 βwell, thatβs what Claude said,β as though that proved his point.
MTA Chair and CEO statement on latest congestion pricing lawsuit court decision.
Always read @sidlowe.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Jfc that's correct
This hits way closer to home than I like to admit.
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!~
A constellation of virtues straight from the authoritarian playbook!
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.....?