Conor P. Williams

TCF was a great home for my work! But it's time for a new thing (starting in a week). Stay tuned.

I joined in August 2018, because Rick Kahlenberg and Mark Zuckerman were willing to give me a home to do my (often) quirky, idiosyncratic sort of research.

Since I engage with a fair number of colleagues on here, I wanted to note that today will be my last day at @tcfdotorg.bsky.social.

BAH GAWD THAT'S @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social's MUSIC

Random crowdsourcing request: anyone know of any experts to consult about whether the rate of food-borne illness has gone up with Trump-era deregulation?

This is becoming an infinite regression scandal, like, it is a media SCANDAL that the evidence of that horrific political scandal appears not to matter overmuch.

The ways of my people

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

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...

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.

We’re twins, apparently

No joke—it's delicious

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.

Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Making Us Poorer—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

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 “Axis of Evil”

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 • 3/4/26 • 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 color—across class lines. Skip the race part of inequality politics and you’re gonna make some really dumb mistakes.

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

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.

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

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.

“ICE’s targeting of them is a betrayal.” 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 “well, that’s what Claude said,” as though that proved his point.

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

Lamine Yamal’s historic ‘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 Barça player to score one in the league

Always read @sidlowe.bsky.social.

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