Crystal Williams
@crystalpolicy.bsky.social
Policy and political wonk, feminist, progressive, former Democratic elected, wife and mom, profanity expert, no fucking DMs.💙💙💙 KC, Heart of the MidBest, Go Royals, home of American Jazz Museum, art galleries, theaters, Kauffman Performing Arts Center
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.-Alice Walker
Resist.
Resist.
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P.S. No one is scared of a socialist when we have literal Nazis working in the White House...
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
P.S. No one is scared of a socialist when we have literal Nazis working in the White House...
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He is demented.
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
He is demented.
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Good lord
JUST IN: Feds explain how CBP vehicle involved in collision that led to woman being shot & criminally charged was moved from Chicago to Maine and then partially repaired while it was evidence in a criminal case. Doc www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Good lord
Ditto
October 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Ditto
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Perhaps you’ve noticed; the more immigrants they detain and deport…the more violent the United States is becoming. I see a clear connection.
October 8, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Perhaps you’ve noticed; the more immigrants they detain and deport…the more violent the United States is becoming. I see a clear connection.
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BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/
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Meiselas: You’re saying to Donald Trump, to Senator Thune, to JD Vance: show up at the Capitol. We’re going to do this in front of the press and address these issues before the American people, correct?
Jeffries: That’s my position—and we’ll even let Mike Johnson into the meeting as well.
Jeffries: That’s my position—and we’ll even let Mike Johnson into the meeting as well.
October 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Meiselas: You’re saying to Donald Trump, to Senator Thune, to JD Vance: show up at the Capitol. We’re going to do this in front of the press and address these issues before the American people, correct?
Jeffries: That’s my position—and we’ll even let Mike Johnson into the meeting as well.
Jeffries: That’s my position—and we’ll even let Mike Johnson into the meeting as well.
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She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook
October 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook
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There is no bailout that will solve this problem.
It took decades to create the markets for beans and months to devastate the markets for beans.
NY Times: China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. [52% of exports] Now, It’s $0.
It took decades to create the markets for beans and months to devastate the markets for beans.
NY Times: China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. [52% of exports] Now, It’s $0.
September 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
There is no bailout that will solve this problem.
It took decades to create the markets for beans and months to devastate the markets for beans.
NY Times: China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. [52% of exports] Now, It’s $0.
It took decades to create the markets for beans and months to devastate the markets for beans.
NY Times: China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. [52% of exports] Now, It’s $0.
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If Trump would just release the damn Epstein files he wouldn’t have to shut down the government to distract from them.
September 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
If Trump would just release the damn Epstein files he wouldn’t have to shut down the government to distract from them.
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So, Hegseth called all the flag officers to Quantico so he could peacock on stage and film it for his clips and Trump just big footed him and is showing up.
It’s so on brand for this perpetual clown show of narcissists.
It’s so on brand for this perpetual clown show of narcissists.
September 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
So, Hegseth called all the flag officers to Quantico so he could peacock on stage and film it for his clips and Trump just big footed him and is showing up.
It’s so on brand for this perpetual clown show of narcissists.
It’s so on brand for this perpetual clown show of narcissists.
JFC
Brutal.
US Magistrate Judge Vaala trying to untangle Lindsey Halligan's first adventure in indicting someone:
September 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
JFC
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My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
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While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.
September 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.
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this most "this could have been an email" thing i've ever heard
WAPO SCOOP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos,” multiple people familiar with the event told The Washington Post.
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New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
this most "this could have been an email" thing i've ever heard
Guess our calls to advertisers paid off.
Sinclair caves! Well done, all! variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Sinclair Ends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Boycott, Says Its ABC Stations Will Resume Airing Show Immediately
Sinclair’s ABC stations will resume airing 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' after preempting the late-night TV show in protest over Kimmel's comments about Charlie Kirk's killer.
variety.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Guess our calls to advertisers paid off.
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NEW: Jimmy Kimmel Live is returning to Sinclair Broadcasting.
September 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
NEW: Jimmy Kimmel Live is returning to Sinclair Broadcasting.
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When the President uses federal law enforcement for his personal revenge, it puts all of us in danger.
September 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
When the President uses federal law enforcement for his personal revenge, it puts all of us in danger.
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Trump doesn’t get to “give some of the tariff money to farmers.”
The tariff money is in the US Treasury, not a Trump slush fund.
Congress has to appropriate taxpayer dollars to put farmers on welfare.
Although Trump should pay it out of his crypto profits since he caused it.
The tariff money is in the US Treasury, not a Trump slush fund.
Congress has to appropriate taxpayer dollars to put farmers on welfare.
Although Trump should pay it out of his crypto profits since he caused it.
September 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Trump doesn’t get to “give some of the tariff money to farmers.”
The tariff money is in the US Treasury, not a Trump slush fund.
Congress has to appropriate taxpayer dollars to put farmers on welfare.
Although Trump should pay it out of his crypto profits since he caused it.
The tariff money is in the US Treasury, not a Trump slush fund.
Congress has to appropriate taxpayer dollars to put farmers on welfare.
Although Trump should pay it out of his crypto profits since he caused it.
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No one will stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo until they stop acting like the Gestapo
September 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
No one will stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo until they stop acting like the Gestapo
Ed is a lunatic. We Missourians have known so for decades.
Ed Martin’s intimidation tactics against FBI agent who responded to Sandy Hook is too much even for Todd Blanche.
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Trump DOJ retracts letter that implied Sandy Hook FBI agent was under investigation | CNN Politics
A top Justice Department official has retracted a letter he sent to an FBI agent who responded to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that suggested the agent was being investigated in relation…
edition.cnn.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Ed is a lunatic. We Missourians have known so for decades.
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Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com.
I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team.
Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.
I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team.
Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com.
I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team.
Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.
I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team.
Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.
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Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.
September 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.