William A Owen
@williamaowen.bsky.social
Writer. Energy Policy. Former EBook nerd. Former Brooklynonian. Sort of an all around, everyday kind of entity trying to acclimate to the burbs, be a dad and a hubbo, and find a little pie now and then. 40+ Pie, Books, Comics, MTG, Science, Pie. He/Him
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never thought I could see federal law enforcement so depraved that it would negatively polarize local cops to the left, but nothing is impossible for ole Donny Trump
An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
never thought I could see federal law enforcement so depraved that it would negatively polarize local cops to the left, but nothing is impossible for ole Donny Trump
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Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
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Please help if you can, especially if you live in the area and enjoy comics and community building. Katie is a Portland treasure, she has helped me and countless other creatives get their work out there 💕
Books with Pictures (@bkswpicspdx.bsky.social) in Portland, Oregon is a GREAT comic shop, and its owner in @omgkatiep.bsky.social is one of the best. The shop is going through a hard time right now, and if you want to help BwP out, they opened a GoFundMe to help do just that.
Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde
Dear friends: I need your help.
I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Please help if you can, especially if you live in the area and enjoy comics and community building. Katie is a Portland treasure, she has helped me and countless other creatives get their work out there 💕
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When a serial cooperator is faced with a serial defector in the prisoner's dilemma, one needs to defect a few times to see if the other side can be brought back around to cooperating at least sometimes. There are dangers to mutual serial defection, but otherwise you just always lose.
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
When a serial cooperator is faced with a serial defector in the prisoner's dilemma, one needs to defect a few times to see if the other side can be brought back around to cooperating at least sometimes. There are dangers to mutual serial defection, but otherwise you just always lose.
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it's time for some game theory, in other words
November 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
it's time for some game theory, in other words
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one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
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yeah and I can't imagine that Rs in semi-safe seats are too happy about getting redrawn after seeing scale of Dem wins in VA-NJ
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
yeah and I can't imagine that Rs in semi-safe seats are too happy about getting redrawn after seeing scale of Dem wins in VA-NJ
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I have long said people don't be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts as much as they should be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts
“Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.”
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I have long said people don't be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts as much as they should be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts
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You need to reverse that decision, and like NOW.
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 AM
You need to reverse that decision, and like NOW.
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See everyone hated the idea of a Dislike button and then something like this happens.
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
See everyone hated the idea of a Dislike button and then something like this happens.
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rian you don't owe us anything as an artist and you should be true to yourself and only put out the work that you want the world to see i genuinely believe this having said that what the fuck dude
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
rian you don't owe us anything as an artist and you should be true to yourself and only put out the work that you want the world to see i genuinely believe this having said that what the fuck dude
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Statler: That decision wasn’t half bad!
Waldorf: Yeah, it was ALL BAD!!
Waldorf: Yeah, it was ALL BAD!!
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Statler: That decision wasn’t half bad!
Waldorf: Yeah, it was ALL BAD!!
Waldorf: Yeah, it was ALL BAD!!
This isn't the biggest scandal we've heard about this week, BUT ITS CLOSE!
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This isn't the biggest scandal we've heard about this week, BUT ITS CLOSE!
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So I host a weekly edh meetup, with a focus on providing a space for queer Magic players, at a local bar. I will frequently make new ads for these gatherings and I just gotta say how much this one makes me giggle.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
So I host a weekly edh meetup, with a focus on providing a space for queer Magic players, at a local bar. I will frequently make new ads for these gatherings and I just gotta say how much this one makes me giggle.
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an important message to elite society in general:
this is an unpopular, weak and failing lame duck president and you can just tell him no
this is an unpopular, weak and failing lame duck president and you can just tell him no
can we appreciate just how badly Johnson and Trump played this Epstein vote? total failure of a pressure campaign, delayed for months to ensure it stays in the news and immediately swamps "the Dems caved" as soon as the shutdown ends, and now it passes 427-1
couldn't have gone worse if they tried
couldn't have gone worse if they tried
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
an important message to elite society in general:
this is an unpopular, weak and failing lame duck president and you can just tell him no
this is an unpopular, weak and failing lame duck president and you can just tell him no
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
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Hello @ec.europa.eu , or whoever is responsible for enforcing the rules, X's AI, Grok, is denying the Holocaust. Holocaust denial is illegal in France. Please don't make an exception when it comes to a billionaire, as usual.
Please take concrete and firm action against this cruel disinformation.
Please take concrete and firm action against this cruel disinformation.
November 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Hello @ec.europa.eu , or whoever is responsible for enforcing the rules, X's AI, Grok, is denying the Holocaust. Holocaust denial is illegal in France. Please don't make an exception when it comes to a billionaire, as usual.
Please take concrete and firm action against this cruel disinformation.
Please take concrete and firm action against this cruel disinformation.
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Whatever the rhetoric, it *always* comes back to the emoluments, the corrupt personal gain, the tr*mp branded properties, and…his fawning please-like-me affinity for brutal dictators. Good thread.
President Trump said he plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns from national security officials that it could help China steal the technology.
When Saudi Arabia gets things it wants, it’s worth remembering Trump’s business conflicts in the country… 🧵
When Saudi Arabia gets things it wants, it’s worth remembering Trump’s business conflicts in the country… 🧵
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Whatever the rhetoric, it *always* comes back to the emoluments, the corrupt personal gain, the tr*mp branded properties, and…his fawning please-like-me affinity for brutal dictators. Good thread.
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Give it away, give it away, give it away, no
Give it away, give it away, give it away, no
Give it away, give it away, give it away, no
I can't tell, if I'm a king pin or a pauper
Give it away, give it away, give it away, no
Give it away, give it away, give it away, no
I can't tell, if I'm a king pin or a pauper
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Give it away, give it away, give it away, no
Give it away, give it away, give it away, no
Give it away, give it away, give it away, no
I can't tell, if I'm a king pin or a pauper
Give it away, give it away, give it away, no
Give it away, give it away, give it away, no
I can't tell, if I'm a king pin or a pauper
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DON'T YOU DARE LOOK AWAY
We don't get to be too uncomfortable to see this, when this is what people are living through.
Don't you fucking dare.
We don't get to be too uncomfortable to see this, when this is what people are living through.
Don't you fucking dare.
Trump’s racial profiling ICE goon army is ripping parents from kids
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
DON'T YOU DARE LOOK AWAY
We don't get to be too uncomfortable to see this, when this is what people are living through.
Don't you fucking dare.
We don't get to be too uncomfortable to see this, when this is what people are living through.
Don't you fucking dare.
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Reminder that Bazelon is fresh out of undergrad, his stat knowledge is questionable, and his qualifications are an internship with Matty's blog that he might have gotten because his mom is a well known journalist.
this is just a wild thing to tweet a week after democrats won a statewide in Georgia by 20 points. completely divorced from the current electoral environment
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Reminder that Bazelon is fresh out of undergrad, his stat knowledge is questionable, and his qualifications are an internship with Matty's blog that he might have gotten because his mom is a well known journalist.
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We're aware that the #MTGxATLA Jumpstart event has two packets which are missing cards, Rebelling and Alliance. We're working on a fix, and recommend not selecting these packets until then. We're also working on a fix for incorrect basic lands being added due to hybrid cards.
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We're aware that the #MTGxATLA Jumpstart event has two packets which are missing cards, Rebelling and Alliance. We're working on a fix, and recommend not selecting these packets until then. We're also working on a fix for incorrect basic lands being added due to hybrid cards.
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Starborn
New painting and exclusive drop in Collab with displate, available :
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New painting and exclusive drop in Collab with displate, available :
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November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Starborn
New painting and exclusive drop in Collab with displate, available :
displate.com/displate/888...
New painting and exclusive drop in Collab with displate, available :
displate.com/displate/888...
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Key information from this story: "humans generally have a crash, whether they are at fault or not, every 700,000 miles. Tesla has 7 in probably ~300,000 miles."
Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
“.. Tesla’s current Robotaxi crash rate .. is about 2x higher than Waymo’s, despite in-car supervisors that prevent an unknown number of crashes.”
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/11/17/t...
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/11/17/t...
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Key information from this story: "humans generally have a crash, whether they are at fault or not, every 700,000 miles. Tesla has 7 in probably ~300,000 miles."
Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
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After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity