DW
@dwilliamesq.bsky.social
attorney, Terry Pratchett fan, subscriber to the Sam Vimes boots theory of inequality.
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It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
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Bagley pretty much nails it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Bagley pretty much nails it.
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we'll reunite after the 2026 primary cycle and not a moment sooner actually bsky.app/profile/whit...
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
we'll reunite after the 2026 primary cycle and not a moment sooner actually bsky.app/profile/whit...
THIS guy was meant to be a heartbeat from the presidency? The guy too fucking stupid not to say the quiet part out loud?
all the senators who voted no: uhhh listen. we live... to fight another day. for our fighting. and i think voters will recognize who was fighting for their fighting.
tim kaine, out loud: oh you would not believe how many people were glad we're around to get yelled at for them, they were SWEATING
tim kaine, out loud: oh you would not believe how many people were glad we're around to get yelled at for them, they were SWEATING
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
THIS guy was meant to be a heartbeat from the presidency? The guy too fucking stupid not to say the quiet part out loud?
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all the senators who voted no: uhhh listen. we live... to fight another day. for our fighting. and i think voters will recognize who was fighting for their fighting.
tim kaine, out loud: oh you would not believe how many people were glad we're around to get yelled at for them, they were SWEATING
tim kaine, out loud: oh you would not believe how many people were glad we're around to get yelled at for them, they were SWEATING
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
all the senators who voted no: uhhh listen. we live... to fight another day. for our fighting. and i think voters will recognize who was fighting for their fighting.
tim kaine, out loud: oh you would not believe how many people were glad we're around to get yelled at for them, they were SWEATING
tim kaine, out loud: oh you would not believe how many people were glad we're around to get yelled at for them, they were SWEATING
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Our primary program will include both the House and Senate. And after the primary — whatever happens — we will rally behind the winner and crush the regime electorally in the midterms just like we did this last week.
We get the party we demand and we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.
We get the party we demand and we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Our primary program will include both the House and Senate. And after the primary — whatever happens — we will rally behind the winner and crush the regime electorally in the midterms just like we did this last week.
We get the party we demand and we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.
We get the party we demand and we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.
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1. Trump's polls in the gutter.
2. Repubs got their asses handed to them Tuesday nationwide.
3. Public opinion solidly in favor of the Dem position.
4. So naturally, Senate Dems are caving and keeping their corporate donors happy.
5. This "strategy" should cost the Spineless 8 their jobs. Period.
2. Repubs got their asses handed to them Tuesday nationwide.
3. Public opinion solidly in favor of the Dem position.
4. So naturally, Senate Dems are caving and keeping their corporate donors happy.
5. This "strategy" should cost the Spineless 8 their jobs. Period.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
1. Trump's polls in the gutter.
2. Repubs got their asses handed to them Tuesday nationwide.
3. Public opinion solidly in favor of the Dem position.
4. So naturally, Senate Dems are caving and keeping their corporate donors happy.
5. This "strategy" should cost the Spineless 8 their jobs. Period.
2. Repubs got their asses handed to them Tuesday nationwide.
3. Public opinion solidly in favor of the Dem position.
4. So naturally, Senate Dems are caving and keeping their corporate donors happy.
5. This "strategy" should cost the Spineless 8 their jobs. Period.
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The GOP bragged they’d never negotiate — that they didn’t need Democrats.
Then they shut down the government, threw parties at Mar-a-Lago, and kept Congress on vacation while Americans missed paychecks.
Polls were turning on them.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Then they shut down the government, threw parties at Mar-a-Lago, and kept Congress on vacation while Americans missed paychecks.
Polls were turning on them.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Republicans Made This Mess — Democrats Just Cleaned It Up for Them
While Republicans partied at Mar-a-Lago and cashed shutdown paychecks, Democrats gave them an escape hatch.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The GOP bragged they’d never negotiate — that they didn’t need Democrats.
Then they shut down the government, threw parties at Mar-a-Lago, and kept Congress on vacation while Americans missed paychecks.
Polls were turning on them.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Then they shut down the government, threw parties at Mar-a-Lago, and kept Congress on vacation while Americans missed paychecks.
Polls were turning on them.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
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Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
“Centrists in Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force believed that the spiraling effects of the D-Day landings — including 10,000 Allied casualties and 3,000 dead French civilians — meant that blocking the Nazi attempt at world domination had grown untenable.”
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
“Centrists in Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force believed that the spiraling effects of the D-Day landings — including 10,000 Allied casualties and 3,000 dead French civilians — meant that blocking the Nazi attempt at world domination had grown untenable.”
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The Democrats who voted for surrender should be hounded out of office asap. But the responsibility for this disaster runs much deeper than that. Any Democrat who does not vote for new leadership to prevent this endless replay of failure does not deserve your support.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The Democrats who voted for surrender should be hounded out of office asap. But the responsibility for this disaster runs much deeper than that. Any Democrat who does not vote for new leadership to prevent this endless replay of failure does not deserve your support.
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Is it jury nullification, or is it the sovereign (the people of the United States of America, constitutionally) determining that a state of exception is necessary? Can someone print this out and glue it to the door of Vermeule's office.
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Is it jury nullification, or is it the sovereign (the people of the United States of America, constitutionally) determining that a state of exception is necessary? Can someone print this out and glue it to the door of Vermeule's office.
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they're calling it the world's worst constitutional amendment
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
they're calling it the world's worst constitutional amendment
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"Not only is Schumer disloyal to a prominent party member who won the primary fair and square, he is a terrible leader. He should step down as leader of Senate Democrats, and in the likely case that he refuses to do so, other senators should organize to remove him—and he should be primaried in 2028"
Chuck Schumer is not cutting the mustard prospect.org/2025/11/06/c...
Chuck Schumer Is Not Fit to Lead the Democratic Party - The American Prospect
The Senate leader doesn’t just betray his own party, he’s also terrible at leading it. In Trump’s second term, facing a full-on authoritarian attack on America’s democracy and constitutional structure...
prospect.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Not only is Schumer disloyal to a prominent party member who won the primary fair and square, he is a terrible leader. He should step down as leader of Senate Democrats, and in the likely case that he refuses to do so, other senators should organize to remove him—and he should be primaried in 2028"
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If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
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Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.
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I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.
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democrats preserving the fillibuster just for trump to direct republicans to get rid of it was for nothing. democrats should have done this day one in the biden administration but their biggest downfall was assuming that political “norms” were restored after biden won
October 31, 2025 at 4:01 AM
democrats preserving the fillibuster just for trump to direct republicans to get rid of it was for nothing. democrats should have done this day one in the biden administration but their biggest downfall was assuming that political “norms” were restored after biden won
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No there isn’t you Vichy bastards
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
Trump 2028
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
econ.st
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
No there isn’t you Vichy bastards
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I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
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I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?
October 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?