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Black queer writer dude. Married. Lives in Oakland, CA. Listens to a lot of jazz. Occasionally plays tabla. He/Him
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Thomas Chatterton Williams is one of those people who I forget exists. (Jordan Peterson falls in that same category.) That is, until they say something silly and cause a kerfuffle. 🧵

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Every week feels like a year.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

How can we reconstruct what the DOGE-bags are destroying?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

We really, really, really, really should have voted for the Black lady.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

I filed a report with Apple telling them that the name is wrong.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

"Buyouts" on hold, at least for now. Hearing on Monday. Glad the unions for the Federal employees stepped into this.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Connections Puzzle #606 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Anyone who knows me would know that today’s purple was like “well duh” easy.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

This is actually exactly accurate:

submitted 16 days ago • 104 comments

While I like the idea of Democrats jamming up the Senate, I also have a vision of Trump going Full Palpatine and dismissing or disbanding the Senate altogether. Our country has never been in a darker place.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

If you don’t collect Social Security benefits yet, I recommend downloading your latest estimate of benefits. I do so annually, but did it anyway the other day. Shit’s too crazy right now.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The government is being systematically destroyed. If Democrats get a majority in Congress in 2026, how will it put everything destroyed back together again, @democrats.org ? Wouldn't it be better to stop this chaos now?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

16 Democratic Senators voted to confirm Scott Bessent for Secy of Treasury. Bessent gave his blessings to Elon Musk to have at it. I'm very angry at these 16 Senators. (Angus King is independent and caucuses with the Democrats.)

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments