Eric H. Williams

accomplished dad joke purveyor, @BowdoinCollege {views my own}

[March For Our Lives @AMarch4OurLives]

Murals to End Gun Violence is a collaboration between students, professional artists, and New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence.

Since 2016, the program has given young people a way to speak — not with statistics, but with color, hope, and art.

Every day, hundreds of students and adults pass by these murals. That's hundreds of moments where a community is reminded what's at stake, and what's possible.

[Eric H. Williams @ericwms]

@JColeNC It’s Silver Spring — don’t disrespect with the extra “s”. 🤣😉

[Eric H. Williams @ericwms]

Bad Bunny is exactly what America needed at this time. 100% American. #Halftime #NFL #SuperBowl

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion

Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million

Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million

Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million

Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion

Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million

Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5

@JeffBezos

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
https://t.co/qSfcJJG5Zv

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Twice since the start of the year, federal officers have gunned down protesters in Minneapolis with cellphone cameras rolling and twice Trump and his lieutenants have essentially told the American people: Don’t believe what you see with your own eyes. https://t.co/15zz48AhBI

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

[Eric H. Williams @ericwms]

There is so much truth to this.

[Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs]

At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

It’s fine to set standards however you want. That’s not the issue.

What’s false is Hegseth’s continued narrative that combat standards were somehow lowered for women. They were not. And for the SecDef to lie about that is a slap in the face to all women who have served in combat roles.

Thanks to @TheWeekendMSNBC for having me on this morning.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

[Eric H. Williams @ericwms]

@BulwarkOnline Two questions: (1) Why is the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic a loser…it was your error? Seems to me he was the winner in all of this and (2) Why are senior most officials of our government using and planning military strikes via Signal?

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Elon calls a US Senator "a traitor" because he visited Ukraine and said we should support them? What the fuck is wrong with you @elonmusk

[Moms Demand Action @MomsDemand]

If Trump wants to protect law enforcement, he will champion measures that keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t and aren’t allowed to have them. #JointAddress #SOTU #StateOfTheUnion

[Eric H. Williams @ericwms]

@SarahLongwell25 It’s despicable…no words. Trump-Vance tag team to beat up a man and his country at war with Russia. What?!

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

1/ Let me explain why the total destruction of USAID - happening as we speak - matters so much.

China - where Musk makes his money - wants USAID destroyed. So does Russia. Trump and Musk are doing the bidding of Beijing and Moscow. Why?
https://t.co/jC7FMUymeW

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Our nation’s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect.  All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results of our elections. We now have a special responsibility, as citizens of the greatest nation on earth, to do everything we can to support and defend our Constitution, preserve the rule of law, and ensure that our institutions hold over these coming four years. Citizens across this country, our courts, members of the press and those serving in our federal, state and local governments must now be the guardrails of democracy.

[Paul Krugman @paulkrugman]

Don’t ask whose fault this was. Plenty of time for second-guessing and recriminations. Ask instead, what can you do? For my part, that means telling the truth as I see it, as long as I can. The media will be under a lot of pressure to toe the line; don’t capitulate in advance

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

RFK Jr. says that among Trump's first acts would be to “advise all US water systems to remove fluoride from public water,” a stunning reversal of one of the most important public health interventions of the past century. @rebecca @SherylNYT https://t.co/R9gIzbzLRK

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Take a minute to watch this heartfelt, beautiful 100th birthday message from President Biden to President Carter today. They are such decent, kind, and good humans & we need more people like them in politics & in our world.