Andrew Williams

Seattle-based photographer and bodypainter. For my cybersecurity and political activism, follow: @awilliams_cse

[Andrew Williams @journeysincolor]

All right, Twitter, I'm out. It's just a reeking cesspool run by a maniac now. For photography, find me on IG: https://t.co/o7qFxc9pJY

For cybersecurity stuff, find me on Mastodon: [email protected]

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

If you want to know what abortion bans really do, listen to the anguish of this Tennessee woman who can’t get care despite her daughter having a fatal abnormality

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

So there's a great Thai restaurant in my neighborhood called Kiin. Yesterday, I searched for their website to order some takeout. Here's the Google result.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Must watch.

Trans Rep Zooey Zephyr just gave one of the fiercest speeches on the Montana House floor against a bill that bans drag and could target Pride.

They interrupted her several times to stop her when she spoke about how it affected the trans community.

She persisted.

[Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung]

The text of DeSantis' higher education bill has been released. It's as terrifying as the press release suggested it would be. Florida HB 999 would enact the most draconian and censorious restrictions on higher education in the history of this country. https://t.co/mTsNuSryt4

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Terrible news.

The first drag ban has passed in Tennessee, and goes to the governors desk.

It could easily ban pride. It bans public drag. It bans transgender people performing, who are just living their lives.

It charges them with a felony!

It is blatantly unconstitutional.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Presented without comment.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Kevin McCarthy just turned over the location of every security camera in the Capitol to Tucker Carlson.

Just so the next time the terrorists attack the Capitol they'll have all the details of the security system.

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

The “cancel culture” and anti-“wokeism” moral panics rely on a complete inversion of the actual balance of power, portraying traditionally marginalized groups as mighty forces that urgently need to be reined in – and those in elite positions as desperately in need of protection.

[Megan Greenwell @megreenwell]

It’s very striking and disheartening that a letter pleading for better coverage is being deliberately interpreted by a handful of prominent journalists as a demand for no coverage.

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

A sensible moderate Republican who just wants the police to be able to monitor your menstrual cycle. https://t.co/mv0teXIEUS

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Norfolk Southern, the company whose train derailed in Ohio and unleashed chemicals, made a record $12 billion in revenue last year.

Instead of investing in better safety measures, what did the company do? It authorized a $10 billion stock buyback.

Corporate greed, folks.

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

Might want to consider the physical intrusions at Mar-a-Lago that passed quickly from reporters’ collective consciousness and, in the same vein, how susceptible we all are to gauging what’s viscerally important by what Rs decide to yell about and what they choose to hush up on.

[Matt Binder @MattBinder]

elon musk apparently thinks its "concerning" that an AI chatbot won't use a racial slur

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

Democratic governors: Coordinating to voluntarily move immigrants to resources

DeSantis: kidnapping a bunch of people in a subterfuge and dumping them on Kamala Harris’s doorstep on Christmas Eve in a deep freeze

Media: “Oh ho, so Dems agree with DeSantis now”

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Friday night the primetime shows on Fox News spent 43% of their airtime on the Chinese spy balloon that was ultimately shot down. They asked some searing questions, the former president weighed in and they had GRAPHICS!

Jobs report? What Jobs report?

Music by Bensound

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

Darkly amusing to imagine Republicans’ prepared statements in a world where Biden hawkishly overruled the Pentagon’s safety concerns and some Americans got killed by falling debris from a balloon assessed to present no real threat.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

The cis gay men who’ve helped reassure rabid anti-trans obsessives that they’re reasonable people with reasonable questions are starting to notice that the moral panic they fueled is headed exactly where trans people warned them it would head.

[Andrew Williams @journeysincolor]

@ashlee_leeee @MeaneyJim @santiagomayer_ His education commissioner is on the board and appoints other members to the board. Also, since ten states explicitly tell students NOT to submit this info to schools, pretty sure that "44 states" bit is false too. https://t.co/IP8RvSwR40

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Woke professor Albert Einstein going out of his way to promote diversity, equity and inclusion during the Jim Crow Era