Ted D Williams

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[Ted D Williams @tedwill36]

@CalFootball @AthlonSports This is insulting. The Bears are coming with a vengeance this fall.

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@BSO He’s definitely not doing shut up and dribble correctly.

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@UNISWAG @GeorgiaTechFB Meh. Not terrible but not great either. The gold is a little off.

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@UNISWAG @NUFBFamily Not it.

[Ted D Williams @tedwill36]

Reflecting is no longer allowed at the Reflecting Pool.

[amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17]

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard troops as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

[Ted D Williams @tedwill36]

@mkgurjar_phy @espn Bot

[Ted D Williams @tedwill36]

Damn, I didn’t know about that one.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Ted D Williams @tedwill36]

@Bearly_Insane @MWCherrington The most glorious day I have ever had at CMS. The energy was incredible for pregame warmups and stayed at 10 all day.

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

All the states now drawing new congressional maps to eliminate Black districts were slave states that had joined the Confederacy, waged war on the USA and then imposed Jim Crow laws. That MUST be included in all media coverage for context!

[Ted D Williams @tedwill36]

Yeah, the whole world sees it. But some folks are hanging on as if he’s their only hope.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

British Journalists say that they don’t think that Trump really has any idea of what he’s saying when he’s giving these speeches because he goes off on a rambling rant that has nothing to do with what the actual topic was. They want a reporter to ask him about it afterwards.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Ashley St. Clair: “All of MAGA is paid and they coordinate their messaging in lockstep via groupchats. All of these people came to the conclusion that after what they saw at the WHCD, their first thought was ‘Trump needs his ballroom.’ One of the main groupchats in which they coordinate this messaging is literally called ‘Fight, Fight, Fight!’ after the ‘attempt’ on Trump’s life in Butler”

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Ashley St. Clair confirmed the WH runs group chats telling these accounts what to post. Within minutes of shots fired tonight, before there was any news of casualties and before the President said this exact talking point, this was the chat in real time.

[Ted D Williams @tedwill36]

@JoumannaTV Someone should ask him to explain why.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Our world is not divided by race, color, gender, or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender, or religion.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

The three countries voting against it?

🇺🇸 USA
🇮🇱Israel
🇦🇷 Argentina

Nearly all of Europe abstained.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

MAGA

This is from the Heritage Foundation-the authors of Project 2025- and all you’ll find is 77 cases of non-citizens voting over 23 years.

Search it yourself.

Do not give up your liberty to a con man full of lies

https://t.co/ehTWU4naPW

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

I just tried to fast track a bill to pay TSA workers NOW.

Sadly, Republicans in DC keep blocking it.

We all agree that TSA should be paid so what is the hold up? This is insanity.

[Chuck Park @chuckforqueens]

Rev. Jesse Jackson showed up for the family of Vincent Chin and Asian Americans when few others would.

His Rainbow Coalition showed us the way to solidarity.

May he rest in peace.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

The murder rate spiked in mid-2020 (when borders were closed) and then fell almost every month of Biden's term in office and has continued to fall. There is no association between murders and immigration.

[AnthroVet50 @spooked75]

Why is MAGA so hateful?

I get asked this a lot. The short answer is: because hate is the point. But let me break it down.

Grievance as identity

MAGA isn't a political movement built on policy. It's built on resentment. The core message has always been "you've been wronged" — by elites, by immigrants, by cities, by universities, by the media, by women, by minorities, by anyone who isn't you.

This isn't a coalition that comes together to BUILD something. It comes together to tear things down. Hate isn't a byproduct of the movement. It's the fuel.

Zero-sum thinking

They genuinely believe that if someone else gains, they lose. Rights for gay people? That's an attack on Christians. Immigrants succeeding? They must be stealing from "real Americans." A Black president? He must be illegitimate.

There's no concept of shared prosperity or expanding opportunity. Just winners and losers. And they're terrified of losing.

The dominance hierarchy

A lot of MAGA is rooted in evangelical and authoritarian psychology. There's supposed to be a natural order: white at the top, Christian at the top, male at the top, straight at the top.

When you've been at the top of a hierarchy your whole life, equality feels like oppression. Giving others a seat at the table feels like theft.

The media ecosystem

Fox News → OANN → Newsmax → podcasts → Twitter/X. It's a 24/7 rage machine. Every algorithm rewards outrage. Every host competes to be more extreme than the last.

These people are literally addicted to anger. Neurologically. They get dopamine hits from feeling righteous fury. They wake up and immediately check their phones to find out what they should be mad about today.

Turn it off for a week and they go through withdrawal.

Economic anxiety — weaponized

Here's the thing: a lot of the underlying pain is real. Deindustrialization gutted their towns. Opioids killed their families. Wages stagnated while costs exploded. The American Dream stopped working for them.

But instead of blaming the corporations that shipped jobs overseas, or the billionaires that rigged the economy, or the politicians that deregulated everything — they're taught to blame immigrants. To blame welfare recipients. To blame Black people in cities. To blame trans kids.

Classic fascist playbook: take legitimate economic anger and redirect it at the vulnerable.

The permission structure

Trump didn't create the hate. He just gave it permission.

For decades, these people were told to keep the quiet part quiet. Be polite. Use dog whistles. Then Trump came along and said the loud part loud — and nothing happened. No consequences.

He showed them they could be openly racist, openly cruel, openly contemptuous of democracy — and not only survive, but win.

"He fights" doesn't mean he fights for them. It means he's mean to people they don't like. The cruelty is the point.

Community built on enemies

This is the part people miss: MAGA is a community. For a lot of these people — especially older, rural, isolated Americans — it's their entire social world. Their friends are MAGA. Their family is MAGA. Their church is MAGA.

The hate is the membership card. The shared enemies are what bind them together. Leaving the movement doesn't just mean changing your politics. It means losing everyone you know.

So they double down. And double down again. Because the alternative is being alone.

The bottom line

Why is MAGA so hateful?

Because scared people + relentless propaganda + permission to be cruel + community built on shared enemies = hate as a lifestyle.

They're not going to be reasoned out of it. They weren't reasoned into it.

The only thing that works is making it socially and politically costly to be part of it. Outvoting them. Out-organizing them. And building something better that gives people a different place to belong.