Conor P. Williams

Pentagon Tells Congress First Week of Iran War Cost More Than $11.3 Billion

"More Than $11.3 Billion" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

Hey LawSky who feels up to writing an essay about how to approach prosecuting Trump officials in 2029

These fucking thieves

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.

Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.

expertoptout@superhuman.com

Yessir

Except for me, I have only grown in stature and appeal

(Correctly, because it isn’t a serious proposal to the problems)

I’m old enough to remember when McCain proposed something like this as an answer to the economic pain of the Great Recession, and liberals all laughed it out of the discourse

“We want a functioning democracy. They want content.”

I hate Paramount+’s champions league streaming status quo, which is often to NOT stream games after they finish for many hours.

The Bay Area Considers the Unthinkable: Life Without BART

No. BART is amazing. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

Same

Reading Schelling in Tehran: 1 Technically, in Doha

"Rather, it is the manipulation of the possibility and the expression of violence as part of a way to both drive an adversary to the negotiating table and to make sure that whatever emerges from the bargaining process is maximally favorable to one’s own side." musgrave.substack.com/p/reading-sc...

TCF was a great home for my work! But it's time for a new thing (starting in a week). Stay tuned.

I joined in August 2018, because Rick Kahlenberg and Mark Zuckerman were willing to give me a home to do my (often) quirky, idiosyncratic sort of research.

Since I engage with a fair number of colleagues on here, I wanted to note that today will be my last day at @tcfdotorg.bsky.social.

BAH GAWD THAT'S @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social's MUSIC

Random crowdsourcing request: anyone know of any experts to consult about whether the rate of food-borne illness has gone up with Trump-era deregulation?

This is becoming an infinite regression scandal, like, it is a media SCANDAL that the evidence of that horrific political scandal appears not to matter overmuch.

The ways of my people

This most of all. We’re incurring stress and trauma debts that we’ll collectively be paying for decades as these kids age

The immigrants being detained in Northern Michigan Who they are and how to support them

"The immigrants being detained in Northern Michigan" hannahreviewseverything.substack.com/p/the-immigr...

Congrats to the lucky couple

Reminds me of this old David Foster Wallace thought experiment. It was about civil liberties tradeoffs for safety, but still. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Being governed by baby murderers and pedophiles and the guy with a worm in his brain and the bald Peter Brimelow wannabe and the Tampa pedophile defender and the former professional wrestling executive and the Russian asset who wants to be Carmen Sandiego and the mega Christian Nationalist sucks.

We’re twins, apparently

No joke—it's delicious

This is why I keep saying that the U.S. literally can’t win in confrontations with Canadians. They’ve got the juice we lack.

Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Making Us Poorer—and Sicker Despite what the president says, evidence shows that immigrants do far more to aid the American labor force than to hinder it.

"Immigrants have helped reduce deficits every year between 1994 and 2023, in large part because the amount they pay in taxes outstrips the cost of the benefits they receive." trib.al/njoop3l

Ten goddamn years of the US right insisting it hates Middle East military adventures just to snap back cheering for the next step in the “Axis of Evil”