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Will Li
@williamlidc.bsky.social
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Associate General Counsel at the National Treasury Employees Union. Skeets are my opinions and not NTEU’s. W&_ Law, Dartmouth he/him profile image from Openclipart banner from Grumpy Monkey
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 49m
*at least then, not they
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 50m
It’s just that over time more and more of them dropped the crypto- part of “crypto-fascist” and then more and more of them started being more Nazi than fascist. And now we see the Politico piece confirm what we’ve known.
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 50m
This reminds me of the Vidal / Buckley moment where Buckley got incensed at being called a crypto Nazi, and Vidal (iirc) later clarified he meant to say crypto fascist.

Because at least they, Republicans kept this fashy thoughts secret and they certainly didn’t enjoy the Nazi allegations.
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 6h
To call these weasel words would be an insult to mustelids
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 8h
Uhhh wow?
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 12h
Exhibit 801

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 12h
Padres manager Mike Shildt said he retired in part because of death threats from sports bettors:
Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain
www.nytimes.com
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 12h
What an iconic poster
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 12h
For me I’ve had those at some point and Big Trouble in Little China and at least one Harry Potter poster
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 13h
a no-talent asshole
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 13h
Without verifying, how many of his posters do you think you have had displayed or are displaying in your room/home?

I think my number is probably five or six but I could be undercounting.
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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 13h
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Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died
The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.
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Gul Dukat @realguldukat.bsky.social · 15h
Temporal Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They “disappeared” my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! #StarTrek #Sisko197
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 13h
What are the chances that they start including physical copies of WaPo with Amazon deliveries like an unwanted U2 album on iTunes?
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 13h
RIP D’Angelo

I could say “middle schoolers would call each other on their home landlines to say this music video was on MTV” but I don’t think they would understand the words.

Cancer sucks
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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 13h
How he deserves to be remembered. Insanely, off the charts talented and let's be honest, hot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxVN...
D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 14h
you do not, under any circumstance "gotta hand it to the conquistadors"
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22h
"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism
Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19h
2/ Democrats aren't going to vote for a budget that throws millions off health care and funds Trump's growing totalitarianism. At least I'm not.

Why work so hard to get to the Senate if you don't use your power to fight for what you believe in? Especially at a time like this.
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Sam Shirazi @samshirazi.bsky.social · 18h
Special bonus Federal Fallout pod out this morning

Interview with @pwcdanica.bsky.social

Senator Roem talks about Emerge Virginia and candidate training

Then goes over House of Delegates races, serving in General Assembly, and the Manassas battlefield

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Bonus Episode: State Senator Danica Roem on Emerge Virginia
Podcast Episode · Federal Fallout: The 2025 Virginia Elections · 10/14/2025 · 41m
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 1d
Consider it done
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 1d
I don’t exactly know why people fail to develop the vocabulary to be deeper and more complex readers, but there is definitely a feedback loop here - when you teach someone the vocabulary it often is enough to get them to read more and more complex texts. But someone usually has to start them.
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 1d
There are a lot of surface-level readers out there who are very capable of feelings that approximate deeper reading (comparisons between works, understanding themes, foreshadowing, the broader significance of textual references), but they never learn how to articulate those feelings into words.
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 1d
I think so too!
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 1d
Oh it’s definitely my friend Mike covering You Can Call Me Al.

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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 1d
The googly eyes really make this
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 1d
Like, look at this. Each point scoring or losing play can be reacted to or commented on, and people do.

This can’t possibly be good for us as a society.
Screenshot of a Yahoo! Fantasy football app screen. Each scoring play has reactions and comments available.
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 1d
I still found a use for them, but…every time I use one I get a little sheepish
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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 1d
Who the hell has time to laugh react on a fantasy site’s screen within a screen within a screen, and then reply to someone else’s comment, when Bijan Robinson gains two yards?

Are these real people?
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