Thomas Chatterton Williams

Hey everyone, SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT is out today from @aaknopf! I appreciate the love, expect the criticism, and hope this book will reach all the open-minded readers who genuinely care about achieving a healthy and robust multiethnic society once and for all. 🙏🏽

Let me get this straight. The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality. Everything was above board. Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded.  So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.”  He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it. This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness. Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come. None of this is America First. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…

EXCLUSIVE: Father of service member killed in Iran war said he did not tell Pete Hegseth to "finish" the job. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

COHEN: The people you fired were experts on Iran, were they not? PATEL: I don't believe so COHEN: They worked in counterintelligence, did they not? PATEL: I'm taking you at your word COHEN: You're the director. I'm not. You should know the answer

@QED76 @MorePerfectUS it's libertarian, that's not the main point, though

@MorePerfectUS @thomaschattwill Calling the "Cato Institute" conservatives is hilarious and reveals how leftists view anyone who is also not far left.

The conservative Cato Institute is accusing the Trump admin of carrying out the largest fraud in the history of the immigration system — totaling $1 billion dollars. The scheme allegedly involves taking processing fees from immigrants, then never providing the promised services.

@Plastic_Dingus @haugejostein I don’t dispute that at all

@thomaschattwill @haugejostein We can hope opinions of the US without Trump will be better, but what reason should anyone ever trust us again? It's the American people who have shown ourselves untrustworthy.

This is wild. People in *every single one* of the top US allies now think it's better to depend on China than the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.

The crucial caveat here is that it is The U.S. "under Donald Trump," no the U.S. per se

At least 16 US military aircraft have been destroyed in the Iran war, including about 10 Reaper drones, with several others badly damaged in attacks or accidents bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

BREAKING: Iranian missile has hit the BAZAN oil refinery in Haifa

Last year, Donald Trump Jr. invested in a rare earths startup at a $200 million valuation. Then three months later, the US government announced a huge loan backstop for the company and now it's worth around $2 billion. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Absolutely morbid black comedy that the U.S. government is removing sanctions on Russian and Iranian oil in 2026 not as part of any celebrated peace deal or diplomatic normalization but as a last-ditch effort to soften the blow of a historic energy crisis caused by a U.S. war.

WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf. Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.

Laser-focused

This isn’t it

@HernaniiBA @DamonLinker Which was crazy at the time and especially crazy in retrospect

@DamonLinker @thomaschattwill Also: everyone in the US, from right to left, was saying “we do not have a good thing, this sucks”.

We had a good thing going

This is a real thing that happened

I think the media/pundit class is so chastened by past examples of Donny wriggling out of jams that Iran coverage even in “liberal” media is too cautious/charitable. The economic/geopolitical fallout from this will be nightmarish - by far the biggest catastrophe of his two terms

Obama opposed the Iraq War when most Dem leaders were for it, which earned him enormous progressive cred in his 2008 campaign even while he was pretty modded out on other issues. The 2028 parallel would be a non-leftist who breaks left on Israel. slowboring.com/p/the-obama-of…