Emily Williams
Book lover. Rights & publishing geek. Director, IP & content services at EL Education. All views expressed are my own. Vivo en inglés y español. pronoun.is/she
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsIMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
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- Reposted by Emily WilliamsTrump voter: “I voted for Trump, but I really want to apologize. I’m looking at this awful picture he just posted of the Obamas as monkeys. What an embarrassment to our country.” op: @meidastouch.com
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsA professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries. n.pr/4qlvIaa
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsWas driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
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- Reposted by Emily WilliamsFriends! Tuesday, Feb. 10th, at 6:00 pm EST, @resistanceschool.bsky.social will host our very first virtual public salon! We will discuss the killings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and why the system erases white martyrs in the fight for civil rights. Register here: buy.stripe.com/28EfZi7VN6RA...
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsThe fact that Epstein had ties to the scientific community is not news, but the enormous cache of documents released by the DOJ last week was still startling. It showed just how deeply Epstein was involved—how many were in his orbit, and how deeply involved he was with some research. My reporting:
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsThe Washington Post has laid off least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told @sammyroth.bsky.social, effectively decimating one of the most important reporting teams in American climate journalism. A sad, terrifying, enraging day for the planet.
- Reposted by Emily Williams"Luis" harvests lemons in Orange Cove, CA. He earns $48 per 900lb crate. "On a good day, I can pick 2-3 crates. It is dangerous work. We climb up and down a 12-foot ladder paying attention to avoid the thorns. It's cold and wet at this time of year, so it's slippery." #WeFeedYou
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsThe Trump regime will never forgive or stop trying to punish people for the cruelties it has already committed against them.
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsJessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”
- This is the first cool book+tech news I've seen in a long time: use your phone camera and the Spotify app to sync audiobooks with print books *and* choosing to link Spotify's huge audiobook platform to indie bookstore online hub Bookshop.com for buying in other formats.
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsThe banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
- Reposted by Emily Williams“This is the stranger’s case; and this your mountainish inhumanity.” Chills.
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsWhen the assholes who own the big venues kill book coverage, they hurt all of us. If anyone needs a reviewer with a solid CV, I’m here. Let’s talk books. They matter.
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- Reposted by Emily WilliamsSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- Reposted by Emily WilliamsExperts warn the expiration of a long-standing nuclear arms control treaty between the two superpowers could mark the start of a new nuclear rivalry. n.pr/3LSIq29
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsTHREAD. A selection of notes I have made in my notebook about my dad, and the things he does. 1. The Public Swimming Pool
- Reposted by Emily Williamsas i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsSki mountaineering will make its Olympic debut this year, the first winter sport to do so since 2002. Skeleton, luge, ski jumping and moguls are also getting new events. n.pr/3Zj8zdw
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsWaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
- Reposted by Emily Williams"Really hard criminals"
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsIf Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsDunno if you saw the video but this 40-something F-150 skinhead got his shit catastrophically rocked by a bunch of teenagers
- Texas man arrested after he started fight with high schoolers who walked out of class to protest ICE www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsRead this whole astonishing document. it should be taught as an object lesson in what volunteering to assist a fascist government does to your mind, body, and soul.
- If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsPurim is all fun and games until someone gets too drunk and SLAUGHTERS their friend and then resurrects him by praying to God for mercy
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- Reposted by Emily WilliamsIncredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
- Feels like you could apply this template to just about any media company or creative industry: books, magazines, TV, movies. It's the rich benefactor trap.
- Reposted by Emily Williams11/ so fuck this whole thing. Then the self-immolation cuts start. If there’s one thing a local paper needs, a metro paper needs its sports. If you can’t do sports, which has a mass audience, you can’t do anything. When you cut your sports section it’s because you actually don’t want the paper …
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- Reposted by Emily Williams3/ background when you face the absolute necessity of making payroll. It’s a brutal task master. That’s not what we’re seeing right now at the Washington Post: this is the very formulaic billionaire press baron cycle. You come in as the white knight. You’ve got a limitless checkbook.
- Reposted by Emily Williamsalways bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsNEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning. Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsA lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
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- Reposted by Emily Williams"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsA staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsA thing that is funny about the moral grandstanding by Repubs re: Christopher Columbus is that nobody knew or cared about him 100 years ago. His "holiday" is barely 50 years old and was pushed through by Italian-American lobby groups in response to...anti-immigrant prejudice.
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsSo the Biblical case for border security is that the Bible says the opposite, but you have to understand that the Bible is written for individuals, like those on the radical left who want to welcome strangers and love our neighbors. It's different if you're a government.
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsA Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsDamn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things
- Reposted by Emily WilliamsThe US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
