Has it only been four years since the sleazy Harpers Letter guy, Thomas Chatterton Williams blocked me on Twitter?
He's shown up on Bluesky - Tom Scocca immediately blocked him.
I couldn't resist engaging.
The level of Williams' weaseliness is truly breath-taking, he's right up there with Steven Pinker - he even uses Pinker's favorite get-out-of-jail-free card, "guilt by association."
To get some idea of how extremely pro-Trump the gang at Bari Weiss' Free Press is, look no further than their celebration of Trump's win, posted to the Free Press site. Oh and it turns out Brianna Wu is now a right-wing grifting asshole. I guess the price was right.
Curiously Williams has his own page on Free Press, but no articles associated with it. Which I assume means he's on staff, and doesn't need to display articles in order to justify a connection to Free Press.
Meanwhile Williams is claiming to be concerned about the looming Trump dictatorship.
It was clear to me that Williams is not very bright when he was interviewed in the New Yorker by Ian Chotiner. But I'm only now realizing how incredibly shameless Williams is. I don't think I've ever spoken to someone with so little personal integrity.
Razib Khan is also on Bluesky now, but immediately blocked me.
