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international relations/democracy/Ukraine -
formerly worked in the political risk field. Tufts MALD alum, current MBA student.
- Reposted by Will WFrom birtherism to natural born citizenship, the president is a racist nativist all the way down. You cannot separate this Administration’s view of our national identity from this invidious slop.
- Reposted by Will WPour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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- Reposted by Will WWill be interesting to see the posture that people take around this today. For my part, I'm glad to see that the white supremacists continue to make it clear how anti-Black and racist they are. It goes to the very top. This is what their weaponization of "woke" was always about.
- So 2026 midterms, Democrats need more than lawyers to protect polling sites.
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- Reposted by Will W“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Did the opening ceremony happen already? I honestly didn’t know the Olympics were this year. Mad new cycle.
- Reposted by Will WINBOX: 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 Will WDon’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
- Reposted by Will WDemocrats should defund and restrain ICE to the degree possible. And they should insist on this condition at least: No ICE (or Border Patrol) anywhere near the polls or early voting election locations this fall.
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- Reposted by Will WOne by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
- Reposted by Will W“it takes 10 emails from me for a release condition to be corrected. It takes me threatening to walk out for something else to be corrected.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
- Reposted by Will WIf many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...
- Reposted by Will WFor >10 years I’ve been on an admissions committee for a prominent science journalism fellowship. We always have around 150 applications from around the world to review for 6 spots. This year we only had 32 applications. And several we can’t review because they’re visa restricted now.
- When I was a teenager, my family took a trip to the Caribbean. They told they met an artist and his family, someone they didn’t know. At one point we ran into them, it was fucking Ben Folds and I couldn’t think of anything to say. Great guy. Wish I could’ve told him that.
- Reposted by Will WWhen Republicans refer to "criminal illegal aliens," they mean everyone who is here on an asylum claim is a criminal. Latino voters who flipped to Trump in 2024 didn't quite get that. They do now. Also, many of the “criminal records” are for things like driving with no license & other misdemeanors.
- Reposted by Will WThis is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
- "MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Will W1/ America's democratic backsliding under Trump has been far faster and steeper than in Russia under Putin, Hungary under Orban, Venezuela under Chavez and Turkey under Erdogan, according to this remarkable graph and report from @jburnmurdoch in the Financial Times today.
- Reposted by Will WNow do Ukraine.
- Reposted by Will Wthis one really hurts
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- Minnesota for Nobel Peace Prize.
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- Reposted by Will WI keep coming back to this clip as a symbol of the Democratic Party’s challenges. Murphy correctly says ICE “is not about safety or immigration, but a pretext for Trump to take over.” Given this fact, Democratic leadership’s reform and fund plan makes no sense.
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- Reposted by Will WThe Kansas bathroom bill applies to state government buildings. State Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat who is trans, was selected to fill a vacant seat earlier this month and it's believed this bill was specifically targeted at her. Disgusting and hateful. Details here:
- Reposted by Will WA fraud is about to be perpetrated on the people of Fulton County. And it isn't coming from the county.
- Scoop: AG Bondi gave St. Louis US Attorney Thomas Albus special appointment with nationwide authority to probe voter fraud. This explains why Albus, not the Atlanta US attorney, was on FBI's Fulton County search warrant yesterday. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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- Reposted by Will WI know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
- Reposted by Will WJUST IN: Judge Schiltz cancels Friday’s contempt hearing but lights into ICE, saying the agency may have violated more court orders this month than many others have in their entire existence. “ICE is not a law unto itself.”
- Reposted by Will WIt's amazing how this radical "step too far" is how every law enforcement officer in the country operated for our entire history.
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- Reposted by Will WI'm starting to think the Trumpist mastery of propaganda is failing them. The DHS agents posing this way makes it look like they're ashamed of themselves.
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- Reposted by Will WThis was an invented moral panic. The NYT and Fox News ran more stories about trans people than the Advocate, an explicitly LGBTQ publication. It was the exact same story in the UK. The media fanned the flames of a moral panic.
- Reposted by Will WThis is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked. The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
- Reposted by Will W“It's no surprise that a company run by a man who sat behind Trump at his inauguration, and donated to the destruction of the White House, has taken a stance that helps ICE agents retain anonymity,” — Dominick Skinner, the creator of ICE List www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
- Reposted by Will WJust started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
- As someone who thinks guns should have little to no place in a modern society, I wish this were true. But what I think he meant was “people I don’t like can’t have guns.”
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- Reposted by Will WTwo weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.
- Reposted by Will Wpretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
- Reposted by Will WThe party that has spent unlimited resources and energy getting states to pass laws to allow citizens to openly carry loaded weapons anywhere - now believes that exercising this right is permission for law enforcement to murder you. Honestly, how dumb do they think we are?
- The Atlantic keeps coming out with the goods, and I still don’t have a subscription. I think it’s time to bite the bullet.
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- Reposted by Will WGawt DAMN. What’s the name of his store? Wanna send him some signed goodies.
- Reposted by Will Wthe people shooting people and the people being shot both have an equal responsibility to reduce gun violence
- Reposted by Will WI spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.
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- Reposted by Will WThey don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.
