Will Cathcart
@willcathcart.bsky.social
Journalist: Foreign Policy, CNN, The Daily Beast, VICE, Air Mail, NatGeo, LitHub, AFIO’s Intelligencer. Former advisor to President of Georgia. Senior Advisor @DiplomacyTask
“How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day.”
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Going thru customs in India today:
- Name?
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
- Occupation?
- No, those are self defence militias and Russia is not involved
- Name?
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
- Occupation?
- No, those are self defence militias and Russia is not involved
December 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Going thru customs in India today:
- Name?
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
- Occupation?
- No, those are self defence militias and Russia is not involved
- Name?
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
- Occupation?
- No, those are self defence militias and Russia is not involved
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New UK audiobook edition of COUNT ZERO by William Gibson is out now!
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Published by @wfhowes.bsky.social.
#neuromancer #sprawlseries @greatdismal.bsky.social
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Published by @wfhowes.bsky.social.
#neuromancer #sprawlseries @greatdismal.bsky.social
June 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Senate just passed a $170B immigration bill: ICE budget triples, $46B+ for wall, 116K detention beds—a 265% increase over ICE’s current capacity. 10K new agents. If passed, ICE becomes the highest-funded law enforcement agency in U.S. history. #GestapoICE @mmm.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
July 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Senate just passed a $170B immigration bill: ICE budget triples, $46B+ for wall, 116K detention beds—a 265% increase over ICE’s current capacity. 10K new agents. If passed, ICE becomes the highest-funded law enforcement agency in U.S. history. #GestapoICE @mmm.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
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All the talk about the Reverse Robin Hood bill now before the US Senate is about increasing the national debt and cutting Medicaid just further grant subsidies to the stratospherically rich. Yes, giant problems.
But it also sets up ICE to formally become the American Gestapo. Here's how, why […]
But it also sets up ICE to formally become the American Gestapo. Here's how, why […]
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July 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
All the talk about the Reverse Robin Hood bill now before the US Senate is about increasing the national debt and cutting Medicaid just further grant subsidies to the stratospherically rich. Yes, giant problems.
But it also sets up ICE to formally become the American Gestapo. Here's how, why […]
But it also sets up ICE to formally become the American Gestapo. Here's how, why […]
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My story about a newish phenomenon of deportations from the occupied areas of Ukraine. Russia tells people they are banned from “Russia” for 40/50 years, drives them 20 hours under guard to the border with Georgia and pushes them across
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Banned from home for 40 years: deportations are Russia’s latest move to ‘cleanse’ Ukraine
A deal freezing frontlines would be unacceptable for Serhiy Serdiuk, who was taken to Georgia in handcuffs with his family after refusing to teach the Russian curriculum
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
My story about a newish phenomenon of deportations from the occupied areas of Ukraine. Russia tells people they are banned from “Russia” for 40/50 years, drives them 20 hours under guard to the border with Georgia and pushes them across
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Georgian Dream has adopted in a first of three parliamentary passages legislation to expedite baninng parties upon their founding, when they are considered a re-establishment of already banned parties.
The amendments are handled in an expedited manner.
www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...
The amendments are handled in an expedited manner.
www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...
Parliament supported the legislative package related to the ban on political parties in the first reading
The Parliament supported the legislative package related to the ban on political parties in the first reading. The proposed amendments to the "Law on Political Associations of Citizens" and the "Law o...
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April 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Georgian Dream has adopted in a first of three parliamentary passages legislation to expedite baninng parties upon their founding, when they are considered a re-establishment of already banned parties.
The amendments are handled in an expedited manner.
www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...
The amendments are handled in an expedited manner.
www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...
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Unkind men so often whither in the face of unkindness.
March 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Unkind men so often whither in the face of unkindness.
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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
March 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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Also read this: "The government is plunging Georgia ever deeper into a human rights crisis,” Williamson of @hrw.org said, “The authorities could avoid making it worse and instead indicate that they retain some respect for human rights and rule of law by scrapping the foreign agents bill.”
March 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Also read this: "The government is plunging Georgia ever deeper into a human rights crisis,” Williamson of @hrw.org said, “The authorities could avoid making it worse and instead indicate that they retain some respect for human rights and rule of law by scrapping the foreign agents bill.”
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another great #Tbilisi dog moment (& Star Wars music adding an extra nice touch).
#dogs #strays #TbilisiDogsAretheBest (not sure who recorded, from Chemi Kalaki Mklavs FB group.)
#dogs #strays #TbilisiDogsAretheBest (not sure who recorded, from Chemi Kalaki Mklavs FB group.)
March 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
another great #Tbilisi dog moment (& Star Wars music adding an extra nice touch).
#dogs #strays #TbilisiDogsAretheBest (not sure who recorded, from Chemi Kalaki Mklavs FB group.)
#dogs #strays #TbilisiDogsAretheBest (not sure who recorded, from Chemi Kalaki Mklavs FB group.)
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The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster.
Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔
Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔
March 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster.
Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔
Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔
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March 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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During the great Chinese famine, a few communist party officials organised food aid for the starving. They were arrested, put on trial for "denying the great harvest" and shot. I imagine that kind of atmosphere to an extent exists in the Republican Party right now.
March 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
During the great Chinese famine, a few communist party officials organised food aid for the starving. They were arrested, put on trial for "denying the great harvest" and shot. I imagine that kind of atmosphere to an extent exists in the Republican Party right now.
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Ben Wallace: "Hope is the most important thing in this type of conflict and, at the moment, Donald Trump is suffocating the hope that Putin can be either fought to a standstill or indeed brought to the table." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Trump suspending US intelligence sharing is ‘suffocating’ Ukraine’s hope, says Ben Wallace
Former UK defence secretary suggests Ukraine can still win the war if it continues holding off Russian forces
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Ben Wallace: "Hope is the most important thing in this type of conflict and, at the moment, Donald Trump is suffocating the hope that Putin can be either fought to a standstill or indeed brought to the table." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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For now, Bachiashvili got the better of Ivanishvili, who will be livid.
Will be interesting to see what GB does next.
(& yes, if this was properly governed state, none of this should matter.) /END
Will be interesting to see what GB does next.
(& yes, if this was properly governed state, none of this should matter.) /END
March 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
For now, Bachiashvili got the better of Ivanishvili, who will be livid.
Will be interesting to see what GB does next.
(& yes, if this was properly governed state, none of this should matter.) /END
Will be interesting to see what GB does next.
(& yes, if this was properly governed state, none of this should matter.) /END
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Bachiashvili's escape from Georgia shows that Ivanishvili cannot hold the country together -- he couldn't even hold his own team together, in which Bachiashvili as key pillar loyally (by most plausible accounts) took care of his (legit-side) finances. 1/
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Former Ivanishvili Aide Bachiashvili Says He Left Georgia - Civil Georgia
Giorgi Bachiashvili, a former aide to Bidzina Ivanishvili, wrote on social media today, March 4, tha
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March 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Bachiashvili's escape from Georgia shows that Ivanishvili cannot hold the country together -- he couldn't even hold his own team together, in which Bachiashvili as key pillar loyally (by most plausible accounts) took care of his (legit-side) finances. 1/
civil.ge/archives/666...
civil.ge/archives/666...
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Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
February 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
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The PS killed me lmao
I always appreciate heartfelt feedback from my readers like “These billionaires… are making sacrifices to protect free speech”and “You are evil. You belong in communist China, you spineless, parasitic piece of shit.” Thanks Justin!
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February 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The PS killed me lmao