Will W
@wweldon.bsky.social
international relations/democracy/Ukraine -
formerly worked in the political risk field. Tufts MALD alum, current MBA student.
formerly worked in the political risk field. Tufts MALD alum, current MBA student.
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“President Trump embraced a billionaire’s strategy to try to wring ideological concessions from universities. He blessed another’s role as Harvard University’s emissary for negotiations… Yet another billionaire helped steer cuts at the Department of Education — which a different billionaire leads.”
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“President Trump embraced a billionaire’s strategy to try to wring ideological concessions from universities. He blessed another’s role as Harvard University’s emissary for negotiations… Yet another billionaire helped steer cuts at the Department of Education — which a different billionaire leads.”
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The media doesn't treat the Trump regime's allegiances with neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes as antisemitism, but Zohran's belief in Palestinian liberation is treated as antisemitism.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The media doesn't treat the Trump regime's allegiances with neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes as antisemitism, but Zohran's belief in Palestinian liberation is treated as antisemitism.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
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The plan was leaked by the Russians and no one in America’s historically inept administration knew what anyone else was doing so people started getting behind it because they thought it was official policy.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The plan was leaked by the Russians and no one in America’s historically inept administration knew what anyone else was doing so people started getting behind it because they thought it was official policy.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
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A problem is that Rubio had an entire 24 hour news cycle to disavow this story. The lead story on many news sites. Calls from freaked out Europeans. Just because he wasn’t at the G20 doesn’t mean he wasn’t aware.
Rounds: Senator Shaheen mentioned that Secretary Rubio did make a phone call to us this afternoon. I think he made it very clear that we are the recipients of a proposal that was delivered to one of our representatives. It is not our recommendation. It is not our peace plan.
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
A problem is that Rubio had an entire 24 hour news cycle to disavow this story. The lead story on many news sites. Calls from freaked out Europeans. Just because he wasn’t at the G20 doesn’t mean he wasn’t aware.
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New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
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Three recent national polls now have Trump in the 30s, and his disapproval in the 60s....
Reuters/Ipsos 38%-60% (-22)
CNN/SRSS 37%-63% (-26)
AP/NORC 36%-62% (-26)
The thrill is gone, baby.
Reuters/Ipsos 38%-60% (-22)
CNN/SRSS 37%-63% (-26)
AP/NORC 36%-62% (-26)
The thrill is gone, baby.
Trump takes big hit in two new polls released today:
Reuters/Ipsos
38% approve (-2)
60% disapprv (+2) 4 pt drop in past week
Echelon
42% approve (-4)
57% disapprv (+4) 8 pt drop since mid October
Ruh-roh Donnie boy!
Reuters/Ipsos
38% approve (-2)
60% disapprv (+2) 4 pt drop in past week
Echelon
42% approve (-4)
57% disapprv (+4) 8 pt drop since mid October
Ruh-roh Donnie boy!
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Three recent national polls now have Trump in the 30s, and his disapproval in the 60s....
Reuters/Ipsos 38%-60% (-22)
CNN/SRSS 37%-63% (-26)
AP/NORC 36%-62% (-26)
The thrill is gone, baby.
Reuters/Ipsos 38%-60% (-22)
CNN/SRSS 37%-63% (-26)
AP/NORC 36%-62% (-26)
The thrill is gone, baby.
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When even the guy who did the brutal murder is weirded out by your defense of him and awkwardly tries to intervene with his preferred talking points, which are very much not "so what that scumbag deserved it."
Reporter to MBS: "U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist..."
Trump: "Fake news...He's done a phenomenal job. You're mentioning someone who was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about…things happen."
Trump: "Fake news...He's done a phenomenal job. You're mentioning someone who was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about…things happen."
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
When even the guy who did the brutal murder is weirded out by your defense of him and awkwardly tries to intervene with his preferred talking points, which are very much not "so what that scumbag deserved it."
Gateway funding not being restored should be a much bigger story.
Vindicator Exculsive: Senator Andy Kim is demanding answers after Donald Trump declared the Gateway Tunnel Project “terminated,” warning the move could have “catastrophic” consequences for commuters and the economy.
Trump’s Gateway Tunnel move risks ‘catastrophic’ fallout, Andy Kim warns
In an interview last week, Sen. Andy Kim pressed for answers on the future of the project, calling it vital to state's economy and commuters.
jerseyvindicator.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Gateway funding not being restored should be a much bigger story.
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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Is it bad if a sitting federal judge was (allegedly) part of a conspiracy to commit murder? It seems bad ....
OMFG-ex DOJ official (& now federal judge) Emil Bove was involved in the administration's plots to murder individuals via lethal strikes
"At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."
"At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Is it bad if a sitting federal judge was (allegedly) part of a conspiracy to commit murder? It seems bad ....
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This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
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1 out of every 25 Cop30 participants is someone who absolutely doesn't want to mitigate climate change.
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
1 out of every 25 Cop30 participants is someone who absolutely doesn't want to mitigate climate change.
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I want to say thank you to everyone who reads and supports Strength In Numbers. The organized backlash I'm getting from hacks and the centrist-contrarian-consultant industrial complex is proof of the value SIN brings to an otherwise insular and epistemically closed space. You make it possible! <3
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I want to say thank you to everyone who reads and supports Strength In Numbers. The organized backlash I'm getting from hacks and the centrist-contrarian-consultant industrial complex is proof of the value SIN brings to an otherwise insular and epistemically closed space. You make it possible! <3
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The staying power of this and the actual political threat it’s posed to trump has honestly stunned me
No, I am not placing a bet on it finally being the thing that brings him down politically, BUT that this won’t just go away is fascinating me, and infuriating the nominal leader of the free world.
No, I am not placing a bet on it finally being the thing that brings him down politically, BUT that this won’t just go away is fascinating me, and infuriating the nominal leader of the free world.
NEWS: Ro Khanna tells us *50 Republicans* may be set to join him, Thomas Massie, and Democrats in voting to release the Epstein files.
Perhaps explains why Trump is now spinning out of control, attacking Republicans like Massie and MTG who are joining Democrats in responding to the public demand.
Perhaps explains why Trump is now spinning out of control, attacking Republicans like Massie and MTG who are joining Democrats in responding to the public demand.
Trump Tries to Cover Up His Epstein Scandal With Wildly Corrupt Bullying
A Trump adviser tells Zeteo the Epstein scandal “really fucking pisses him off.” It’s only getting worse for the president.
zeteo.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The staying power of this and the actual political threat it’s posed to trump has honestly stunned me
No, I am not placing a bet on it finally being the thing that brings him down politically, BUT that this won’t just go away is fascinating me, and infuriating the nominal leader of the free world.
No, I am not placing a bet on it finally being the thing that brings him down politically, BUT that this won’t just go away is fascinating me, and infuriating the nominal leader of the free world.
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OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”
It is malpractice if journalists don’t press Trump, preferably while he is taking questions with another world leader, on whether he gave Bill Clinton a blowjob.
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It is malpractice if journalists don’t press Trump, preferably while he is taking questions with another world leader, on whether he gave Bill Clinton a blowjob.
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Finally my dream of spending 26 hours a day negotiating with insurance companies so I don’t die on the sidewalk outside of a hospital might become a reality
TRUMP: We’re going to give Americans the money to buy health insurance
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Finally my dream of spending 26 hours a day negotiating with insurance companies so I don’t die on the sidewalk outside of a hospital might become a reality
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Followup: www.yahoo.com/news/article...
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Followup: www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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I was told there was a crisis of free speech on campus that must be reversed
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I was told there was a crisis of free speech on campus that must be reversed
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COP was co-opted a long time ago. Despite all the meetings and tech promises, the bottom line is that emissions continue to rise. That is the metric. That is the bottom line.
The world is like firemen proudly pointing to their shiny new equipment while the fire spreads.
The world is like firemen proudly pointing to their shiny new equipment while the fire spreads.
#BREAKING 🚨
Every 1 in 25 people registered for #COP30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out analysis
In a year of record emissions, of Hurricane Melissa and millions displaced by climate change
The call is coming from inside the house
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Every 1 in 25 people registered for #COP30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out analysis
In a year of record emissions, of Hurricane Melissa and millions displaced by climate change
The call is coming from inside the house
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
COP was co-opted a long time ago. Despite all the meetings and tech promises, the bottom line is that emissions continue to rise. That is the metric. That is the bottom line.
The world is like firemen proudly pointing to their shiny new equipment while the fire spreads.
The world is like firemen proudly pointing to their shiny new equipment while the fire spreads.
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they want to stamp out the entire profession of public health for a generation. same day they announce they’re closing the CDC museum
🚨Dept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the “professional degree” category.
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
they want to stamp out the entire profession of public health for a generation. same day they announce they’re closing the CDC museum
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single member districts are bad
I'm going to die on the hill that Utah's redistricting outcome is actually bad for democracy.
We don't have a single competitive congressional district which means parties can retreat to polarizing treatment of each other rather than build roots in communities in order to win close races.
We don't have a single competitive congressional district which means parties can retreat to polarizing treatment of each other rather than build roots in communities in order to win close races.
For decades, any Utah Democrat who wanted to go to Congress had to campaign as a moderate or conservative. Now that the state has a solidly blue congressional seat, though, running as a progressive is suddenly an effective strategy.
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
single member districts are bad
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Dan Scavino tweets this group photo of the WH Personnel Office, of which he has been put in charge, and I think you’ll agree that they have defeated the scourge of DEI.
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Dan Scavino tweets this group photo of the WH Personnel Office, of which he has been put in charge, and I think you’ll agree that they have defeated the scourge of DEI.