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Conor M. Savoy

@conorsavoy.bsky.social
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Executive Director @FilterLabs.org. Former Visiting Fellow at Center for Global Development. Former foreign policy lead at USAID, former CSIS senior fellow, and aid advocate. Views are my own. Washington, DC girl dad; New Englander at heart.

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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh well when you put it like that it sounds so much better! 🙄
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Complaining about Gaza and dreaming about seizing the means of production while American democracy teeters on the edge of a cliff is one of the surest signs of privilege.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/07/2026
Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic: “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution … He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t," Vance wrote of Trump. Read the piece: theatln.tc/foJ8lGw3
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Great thread for the Civil War nerds out there.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
American families are complicated. I’m a Mayflower descendent on my mother’s side but my grandfather on my Dad’s side was a French Canadian immigrant in the 1930s who first crossed illegally into Maine. Then came back and eventually naturalized.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
2/ @rokhanna.bsky.social what were you thinking when you tied up with these guys?
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
TMZ DC is doing the lords work.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Americans when they hear Europeans don't have air conditioning
Matthew McConaughey in dazed and confused looking out the window of his car saying be a lot cooler if you did
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Once again I am asking what position do these people serve in? Would love all the SFRC republicans who care about the constitution to ask if these people are formal envoys.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Jealousy is a heckuva drug
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Reading comprehension and the law remain pesky things for this administration
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands
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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The competition is stiff, but this guy is high in the rankings of biggest cunt worldwide.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
You know this is true because he’s also got conspiracy nut Mike Benz engaged on how USAID funded Maidan and is therefore responsible for 300K deaths in Ukraine…
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Glad he's stomping on the grave of USAID right now. Guess it beats watching Space X's stock tank over the past two days?
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
One hundred percent. I have two girls and feel the same way.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Once again I’m asking what position Jared Kushner actually holds and whether he’s undergone a security clearance process…
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I'm sorry this is very funny
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/06/2026
“Unlike what happens to other great battles, the passing of the years and the retelling of the story have softened the horror of Omaha Beach on D Day,” the U.S. Army combat historian S. L. A. Marshall wrote in our November 1960 issue.
bit.ly
First Wave at Omaha Beach
An account of the “epic human tragedy” that unfolded when Allied troops landed on the shores of Normandy on D-Day
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This has been the rumor or speculation in DC aid policy circles for some time now. To the best of my knowledge this is the clearest, public confirmation we’ve had that it’s true. GAVI is an incredibly efficient and effective org. Delivers clear value for money. The holdup is ideology alone.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
God bless this man.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I’m pretty sure there was also a “very” serious Politico piece on how Adams was the future of the Democratic Party.
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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Vance, Witkoff, and Kushner to be at the talks. Do we know who else will be with them? Will they have any experts or diplomats to advise them or are they just going to wing it? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
washingtonpost.com
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Truly pathetic.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Glad I had a French Canadian grandfather. Who would be utterly appalled by what’s happening here.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The responses to this perfectly reasonable thread are wild. People are living in an alternate universe.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Nothing like paraphrasing ::checks notes::.. Stalin…well done Bridge.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Rick Scott working overtime to be dumber than Tuberville today.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Terrifying to think that should the worst case scenario happen that the best we can hope for is Marco Rubio's resignation potentially slowing it down.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
As always an excellent thread from @profsaunders.bsky.social. My oldest daughter (9) asked me over the weekend why we attacked Iran. The best I could come up with was “because we could.” That is so scary and unsettling to me as an American.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
From the same person who brought us Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
So much winning.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This new edition of "Getting to Yes" is a game-changer!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/03/2026
thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Somewhere William P Rogers is smiling as he’s no longer the worst Secretary of State of the last 60 years.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Trubio Doctrine: Ceding the convening power of US diplomacy along with the Strait of Hormuz
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I still struggle with the idea that we venerate people who engaged in high treason against this country. They swore oaths and then literally slaughtered thousands of their countrymen. Celebrate the real heroes like Chamberlain.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is sick.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"What kind of TSA PreCheck Member are you"
Jesse Plemmons in CIVIL WAR
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I deeply admired Bob Mueller, he was a dying (dead?) breed in DC. I could say a lot about him, but one of my favorite moments in DC was when walking down the street, wearing a blue pinstripe suit, white button down, and blue tie, I saw Mueller wearing the exact same thing. 1/
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Robert Mueller never had bone spurs and, if he had, he still would definitely have served his country. He was an example of what made America great, something now being destroyed by the President of the USA.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Part of Trump's sneering contempt for Robert Mueller is driven by the fact that Mueller volunteered to serve in a combat role in Vietnam and earned a chestful of medals, while Trump weaseled out of service yet keeps talking about how much he wants a Purple Heart now.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
1/ The Trump administration is right to demand a return on foreign assistance. It is wrong about how to get one. A deal-by-deal, extractive approach isn't strategic — it's self-defeating. 🧵
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Pete Hegseth insisted every single one of the families told them to "finish the job," but when the father of one soldier said he didn't say anything like that, the Pentagon's response was that the conversations with the families are private. Oh, sure, *now* they're private.
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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This is still so wild. An American treaty ally made preparations to fight us and make an attack (what?) bloody. I really don’t know what to do with this…I’m sure the Speaker of the House didn’t see this so why bother asking him if this worries him.
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.
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Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Put Iran aside. Calling the war to defeat the Islamic State — a war carried out by an 87-nation coalition! — a war “manufactured by Israel” is some wild stuff, and progressives should avoid cheering this rift on. This is a harbinger of anti-liberal, anti-Semitic, right-wing rhetoric to come.
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Yes, you do.
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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Captain von Trapp reporting for duty
Christopher Plummer in Sound of Music
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