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Will Cathcart

@willcathcart.bsky.social
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Journalist: Foreign Policy, CNN, The Daily Beast, VICE, Air Mail, NatGeo, LitHub, AFIO’s Intelligencer. Former advisor to President of Georgia. Senior Advisor @DiplomacyTask

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16/03/2026
Hey everyone remember this tweet from a week ago? Tell me again how this is going exactly as planned?
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🇲🇩🇺🇦 Thousands of Moldovans without water after Russian attack on Dniester hydroelectric power plant in Ukraine. Oil products have entered the river. Moldova begun shutting off water supplies due to pollution of river. Water is being delivered by tankers, schools have switched to distance learning.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
❗️❗️❗️Russia is increasing military support to Iran by sharing satellite intelligence and improved drone technology. This helps Iran better target U.S. and allied forces in the Middle East, - WSJ
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Will Cathcart @willcathcart.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
“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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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Going thru customs in India today: - Name? - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - Occupation? - No, those are self defence militias and Russia is not involved
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nanotek @kont.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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Will Cathcart @willcathcart.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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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Mark Mullen @mmm.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2025
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 […]
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Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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...
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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
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"Christ has risen" -- chant singing for Easter outside Kashveti Church on Rustaveli just now. #Tbilisi #Georgia
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Jelger Groeneveld @jelgerg.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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...
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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Unkind men so often whither in the face of unkindness.
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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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.)
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/03/2025
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? 🤔
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler #skybrary #skybrarians #booksky
A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads:
Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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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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
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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...
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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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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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...
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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The PS killed me lmao
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Will Cathcart @willcathcart.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It’s snowing in Tbilisi.
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 06/02/2025
The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan... mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-papua-...
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The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan
To America where Elon Musk, the world’s most economically wealthy and spiritually impoverished man, is staging a coup.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Novi Sad, Serbia. Remarkable footage captured last night in Serbia’s second largest city. Tens of thousands in another massive anti-government protest. (🎥 Kreni Promeni)
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
#repressioninGeorgia Isako Devidze arrested, his mother’s surgery money taken, even the EU & Georgian flags seized. When a regime fears its own people, it resorts to theft and repression. But no stolen money or broken doors will stop Georgians from standing for their future. 🇬🇪🇪🇺
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Will Cathcart @willcathcart.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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! thehill.com/opinion/5113... @thehill.com gmail is the new Twitter
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Will Cathcart @willcathcart.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@aoc.bsky.social The existence of centi-billionaires is not merely a symptom of systemic privilege or exploitation. It represents a flaw, a glitch in capitalism itself: a runaway mechanism of parasitic hyper-accumulation that has enabled unimaginable fortunes to balloon in an absurdly short time.
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Will Cathcart @willcathcart.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Humanity’s continuation requires that centi-billionaires become fossils—relics of a bygone era, studied by future generations to comprehend the absurd scale of their existence, the devastation caused by their tiny brains and outsized bodies, & the glitch in capitalism that enabled them @thehill.com
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“They’re accusing me of being putin’s puppet” Lady, while russian soldiers were in the Kyiv region slaughtering civilians you were posting russian talking points intended for the dumbest people alive
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
#GeorgiaProtests Georgia fights for its freedom. Day 64. 🇬🇪🇪🇺
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Read this banger by my friend @willcathcart.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/5113...
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Yes. @willcathcart.bsky.social spotted it, lives in the tunnel under Abanotubani. The tunnel is rad, too.
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Some mobile Internet down tonight. Belated post, instead of visual update from protest my first meeting with #Tbilisi's #otter (!!!) who was annoyed I interrupted his fish dinner, right off Maidan square earlier today. h/t @willcathcart.bsky.social
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The Lukoil refinery of Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod, in Russia has been severely hit by UAVs. Flames are consuming large parts of the facility, which processes annually 15 million tons of crude oil. It is the forth largest refinery in Russia in terms of production.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 29/01/2025
A rare cartwheel galaxy PGC-2248 Photo credit James Webb Space Telescope Constellation Sculptor Discovered 1941 by Fritz Zwicky Distance 500 light years Once a normal spiral galaxy it collided perfectly (bulls eye) with another galaxy who's shock wave created this unique structure.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Russian Telegram channels report a large fire at the oil refinery in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia after a drone attack. Locals report the fire is getting stronger.
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Visual summary of Art on Rustaveli this night. (There was lots more to see.) #art #Georgia
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
According to Mtavari Channel, regime MPs Zarkua and Sanikidze will spend a month in pre-trial detention in Abu Dhabi over their pre-planned physical assault of a Georgian citizen. GOD, PLEASE BE TRUE!
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
A judge couldn’t enter his egged car to leave the banquet. He’s egged too. Bus driver didn’t open doors. A guy inside took a video, laughing. People swear, call him a slave. Even the police doesn’t care about judges. What a time to be alive. #GeorgiaProtests 📷 Sandro Kinkladze
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Batumelebi&Netgazeti @netgazeti.org · 04/01/2025
The Ministry of Internal Affairs reports that the Migration Department expelled 91 foreign nationals from Georgia in November-December, including 25 involved in Tbilisi’s #GeorgiaProtests. Of these, 10 have already left the country following court-imposed administrative penalties.
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უცხო ქვეყნის 91 მოქალაქე გავაძევეთ, მათ შორის აქციებში მონაწილეები - შსს - Netgazeti
შინაგან საქმეთა სამინისტროს ცნობით, მიგრაციის დეპარტამენტმა ნოემბერ-დეკემბრის თვეებში საქართველოდან უცხო ქვეყნის 91 მოქალაქე გააძევა. როგორც შსს აცხადებს, გაძევებულთა შორის არიან ის პირები, რომლებიც თ...
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
JUST IN: Targeted beatings of female protesters began. In the last two days, a couple of active women protesters were physically assaulted by regime thugs as they minded their daily business. Teacher and violinist Gvantsa Chkheidze, for example. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
⭕ Today, January 4, violinist Gvantsa Chkhaidze, an active participant in the ongoing protests, wrote on Facebook that an unknown individual slammed her against a concrete wall. #GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
The Russian Ruble has lost 10% of its value in one week.
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