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William Gill🌻

@williamrgill.bsky.social
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Former U.S. diplomat • hedonist-in-training • Int’l Affairs, History, Jazz, Film, Books enthusiast • tea lover but not teetotal

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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 12h
This is because there’s no vision, no strategy, and no interagency policy coordination. There’s only doctrinaire bravado and ignorance masquerading as strength and authenticity.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 13h
Smart.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 10/10/2026
Microsoft’s CEO calls for putting an ‘emergency brake’ on AI. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’
Microsoft’s CEO calls for putting an ‘emergency brake’ on AI.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Their crooked audacity knows no bounds.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Avoiding Trump’s worst fails may be Rubio’s calculation, and the future GOP may even entertain it, but he’s Secretary of State/National Security Adviser. There’s no running away from what they’ve done. He may not have pulled the trigger but he’s unquestionably the undertaker of the American Century.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I don’t usually import posts here from the other place, but this is important for folks to know.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Rubio is shell of a person and wants to be president of the United States. He shouldn’t even be president of a kennel club.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Always blathering, always aggrieved, and always lying.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good. I hope Ukraine torches every single one of Russia’s fuel assets.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today in DC: "Beginning Saturday, crews will start another major round of cutting at the historic public golf course. The first phase contains 169 trees marked for removal. The Trump Administration says as many as 529 could eventually come down..." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
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More than 500 trees may be removed from D.C. golf course Trump wants to redesign
Beginning Saturday, National Park Service crews will start another major round of cutting at East Potomac Golf Links, according to a new filing in federal court.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Actually, it’s time for America to get a new president who puts America’s interests first rather than Putin’s.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
yep: Impeachment might be inconvenient to Democratic leaders & it might carry some political risk, but it is simply not tenable to allow the president to run roughshod over the rule of law & the constitutional order without meaningful, constitutional pushback. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is Begging to Be Impeached
The president’s despotism is itself a constitutional offense.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
FANATASTIC
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This excrescence is an indelible stain on the Office of the President and this country.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wonderful!
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Angry Americans could check Trump’s madness and start repairing the damage by giving the Democrats supermajorities in the House (290 seats) and Senate (67 seats) that would allow them to enact laws without Trump for the next 2 years. It won’t happen but that’s the answer.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fox Guards Henhouse
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🎯🎯🎯
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This unspeakably outrageous and it’s the same template Trump used when he sent his mob to sack the Capitol on January 6.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 08/10/2026
The last public execution in America was in 1936. A young black man in Kentucky was hanged by a drunk executioner; a news story said "They Ate Hotdogs While a Man Died." Was such an embarrassment that the governor outlawed it 18 months later www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The lawless shootings will continue until morale improves 🙄
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On Putin's birthday, moreover, Trump gave him: (1) an end to sanctions; (2) a drawdown of US troops defending NATO; and (3) a sleazy, super corrupt LUKoil deal—and this is just what we know so far.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Woah! "Through the end of June 2026, Trump meme coin investors have lost $3.81 billion." Poor folks fell for the grifter's scams. Via @snipy.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's PN:
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Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low
Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We can only hope. It would be the height of irony if Putin’s own hubris put paid to his reign but it’s awful that it required the death and destruction he inflicted on Ukraine
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel
Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord" seems to be one of the many bits in the Bible that too many Christians have skipped.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My god.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He Entered ICE Custody. By the Next Morning, He Was Dead. Lianyong Wei, a 51-year-old Chinese immigrant, died a day after entering ICE custody. NPR says he was the 57th detainee death reported since Trump’s second term began. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/he-entered...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026
NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.
A vertical graphic on a white background displays an October 9, 2026, joint statement from the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The full statement, presented in black serif text, reaffirms unwavering support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), strongly opposes U.S. sanctions against the Court, warns of their impact on its work, staff, and families, and pledges continued support for international justice, accountability, and the rules-based international system.Marco Rubio, mouth agape, as he announces sweeping sanctions on the ICC to try to punish them for acknowledging Bibi Netanyahu’s war crimes
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump has turned its Civil Rights Division’s mission on its head, a federal judge said in a decision blocking the administration from demanding states’ unredacted voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge rebukes Trump administration for perverting mission of DOJ’s ‘crown jewel’
Read more here.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is an intensification of a movement I saw firsthand in Canada in May. Canadian products were often clearly labeled as such. No one can blame them for not wanting to buy U.S. goods and—perhaps—U.S. companies will pressure the Trump admin to stop its absurd, damaging policies.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The rhetoric of tech in a nutshell: I value convenience, efficiency, ease first and also have no capacity to recognize humanity, my own or others, but feel qualified to run the world. Someone send an army of divorce lawyers; after all this guy already wants to disconnect.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The simultaneous Peace Prize announcement and statement of support for the International Criminal Court by eight of our major allies after U.S. sanctions were imposed are a clear and explicit reaffirmation of a rules-based system by the international community. It’s a rebuke Trump won’t understand.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
President Zelenskyy is right and what Trump is doing is shameful and dishonorable.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I enjoyed your S.C.E. series immensely and if I didn’t have them all I’d happily take advantage of this deal.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
Regardless of the legality of posting armed national guard members at drop boxes, whether the boxes were open yet, or whether drop boxes qualify as polling sites under the law; the optics are what matter. Lawful or not, it’s overt, intentional voter suppression.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
speaking of public executions: "as open enrollment begins this month, roughly five million people will be forced to switch plans because their current policy has been canceled or is no longer offered in the county where they live" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...
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Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance
As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What a good actor he is, and an accomplished scene-stealer. He makes Reece Nesmith every bit the match of Jackson Lamb.
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s saddening, and the commenters in favor are equally sad. Capital punishment, televised or not, isn’t a dissuasive factor for murderers and we all know it. Televising an execution is regressive and it puts the U.S. in the company of countries whose human rights practices we condemn.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026
This is as treasonous as it gets
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2026
MeToo went about 1% as far as it should have gone.
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William Gill🌻 @williamrgill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Privatizing profits while socializing costs and risks must be ended, which means ensuring corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026
Makes it real clear what they mean by "liberty."
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Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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