Stephanie T. Williams
@stephanietwilliams.bsky.social
Global nomad. Former U.S. and UN diplomat, served in Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait & Pakistan. Grew up in India, Afghanistan & Pakistan.
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‘Spy Sheikh’ Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company - deal for $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty signed 4 days before Trump inauguration and months before UAE won access to tightly guarded American AI chips
Amazing @wsj.com story
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Amazing @wsj.com story
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‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
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February 1, 2026 at 2:56 PM
‘Spy Sheikh’ Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company - deal for $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty signed 4 days before Trump inauguration and months before UAE won access to tightly guarded American AI chips
Amazing @wsj.com story
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Amazing @wsj.com story
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This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 AM
This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
The FT’s Ed Luce: « Trump’s new world order is now very much a reality. It consists of no obvious rules, does not respect allies, celebrates the jungle and is almost always about money. «
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Trump now owns Venezuela
The US president has a growing appetite for military adventure
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January 4, 2026 at 2:12 PM
The FT’s Ed Luce: « Trump’s new world order is now very much a reality. It consists of no obvious rules, does not respect allies, celebrates the jungle and is almost always about money. «
www.ft.com/content/4388...
www.ft.com/content/4388...
Love this. Happy Hanukkah!
It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.
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Happy Hanukkah
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December 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Love this. Happy Hanukkah!
What a gut-wrenchingly beautiful story about Melissa Hortman. Murdered along with her husband (& their dog), their children painfully robbed of their parents, all of us robbed of a great leader.
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
What a gut-wrenchingly beautiful story about Melissa Hortman. Murdered along with her husband (& their dog), their children painfully robbed of their parents, all of us robbed of a great leader.
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
In a devastating survey of current employees conducted by the State Department’s union: 86% say changes in the workplace since January have affected their ability to advance U.S. diplomatic priorities; 98% report poor morale. Nearly 1 in 3 are considering leaving the Service. Generational damage.
You’ve seen the headlines, but the full picture is even more alarming.
New data reveals just how severe the crisis inside the diplomatic workforce has become.
Our grim findings are drawn from the voices of more than 2,000 active-duty Foreign Service members.
Read it: afsa.org/at-the-break...
New data reveals just how severe the crisis inside the diplomatic workforce has become.
Our grim findings are drawn from the voices of more than 2,000 active-duty Foreign Service members.
Read it: afsa.org/at-the-break...
At the Breaking Point: The State of the U.S. Foreign Service in 2025 — A Report by the American Foreign Service Association
America’s global leadership depends on a strong, professional diplomatic workforce. But in 2025, the U.S. Foreign Service faces an unprecedented crisis. Personnel losses, political interference, and t...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
In a devastating survey of current employees conducted by the State Department’s union: 86% say changes in the workplace since January have affected their ability to advance U.S. diplomatic priorities; 98% report poor morale. Nearly 1 in 3 are considering leaving the Service. Generational damage.
Jeff Feltman’s new piece for @brookings.edu on the tragedy in Sudan in advance of the MbS visit to Washington.
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Sudan's deadly divide: The RSF and SAF's reign of terror | Brookings
While methods vary, both RSF and SAF forces demonstrate disdain for international humanitarian law and contempt for Sudan’s citizens.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Jeff Feltman’s new piece for @brookings.edu on the tragedy in Sudan in advance of the MbS visit to Washington.
www.brookings.edu/articles/sud...
www.brookings.edu/articles/sud...
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Trump has no idea what’s going on. He’s turned the WH into a gilded Assisted Living Facility with court jesters and a ballroom.
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Trump has no idea what’s going on. He’s turned the WH into a gilded Assisted Living Facility with court jesters and a ballroom.
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#OTD in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first Black Supreme Court justice. His work as a civil rights lawyer, including in Brown v. Board of Education, reshaped America’s path toward equality. #TheMarchContinues
August 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#OTD in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first Black Supreme Court justice. His work as a civil rights lawyer, including in Brown v. Board of Education, reshaped America’s path toward equality. #TheMarchContinues
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Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya underscore that regime change does not result in political stability. "Libya Since Qaddafi: Chaos and the Search for Peace" by @stephanietwilliams.bsky.social documents this reality and the tremendous difficulties in restoring social order to fractured nations.
July 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya underscore that regime change does not result in political stability. "Libya Since Qaddafi: Chaos and the Search for Peace" by @stephanietwilliams.bsky.social documents this reality and the tremendous difficulties in restoring social order to fractured nations.
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"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
June 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
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So Trump lied when he said “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated”? No way? He lied?
NEW: The US conducted strikes targeting three nuclear facilities w/ bunker-buster bombs and Tomahawk cruise missiles. The US said all three sites sustained “extreme damage.” Israeli officials echoed that statement, though they added the Fordow facility was “not destroyed.” isw.pub/IranSpecialR...
June 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
So Trump lied when he said “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated”? No way? He lied?
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ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.
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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full emails below
Full emails below
June 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full emails below
Full emails below
TY to the NYT for unmasking this crude attack on free speech and the academy. Obvs that Heritage is directly hooked into the Trump regime on this & other attempts to crush our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
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May 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
TY to the NYT for unmasking this crude attack on free speech and the academy. Obvs that Heritage is directly hooked into the Trump regime on this & other attempts to crush our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
If true, a deeply immoral and shameful negotiation aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their homeland. Highly unlikely even a single Palestinian was consulted. Utter madness.
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Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya
Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.
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May 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
If true, a deeply immoral and shameful negotiation aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their homeland. Highly unlikely even a single Palestinian was consulted. Utter madness.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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“I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded, & children killed with impunity. I believe that the only way to secure U.S. interests is to stand up for democracies & to stand against autocrats.” www.freep.com/story/opinio...
I was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. I resigned because of Trump's foreign policy. | Opinion
I served in our country's foreign service for three decades. The Trump administration's Ukraine policy will make the U.S. less safe.
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May 17, 2025 at 6:59 AM
“I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded, & children killed with impunity. I believe that the only way to secure U.S. interests is to stand up for democracies & to stand against autocrats.” www.freep.com/story/opinio...
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Expelling Black and Brown people. Importing the White descendants of the people who invented Apartheid. Via a chartered aircraft, of all things. MAGA is all about White Nationalism. They prove it every day.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt talks about white South African refugees that are coming to the United States next week:
"This group in South Africa has faced racial persecution."
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"This group in South Africa has faced racial persecution."
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May 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Expelling Black and Brown people. Importing the White descendants of the people who invented Apartheid. Via a chartered aircraft, of all things. MAGA is all about White Nationalism. They prove it every day.
If true, this is an obscenely sick decision. The U.S. State Department’s own Human Rights Report and Trafficking in Persons Report have documented the absolutely horrific conditions in detention centers and prisons all across Libya. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight
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May 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
If true, this is an obscenely sick decision. The U.S. State Department’s own Human Rights Report and Trafficking in Persons Report have documented the absolutely horrific conditions in detention centers and prisons all across Libya. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
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Trump's executive order to gut funding for public media (including NPR and PBS) will cut off news sources for millions. That’s exactly what he wants: to exert even more control over the information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all.
It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.
It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.
May 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Trump's executive order to gut funding for public media (including NPR and PBS) will cut off news sources for millions. That’s exactly what he wants: to exert even more control over the information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all.
It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.
It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.
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According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent.
@davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:
@davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:
The Curious Case of Kash Patel's $25,000
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April 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent.
@davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:
@davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
April 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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