Winston Wells

Today was the best day for global democracy in quite a while.

I too would like to have a "fun weekend" paid for by a Russian oligarch.

It sure looks like the U.S. has spent $100 billion and left 18 Americans dead and 600 injured in order to hand control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran and do nothing about nuclear proliferation except encourage it.

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

It’s worth mentioning in every news story that this deal is substantially worse for the US, and far more lucrative for Iran, than the Obama nuclear deal Trump blew up almost a decade ago.

DESPITE Trump’s best efforts the solar revolution is here and walking all over him. “US solar generation in 2025 was a stunning 28% higher than in 2024. …. Solar generation in a single month (July 2025) was more than a full year’s worth of solar generation just a decade ago.”

Turns out when the Trump admin projected 90 trade deals in 90 days it was for China not us.

This plus the Minnesota ICE arrest warrants equals hope. NPR Receives $113 Million From 2 Gifts www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/b...

This entire globally destructive catastrophe is the result of this grotesque man needing, for reasons wired deep into the violent inadequacies of his degenerate pallid being, to scrap the deal that boxed up “the nuclear” because it was signed by Obama. A white supremacist tantrum rocks the world.

Melania is bringing up the Epstein files to distract from the Iran War which was started to distract from the Epstein files.

This is one of the more respectful things I imagine is being done to these portraits.

🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings

Live updates >> www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Donald Trump is pointing to missions in Iran “as if the excellence with which they have been conducted somehow constitutes a strategy in itself,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

More North Korean Style Posters in DC. This time it's Charlie Kirk on the Department of Education.

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

Excellent thread

FBI Director Kash Patel and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth establish a joint task force in the lead-up to war with Iran.

I believe in giving credit where it’s due. Hang the entire Gorsuch concurrence in the Louvre. Master class in telling your colleagues they’ve lost their fucking minds.

Fulling expecting that my email will soon be full of messages from decades of former IPE students thanking me for forcing them to learn the difference between Section 301, Special 301, and Super 301. 🤣 #PoliSci

So he's definitely going to bomb Iran. (Not even really kidding)

The Supreme Court has delivered an overdue rebuke to Donald Trump on tariffs ft.trib.al/4VreLoH

Liberation Day II

It’s the real Liberation Day. 🇺🇸

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

"Due process is not a courtesy extended at the government’s convenience. Due process is the condition that makes custody lawful in the first place... When liberty is restrained without a meaningful opportunity to be heard, the Constitution’s promise is not delayed. It is denied."

Iowa farmers are hurting because of this chaotic tariff policy that Ashley Hinson continues to support. She continues prove that she’ll put corporate greed and party leadership above Iowans at every turn. Our farmers deserve better.

We have a federal administration led by idiots and criminals.

Bitcoin hit a high of $126,000 last year. Then it dropped to $120K, $110K, $100K, $90K, $80K, $70K and is no hovering around $60K. More than a trillion in notional "value" wiped out. There is no Fed or Treasury ready to bail it out. But Congress is close to blessing it...

A Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Minneapolis is really a recognition of people power and it’s the first time a whole city has been put forward for the prize.

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Today, @duckworth.senate.gov and I met with the Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities to discuss the Trump Administration’s attacks on higher education. As this Admin creates new barriers to accessing education, We made it clear that we stand with students and educators.

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...

ICE has violated judicial orders 96 times in Minnesota alone: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring network. Are others following? n.pr/4a1T7qW

Did Bovino have a speck of decency to apologize, at least just for what he said about Pretti? No. Did JD Vance? No. Did Stephen Miller? No. Did Kristi Noem? No. They simply lack basic human decency and have no business being in senior positions of the US government.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.

Good morning with good news: EU reached the historic milestone of 30% wind and solar for all of 2025! That is up from 12.66% in 2015 & 19% in 2021. Solar generated 13.2% & wind 16.9% in 2025. China was over 20% W&S in 10 of 12 months and ~22% in 2025. US was near 19% W&S in 2025. #energysky

It's good to see elements of civil society finally moving in the right direction.

If you are running for president you should make clear you’re gonna send Greg Bovino to prison

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

The global rule of law is not collapsing – Trump is the lone problem and he can be defeated | Simon Tisdall