@stevenfeldstein.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment Tech, geopolitics, democracy Forthcoming book—Bytes & Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech & New Shape of Modern War https://bit.ly/BytesandBullets Author of Rise of Digital Repression http://bit.ly/45186if
Trump’s normalization of military troops patrolling the streets of America’s cities against the wishes of elected politicians and their citizens is a shocking abuse of constitutional norms and a staggering departure from precedent.
06.10.2025 10:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
President Trump’s TikTok deal puts the company's U.S. operations under U.S. control. But it doesn’t do much to address the economic or security concerns that motivated the deal in the first place, says @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social.
More in @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/29/t...
Is Trump abandoning America's tech war with China?
What signals can we glean from the TikTok deal?
My thoughts in the @foreignpolicy.com piece below 👇 👇
bit.ly/3KownII @carnegieendowment.org
More evidence of Chinese-Russian mil collusion
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
What does this mean?
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Sept. 22, 2025, 5:46 p.m. ET3 hours ago Christina Jewett F.D.A. reporter My inbox is already lighting up. Arthur Caplan, the founding head of the division of medical ethics at N.Y.U. Grossman School of Medicine, wrote: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies and dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science.”
As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:
23.09.2025 01:05 — 👍 2970 🔁 694 💬 35 📌 12
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Show to Return to ABC on Tuesday Night www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...
A good time to remember that a whole bunch of us are getting together to speak out against this authoritarianism -- I used to say creeping, but it's really now just a full gallop -- on October 18. Join us
www.nokings.org
When John Yoo questions Trump’s dividing line between war and crime you know the country is in a heap of trouble
17.09.2025 23:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘We Are in a Zero State’: Scenes From the Ashes of Nepal’s Capital www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/w...
17.09.2025 23:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Obama is right. The stifling of free speech is shocking and dangerous
After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
We should trust ourselves and those we address to be able to hold two thoughts at the same time: That we must forcefully condemn political violence - but also acknowledge that it festers and thrives in a deeply unhealthy political culture that Kirk himself helped create.
12.09.2025 13:16 — 👍 145 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 0
Princeton Student Held by Iran-Backed Militia Is Released, Trump Says www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/w...
09.09.2025 23:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you don't like the law, change the law.
Trump opens door to selling drones to Saudi Arabia & sidestepping MTCR
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
05.09.2025 23:49 — 👍 266 🔁 63 💬 8 📌 1
Comes as little surprise
Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Prosecutors’ Efforts to Level Harsh Charges Against Residents www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
“Fuck you guys, go home!”
“Leave!”
Hang on Susan Monarez!
Trump Administration Live Updates: Health Secretary Tries to Oust C.D.C. Director, but She Refuses to Leave www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
A dude walking past two wheatpaste posters of the Banksy sandwich guy graphic in DC
Just a note that whoever puts this Banksy sandwich guy on a yard sign is going to move a lot of yard signs (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images via Axios)
27.08.2025 17:02 — 👍 135 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 4
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State Department Agents Join Trump’s Deployment in D.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Subbing one far right bomb thrower for another at the FBI
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
“He got played again,” said Ivo Daalder, who was ambassador to NATO under President Barack Obama.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
Should we be surprised that Elon Musk destroys USAID to find cost savings while exploiting a tax loophole so SpaceX never has to pay taxes? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
15.08.2025 12:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for the military to take on a much larger role in domestic security, writes Risa Brooks. “This new orientation is dangerous for the U.S. military and for the country it serves.”
12.08.2025 16:48 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 4Insanity
12.08.2025 11:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook
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Big win for National Endowment for Democracy
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
11.08.2025 11:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Threats of the militarization of cities—, including DC which has been fighting for self determination for generations, isn’t a “distraction”.
It’s a massive, giant, red trial balloon
For what an American president can do YOUR city if you feel like it.
I need people to wake up.
