Todd Stein

Chinese state media CGTN Bluesky post titled “Grants: an art state of a political show?”

When we say CCP politics often can’t be distinguished from MAGA and ultranationalists, we mean stuff like this:

The US Olympic team looks like America and the chuds can't fucking stand it.

Leaders are turning to China out of self interest as the world order becomes transactional, enabled & legitimized by President Trump. To stop the turn to China, we must reject Trumpism in order to restore an order based on rules & morality. Views my own: unexemptional.substack.com/p/the-missin...

Randy Marsh would be the Olympic ski jump champion.

Hating Americans is a congenital part of MAGA, now Republican, politics.

The Republican Party is now pitching federal government power as a solution to a(n alleged) problem of local government.

Buts and howevers are experiencing their golden age.

I would love to ask the (now-neutered) Republican China hawks if they agree it's a good thing that President Trump has earned the respect of a man they characterize as an evil communist genocidal tyrant.

unexemptional.substack.com/p/concentrat...

Does this sound intellectually snobby? Sure. But know that I’ll probably watch a couple episodes of Bojack Horseman too.

So what are you doing instead of watching the Super Bowl this evening? I’m planning to finish up a book on 16th century colonization of the East Indies.

Rights Groups Raise Alarm Over Reports of State Department’s Restriction on Human Rights Sources for Annual Human Rights Report This concerning decision by the State Department breaks with long bipartisan reliance on reporting from civil society on atrocities around the world.

www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...

I am a lifelong Democrats who opposes the federal government shooting citizens in the face. But when I heard Jeffries use the word “fuck” I had no choice but to give my unwavering and unqualified support to President Trump and ICE.

2.0 has 1.0 envy

“I can’t make ends meet on my passive income” is one of the least sympathetic things my ears can hear.

I think everyone’s opinions are valid except for the large percentage of people whose opinions are not valid.

This is really an instance of a very longstanding trend where secular pundits end up unwittingly aligned with fundamentalists in treating the crudest and most extreme version of any faith as the genuine article and everything else as somehow inauthentic.

"Democrats' new habit of swearing on social media is driving America into uncharted depths of incivility."

-- Bret Stephens, Megan McCardle, etc.

"It's not racist if the President does it."

Well, they didn’t shoot the puppy like their DHS boss did. This proves de-escalating is legitimate.

I’ve heard Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy will be testifying on the Hill soon. Good opportunity to throw questions on this.

Laws Regulating Foreign NGOs: Human Rights Implications Hearing NoticePlease join the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for a hearing on foreign NGO laws.

For evidence see our hearing on anti-foreign NGO laws. The two GOP-placed witnesses argued on principle that this funding was corrupt. I assume they won’t complain when US taxpayer money now goes to far-right NGOs. humanrightscommission.house.gov/events/heari...

The reason they give for decimating NED, DRL, etc. is on a principle that USG funding of NGOs undermines European sovereignty, “democracy” and “free speech.” This shows that it’s not about principle but rather shifting that money to far-right NGOs.

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

Oz is right but not for the reason he thinks.

Trumpism is congenitally hostile to the basic idea that government resources (aka taxpayer investment) should be used as a common good for the public’s benefit.

Using facial recognition technology to identify people based on racial/ethnic characteristics is yet another Chinese Communist Party tactic being copied by the Republican Party.