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Jim Chen

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Law. Economics. Finance. Regulation. Data science. Not necessarily in that order.

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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 5h
The arch is a manifestation of Trump’s conception of politics and his self-appointed role as America’s savior. The arch flows from his worldview of militarized autocracy that undermines democracy, as shown through his arrogation of economic, civil, and military power. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: What Trump’s 'triumphal arch' really means for America
Building the arch under the pretext of “national security” raises questions about just what sort of threat the president envisions.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 6h
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Republican allies hope they can channel different levels of frustration with mainstream medicine and keep those voters under the MAHA banner. The midterms will be, among other things, a test of how far that banner can be stretched. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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MAHA Gone Mild
This week’s summit featured J. D. Vance, electrolyte powder, and very few mentions of vaccination.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 16h
Trump’s agenda— ICE thugs snatching children, the killings of U.S. citizens, the overt white nationalism— has opened the door to a new pro-immigrant consensus. By delivering that message in a state Trump won overwhelmingly, Talarico is accomplishing something seismic. newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
History will look back on the Trump era. This nation is bankrupt — in the most fundamental of ways. This goes to the core of our humanity. Way more is at stake here than one’s business or personal life. This is about the core values that have defined our nation. www.alternet.org/amp/farmers-...
alternet.org
'We had been conned': Heartland voters are having a change of heart
After generations of loyalty, lifelong agricultural producers open up about a deep sense of betrayal over shifting political values.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The other red meat 🥩 Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins suggested Americans worried about high beef prices switch to another protein instead, as grocery costs continue to strain household budgets 🐔 "If it's too expensive, you can eat chicken, pork, salmon, eggs" www.thecooldown.com/sustainable-...
thecooldown.com
US agriculture secretary tells Americans worried about beef prices that 'there are other sources' of protein
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins suggested Americans worried about high beef prices switch to another protein instead, as grocery costs continue to strain household budgets.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our government is being run by a clique of middle-aged men. Marco and Pete don’t wear pink on Wednesdays, but the social-emotional engine in our government is the same as a popular girls’ clique. This dynamic (more than a war or cost of living crisis) will undo Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/o...
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Opinion | The Mean Girls Presidency (Gift Article)
Our government is being run by a clique of middle-aged guys.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I blame Donald Trump for this degradation of my sports news experience 🍊🤡 👁️ "You cannot remove UFC content or categories from the public CBS Sports website or app layout, as CBS Sports does not offer a user customization feature to filter out specific sports from their main navigation or news feeds"
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gad Saad’s "Suicidąl Empathy" offers a theoretical framework to soothe conservatives who struggle with a conflict between their politics and their conscience. Arguments about the harms of empathy justify policies that might otherwise feel cruel and selfish. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Why Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’
According to Gad Saad and his powerful acolytes, compassion is a recipe for “the collective suicide of the West.”
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This orange POS flew all the way to Tennessee, wasting millions in security, making game day a total traffic and security disaster for fans (plus he wasted millions more on an Air Force Flyover), only to be BOOED the FUCK out of the stadium by halftime. And he sat with Natalie Harp... 🪉❤️
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Jacqueline Jacqui Jake Marmot @jstauf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A client/friend of ours was a thalidomide baby-he’s passed now he’d only be 72. He had issues all his life some of them as a result of growing up in a society that shunned deformities however he was a really good surfer & earned his place as top dog in the surf world in our little town. RIP Ray.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A persistent FDA medical reviewer, Frances Oldham Kelsey, kept thalidomide from being approved in the United States 💊 But doctors were already giving thalidomide to thousands of U.S. patients, including pregnant women. Some children were born with severely deformed limbs. www.npr.org/2026/09/26/n...
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The U.S. has more thalidomide survivors than the government admits
In the 1950s and 1960s, doctors gave the drug thalidomide to pregnant patients without telling them — and without FDA approval. Now those patients' children want recognition.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's been clear how Trump truly feels about immigrants from any part of the world besides Europe. But he convinced many voters with immigrant roots that people like them were special. 🍊🤡 Immigrants finally understand Trump's disdain for nearly all immigrants amp.miamiherald.com/opinion/arti...
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Republicans are losing Hispanics and, in Miami, Latino voters may learn a lesson | Opinion
From one immigrant to another: Did we really think Trump wouldn’t come for people like us? | Opinion
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
By my calculations, the Philadelphia Phillies face a nearly 11 percent probability of missing the playoffs ⚾ That prospect brings me joy in the wicked guise of Schadenfreude
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The political question of our time is not whether monsters have returned. It is what kind of society produces them, what forms of power need them, and what pedagogical machinery teaches people to follow them. The monster is not the end of the analysis but its beginning. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
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When Monsters Walk Among Us
We have many monsters to destroy. –George Seferis But how can anyone tell the truth about Fascism, unless he is willing to speak out against capitalism,
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump is the imperfect figurehead of a corrupt cabal of plutocrats and fanatics, who have used him to foment a revolution: Replace global democracy with great power spheres and subservient courtier states. Collapse domestic democracy with a rightwing autocracy. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
offmessage.net
The Revolution Has Been Televised—It’s About To Fail
The task for Democrats now is to keep the wounded, zombie version of it from encroaching further or clawing its way back to power.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Republican who backs Trump’s immigration crackdown begs for his relative to not be deported 🍊🤡 Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage says that federal immigration authorities were seeking to deport his son’s father-in-law. He has called on officials to stop the removal www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Republican backing Trump immigration crackdown asks for relative to avoid deportation
Former Maine Governor Paul LePage says his son’s father-in-law holds a valid work authorization permit and resides in the US legally
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Affordability Politics Breed Economic Illiteracy 📉📊 America is settling into a persistent politics of affordability, in which the arguments are always the same but the positions of accuser and accused are swapped depending on who holds power www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
The ‘New Word’ Trump Hates
Affordability is the Democrats’ unifying theme. It may be enough to carry them to victory in the midterms.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wikipedia: "In Greek mythology, Tartarus (Τάρταρος) is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked. In Tartarus, souls are judged after death, and the wicked receive divine punishment." 🍊🤡🥔 That is where Trump will be pelted for all eternity with small potatoes.
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Donate Krappe 🦒 @dkrappe.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
The eternal flame for the wannabe eternal president is the icing on the arch for this man. President bone-spurs' self-praise, narcissism & egotism really make me sick
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Veterans who claim that the Arc de Trump will ruin the solemnity of Arlington National Cemetery can look forward to Sam Alito lawsplaining why the baby gets to build his triumphal arch over the nation’s war dead, and load it up like it’s an outpost in the Hindu Kush www.wonkette.com/p/toddler-pr...
wonkette.com
Toddler President’s Arch To Double As Super-Cool GI Joe Play Fort
Almost literally, sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads/.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Perhaps the most important lesson of the Greenland deal is the confirmation that Trump’s threats are often empty. He has wrought terrible damage to America and the world, eroding democratic norms, undermining climate action, stifling trade, starting and prolonging wars— but it could have been worse.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Greenland deal is a classic example of Trump’s bluff and bluster 🇬🇱 If all that the ‘deal’ means is that the president stops threatening America’s allies, Trump cannot expect gratitude 🍊🤡 A thread, 1/2 www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
independent.co.uk
The Greenland deal is a classic example of Trump’s bluff and bluster
Editorial: If all that the ‘deal’ means is that the US president stops threatening America’s allies, Trump cannot expect gratitude
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Unduly distracted by greedy grasping or simply too stupid to know what he didn't know, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff exemplify what might be termed Trump derangement syndrome: the belief, mirroring the president's own bloated self-esteem, that "only I can fix it" www.alternet.org/amp/deranged...
alternet.org
The real 'Trump derangement syndrome'
It's an epidemic
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Greenland Fiasco Stumbles to an End 🇬🇱 Donald Trump announced an agreement that appeared to satisfy all parties but came at a great cost www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
theatlantic.com
The Greenland Fiasco Stumbles to an End
President Trump announced an agreement that appeared to satisfy all parties but came at a great cost.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Swedish criminologists have identified a paradigm shift. The classical Social Democratic notion of security is rooted in work, welfare, pensions, and healthcare. ‘Security’ now means deterring foreign and domestic threats through harsh sentencing and police surveillance. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
znetwork.org
Lily Lynch: "Victory in Defeat"
The mood at the hard-right Sweden Democrats’ (SD) election-night gala on Sunday was sombre. Earlier in the evening, party faithful had swayed to ‘Dancing
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump Is Betting on the Wrong Europe 🍊🤡 The far-right parties the White House favors have a foreign-policy agenda that won’t serve American interests 🇪🇺 Europe divided by culture wars will be unable to deter Russia, more dependent on China, and at odds with itself www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
theatlantic.com
Trump Is Betting on the Wrong Europe
The far-right parties the White House favors have a foreign-policy agenda that won’t serve American interests.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Did Thomas Jefferson have children with Sally Hemings, a woman he enslaved for half a century and never freed? After an exhaustive 15-year effort, a Smithsonian team believes that it has found proof that Jefferson fathered at least two of Hemings’s six children. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Researchers Say They’ve Found the Truth About Thomas Jefferson
A secret 15-year effort has produced genetic evidence that one of the nation’s Founders fathered children with a woman he enslaved.
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Donate Krappe 🦒 @dkrappe.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Very worth listening to Anne Applebaum & Tim Miller👇 @docgaby.bsky.social @chimbly.bsky.social @billthornbro.bsky.social @zackfeddich.bsky.social @rrosson.bsky.social @earlgreytea220.bsky.social @drhaup.bsky.social @chenx064.bsky.social @itsjustjules123.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/anne-apple...
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Anne Applebaum: Globalized MAGA Kleptocracy
In Greenland, the Trump administration has got tech bros and hedge fund guys running an influence operation there.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The nation’s leader was obsessed with tariffs. He tried to fire his central banker. He was preoccupied with seizing Greenland. He was intent on adding an expensive new wing. He attacked the press, purged the civil service, and inflamed populist grievances. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Hitler Could Have Been Stopped
Timothy W. Ryback explains the contemporary lessons of Hitler’s rise.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kennedy built his reputation on being the country’s most prominent anti-vaccine activist. As HHS secretary, he has often emphasized less controversial issues, such as artificial dyes. He sent a message to his longtime anti-vaccine allies: He is still one of them. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
theatlantic.com
RFK Jr.’s Bold Reassurance to Anti-Vaxxers
“You have friends in the White House,” he said at a conference hosted by the anti-vaccine organization he founded.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump’s love of fossil fuels — and his hostility to climate change mitigation, green initiatives, and nature conservation — might be less transactional than libidinal 🍊🤡 He sees climate-destroying, future-inhibiting, polluting energy industries as more manly www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump’s love of fossil fuels is about more than money | Moira Donegan
The US decision to remove limits on coal and gas plant emissions is rooted in a perception of manliness in these industries
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Donate Krappe 🦒 @dkrappe.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
Was soll ich sagen? Ignoranz & Dummheit greifen um sich 👇 Impfgegner weltweit 🙄 bsky.app/profile/hib....
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Donate Krappe 🦒 @dkrappe.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
DLF (Deutschlandfunk) aired several podcasts/ articles about the measles outbreak in the US.👇While RFK & the other MAHAs are stocking vaccines scepticism or worse warn parents wit to get their children vaccinated www.deutschlandfunk.de/usa-masernau...
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USA: Masernausbruch trifft abgeschottete religiöse Gemeinschaften besonders
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Pennsylvania health officials have confirmed a fourth death connected to measles 💉 The latest death involved an unvaccinated 18-year-old resident from Mifflin County, in the state's central region www.the-independent.com/life-style/h...
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Unvaccinated teenager becomes fourth measles-related death in Pennsylvania
None of the four individuals were vaccinated, according to the state health department
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
With U.S. measles deaths on the rise, local officials are stepping in where RFK Jr won’t 💉 As the country’s top public health official spends his time in office undermining science, doctors and advocates mount an urgent campaign for childhood vaccines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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With US measles deaths on the rise, local officials are stepping in where RFK Jr won’t
As the country’s top public health official spends his time in office undermining science, doctors and advocates mount an urgent campaign for childhood vaccines
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ed Gresser, a trade expert at the Progressive Policy Institute and author of “Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Global Economy," connected Trump's trade war against Canada with those against China and various Middle Eastern countries www.alternet.org/amp/inside-t...
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Expert cites 'weird' personal motive behind Trump's war with Canada
Economists question the strategic basis for targeting Canadian steel and aluminum, pointing to personal animus rather than actual border friction.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The mantra of every abusive boyfriend: "If I can't have her, no one can". 🍊🤡🐔💩 Donald Trump has been photographed inspecting a poster boasting of demolishing the Kennedy Center, hours after he threatened the iconic building could be "ripped down" www.thedailybeast.com/trump-busted...
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Trump Busted Plotting Kennedy Center Revenge on Air Force One
The president was spotted inspecting a foreboding poster.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People, Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan demonstrate how the Supreme Court has taken more power than the framers entrusted to them. Judicial supremacy is a social construct, not a constitutional command. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How the Supreme Court seized power to rule over the rest of us
A false mythology put the justices on top. The people could knock them down.
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Oscar, the Moderately Displeased, M.A., Law Enforcement @catch108stchs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm sorry, he believes Measles does WHAT now???
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Measles is again killing Americans 🤒 Meanwhile, HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. has been a stronger advocate for measles itself, which he’s falsely credited with boosting resistance to cancer and cardiac disease, than he has for the vaccine that prevents it www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
theatlantic.com
Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous
The two latest deaths suggest that the true number of infections is much larger than reported.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Few experts would have predicted that the United States — a global colossus for more than 80 years — would end up so hamstrung by Iran. But the American age has come to an end. U.S. global dominance cannot continue without the power sources that brought it about. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The American Age Is Over
A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nimrods calling themselves as “heritage” Americans because their ancestors came early engage in a kind of stolen valor. The U.S. isn’t an aristocracy. You can be proud of your family, but you don’t have a higher tier of citizenship based on your skin color. www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/472...
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The right kind of immigrants
We should be prioritizing and celebrating those who are best suited to acclimate to American culture and rejecting those who are not.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When Ken Paxton puts on the airs of Christianity, he steals the virtue Christians, and all religious people, work hard to earn. He debases our most cherished beliefs. Christians should forgive him his trespasses, but should not follow the wolf in sheep’s clothing. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
dallasnews.com
Ken Paxton’s hypocrisy should be a red flag for the religiously observant
For the religiously observant, Paxton’s hypocrisy should be a red flag.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We free Americans can recommit ourselves to courage, integrity, faith, and fiscal responsibility, or we can continue down the path of self-indulgent political polarization. The future belongs to us, but only if we have the courage to take responsibility for it. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
dallasnews.com
A lifelong conservative scientist from Texas on how the GOP lost its way
Fiscal discipline, integrity and even freedom of religion are receding American ideals.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What Trump’s Bizarre Posts Are Teaching Us About AI 🍊🤡 Trump’s recent Truth Social barrage of fake images reflects the dangers — for all of us — of virtual self-aggrandizement 🧵🪡🧶 A thread, 1/2 www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
theatlantic.com
What Trump’s Bizarre Posts Are Teaching Us About AI
The president’s recent Truth Social barrage of fake images reflects the dangers—for all of us—of virtual self-aggrandizement.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"I know why many east Germans vote AfD. And no, it’s not an inherited longing for dictatorship." 🇩🇪 Sehr lesenswert meiner Meinung nach, @dkrappe.eurosky.social
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The AfD is tapping into something visceral. Most AfD voters in eastern Germany don’t actually read or know what’s in the AfD’s program. They don’t seem to care. The party's appeal is simpler: I hear you. I see you. And yes, you have every right to be unhappy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I know why many east Germans vote AfD. And no, it’s not an inherited longing for dictatorship | Carolin Würfel
Grievance politics has grown in the east of the country where I was born. But west Germans have hard questions to answer too, says writer Carolin Würfel
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'I’ve been an American my entire life': University of Texas students answer Bo French's disparaging post www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...
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UT students featured in Bo French's social media attack speak out
Lawmakers in both parties condemned French’s post as racist, but the Republican candidate refused calls to take it down and continued attacking the students.
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Jim Chen @chenx064.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Posting the English-language original, with thanks to @dkrappe.eurosky.social
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Donate Krappe 🦒 @dkrappe.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
Bitte lest den alarmierenden Artikel v Anne Applebaum, den @docgaby.bsky.social mit uns teilt,aber setzt Euch beim Lesen,damit es Euch nicht umhaut @mrmads.bsky.social @zackfeddich.bsky.social @dutchsunshine.bsky.social @earlgreytea220.bsky.social @chenx064.bsky.social & @fritzbischoff.bsky.social
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