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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22h

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 20h

Somebody was asking me tonight: Why can't Dems ever get their act together? Me (approx): Yes, sure. But can you remember a stronger slate than Dems are putting up in big races right now? Cooper? Ossoff + Bottoms? Talarico + Hinojosa? Turek + Sand? Benson + El-Sayed? Brown + Acton? Hamilton? Etc

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Stuart Morris @foundinchina.bsky.social · 14h

James Leibold on Pomegranate Blossoms, whose description reads like everything you’d expect from a Beijing documentary series Hansplaining to non-Han peoples and outsiders about how wonderfully unified, diverse, and harmonious ‘colonialism with Han characteristics’ is. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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New CCTV Documentary Helps Forge the Chinese race-nation

Pomegranate Blossoms: Forging the Collective Consciousness of the Zhonghua Race-nation [石榴花开——铸牢中华民族共同体意识]

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18h

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Collins has his head down through all of this, presumably mapping out what he’ll be doing as a private citizen next year

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, why did Ukraine invade Russia??

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Stuart Morris @foundinchina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

[quote] Frank Dikötter characterized contemporary China as “not so much a ‘civilization pretending to be a state,’ in the words of Lucien Pye, but rather an empire claiming to be a nation-race.” [unquote]. And a *colonial* empire at that!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Each day, they could just discuss the details of one (1) former Republican who was arrested for sex trafficking, pedophilia, or some related scandal. If they're going to shut down Congress for this, fill the silence with these news stories. Make it unavoidable.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026

who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Agree with all of the below, with this distinction: -Alito is the most *predictably* partisan-R member of the court. -Roberts is the most *consequentially* partisan-R member.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From me, most before paywall, contrasting long Playboy interview w Donald Trump in 1990 w long Time magazine interview this week. TL;DR His crabbed world-view is the same. But his cognitive terrain is alarmingly shrunken This only makes him more dangerous. fallows.substack.com/p/midterm-co...

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Midterm Countdown, 33 Days to Go: Language from Our Leader.

It’s not just your imagination. Donald Trump’s active vocabulary, his train of thought, his ability to filter are all in rapid decline. We’re watching a leaky balloon as it deflates.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Someone should do a piece on this. There is *SO* much more money easily available on the right.

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Stuart Morris @foundinchina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In case you’re unaware, Chinese men’s football has always been a shambles. It’s the great sporting conundrum: a bottomless talent pool; a deeply nationalistic state with more money to invest than you can shake a stick at; and a supreme overlord who loves his footy. But still this happens:

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Stuart Morris @foundinchina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And—newsflash—even if Xi had pledged any such thing (he absolutely wouldn't implicitly or otherwise acknowledge any support) there's zero chance he's following through.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 26/09/2026

a document circulating online shows Harbin Engineering University issued disciplinary warning to 20 students for using VPN to visit foreign websites sad to think of the first email sent from China in 1987 that read “across the great wall we can reach every corner in the world”

a Harbin Engineering University notice on giving disciplinary warning to 20 students for using VPN

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026

reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saw the main photo for this article, recognised that it was taken at Hong Kong International Airport, got to reading the piece and💔 "[I]n 2019, when she was 13, political unrest in Hong Kong, swiftly followed by Covid lockdowns, shrank that world to the size of her bedroom." And it gets worse. 😔

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‘They accepted the money but didn’t take care of my child’: what Luna Wong’s death reveals about the treatment of international students in the UK

When her parents waved her off to study in England they hoped it would be a fresh start the 16-year-old needed after struggling with her mental health in Hong Kong. Instead, 10 months later, she was d...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A while back @philiprocco.bsky.social wrote about how the Trump administration was already using government resources for propaganda messages in Social Security messaging. Is it illegal? Part of the problem is defining what counts as propaganda... donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-federa...

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The Federal Government is Emailing You Campaign Literature – Can Anyone Stop It?

Is it legal for Social Security to send you partisan propaganda? In theory, no…

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Stuart Morris @foundinchina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival and all that jazz, but let’s not pretend 99% of mooncakes don’t absolutely suck. I’ve lucked out the past two years—no gift box has crossed my path. The trick to dealing with such things back in the day was to leave them on the bus.

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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This courage— from the woman who witnessed and filmed Alex Pretti’s murder—is like nothing I’ve ever seen OMG 😭 Thank you to Senator Blumenthal and Rep. Garcia for giving Stella an opportunity to finally tell her story.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mitch McConnell nearly voted “no” with Democrats until Republicans stepped in and reminded him which way they wanted him to vote.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 15/09/2026

I pushed for independent oversight. Now, for the first time, we have an official glimpse at the damage—and it’s still an underestimate. Resources drained. Munitions depleted. Diplomacy wrecked. Troops exhausted. The American people deserve the full truth. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Iranian strikes have damaged hundreds of structures at U.S. bases, watchdog says

The report by the Pentagon's inspector general also detailed the extent of munitions shortfalls in the first comprehensive public accounting of the cost and military impact of the war with Iran.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A couple of times I've been in a position to OK headlines at a newspaper/magazine. A two-word sequence I always Xed-out in a headline or subhead was "critics say."

Headline: "60 Posts in 10 Hours: How Trump's Social Media Reflects His Version of Reality."

Subhead: "With an assist from AI, President Trump offers a window into how he wants to be seen—and, critics say, a barometer of his mental state."

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Stuart Morris @foundinchina.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The west gets China just fine. Stop saying they don't. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Actually, Western Scholars Get China Just Fine

Hoo boy!

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Liz Cheney (as of now) has earned a place in history as someone who stood up to lawlessness, cult-worship, and corruption, at personal cost. Susan Collins has earned a place for cravenly doing the opposite, to maintain 'influence' I am not a Maine voter. If I were, I'd prefer nearly anyone to her.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A January 6 rioters who filmed himself drinking Fireball in Nancy Pelosi's office visited another government office this week: Todd Blanche's. It sure doesn't sound like the payout fund for insurrectionists is dead.

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Stuart Morris @foundinchina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Far from the only one to say so back in 2024, but that was the last chance the US had at anything resembling a fair ballot.

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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1/2 Yicai: "With the new school year arriving, Guangzhou, Wuhan, and other Chinese cities that have college student populations of more than one million each have announced measures to boost consumer spending among new and returning students." www.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinese...

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Chinese Cities With Over One Million College Students Unveil Measures to Boost Back-to-School Spending

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Stuart Morris @foundinchina.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My second thought on this: PRC operatives in Thailand are heading to Pattaya right now in numbers—and they're gonna have a field day.

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Stuart Morris @foundinchina.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

An awful person for as long as I can remember.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Roberts is "concerned," a la Susan Collins.

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

People rightly highlighting DOGE’s withdrawal of USAID support for early warning systems in the Himalayan region, but the US is an ocean and continent away. Where’s superpower Chinamaxxing now with its advanced tech? The most info we’re getting is f/ the US Geological Survey.

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