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One year ago this week, I lost my brother.
It's hard to know whether/when/how to mention that in normal conversation, but I struggle to feel fully myself without people knowing. I engage here mostly for work reasons but maybe there is value in humanizing my professional face.
Happening in a few hours!
For folks in Vancouver, I'll be giving a talk about my book, In the Global Vanguard, in-person at the University of British Columbia Centre for Chinese Research @UBC_CCR on November 28, 3-5pm. Many thanks to @_JulietLu!
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Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day.
1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.
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“we shouldn't mistake media invisibility for nonexistence, or liberal complicity for mass quiescence”
I believe in the slow burn of longer term change.
Namely, liberal elites and institutions are silent or complicit. The protests (& Bernie rallies etc.) aren't being amplified in the liberal mediasphere. Second and maybe related, the protests aren't a few huge demos, but more numerous, geographically dispersed & grassroots 2/3
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This looks like a darker version of the squid games or something but it’s Trump’s America. This image is seared into my memory.
The Disappeared: Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine and the Shadow Prison in El Salvador
A Knock at the Door, Then Nothing
🧵1/10: Imagine waking up one morning to discover that your brother is gone.
Not missing—disappeared.
No phone call. No charges. No lawyer.
And days later, a message appears—he’s been deported to a country he’s never been to, locked in a concrete hell designed for gang leaders and killers.
That’s not a story from Argentina’s Dirty War or Stalin’s gulags.
It happened in the United States—in 2025.
And it’s still happening, as you read this.
This is the story of The Disappeared—238 Venezuelan men secretly deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, CECOT—a facility condemned by the United Nations, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch for crimes against human dignity.
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Oh, hello traitors. I hope it’s always been a dream of yours to be well known.
Because I’m going to make each and every one of you fucking famous.
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Brilliant decision by Musk to quash this obviously wasteful program. Red state colleges and farmers thank him.
Congress needs to demand accountability and it should be a bipartisan effort
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This encapsulates the media coverage I want to see. Yes, Trump's orders are purposefully cruel, vindictive, chaos fuelling, wasteful. We should be documenting and obstructing it all, supporting those affected. But decrying the impacts on his victims only fuels a bully's pride.
I drew this last November 26th knowing full well no self-respecting family newspaper in the country would be likely to print it. I was right. But given the events of this weekend, I’m gonna to let ‘er rip anyway.
#USA #Canada #tariffs @realDonaldTrump
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Let's point less to how he's hurting others and more towards how he's hurting himself and his supporters, not just sabotaging our objectives but his own, handing wins to America's competitors, and pushing away the allies he needs.
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Let's follow Bernie, c'mon guys teapaw.org/SenSanders/status/1886…
Trump’s unilateral decision to impose a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico is most likely illegal and most definitely harmful.
Economists estimate that these will increase costs for the average American family by as much as $1,200 a year.
We need to drive prices DOWN, not UP.
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No one has said it better than @gyude_moore
The optics of the world’s wealthiest person ending an agency dedicated to assisting the world’s poor is probably the quintessential image of the perversion we’re seeing. After decades of decrying autocratic rule across the world, the deafening silence of hypocrisy is just tragic.
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There are many reasons I love the UBC Faculty of Forestry, the newest one being their ability to read the room... and know when it's time to exit 😅
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