@danbbaer

Optimist, idealist, former diplomat, always Coloradan 🏳️‍🌈. Book: https://xitter.cf/t.co/d4647X0nnu

Joined October 2011
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Hungary, Serbia, Brazil... Pro-democracy movements are notching some good wins this year.
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The CIA tweeted on top of the Secretary of State and (discreetly) corrected his word-choice error.
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@CIAOct 24
“A aquellos que buscan crear un cambio positivo en Cuba – Este es el momento. La decepción de las promesas fallidas, la corrupción, y las vidas privilegiadas de unos pocos – Aprovecha esta oportunidad de crear el cambio que deseas a través de una asociación discreta con la CIA.”
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I like how they put the exotic destination of [checks notes] New Jersey in there in the middle.
Grant Stern 
@grantsternOct 20
Some ads just write themselves.
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The Vice President of the United States making a gay joke, in public, in the year of our Lord 2026. I'm embarrassed for him. Especially because it wasn't even funny.
CSPAN
@cspanOct 13
.@VP JD Vance implies U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D-TX) is gay: "I love you too, sir. In a totally platonic way, to be clear. I'm the Vice President, not James Talarico."
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All those who last week bought a red dress for halloween have now been overtaken by a new meme that compels them to leverage their crafting skills to build a wooden animatronic bird thing...
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-Dirty Putin diesel deal -Attacking Zelenskyy -Bullying allies & threatening to cut off weapons to Ukraine... It's all part of an attempted political con job: POTUS wants to fool U.S. voters into thinking that Ukraine is to blame for high prices, not his chosen war with Iran.
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Zelenskyy is fighting a war not of his choosing that is having only a small effect on U.S. diesel prices. Trump is fighting a war entirely of his choosing that is having a large effect on U.S. diesel prices.
The Associated Press
@APOct 10
BREAKING: Trump says Ukraine should get a new president as he blames Zelenskyy for U.S. diesel prices. apnews.com/article/russia-uk…

Trump says Ukraine should get a new president as he blames Zelenskyy for US diesel prices

Former President Donald Trump says Ukraine needs a new leader, suggesting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hasn't done enough to end the war with Russia.

apnews.com
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here's the roll call for the End Importation of Russian Oil Act in the House: it passed 413-9 (it passed 100-0 in the Senate) Trump may say his (useless) dirty diesel deal with Putin doesn't violate the law--but it violates Congressional intent. congress.gov/votes/house/117…

House Roll Call Vote 125

congress.gov
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The Trump/Putin diesel deal is the worst of both worlds: economically too small to be helpful; geopolitically consequential and harmful.
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Cool. Can we nominate who should live there?
The White House
@WhiteHouseOct 8
America will establish a permanent presence on the moon. 🚀🌕
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This is grotesque; the product of a small mind and a smear on the dignity of our country.
The Washington Post
@washingtonpostOct 8
Breaking news: The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. wapo.st/4hNxK0C

Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

washingtonpost.com
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Ossoff has been so disciplined about continuously holding his opponent to account for racist views, not just for supporting tariffs and a war driving up prices-- implicitly making the case that moral issues and kitchen table issues can both be pursued at once.
Aaron Rupar
@atruparOct 8
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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The potential risks of AI are too dangerous to ignore — and make action essential. @danbbaer explained, on @NewsNation with @connellmcshane.
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A couple years ago I suggested that someone should start a Union of Concerned Engineers like the Union of Concerned Scientists to be an independent, expert voice on the catastrophic AI risks that need to be addressed and mitigated. I wish I had pursued that idea.
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When I worked there none of us needed any reminder who we worked for.
Matthew Kroenig
@MatthewKroenigSep 28
The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags, to remind State Department employees who they work for.
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Woke up this morning still giggling that @Madonna started one of her acceptance speeches last night with a dad joke x double entendre "I'd like to thank my fingers, because I can always count on them."
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Coming out of this week's UN General Assembly convening, two major points of focus are clear: the wars in Iran and Ukraine. @danbbaer breaks down why exactly those wars will be so consequential for people across the world, on @ProfGMarkets with @edels0n. Watch their full conversation here: youtube.com/watch?v=NkBzSDLi…
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If Trump accepts Xi's invitation for November, he will become the first American president *ever* to visit China twice in one calendar year. Trump is Chinamaxxing. juliangewirtz.substack.com/p…
Nick Schifrin
@nickschifrinSep 25
Xi Jinping officially invites @POTUS to China for the November @APEC Summit, and confirms his own visit to Florida in December for the @g20org
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There are going to be millions of people who are going to have much more expensive food or no food at all: Ed: "JP Morgan put out a research saying that they cannot predict what's going to happen here. Their job is to predict when they're throwing in the towel. We spoke with oil experts on this show who agree. There's no way to know what's going to happen here? Would you be able to make sense of what might happen? @danbbaer: "We can make some assumption that..."
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(Illegally) cracking down on journalists for their White House coverage is Chinese behavior with American characteristics.
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