If you want to know what the massive new ICE spending means, look to the China experience. Its ruling Party massively increased domestic security spending to deal with what it said was a threat from an undesirable ethnic group. And look how it augmented the Party Leader’s power.

Of all the things that the Trump Administration has done to fill me with hate and rage, forcing me to sympathize with the Dodgers may be the worst.

The United States forfeits its moral authority to speak out against the mass detention of Uyghurs when our government is creating its own mass detention camp. The GOP is celebrating what they once condemned China for doing. Why? Views my own: unexemptional.substack.com/p/concentratio…

"The most lasting and catastrophic legacy of Trump’s presidency might well be the loss of America’s strength and standing in the world [and the] order that has preserved global peace and security and enabled the expansion of freedom and democracy." substack.com/inbox/post/167…

The constrast is crystal fucking clear.

Scenes from today’s State Dept Wake. The crowd clapped every time a RIFd employee walked out for the last time. Ran into a (now former) colleague (who had my old job) who had gotten the axe. Tons of talent that Rubio’s throwing overboard to please the Party Leader.

Two authoritarian ruling Parties using the power of the state to impose ideological control over higher education.

Hey Elon Musk! As free speech absolutists, why is X playing Tencent's censorship game? We're just archiving WeChat's deleted truths — like a digital museum of the forbidden. Absolute free speech... unless trademarks are involved? 😂 Let's uncensor the censors!

Isn’t America Beginning to Look More Like China? blubrry.com/barbarians/147…

Colombia watchers tune in->

Mahmoud Khalil & I got to meet up in my office earlier today. I met with him in detention when he spent 104 days behind bars—targeted by Trump for speaking out against Netanyahu’s vicious war in Gaza. Silencing dissent is un-American. We must defend the right to speak freely!

I took to the House floor today with a simple message: we must act now to stop the growing threat from nuclear weapons. Global leaders need to return to the negotiating table to pursue arms control and disarmament. There is no alternative!!

Remember that Loudermilk was the Member who gave rioters a recon mission.

Party embeds a cadre in an enterprise to ensure fealty to Party ideology. Just like in communist China. gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoint…

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I wrote this last year and reposting now as it swelters outside right now, adding to the expanding list of Things I Hate. unexemptional.substack.com/p/i-hate-summe…