author-in-residence @saishopkins. “China Fantasy,”, “Rise of the Vulcans,”and six other books. Nats fan. Former Beijing & Washington crrspndnt for LA Times.
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Very proud to pass the gavel for the Bagel Caucus to my good friend and New York bagel aficionado, @MicahLasher.
While Micah might choose his local Barney Greengrass over my Russ and Daughters, a NY bagel is a NY bagel and I’m confident Micah will do an outstanding job of spreading the best bagels in the world to colleagues from around the country in a truly bipartisan way.
Good luck, Micah!
Was it really just Iran that caused voters to desert Trump? Could it possibly be that Americans — independent voters, for example—want their president to show some dignity and compassion, rather than someone who is mean-spirited, revengeful and self absorbed?
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I cast my vote today with the ones I love, and who make this all possible. It was joyful, exciting, and a bit surreal to see myself on the ballot as the Democratic nominee for Congress in our extraordinary district. I am so grateful to everyone who has placed their faith in me.
Today is the last day of early voting, and the polls are open — please go vote!
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🚨 Endorsement Alert 🚨
We’ve endorsed @MicahLasher (D) for U.S. Representative (NY-12) - a strong advocate for #DCStatehood in Congress!
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Beijing wanted more from Xi’s state visit to Washington
sc.mp/se17z?utm_source=twitt… via @scmpnews this sounds like damage control for the WSJ story about Xi needing breaks when he was in DC
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Schlossberg has translated fame, charisma and creativity into a narrow lead. But fellow Democrats, family friends and union leaders describe an operation so erratic and plagued by turnover that it raises questions about how he would handle office @npfandos nytimes.com/2026/05/14/nyreg…
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Predictable Xi would fire a shrill blast on Taiwan. It is meant to intimidate the U.S. We shouldn’t let him and should recommit to a strong arms package for Taipei.
Chinese readout from the Xi-@POTUS meeting has posted:
"Xi Jinping stressed that the Taiwan issue is the most important issue in Sino-US relations. If it is handled properly, the relationship between the two countries will remain generally stable. If it is not handled well, the two countries will collide or even conflict, pushing the entire Sino-US relationship into a very dangerous situation. "Taiwan independence" and peace in the Taiwan Strait are incompatible, and maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait is the greatest common denominator between China and the United States."
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A reminder why we need to change New York State law to allow state health officials to step into the shoes of the CDC and make vaccine recommendations, for as long as the CDC is under the thumb of the nation’s most notorious anti-vaxxer. nytimes.com/2025/11/20/healt…
Random thought: let’s give a name to our new political system. The old one, now being discarded, had a system of checks and balances. The new one should be called a system of ‘your checks, my balances.’
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Looks like Trump is considering allowing exports of advanced semis to China.
Nvidia argues that its chips won’t enable PRC military modernization. So @SamBresnick and I dug through hundreds of PLA procurement documents yesterday.
We find evidence of the opposite. 🧵
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Two decades later, @byjamesmann's piece about the intellectual origins of the Iraq war holds up. washingtonpost.com/archive/o…
Is there anything on any network news show more ridiculous than CBS weather reports by @LonnieQuinnTV ? Whirling unreadable graphics, accompanied by fast-talking incomprehensible voiceovers. No one could possibly grasp or repeat back anything he said 15 seconds later.
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I know from working w @RadioFreeAsia #Uyghur @GulchehraHoja that her own words are often the most evocative:
“Being a voice for the voiceless requires a price, & standing up for justice against oppressors requires courage. We are proud to be journalists.”
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Amtrak is so miserable!! We were supposed to leave NYC for DC two hours ago, are still waiting at Penn Station, and they are still providing NO information except to keep moving the departure back and no help on rebooking for other trains today except to say there are none.
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James Mann retweeted
A tentative conclusion from reading Power Broker (1974) in conjunction with Abundance and Why Nothing Works (2025)
American inability to build (esp. public projects) is a much deeper feature than the adversarial legalism and regulatory expansion of the 1970s, which the latter books finger.
Before Moses arrived no new bridge had been built in NYC in a quarter century. No new arterial highway in fifteen years. The people cheered as he demagogued about cutting through “old hacks” and “red tape” bureaucrats back in the 1930s.
The building bonanza of the 1930s and 40s seems the deviation. An inability to build more like the norm.
Perhaps exceptional circumstances permit one or two major bursts and deviation from trend per century.
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A deal like this won't last long - buy the "Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War" audiobook today and save 50%! @byjamesmann audiobooks.com/promotions/pr…
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The reporter who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is from the pro-Trump network Real America’s Voice and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots after the White House blocked the Associated Press
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For @TheBushCenter, I wrote about Osman Kavala, a Turkish businessman and philanthropist imprisoned for life thanks to the conspiratorial world view of President Erdogan. Unfortunately, American academic @hbarkey has been caught up in the same injustice. bushcenter.org/publications/…
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Expert @byjamesmann review of Edward Miller’s new history of the John Birch Society. Note the continuities from its fantasies and targets, including about U.S. civil rights (starting with racial equality) and civil liberties, to Trump claims and agendas today.
“Edward H. Miller’s new biography of Robert Welch, A Conspiratorial Life, traces the origins and history of the John Birch Society and, in the process, provides historical perspective on the far-right populism of the Trump era.” —James Mann (@byjamesmann)
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