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American abroad in Tianjin, China. Educator. Photographer. Writer. Seen in , , . Formerly in Forbes China Tracker, Agenda Beijing.

Tianjin / Tampa Bay
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Joined October 2007
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Oct 20

    When the world seems dark, menu can always brighten things up. Let’s start with a cold dish that’ll blow up your wallet.

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  2. Oct 31

    Mentioned on Twitter that there’s a nail house here in Tianjin that has a water cannon used for cleaning construction dust that continually fires at the nail house. Here’s a drive-by. @…

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  3. Oct 29

    So, yeah … fall hiatus time, methinks. See ya’ll sometime in winter.

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  4. Retweeted
    Oct 29

    It was a matter of time.

    JUST IN: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange says Ecuador is seeking to end his asylum and turn him over to the U.S.
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  5. Oct 29

    If Twitter removes the Like button, what happens to all the Likes we Liked before? Are they lost forever? Do we still have a record? Are we to pretend we have never had a Like button?

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  6. Oct 29

    Not unlike the synagogue shooter and Trump.

    Fuck, Peterson's cult turns on him as soon as he's mildly inconvenient to their narrative.
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  7. Oct 29

    The Bros Koch would like a word. But seriously, nobody ever really talks about Sheldon Adelson. Why’s that?

    The biggest tell about the Soros stuff is that you could always argue it’s bad that billionaires fuel our political system, but instead the argument is that this one specific guy is bad for doing what all these other guys also do.
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  8. Retweeted
    Oct 29

    FBI Director Wray called them “IEDs”

    Talk show host on WLS radio in Chicago just called them "benign bombs."
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  9. Oct 29

    Challenge to Chinese soft power.

    Erdoğan inaugurates "the world's largest airport". On the anniversary of the establishment of the republic, Erdogan inaugurated the new airport in Istanbul - although its construction is far from over. hopes it will be the largest airport in the world.
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  10. Retweeted
    Oct 29

    Drudge is not pleased.

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  11. Oct 29

    The final clause in this Tweet is key.

    China on Monday extended congratulations to on his election as the president of Brazil and is willing to safeguard and develop the China-Brazil comprehensive strategic partnership
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    Oct 29

    This is important and underappreciated. One of many reasons TV is a terrible way to get your information is that “being good on TV” is a specialized skill unrelated to domain expertise.

    Again, the problem is that subject matter experts are generally not good at being on TV. Pundits are experts at being on TV. And that's why nothing changes.
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  13. Oct 29

    Much HDR. Very tone map. Wow.

    Trick-or-Treat
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  14. Retweeted
    Oct 29

    As someone for whom EP Thompson's classic essay subtitled "Class Struggle without Class" was a formative influence, can't help thinking this piece on 21st century China could've been called "Class without Class Struggle" cc

    Perfect timing for this smart piece by David Ownby and Timothy Cheek to be available online, in the wake of news about moves against students in the PRC interpreting Marx differently than the government does cc
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  15. Retweeted
    Oct 28

    The new Brazilian President in his own words. 🇧🇷

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  16. Oct 29

    I suddenly want to eat some gummy candies.

    "African Miner Finds 1.1-Kilogram Emerald at Kagem in Zambia"
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  17. Retweeted
    Oct 23

    A favor: my boy is a linguist working to create a dialect map like the one below, only for African American English. If ur a Black native speaker w/ 5 mins + a computer, you can help by taking the survey + reading the short story @

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  18. Retweeted
    Oct 29
    Replying to

    Add an edit button, remove the like button, then delete the whole site.

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  19. Retweeted
    Oct 29

    Thread 😷😷😷

    The worst industrial emissions hotspot is, drum roll, the Tangshan steel industry mega cluster bordering Beijing. NO2 emissions levels across eastern China's industrial regions remain stunningly high despite years of efforts to tackle air pollution.
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  20. Retweeted
    Oct 29

    In just a few months, Global Times has gone from denying internment camps in Xinjiang exist to suggesting they'd make a great export

    From denial, to justification, to advocating other countries to follow suit. Astonishing shift in how Xinjiang crackdown is being framed, with the latest hot take coming from Global Times in light of Pittsburgh shooting
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