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Matt Schrader

@mattschrader.bsky.social

Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff, with some occasional bleating about sport or sci-fi. Opinions are not my employer's.

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Matt Schrader@mattschrader.bsky.social · yesterday

In my dotage my kids are going to be mystified why I keep mumbling sarcastically to myself "couldn't send the weapons to Ukraine because we had to save them for Taiwan"

Aron Lund@aronlund.bsky.social · yesterday

Iran has now gobbled up nearly all U.S. ATACMS and PrSM ballistic missiles, plus half of Tomahawk cruise missiles and a very considerable share of the THAAD and Patriot interceptors, sources tell @reuters.com’s Erin Banco, Jonathan Landay, and Michael Stone. www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

Matt Schrader@mattschrader.bsky.social · 2d ago

And then two months after you move in they 100% will roust your hungover ass at 830am on a Saturday just to confirm none of the local foreigners are Up to Something. Ask me how I know!

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥@thoc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Without reading it, I’mma tell you the answer: As a foreigner in China, you have no right to privacy. In fact, you are required by law to register yourself with the local police within 24hrs every time you change addresses or take a trip. You think they’re hiding this tracking? Lololololololololol

Cheryl Rofer@cherylrofer.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am partway through Ezra Klein's interview of Morris Katz, and I find it noteworthy that neither of them has observed that women in the campaign saw the danger signs when Katz didn't. Also, all his "outsider" candidates are men. Back to it to see if this dawns on either of them.

Gady Epstein@gadyepstein.bsky.social · 2w ago

Actually from the full interview it’s clear Musk doesn’t regret anything he did at DOGE (still claims zero people hurt by cuts) nor does he regret supporting AfD, Tommy Robinson et al

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 2w ago

"They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” This man did incalculable damage, while 'carried away.'

Headline: "Elon Musk says he got 'carried away' with Trump—but still holds onto contentious political views."
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3w ago

This stuff really does underscore how much it’s objectively speaking about xenophobia, racism, other bigotries as policy, because Trump had repeatedly campaigned on oh we still wanna let Good And Smart Ones in if they follow the Rules, but no, even those people get told immediately to fuck off

Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3w ago

the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 3w ago

It's *insane* that a private company like Thomson Reuters can collect and store massive databases of Americans' private data — names, addresses, SSNs, ethnicity, social media posts, and their granular location — and the gov't can just buy it, no warrant needed. The data broker industry needs to end.

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’

A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to ...

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Karen Lillis@bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 3w ago

"His work [as a human rights lawyer] culminated in 2019, when he attended a meeting [in China] w other prominent lawyers & activists. Within days, the Chinese government began to detain the participants. Mr. Wu quickly fled to the United States, where in 2020 he applied for asylum." archive.ph/wgB26

Tara O'Grady@taraogrady.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Seeking Asylum Is Arrested by ICE He championed personal & religious freedom for Chinese citizens Shaopin Wu was working as a contract delivery driver for Amazon when he was pulled over he was here legally, now he's detained indefinitely www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...

Horkos@wylienewmark.bsky.social · 3w ago

Persia House in shambles, their branch chiefs walking the purple lot muttering to themselves about how “Kermit never had it this hard”

Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com · 3w ago

Incredible Wall Street Journal reporting on how this war succeeded in making the Iranian people rise up…to support hardliners within the regime. Secular women showing up to rallies to change “We are the soldiers of Seyyed Mojtaba,” things of that nature. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The U.S. and mediators say any attempt by Iranian diplomats to find an understanding on the administration of the strait are being sabotaged by hard-liners. Iranian diplomats have told mediators they would like to find a compromise but their hands are tied. They are under pressure in the streets as well. In regime-managed funeral ceremonies for Khamenei's burial last week, massive crowds unfurled giant banners that read "kill Trump." President Masoud Pezeshkian, a moderate, was greeted by chants of "Death to the normalizers" and "Death to the traitors."