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Executive Director, Refugee Council USA. Nonresident Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs. For now, also on X as @JohnSlocum2. Posts are my own.

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The “sunlight on demand” folks have already reached escape velocity-level hubris.

10.03.2026 02:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“I’m not learning your damn language” is diplomatic-speak for “I’m a raging asshole”

08.03.2026 05:43 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nothing positive comes from unleashing tech-empowered but otherwise utterly ignorant young bros - guided by simplistic, moronic objectives - on the work of serious scholars and researchers.

07.03.2026 21:11 👍 57 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Who knows?

07.03.2026 21:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

By the administration’s logic maybe it’s a 73-year-old war, and the US started it.

04.03.2026 23:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Even after that, they didn't have that. They didn't come to the table with a willingness to give it away."

02.03.2026 14:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Impeach Hegseth

27.02.2026 23:59 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hegseth should never have been confirmed.

27.02.2026 23:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hell no

27.02.2026 23:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trouble ahead, trouble behind

27.02.2026 23:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Welcome to your new AI assistant” is just nature‘s way of saying “Your tech overlords hate you and want to see you dead”

27.02.2026 23:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whatever human malice may or may not have been involved in this incident, to the extent that AI systems are fed on data streams leavened with both racism and idiocy, the results will likely reproduce racism and idiocy.

27.02.2026 19:04 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

I think I found two fraudsters already

25.02.2026 22:23 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats Michael!

23.02.2026 23:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wait until Sam Altman hears about all the food it takes to keep a human alive for another 60-some years after it turns 20.

21.02.2026 21:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump’s army

20.02.2026 23:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You nailed it

20.02.2026 05:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Got it - thanks!! but isn’t the lack of clear guidance on the timeframe for adjusting an issue?

19.02.2026 17:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The law as written inadvertently sets a trap for resettled refugees. Previous administrations chose not to spring this trap, and humanely implemented rules that made it possible for refugees to deal with this otherwise impossible situation. Cue the bad-faith approach of the current administration.

19.02.2026 17:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Ozymandias International Airport

19.02.2026 00:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Younger generations haven’t forgotten about climate change. It’s their future. Many of the 4 million-plus who turn 18 each year are highly motivated to punish at the voting booth any politician trying to tell us that climate change is a hoax.

18.02.2026 04:40 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The hypocrisy that is "beyond the pale" is pretending that the SAVE act addresses a serious problem (vote fraud, which is nearly-nonexistent), while at the same time pretending that SAVE isn't it all about vote suppression (which it is).

18.02.2026 00:06 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rule of law isn't an a la carte menu.

17.02.2026 14:28 👍 29 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

At the same time, tech bros think every lane is their lane.

16.02.2026 14:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We're seeing the convergence of the twin Big Lies - that there is massive voter fraud, and the equating of immigrants with criminality - around a single "solution": deployment of a militarized national police force whose actions routinely violate the constitution.

14.02.2026 15:54 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Evil nihilistic morons

14.02.2026 04:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The tech-bro-ocracy thinks every lane is their lane.

14.02.2026 00:18 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This is a shitty way to run a country.

14.02.2026 00:08 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The disconnect between words and their meaning is that guy’s happy place.

13.02.2026 18:54 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is who's supposed to represent the United States to international organizations? What an embarrassment. What an insult to the rest of the world.

13.02.2026 04:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0