Chad Rector
@chadrector.bsky.social
Political Science, Marymount University. International organizations, Asia. Occasional hobbies: pro-housing activism in Silver Spring MD, playing the Pontian lyra, making Alsatian tarts. Johnny-come-lately Bluesky's 2.2 millionth user. www.chadrector.net
Outside the train station in Seoul is a statue of a guy who threw a grenade at the Japanese Governor in 1919.
Our statue outside Union Station in a few years is going to be way cooler.
Our statue outside Union Station in a few years is going to be way cooler.
November 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Outside the train station in Seoul is a statue of a guy who threw a grenade at the Japanese Governor in 1919.
Our statue outside Union Station in a few years is going to be way cooler.
Our statue outside Union Station in a few years is going to be way cooler.
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Show us on the doll where the sandwich hit you.
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Show us on the doll where the sandwich hit you.
Show us on the doll where the sandwich hit you.
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Show us on the doll where the sandwich hit you.
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This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
It's annoying that we call the shutdown hostage-taking *by Democrats* - it is *Republicans* in the Senate that are refusing to reopen the government unless 7 Democrats vote for their budget. They could easily reopen the government with 51 votes! They just choose not to.
October 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It's annoying that we call the shutdown hostage-taking *by Democrats* - it is *Republicans* in the Senate that are refusing to reopen the government unless 7 Democrats vote for their budget. They could easily reopen the government with 51 votes! They just choose not to.
Honestly strange that he spent 9 whole months of goofing around with opaque crypto schemes before he finally got down to business and ordered the Treasury to write him a quarter billion dollar check.
October 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Honestly strange that he spent 9 whole months of goofing around with opaque crypto schemes before he finally got down to business and ordered the Treasury to write him a quarter billion dollar check.
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It's dangerous to say, but since it is true, it's more dangerous to not say: The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body. It's been deliberately and systematically captured by ideologues on behalf of an anti-Constitutional project, and its extremist members have been bribed.
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's dangerous to say, but since it is true, it's more dangerous to not say: The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body. It's been deliberately and systematically captured by ideologues on behalf of an anti-Constitutional project, and its extremist members have been bribed.
I love that they have started competing with each other for space in the history books, swinging for the fences with the founding-father-invoking-barn-burners.
October 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I love that they have started competing with each other for space in the history books, swinging for the fences with the founding-father-invoking-barn-burners.
Rewatched "Yes, Minister" last summer and it holds up pretty well.
October 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Rewatched "Yes, Minister" last summer and it holds up pretty well.
If interrogators have a choice between (1) beating an "I am a trans leftist" confession out of him that they can then go public with, or (2) running a flawlessly-by-the-book investigation that will hold up in court, but they can't do both, I'm confident they'll probably maybe possibly pick #2.
September 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If interrogators have a choice between (1) beating an "I am a trans leftist" confession out of him that they can then go public with, or (2) running a flawlessly-by-the-book investigation that will hold up in court, but they can't do both, I'm confident they'll probably maybe possibly pick #2.
Yes. Like "people here ILLEGALLY must be made to pay STEEP FINES and perform substantial COMMUNITY SERVICE as penance before getting a green card."
September 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Yes. Like "people here ILLEGALLY must be made to pay STEEP FINES and perform substantial COMMUNITY SERVICE as penance before getting a green card."
He doesn't like articles. Remember when he wanted people to call it "wall" instead of "the wall" because he thought it sounded better? (Coincidentally, more like Slavic grammar.)
August 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
He doesn't like articles. Remember when he wanted people to call it "wall" instead of "the wall" because he thought it sounded better? (Coincidentally, more like Slavic grammar.)