Drake Tien

Perpetual Expat 🌐 | @jqasociety @TheAsiaCable @SAISHopkins | Long suffering fan of @AVFCofficial | likes ≠ endorsements

[Drake Tien @drakeatien]

Over the past few months, I have had the privilege of collaborating with my MPF cohort at @jqasociety on building a vision for a restraint-focused U.S. foreign policy. This paper is a small part of that vision, but a big part of my nights and weekends!

https://t.co/hBNCW4PjCc

[Andrew Day @AKDay89]

Tehran has a larger population than New York City. Not sure how one becomes the kind of person to nonchalantly discuss taking out its main source of electricity.

[Cincinnatus🏗️🚊🏙️🇺🇦 @Cincinnatus56]

Can’t have Pete Buttigieg because he spent a year getting coffee for partners at McKinsey but the mercenary with the Nazi tattoo who beats women was fine up until this afternoon according to leftists

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

My working view, subject to change based on more reporting/analysis and actual evidence (e.g. of corruption - which so far has been lacking):

1. The Balogun red was awful and a violation of VAR protocols
2. It's appropriate for US Soccer to press its case fully, tho the inclusion of Lutnick/Giuliani is unseemly
3. It's even fine for Trump to call his buddy and ask about the case
4. The FIFA decision was independent and permissible - and has precedent
5. It's terrible and moronic for Trump to now gloat and take credit, and it'll hurt an otherwise awesome WC (so far)
6. Spare me the preachy nonsense about the sanctity of sport (esp. FIFA lol)
7. Go Team USA

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

Supreme Court Justices are not celebrities and should not be treated like celebrities.

[Drake Tien @drakeatien]

Trump does not know ball, revoke the Peace Prize. ⚽️

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Trump: "He gave [Balogun] a red card. I didn't know what that meant. I didn't think it meant much. Then I started hearing that means you can't play in the next game…How do you penalize them for a game that hasn't been played yet? It's very unfair…I asked for a review by FIFA."

[Kraut @The_Davos_Man]

I think pigs will learn to fly before anyone in Congo cheers for Belgium.

[Bloomberg Government @BGOV]

The century-old Jones Act faces a six-figure digital attack launched Wednesday by an advocacy group tied to billionaire Charles Koch as foreign shippers challenge the domestic maritime industry. https://t.co/MPzAwT4U02

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

I simply could not believe it when right in the middle of the first half of the Mexico-South Africa game, a bunch of commercials appeared out of nowhere. Football is getting lower and lower. VAR breaks the flow of the game; players and the public wait for minutes to find out what happened; now players stand aimlessly around until the commercials are finished.
Shameful performance by FIFA.

[Dean Ammi @AlgerianFooty]

🗣️ “I want to say thank you to Algeria for choosing Lawrence, Kansas.” 🇺🇸

The locals in USA are all getting behind Algeria. 🇩🇿

[Drake Tien @drakeatien]

@roddreher Feel free to read about the Heysel Stadium disaster in Brussels if you don't believe me. https://t.co/Y9QuLsKPvU

[Drake Tien @drakeatien]

@roddreher If this was a migrant issue, we would have seen a spike in football-related riots in the past 15 years. Instead, football ultras have been rioting throughout Europe since the 1980s.

Is it anti-social behavior? Yes, but there is no correlation between the riots and migrants.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

I’m not into black listing anyone from future work in their area of expertise but I do think it’s fair to want a whole new crop of foreign policy staffers in the next democratic administration. It’s not like the same 120 people are the only people who know anything.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

It’s your side’s fault. You ruined it. Nobody wants to have fun with you.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

College presidents have spent the last 3 years pretending student activism fell out of the sky, when they know damn well their universities actively recruited activists in the admissions process, and made protest and radical politics part of their brand. Again, 0 self reflection.

[Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane]

Using Chinese AI models for coding be like:

[Cʜᴜᴄᴋ ᴅᴏᴜɢʟᴀs ✪ @ChuckDouglas_]

Hailey Baptiste is a professional tennis player born and raised in Washington, D.C.. She grew up near the Rock Creek Park Tennis Center, began playing at age four, and trained at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Maryland.

Baptiste just beat the No. 1 ranked women's tennis player in the world, Aryna Sabalenka! #DMVPride @JTCCtennis

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

The word of the day is HABIBI! Happy #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth from Ramy Youssef, Elmo, and all of your friends on Sesame Street!

[James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ @provisionalidea]

I do not understand the performative bullshit that passes for progressivism in the United States these days.

Ridesharing was never *supposed* to be a full-time job. It was never good, stable employment. It was called ‘gig work’ because it was supposed to be intermittent, supplemental income. It didn’t provide basic protections and benefits, was sometimes illegal, yet somehow managed to become load-bearing for many after years of recession and austerity from which the country never really recovered. Workers have agitated for better conditions but not much has come of it. That Uber and Lyft are now being magically portrayed by progressive organizations as purveyors of Good Jobs For Honest Americans as opposed to venture-backed symptoms of growing inequality and economic precarity for which the solution is stable, fulfilling employment is downright absurd.

So no, self-driving cars are not the problem. The fact that so many people (between 1-2 million Americans) have become reliant on ridesharing as their principal source of income, often with few (if any) alternatives, is. The robot cars wouldn’t matter if other, better opportunities existed.

[Eli Clifton @EliClifton]

Four out of four AI models agree that The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute, and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy were among the top think tanks cheerleading the war in Iran reports @LobeLog.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Does he realize what he just admitted lol