Matthew Doering

Following the intersections of strategic comms + global commerce + policy + development + social impact

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

singapore pm with some of the most sensible analysis responding to us tariffs i’ve seen from a global leader.

[Foreign policy @ForeignpolicyWB]

Over 1 million people in Turkey are demonstrating against Turkey becoming a totalitarian dictatorship.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Secretary Lutnick: You are a billionaire.

Maybe your mother-in-law wouldn't complain if she didn't get her Social Security check, but tens of millions of seniors struggling to survive would. They're not fraudsters. They earned it.

How out of touch are you not to realize that?

[Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers]

I am profoundly saddened and alarmed by @Columbia University and @PaulWeissLLP law firm's capitulation to the increasingly dictatorial Trump administration.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

what’s happening to the turkish people is is so painful to witness.

an educated, modern nation with a leader who doesn’t trust his own citizens, is unwilling to allow their voices to be heard, and is prepared to use the force of the state against them.

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

When civil society institutions — like big law firms and Ivy League universities — cave to Trump rather than fight what appear to be illegal orders, do they expect he will just be satisfied and stop? That others should fight where they would not?

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

More than five years ago, I wrote about the US conservatives who admire Russia dictatorship. Now they run America https://t.co/46AeN8tAfF

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

I wrote this in July 2016

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

Hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here."

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Greenlanders united against US annexation

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
https://t.co/l7KCpqsOmT

[Horia Fella 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇪🇺 @horia85]

Tbilisi 🇬🇪
Belgrade 🇷🇸
Budapest 🇭🇺
And last, but not least, Bucharest! 🇷🇴

A great day for democracy! We are Europe! 🇪🇺

Photo courtesy of Cristian Ștefănescu

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., explains the agency’s importance to America and to the world, and what its undoing by DOGE will bring. https://t.co/9QKwTOwlbk

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in Washington.
The visit that moved me the most was to a remote area that used to have no health care, where women routinely died in childbirth. Then a US-funded maternity clinic opened through @UNFPA in December, and not one woman has died since. I showed up, and people mistakenly thought I was responsible for the clinic. One new mom wanted to name her baby for me, and the village elders thanked me and hailed America's generosity. What they didn't know was that Trump/Musk had cut all funding for UNFPA and that as a result the maternity clinic will close this month, and women will once again be bleeding to death in the dust.
Here's a giftlink to my report from ground level about what the shutdown of USAID means: https://t.co/tbgKk7ESqj

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“The Trump administration is now bringing the post–World War II era to an end,” @anneapplebaum writes. American allies, especially in Europe, need to face up to this new reality and make dramatic changes: https://t.co/R4jIACw2uL

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

Ronald Reagan perfectly sums up tariffs.

The logic is sound.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

All Americans except for the richest 20% will pay more in tariffs than they will get back from Trump's tax cuts.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

freedom of speech in the united states means calling out racism like this for what it is.

patriotism means criticizing your political leaders when they promote it.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

More evidence that this election is not about policy

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Here's the whole thing (recorded in a Canadian hotel room, forgive the poor aesthetics)

https://t.co/bDjmdVh7YU