Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers

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[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

Earlier this year, my office and @ECAatState entered into a partnership with @usedgov to crack down on lapsed disclosures of foreign funding at universities.

Not only did we obtain records of previously unreported donations — many come from sanctioned or “watchlisted” entities linked to, eg, foreign intelligence:

[Senior Official Jeremy Lewin @UnderSecretaryF]

Fidel Castro’s Communist state was crafted around the singular goal of Marxist debasement of the United States.

For seven decades, the Cuban regime has been behind both the ideological underpinnings of third worldism and subversive organizing structures of the new radical left political terrorists that @SecRubio called out with clarity last week.

Read today’s report for some of this untold history.

[Marina Meadows🦩🌴🌞🏖️🐊🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🇨🇺🇺🇸 @ElectMarina2014]

In CommunistCuba🇨🇺 being a student, if you use to drink afternoon tea 🍵, you were considered ‘bourgeois’ - they knew about it bc of the ‘chivatos’ you share with, of course not knowing it - then you couldn’t have any more aspirations, politically, socially or otherwise… your life completely shattered…

That miserable existence of agenda have been imported and implemented for decades by the tyrannicalregime of terroristfacilitators…

#GusanosDeApie 🇨🇺

Most people don’t understand this👇🏻

[Luis @lamg_dev]

«While Soviet communism was frequently driven by more practical great-power concerns – the preservation of the Soviet empire and the defense of its material interests around the globe – its Cuban successor was built around a near-singular obsession with the “liberation” of the Global South from its Western colonial oppressors.»

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

Third-Worldism is real

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

https://t.co/c2SKX0Kzt6

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

There’s been a lot of talk lately about a vicious, lowest-common-denominator leftism that imports anticolonial resentments to the metropole. This leftism makes claims like:

-Becky is a race/class enemy, so it’s good for her to be afraid in the park.

-Illegal alien child rapists deserve empathy and humanity, but it’s good to post gloating gifs of someone’s father getting shot in the throat.

&c.

Most people fail to appreciate the extent to which this ideology was — and still is — incubated and institutionalized right here in our hemisphere.

In a new report, @StateDept makes the case for Cuba as a culpable node. We won’t convince you (and won’t try) that but-for Cuba, nobody on BlueSky would believe depraved things. But for years, the government’s counter-foreign-malign-influence apparatus informed you about Russian threats. It’s fair and honest to cover the foreign-influence dimension of third-worldism, too.

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

This isn’t a property of death penalty opposition per se (you could imagine a detached-pacifist or wonky-pragmatic variant of that). It’s a property of the kind of antisocial, extreme leftism that glories in defiling, affronting, razing or murdering whatever (and whomever) is coded as successful/functional/“bourgeois”. It’s this mindset that @SecRubio indicted in his remarks yesterday.

Most leftists aren’t terrorists, and aren’t targeted by NSPM-7. But after years of dissecting culpable ideologies and pathologies in jihadist and “far right” extremism, it’s reasonable to consider what drives these views and pursuant violence.

[Department of State @StateDept]

.@FoxNews: "Strong speech from the Secretary of State, strong prose as well."

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

At today’s ministerial combatting political terrorism, @SecScottBessent cold-opened by inviting left-wing journalists, who are reflexively derisive of any opposition to left-wing terror, to attend the upcoming sentencing of the leftist who tried to assassinate Scott Bessent.

The New Republic responds:

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

Full story here, with more to come soon:

https://t.co/A0UqETkmUf

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

Earlier this year, my office and @ECAatState entered into a partnership with @usedgov to crack down on lapsed disclosures of foreign funding at universities.

Not only did we obtain records of previously unreported donations — many come from sanctioned or “watchlisted” entities linked to, eg, foreign intelligence:

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

Great to meet with Luke J. Lindbergh, @TheUSA candidate for @WFP executive director. He has the strategic expertise and proven capabilities to lead, and will ensure that WFP works effectively to meet security challenges.

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

Receiving some media queries about a draft joint statement on free expression which my office circulated in the margins of OECD — so I thought I’d address this directly:

When it comes to freedom of speech, there’s a lot of attention paid to viral controversies dividing America and Europe. But face-to-face conversations tell a different story: allied democracies support free expression, disclaim any intent to censor political debate, and emphasize that except for edge cases such as swastikas, their internet regulations aim to protect consumers and kids rather than chill speech.

We love hearing this, and wanted to memorialize it. So in the margins of productive OECD talks, we drafted a joint statement with the aim of promoting transparency and driving consensus. The statement is intended as an expression of comity and common values, and also as a source of interpretive guidance for American speech companies complying with overseas laws.

A diplomatic statement can’t override laws like the DSA — and this one doesn’t try. But it does provide color regarding countries’ values and concerns. Signatories affirm that they don’t intend to censor, e.g., satire (like the Charlie Hebdo cartoons), statistics about topics like crime or mass migration, or nonviolent dissent against government policy. American companies deserve to know this — so they don’t over-comply by suppressing the exact speech everyone agrees is protected.

Stay tuned!

[Dylan Johnson @ASDylanJohnson]

SECRETARY RUBIO: This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, for civilization itself.

It is a revolt of the worst against the best; of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, cannot create, cannot achieve great things - and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can.

This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time - anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, communist, anarchist, Marxist - but the fundamental character is always the same.

It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality, justice, liberation; an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and right, on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness, and have nothing else to offer the world.

Through violence and terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us. The old dogma was wrong. None of this is driven by "idealism." It is not "utopian" - quite the opposite, in fact.

One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism is: "It sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice." But that's not true. It doesn't sound good in theory.

The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat and gray - leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul. It is a world without courage, creativity, or ambition; without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards. Without miracles.

Without myths. Without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things. Without God.

For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievements of our civilization are an unbearable humiliation - a reminder of what they cannot do or be.

So they choose to destroy. They attack pipelines, railroads, laboratories, power grids: the physical, embodied symbols of power, invention and achievement.

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

My Secretary of State.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@SecRubio on Radical Left terrorism:

"It has always been driven by a hatred — above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot create great things, and take revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what Radical Leftism is."

[Eugene Kontorovich @EVKontorovich]

The ICC is the last official Church in Europe, and they will fight, stall, and bully to try to have it outlast the Trump Administration, and then turn have it prosecute the Trump Administration. Maximum resolve and rapid action will be needed to make this policy work. No negotiations.

[Department of State @StateDept]

America never consented to a global court with authority over its citizens.

The Trump administration and @SecRubio are taking steps to isolate the ICC and defend U.S. sovereignty.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

The International Criminal Court seeks to become the unaccountable arbiter of a new global law — empowered to prosecute and arrest our citizens at will and existentially threaten American sovereignty.

We will teach the ICC the full meaning of American resolve.

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

Important read. Multilateral mechanisms to deal with warlords and atrocities predated the ICC, and will continue to exist. But the United States has raised serious legal and sovereignty objections to the ICC since its formation. Now we’re acting on them.

[Department of State @StateDept]

Op-Ed from @SecRubio: Why We’re Dismantling the ICC
https://t.co/T4J5COuqUQ