Tobita Chow
@tobitac.bsky.social
US-China, climate, politics, imperialism and world economy
Chicagoland | immigrant | he/him
Chicagoland | immigrant | he/him
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ICE has targeted and tear-gassed Black and immigrant families on the South Side—and AT&T is profiting from them while they do so. Tell AT&T: #dropthecontracts on Nov 16.
Join Chicago's corporate speakout, 2–3 & 4–5 PM: https://ppls.ac/att
#ATTLovesICE #DropTheContractsATT
Join Chicago's corporate speakout, 2–3 & 4–5 PM: https://ppls.ac/att
#ATTLovesICE #DropTheContractsATT
November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
ICE has targeted and tear-gassed Black and immigrant families on the South Side—and AT&T is profiting from them while they do so. Tell AT&T: #dropthecontracts on Nov 16.
Join Chicago's corporate speakout, 2–3 & 4–5 PM: https://ppls.ac/att
#ATTLovesICE #DropTheContractsATT
Join Chicago's corporate speakout, 2–3 & 4–5 PM: https://ppls.ac/att
#ATTLovesICE #DropTheContractsATT
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i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak
"During last month’s IMF-World Bank meetings in Washington, Barclays organized a private meeting to talk investment opportunities with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado... widely attended by investment firms, hedge funds, and others" www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
Exclusive: As Trump pressures Venezuela, investors see ‘major opportunities’
One bank organized a private meeting to talk with the opposition leader last month, amid the president’s increasingly aggressive posture.
www.semafor.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"During last month’s IMF-World Bank meetings in Washington, Barclays organized a private meeting to talk investment opportunities with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado... widely attended by investment firms, hedge funds, and others" www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
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List of Congresspeople signed onto Tlaib's resolution to recognize Gaza genocide
AOC
Omar
Carson
Casar
Balint
Dexter
Frost
Garcia (IL)
Green (TX)
Jaypal
Johnson (GA)
Khanna
McGovern
Lee (PA)
Pocan
Pressley
Ramirez
Simon
Velazquez
Watson Coleman
AOC
Omar
Carson
Casar
Balint
Dexter
Frost
Garcia (IL)
Green (TX)
Jaypal
Johnson (GA)
Khanna
McGovern
Lee (PA)
Pocan
Pressley
Ramirez
Simon
Velazquez
Watson Coleman
NEW — Rashida Tlaib and 20 other members of Congress have introduced a resolution to officially recognize Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.
It notes that between 10/23 and 11/25, the US sent $21,700,000,000 in military aid to Israel and authorized $30,000,000,000+ in new weapons deals.
It notes that between 10/23 and 11/25, the US sent $21,700,000,000 in military aid to Israel and authorized $30,000,000,000+ in new weapons deals.
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
List of Congresspeople signed onto Tlaib's resolution to recognize Gaza genocide
AOC
Omar
Carson
Casar
Balint
Dexter
Frost
Garcia (IL)
Green (TX)
Jaypal
Johnson (GA)
Khanna
McGovern
Lee (PA)
Pocan
Pressley
Ramirez
Simon
Velazquez
Watson Coleman
AOC
Omar
Carson
Casar
Balint
Dexter
Frost
Garcia (IL)
Green (TX)
Jaypal
Johnson (GA)
Khanna
McGovern
Lee (PA)
Pocan
Pressley
Ramirez
Simon
Velazquez
Watson Coleman
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Looks like Indiana's Republicans are telling Trump to eat shit and die when it comes to redistricting. I guess not every Republican is prepared to take orders from a 79-year-old man suffering from dementia www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/p...
Indiana Republican senators put up a roadblock to Trump’s redistricting push | CNN Politics
In the latest sign of resistance to President Donald Trump’s push to redraw congressional lines, the Republican leader of Indiana’s state Senate on Friday said his chamber won’t meet for a special ses...
www.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Looks like Indiana's Republicans are telling Trump to eat shit and die when it comes to redistricting. I guess not every Republican is prepared to take orders from a 79-year-old man suffering from dementia www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/p...
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
ICE vs the clergy
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From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning:
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning:
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
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This is the future that liberals want
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This is the future that liberals want
Thesis: dominant fake “universalism”
Antithesis: identity politics
Synthesis: true universalism
Antithesis: identity politics
Synthesis: true universalism
‘Universal’ language often implicitly excludes all sorts of people. If you aren’t explicitly clear that all really means all, it probably doesn’t.
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Thesis: dominant fake “universalism”
Antithesis: identity politics
Synthesis: true universalism
Antithesis: identity politics
Synthesis: true universalism
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"China now makes a lot more from exporting wind turbines, electric cars, solar cells and the like than drill-baby-drill America makes selling fossil fuels."
#climatechange #cleantech #electrotech #climatesolutions
www.economist.com/special-repo...
#climatechange #cleantech #electrotech #climatesolutions
www.economist.com/special-repo...
The world’s renewable-energy superpower
China’s moment for climate leadership has arrived
www.economist.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"China now makes a lot more from exporting wind turbines, electric cars, solar cells and the like than drill-baby-drill America makes selling fossil fuels."
#climatechange #cleantech #electrotech #climatesolutions
www.economist.com/special-repo...
#climatechange #cleantech #electrotech #climatesolutions
www.economist.com/special-repo...
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Landing of a must-read thread.
9/🧵 What does this mean for Democratic strategy? All those debates about choosing between identity politics and economic populism? False premise. Young working-class voters with low racial resentment aren't choosing. They're ready for Medicare for All AND Black Lives Matter. Lean into the tide.
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Landing of a must-read thread.
'Indeed, Third World delegates to the WTO meeting in Seattle interpreted the demonstrations, not as evidence of a new internationalism, but rather as the expression of a national-protectionist agenda on the part of Northern labor in alliance with Northern governments.
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
'Indeed, Third World delegates to the WTO meeting in Seattle interpreted the demonstrations, not as evidence of a new internationalism, but rather as the expression of a national-protectionist agenda on the part of Northern labor in alliance with Northern governments.
"In less than two years, Chinese firms have invested well over $1.3 billion into Nigeria’s critical mineral value chains, particularly lithium... A U.S. military incursion, or the resulting instability, would endanger these resource supply lines and financial commitments."
Trump’s threat to use military force against Nigeria sparked a crisis that Beijing quickly turned to its advantage. China stepped in to defend Nigerian sovereignty and picked up a soft power win while Washington lost ground, writes Mandira Bagwandeen
Nigeria and the U.S.-China-Geopolitics of a ‘Guns-a-Blazing’ Threat
The first few days of November delivered a powerful, if chilling, lesson in contemporary geopolitics for Abuja. When the U.S. President, Donald Trump, fresh from re-designating Nigeria as a “Country o...
chinaglobalsouth.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"In less than two years, Chinese firms have invested well over $1.3 billion into Nigeria’s critical mineral value chains, particularly lithium... A U.S. military incursion, or the resulting instability, would endanger these resource supply lines and financial commitments."
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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Can anything halt the decline of German industry? – FT: ‘Industrial production sits at the 2005 level even after a partial rebound in September. “Many of Germany’s economic core strengths have turned into vulnerabilities,” says Marcus Berret’
Can anything halt the decline of German industry?
Europe’s manufacturing champion is in free fall. Economists are suggesting radical steps to save what is left
www.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Can anything halt the decline of German industry? – FT: ‘Industrial production sits at the 2005 level even after a partial rebound in September. “Many of Germany’s economic core strengths have turned into vulnerabilities,” says Marcus Berret’
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I think this helpfully confirms the notion that the end of the filibuster was a big motivator for the eight Dems.
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I think this helpfully confirms the notion that the end of the filibuster was a big motivator for the eight Dems.
Rosalía, LUX, Rosa Luxemburg
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Rosalía, LUX, Rosa Luxemburg
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
Popular sentiment in the US regarding China has bounced back to pre-COVID levels. A majority (and a supermajority among Democratic voters) support cooperation over containment
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...
Americans Reverse Course on US-China Competition
While Republicans remain focused on limiting China's rise, a majority of Americans now favor a policy of cooperation and engagement with Beijing.
globalaffairs.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Popular sentiment in the US regarding China has bounced back to pre-COVID levels. A majority (and a supermajority among Democratic voters) support cooperation over containment
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...
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On Monday we had back to back events at Cornell with an anti-Zionist Jewish speaker and a Uyghur activist. Both extremely sensitive topics that have been subject to censorship on US campuses. Both went off without a hitch, no crazies showed up to either.
Take advantage of the space we have!
Take advantage of the space we have!
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
On Monday we had back to back events at Cornell with an anti-Zionist Jewish speaker and a Uyghur activist. Both extremely sensitive topics that have been subject to censorship on US campuses. Both went off without a hitch, no crazies showed up to either.
Take advantage of the space we have!
Take advantage of the space we have!
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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incredible breakingdefense.com/2025/11/guam...
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
incredible breakingdefense.com/2025/11/guam...
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Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
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Literary Chinese for Pedophile Rulers:
嘉靖壬寅年，宮婢相結行弑，用繩係上喉，翻布塞上口，以數人踞上腹絞之，已垂絕矣。
In the ren-yin year of Jiajing, palace girls conspired to commit regicide by strangling the Emperor with a rope, gagging him, and getting several girls to sit on his chest to suffocate him until he was nearly dead.
嘉靖壬寅年，宮婢相結行弑，用繩係上喉，翻布塞上口，以數人踞上腹絞之，已垂絕矣。
In the ren-yin year of Jiajing, palace girls conspired to commit regicide by strangling the Emperor with a rope, gagging him, and getting several girls to sit on his chest to suffocate him until he was nearly dead.
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Literary Chinese for Pedophile Rulers:
嘉靖壬寅年，宮婢相結行弑，用繩係上喉，翻布塞上口，以數人踞上腹絞之，已垂絕矣。
In the ren-yin year of Jiajing, palace girls conspired to commit regicide by strangling the Emperor with a rope, gagging him, and getting several girls to sit on his chest to suffocate him until he was nearly dead.
嘉靖壬寅年，宮婢相結行弑，用繩係上喉，翻布塞上口，以數人踞上腹絞之，已垂絕矣。
In the ren-yin year of Jiajing, palace girls conspired to commit regicide by strangling the Emperor with a rope, gagging him, and getting several girls to sit on his chest to suffocate him until he was nearly dead.
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NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇
🇨🇳 📰 NEW | Analysis: #China’s #CO2 #emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇