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Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com
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Immigrants ARE U.S. citizens. And not second-class ones, either.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

They were called road atlases. They came in book form. And yes, we were frequently lost, but at least we didn't try to drive down cow paths just because the computer told us to.

submitted 12 hours ago • 16 comments

This seems incredibly mean, petty, and insecure.

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

I can think of one person's attitude that is a major obstacle.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

The Trump proclamation raising the steel and aluminum duties to 50% is here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Meal Team Six.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

To be fair, if you got into Harvard, that is remedial.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

He was Andrew Tate's lawyer.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Due process, I really miss ya.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

What could go wrong?

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

Not sure why that's a crime.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Was having this very conversation last night with an in-law cousin from China who is worried about her student visa.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

The fact that a professional wrestling promoter is the Secretary of Education ... it really says everything.

submitted 23 hours ago • 12 comments

Nothing defines the collapse of American confidence more than the shift in assumptions from this being a potentially good thing to being a very bad thing. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Commando Cosplay.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

June 3, 1925: Riding a camel of the two-hump variety at the London Zoo.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The only official portrait of Trump that I recognize:

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

“The president is obsessed with having a call with Xi" Not a good look. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Oh.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"We are witnessing a constitutional tool of mercy, one whose use the Supreme Court has put practically beyond question, being wielded as a tool for rewarding loyalty....George Mason’s fear that the pardon power could be abused and help 'destroy the republic' seems more plausible by the day."

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Yes. And I recall it was conservatives who were outraged about this, when Clinton was President.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Not sponsoring a host of LGBTQ Pride events is one thing. Not letting people celebrate it themselves in their own neighborhood is entirely another.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I'm watching the John Wayne movie "The Green Berets" (1968) and was amazed to learn that the South Vietnamese captain is ... @georgetakei.bsky.social.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Fraud , waste, and abuse right? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

If Parisians weren't rioting or striking, it just wouldn't be France.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

"Dollar’s correlation with Treasury yields breaks down" www.ft.com/content/9ca0...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The message that [the pardons] send is that political violence towards a political goal is acceptable in a modern democratic society” Former head of Justice Dept’s Capitol Siege section steps down www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Issue boycotts are not a restraint of trade. They are a voluntary expression of consumer choice.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Elon Musk may say that he no longer works for the government, but the government is definitely working for him!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Honestly, regardless of what you think about the issue, shouldn't this be a local community decision? Isn't that the true conservative position?

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act did not have a lawful basis. Pleased that Cato and Brennan could work together on this important brief with the help of @ilyasomin.bsky.social.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Elon Musk is now trying to claim he doesn’t do drugs. Here’s our response @nytimes.com

submitted 3 days ago • 174 comments