John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

Executive Director, Refugee Council USA. Nonresident Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs. Tweets are my own. Joined September 2012

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

a week ago

Chicago is a great American city

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

2 weeks ago

Today’s manufactured (and frankly, mindless) outrage over 55 million visa holders will pale in comparison with tomorrow’s manufactured outrage about something else.

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

3 weeks ago

It is demonstrably false that the United States is the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting. The President is lying.

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When he meets with Putin, it’s not inconceivable that President Trump will be told the 1867 transfer of Alaska from Imperial Russia to the US was a 100-year lease, and not a sale. For the record, it was a sale (not that Alaska’s indigenous residents had any say in the matter).

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

2 months ago

It is outrageous and unacceptable for the President of the United States to use his social media platform to threaten to remove the citizenship of US citizens — whether native-born or naturalized.

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

2 months ago

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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD

2 months ago

BREAKING: @SecKennedy just cut U.S. funding to @gavi, the alliance that has vaccinated over 1 billion children and prevented more than 17 million deaths since 2000. This isn’t about science. It’s about dangerous ideology overriding children’s lives. The consequences will be…

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed

3 months ago

Evacuate Tehran?!! TEHRAN! Where 10 million human beings live? Are you fucking mad?!! We’re announcing human exterminations by social media now? What a fucking timeline. No words.

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

3 months ago

If you're only response to this outrage is standard MAGA talking points, then we need to talk about whether you want the US to remain a democracy.

Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin

3 months ago

If you're only response to this outrage is standard MAGA talking points, then we need to talk about whether you want the US to remain a democracy.

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Michael McFaul @McFaul

3 months ago

No one has ever made a clear argument, supported by data, for why destroying USAID and Voice of America served U.S. national interests. All we got were anecdotes about some stupid project or some allegation about "woke" takes on the radio. Such a colossal own goal.

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

3 months ago

The headline isn’t that Trump and Musk are breaking up - it’s that a single extraordinarily wealthy asshole was permitted to step in and willfully cripple or destroy an astounding number of US government programs and agencies.

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

3 months ago

Thermidoge

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

4 months ago

In today's news, Stephen Miller spews more vicious lies. In truth, the US Refugee Admissions program has rescued 3 million people from persecution over the past 45 years. And refugees and asylees had a positive net fiscal impact for the US of $124B over a recent 15-year period.

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4 months ago

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

5 months ago

E pluribus unum (out of many, one) - sure sounds like a statement of diversity and inclusion.

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

5 months ago

On Saturday, a million people take to the streets of America and @nytimes puts the story on page 19 of Sunday’s paper.

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

5 months ago

Trump is going after supply chains with the same mindless ferocity he goes after pronouns.

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John Slocum @JohnSlocum2

5 months ago

We do not need Greenland. We do not have to have it. For a US president to suggest otherwise and threaten the integrity of another sovereign country, let alone a NATO ally, is more than wrong - it's unconscionable. We are in Mad King Don territory.