Melissa Chen @MsMelChen
VP @strategyrisks | Board + co-founder @IdeasB2 | Board @envprogress | 🇸🇬 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 | ✍️ The Spectator & elsewhere | Email: [email protected] melissa.blog London, England Joined April 2010-
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Thoroughly enjoyed debating populism with Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi tonight @OxfordUnion All smiles. Beforehand at least.
Me when I walk past all the plebs standing in the customs line with my Global Entry card
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I didn’t think it was possible to make interpretive dance worse but here is “Strings for Decolonization” at Columbia University. This alone captures the intellectual seriousness of an entire movement. (See? Told you! You didn’t need the NYPD)
“It would’ve meant certain death. So I sent a woman to do what an army never could.” - Lord Torunaga What is enduring us to FX’s Shogun, I suspect, are the very things that have really fallen out of favor in our modern world: courage, duty, sacrifice, honor, loyalty
🚨Bill to force TikTok to divest from parent company ByteDance has just passed 79-18 in the Senate This is a BIG decision by the US Congress While it made sense to fast track the TikTok divestiture bill by tying it to foreign aid funding, I can’t help but feel that this…
Remember what happened to CHAZ/CHOP? It won’t be long until the encampments at Columbia and other campuses around the country become absurd parodies where students will start demanding delivery of gourmet meals in the name of liberation and factions will start Balkanizing like…
All these campuses from Columbia to NYU could use a hero like him:
Happy St. George’s Day 🏴 The calendar is a great way to plan your centerpieces. I used to never care about these things and then boom, the next thing I knew, I was Martha Stewart. It just happened one day. Kinda like when your pubes just suddenly appeared.
Dear American Jewish students, Don’t let activism at Columbia frighten you. You are not alone. No, not on this Passover or ever. My DMs are open until the end of this semester. We who support and seek to expand the Abraham Accords are beside you. I am on campus at Georgetown…
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2K Followers 5K Following Chinese-Taiwanese-Canadian bcuz not every Taiwanese is of Han descent RT/like/follow 🚫 endorsement I was born without a sense of smell. Still can't.🚨I will say it as plainly as possible: The treatment of Jacob Rees Mogg here is a disgrace. The left/islamist alliance if the most dangerous threat in our societies today. Politicians not calling it out are cowards.
I said it before and I will say it again - it is a weird feeling to be so embarrassed of having graduated from my Alma mater Columbia University. My kids and my money will never go near any of it. It’s just a mothership for hate. Shame on the entire god damn university.
This is a bad idea, DEI under another name. The better solution is to create clear rules for conduct—no threats, violence, occupations, etc.—and enforce those rules equally for all individuals, rather than creating special racial, ethnic, or religious categories.
Reps. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) plan to introduce the COLUMBIA Act, a bill that would create "antisemitism monitors" at select colleges. trib.al/vbHaAZq
@MsMelChen I can see the upcoming NYT headline: CCP's spyware is banned - women and minorities hardest hit
For centuries their perseverance in duty, physical or spiritual, binds the nation.
“It would’ve meant certain death. So I sent a woman to do what an army never could.” - Lord Torunaga What is enduring us to FX’s Shogun, I suspect, are the very things that have really fallen out of favor in our modern world: courage, duty, sacrifice, honor, loyalty
I am pleased to announce that the council has just confirmed that they will be giving @realbedford a 15 year lease extension at McMullen Park. This is great news for the town and everybody involved in football in Bedford. Thank you to those who worked hard to get this over the…
@MsMelChen It is wild that some more or less serious people are still discussing the regulations imposed on TikTok purely as a free speech issue. Borderline luddite angle.
True Story My six-year-old daughter is in the back seat, staring out at the sky. Unusually quiet. I let another minute pass. ME: What are you thinking about? LIA: Same thing I’m always thinking about. ME: What’s that? LIA: How did all of this get here? What are we doing here?
•Guy who set himself on 🔥 •Crackhead Barney ambushing Alec Baldwin 🏳️⚧️ not understanding Hamas AND Palestinians would instantly murder them •Calling for “Ceasefire” while simultaneously chanting for violent “Intifada” •These “artists” 👇🏽 #Mentalillness
I didn’t think it was possible to make interpretive dance worse but here is “Strings for Decolonization” at Columbia University. This alone captures the intellectual seriousness of an entire movement. (See? Told you! You didn’t need the NYPD)
I'm truly shocked/disgusted that @piersmorgan would have this nutjob & clearly unwell person to go on his show and even remotely try to talk about Palestine or the war. You don't need a performance artist or a clown, Piers. I'm right here & can talk to you about a free Palestine.
"I absolutely believe that Palestine should be free." Piers Morgan gives his view to Crackhead Barney, the ambush interviewer who tried to get Alec Baldwin to say 'Free Palestine' in a coffee shop. Watch the full interview: youtu.be/tApmG0nGC7g @piersmorgan | @CHBAF
I think the pro-Hamas protestors are a bunch of idiot college kids supporting rabid anti-semitism, hate speech, and a group that would gladly kill them given the chance. I also support their right to be idiots. I also relish the fact after living through the last decade when…
@MsMelChen Me when they ask me if I have the Global Entry Card:
@MsMelChen Hey as long as they are staying off bridges and freeways and shutting down universities I'm all for it.
One intuition I can't shake is that media coverage of the impending and ongoing crackdown against campus protestors would be very, very different if it was Trump in the White House instead of Biden. When the 'correct' people are in charge, all sorts of things become tolerable…
It’s chaos now. DPS riot troopers forcefully dispersing protesters, making contact, at least one arrest
We did it, we won the cup. League and cup double winners two years in a row. These lads are unreal!
🏆 𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐄 🏆 #RBFC 🏴☠️
I agree with Shadi. As we’ve learned since 9/11, once you securitize various dimensions of our common life, it’s very hard to roll it back. If you think the American university is lousy and safety-ist now, wait till they add antiterror cops to the political-“safety” equation.
This is not good. But this is also what a lot of people on Twitter seemed to long for. It’s easy to be an authoritarian when the targets are people you disagree with. At least we know where they stood.
China really only has three tools: money, sex, blunt force. If you can't buy people, you don't have the pictures, and people are willing to accept whatever push back China delivers, China can't evolve or change tactics to fit the battlefield. Most of the time those tools work but…
Today President Joe Biden signed the TikTok Divestiture legislation into law. A few thoughts on the mistakes TikTok made that allowed a bipartisan proposal to be introduced, then passed both House and the Senate in a matter of 7 weeks. It begins with the hubris of TikTok,…