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@ProfJonTaylor

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Husband, Dad, OU Sooner, ΛΧΑ, @UTSA_DPSG Prof, Dept Chair, & @UTSACOLFA Ass Dean (not THAT Ass Dean). Focus on Chinese politics & Texas politics. RT≠Endorsement

San Antonio, Texas
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1 year
Dear students: We’ll be discussing this humorous tweet when we talk about public ethics in class on Tuesday… 🙄
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4 years
A lot of my students asked me how today’s events would be viewed internationally. I told them that much of the world is likely quite concerned, if not frightened, by the prospect of a nuclear superpower with a rogue president encouraging his supporters to engage in insurrection.
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3 years
It was nice to return to the classroom today! 😷🤙🏻 @UTSA @UTSA_DPSG #BirdsUp
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5 years
Howdy, y’all! Now that the academic year has ended, time for some personal news: I will be moving to UT-San Antonio ( @UTSA ) in August to become the Chair of the Department of Political Science & Geography ( @UTSA_DPSG ) w/the rank of Professor of Political Science... 😎🤙🏻 #UTSA
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3 years
It ain’t Christmas until the man in the white beard from the north delivers gifts…
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@pptsapper The man was a bad ass, scholar, and patriot who helped to save the Union.
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4 years
When you get a chance, check out @21CenturyChina 's CCP Elite Database created by @vshih2 and his team of researchers. It's a cool interactive portal that allows you to visualize key characteristics of China’s ruling elite under Xi Jinping since 2012.
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One reason among so many why I love @UTSA so much: Mariachi? Mariachi! One of the coolest @UTSA Commencement traditions: Mariachi Los Paisanos! @UTSAmariachi ! 👩🏻‍🎓👨🏽‍🎓🎓🎉🎶🟠🔵🤙🏻 #UTSA #UTSAGrad23 #NowAndForever
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2 years
If you haven't been following by him now, please check out Professor Mittelstaedt and give him a follow on Twitter. His thread on Jiang Zemin has been phenomenal. His excerpts from Jiang’s speeches show a clear continuity in Party discourse from Jiang to Xi.
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Jean Christopher (Chris) Mittelstaedt
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Jiang Zemin in February 2002: "Foreign companies primarily consider their economic interests when deciding to engage in exchanges and cooperation [with China]. While political factors also play a role, the ultimate decision for businesses is based on profitability"
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An evergreen tweet by Brittlestar… 🇨🇦
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EXPLAINING CANADA DAY TO AMERICANS
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1 year
Yet another reason why I love being at @UTSA : Deer roaming around campus? Deer roaming around campus. 🦌😁
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1 year
Getting ready for @UTSA ’s Commencement this evening by jamming to the #GeminiDiscoSoulParty w/ @menacethedj and @SkinWade on @971TheFreak
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3 years
How China Avoided Soviet-Style Collapse -- @adam_tooze @NoemaMag
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2 years
Was told today that Texas CD-23 candidate @LiraForCongress graduated with a @UTSA_DPSG PoliSci degree and was a @UTSAHC student as well. Cool to see one of our former students running for Congress! He’s running in a very competitive district that’s bigger than a lot of states…
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Cold War Nostalgia Fuels a Dangerous New Anti-China Consensus -- @HeerJeet @thenation
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8 years
Cubs-Indians World Series: just waiting on the Rapture...
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3 years
With SMU’s loss this evening to Houston, there is just one D1 FBS undefeated team in Texas: @UTSAFTBL 🤙🏻🟠🔵 #UTSA #BirdsUp #TriangleOfToughness
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3 years
What Explains America’s Antagonism Toward China? -- Zhang Jun @ProSyn
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9 years
At @OU_Football Heisman Park... 😎🏈
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4 years
Chinese ambassador ⁦ @AmbCuiTiankai ⁩: Blaming China will not end this pandemic - ⁦ @washingtonpost
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3 years
@ratemyskyperoom Thanks! I’ll work to improve this. My goal is to get to @LarrySabato ’s 10/10 level…
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9 years
Pre-gaming for @OU_Football
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1 year
I’ve always loved this pic by @HFNZONE taken immediately after my wife and I were married… 25 years ago today. I thank God every day that she didn't run away in a panic at the prospect of marrying a goofy, hyperactive political science professor. 😉 ❤️
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2 years
I can’t wait to discuss the Speaker’s election in class soon…
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@BeschlossDC I was teaching a course on Internet and Politics. We watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center on a CNN live feed in class. After the shock wore off, I comforted students, immediately ended class, and told everyone to head for home...
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5 years
Ready to represent @utsa in today’s #MLKDay2020 Parade!
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4 months
Just hanging out with some of our @UTSA_DPSG students tonight… #UTSA #UTSAGrad2024 🤟🎓 🎉
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4 years
Big thanks to everyone at @Center4Politics , especially @LarrySabato and Glenn Crossman for this cool mask! Vote!
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1 year
It’s time for Round 2 of @UTSA ’s Commencement. I always love this day, seeing the sheer joy and excitement among the grads and families — especially our #FirstGen and Dreamers! 👩🏻‍🎓👨🏽‍🎓🎓🎉🟠🔵🤙🏻 #UTSA #UTSAGrad23 #NowAndForever
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The latest edition of Qiushi Journal is now online: 2023年第19期《求是》目录 Highlights include Xi's commentary on Chinese-style modernization, additional commentaries on Chinese-style modernization, & the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road initiative
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2 years
A quick reminder: Nullification, secession, and Texas independence were part of a plank in the 2022 Texas GOP platform. See page 6, #33 under “State Sovereignty.”
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Why Don’t We Have Serious Regulations on Making People Work in the Heat? -- @NathanJRobinson @curaffairs
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@scottbraddock And to think that a few of my students think that Texas politics is somehow boring...
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2 years
We need @JRsBBQ calling the play-by-play on the House floor!
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2 years
@bjirish “Big Deal University is reportedly in talks with Other State University to make a major trade for a Philosophy Professor, two History Assistant Professors, and a Political Scientist to be named later in exchange for two Fulbright scholars in English and cash…”
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4 years
Congrats to @UTSA_DPSG grad Christopher Garcia ( @afsinreverie ) on his appointment as Senior Legislative Affairs Advisor! We’re very proud of you, Christopher! @UTSA
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The White House
4 years
These accomplished and barrier-breaking individuals will focus on implementing policies, working with Congress, and communicating with the American people about how the administration will build our nation back better than before.
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Texas Take: Shredding the Constitution -- @scottbraddock and @JeremySWallace The latest edition of the Texas Take is essential listening as our part-time Legislature proceeds into its 11th month via a Fourth Special Session... #GroundhogDay #txlege
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1 year
28 years ago today at 9:02am, two friends who worked for @HUDgov in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building —Susan Ferrell and Betsy McGonnell — were murdered along with 166 others by depraved right-wing domestic terrorists. #OKCBombing #NeverForget
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@BeschlossDC No. I learned it from my grandmother. My great grandfather was an oil executive in Tulsa. They lived in the Woodward Park neighborhood on Terwilliger. She told me about seeing smoke from the fires to their north, the warnings to stay inside, and the horror stories that emerged.
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Just a reminder to the GOP: Liberia: 🇱🇷 U.S.A.: 🇺🇸 As @marcaross wisely notes: Always Be Communicating…
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The @UTSA_DPSG medal for this year is still available for sale in the Department, at SA Flavors, and Monarch Trophies. A reminder that all proceeds go to our student scholarship fund.
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You mean the part where I went to segregated schools until 7th grade and witnessing riots when we desegregated? Watching the news as a kid about the MLK and RFK’s assassinations, massive student protests, Vietnam, and Watergate? Yeah. Sure. Life felt so simple and easy…
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Do you remember when you were growing up, do you remember how simple life was, how easy it felt? It was about faith, family, and country. We can have that again, but to do that, we must vote Joe Biden out. #RTM2023
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4 years
When the CIA Interferes in Foreign Elections: A Modern-Day History of American Covert Action -- David Shimer @ForeignAffairs
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Texas Take: 'If at First You Don't Succeed, Threaten Everyone' -- @scottbraddock and @JeremySWallace Your weekly listening assignment for Texas politics...
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2 years
My 1977 Inauguration invitation…
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Another week, another insane @UTSAFTBL game heading to Overtime. My nerves can’t take this. #UTSA #GoRunners
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3 years
Pfizer vaccine dose #2 done. #FullyVaccinated #WearAMask
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4 years
Show of hands: Who had the My Pillow Guy pushing for a coup d'etat via the Insurrection Act that blames China and Iran for Trump's election defeat on their 2021 Doomsday Bingo card? SMDH.
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@MyPillowUSA CEO Michael Lindell shows off his notes before going into the West Wing at the White House on Friday, Jan 15, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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Roy Finch ( @humbled_roy ) doing what Roy Finch does - making people miss! #BattleOfAlberta #CFLPlayoffs
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Texas Take Podcast: "Democrats in Array" -- @scottbraddock and @JeremySWallace A really great assessment of Vice President Kamala Harris' first week as the presumptive Democratic nominee as well as the idiocy that is Lt. Governor Dan Patrick...
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5 years
Packing is complete. Time to head ‘em up and move ‘em out to San Antonio, @UTSA , and @UTSA_DPSG . It’s been a fun 21 years, Houston! 😎
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It’s time, @UTSA graduates! #UTSAGrad24 #UTSA
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Paging @NeinQuarterly German Philosophy Has Finally Gone Viral. Will That Be Its Undoing? -- @ForeignPolicy
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How to Succeed in the Foreign-Policy Blob - Some graduation advice for aspiring members of the foreign-policy establishment in the class of 2023. -- @stephenWalt @ForeignPolicy
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This is going up along the 1604 frontage roads by @UTSA . Very cool, @TxDOTSanAntonio ! 🤙🏻🟠🔵
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I’m falling faster than Bo Xilai. Prepping for rectification, denouncement, disgrace, and Qincheng Prison... #3yfk
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@scottbraddock I'd like to add Dallas Skyline to this list. 4135 students. Massive campus on 77 acres. Good luck with one door...
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Grateful that vaccine dose #1 is now complete. Please get yours as soon as you can! #GetVaccinated
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@TexasMonthly
Texas Monthly
4 years
We've been here before: yet another pricey coaching change won't fix what ails the Longhorns.
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Success for Students With Autism: Rochester Institute of Technology has become a model for helping students on the spectrum with academics and their careers -- Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @insidehighered
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Hello San Antonio and @UTSA ! We’re so glad to be here. 😎🤙🏻
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Corruption in Texas is corrosive; democracy demands changes — ⁦ @cltomlinson @ExpressNews
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The Texas Take Podcast: This Ain't Texas -- @scottbraddock and @JeremySWallace A great discussion about why Texans and Texas issues - particularly abortion, gun violence, and immigration - were front and center for much of the DNC in Chicago this week.
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5 years
This sounds like it was promulgated by @ass_deans Did I miss the memo?
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My professor really has the audacity to charge me to buy both his textbook and rec letter from him these people have no shame
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