Dr. Raymond Kuo | 郭泓均

@kuorum.bsky.social

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Expert on international order and Asian security. VP of Research, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 🇹🇼🇺🇸 Website: https://www.raymondkuo.com/

This year's line up for MN Yacht Club, with the Lumineers, Matchbox Twenty, and the Strokes headlining Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, respectively.
Full crowd at MN Yacht Club.
"I was surprised at how quickly and extensively the experiment was bleeding into the rest of my life. I was listening to gambling podcasts in the shower and spending my Sunday afternoons watching five football games at a time—one on my phone and four on the TV’s split screen. I routinely stayed up past midnight scrolling through the apps, my face illuminated in the dark of our bedroom by brightly colored ads for “NO SWEAT BETS” and “SAME GAME PARLAYS.” I impatiently swiped away FanDuel’s “Reality Check” pop-ups, which notified me, in what I took to be a passive-aggressive tone of disapproval, that I was spending quite a lot of time on the platform."
Candles in lake Harriet spelling out "abolish ice."
Hand carved fountain pen showing the nib.
Ink well and Taiwanese cyprus fountain pen on a desk.
Indivisible protest tomorrow morning at 7am. Whipple building in Minneapolis.
Business card for el tinglado desperate grafico in oaxaca.
Teotihuacan with hot air balloons above.
Google maps overhead image of the Trader Joe's in st. Louis Park, MN showing a small parking lot.
Thousand of people marching down the street for No Kings.
Fresh tortillas!
Gigantic chandelier above stage with Mumford and sons playing.
The poster for the movie Speed, but rendered in seed art.
Sunset over the MN state fairgrounds grandstand with the Indigo Girls performing.
White mug with "the London school of economics and political science" in black lettering. The LSE's red logo is just visible on the left.
Dark blue mug with United Nations logo in silver.
Small white ceramic cup with tiny handle. Image of the Ngoc Son temple with a red love heart in the upper right corner.
Large red mug with the words Humphrey School of public affairs in yellow lettering.
White ceramic cup with image of au upright black bear wearing a scarf.
While mug with a cat's face on it. Two small ears sticking above the rim.
Imperial yellow mug, but components split apart. The lid sits off to the side, while the basket holding the tea leaves rests at an angle on top of the mug. This allows the remaining water to drain into the mug, simplifying clean up of loose leaf tea.
Red mug with Fordham University logo in white.
Receipt from 全聯 with a veritable sh*t ton of snacks.
White mug with image of Taiwanese black bear.
White mug with blue letters saying "University of New Hampshire Political Science".
Graph of penetration capabilities of various weapons.
Mug with scrabble letters and bonus word and letter score boxes.
Hamilton musical branded mug. Black mug with gold lettering spelling "Hamilton" in block letters, with the A substituted by a star.
White mug with red lettering saying "political science professor: powered by" and then the image of a steaming cup.
Yellow mug from the spam museum, with the shape of Minnesota state in blue, plus a small yellow heart where Austin, MN is.
Lovely gray and lavender tea cup made in Taiwan. Sitting on a coaster, also made in Taiwan.
Dunoon mug, design named "twitters", filled with PG tips tea.
Color changing mug from aldi with the Heeler household from Bluey, the best show currently on TV.
The only francesinha I have ever had. In Porto, Portugal. I dream about having this sandwich again.
Here’s the truth: White Americans — white men especially — who didn’t need to compete against a broad-based pool because of gender and racial discrimination; who have long enjoyed access to neighborhoods and networks, jobs, clubs, and government programs that systematically excluded others; and who continue to enjoy the presumption of expertise even when they are far outside their depth — have long been the original beneficiaries of race and gender-based affirmative action in this country.
Hot air balloons over the ruins of Teotihuacan. Taken from my crappy phone camera, and I don't know how to use filters. It really is that amazing.
Longitudinal plot of Taiwanese willingness to defend homeland. Caveat: The gaps between years are not scaled to the actual time between them.
Two loaves of olive campagne bread. My first time!
My bluesky profile showing I have 5,000 followers!
A stack of academic poli sci books. Intelligence in war; atomic assurance; 20 yrs crisis; religion on the battlefield; war and change in international politicos; awakening democracy through public work; war and the engineers; understanding international conflict (3rd); Russian roulette; political leadership; China alive in the bitter sea; introductory readings in political behavior; international politics and foreign policy.
Left-most shelf of academic books.
A Harris-Walz campaign yard sign with "hypocrites" scrawled in permanent marker on it.
Harris-Walz camo hat
Two skeets, modifying the same quote, with wildly different frames, but making the exact same conclusion.
I say "I...think I just opened for Kamala Harris?" Anjali Dayal asks me to elaborate, so I reply "The campaign asked 1st and 2nd gen immigrants to record videos of why they're supporting Biden/Harris, and mine went on just before Kamala's (recorded) remarks."