Pressure works. Three days ago, I joined lawmakers pressuring the White House to stop its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system that is CRITICAL to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems, including right here off the coast of Oregon. Today, Trump backed down.

Expelled from school for trying to join Castro’s revolution, blinded in one eye in a freak accident, ordained by the Dalai Lama, & later leading scholar of #Tibetan #Buddhism Robert Thurman lived several lives in one, & spent them arguing for the power of compassion. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

someone should tell hegseth that disease has taken out more soldiers than any armament

Now with data! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm humbled to be awarded the Agricultural History Society's Henry A. Wallace Award for best book on agricultural history outside the US for my book, In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan. www.aghistorysociety.org/awards

there is nothing on earth these clowns love more than changing signs on buildings and logos on slides

Didn’t last long eh

Looks like China is turning up pressure against Taiwan's presence in Africa focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

This is bombshell stuff.

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

I’m looking for a new Research Assistant 🙂 The job’s both research and administrative, come join a wonderful team!

In 2017, I had to abandon ship. I was lost at sea. Caribbean fishermen, in the dead of night, risked their safety to pull me out of the ocean. Ever since the first illegal boat strike, I've been haunted by the betrayal of our duty to render aid and what it means for the safety of life at sea.

New out from @cimsec.bsky.social : "China is Rehearsing More Than Amphibious Landings." cimsec.org/china-is-reh...

evil people tbh

Every time after I visit Taipei my mandarin tutor feels a phantom shudder as they sense I’m about to suddenly start bothering them a lot more

I feel it’s sort of underrated the extent to which a Dem Congress and/or states could (1) absolutely destroy car dealerships as a business, and (2) this would cripple a lot of GOP state and local parties

Much to mull over in this excellent piece of research by @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social, Maeve Ryan, and @anglo-japan45.bsky.social in which 60 policymakers spill the beans on the process behind the UK's strategic defence reviews. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm more struck by how delusional a governing class needs to be to think millions of 16 and 17 year olds won't be smart enough to bypass digital blocks and curfews. It's like Labour wants to place an entire generation of young people into a legal greyzone that only fuels hostility to the state

A society where someone is adult enough to join the army at 16 yet too much of a child at 16 to use social media is one with a governing class that has lost touch with reality

This is a private, for-profit event, for a company the President personally has bought stock in.

Steve Garcia dominated the first round. There are also visible ads for Starlink, Polymarket, and Rumble at the White House fight cage. I have reported on JD Vance's investment in Rumble, which has been filled with neo Nazi content. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

and might i add thehandbasket.co

"Cheng said that during her US visit she uncovered ‘many misunderstandings’ about the KMT’s approach, and hopes for more opportunities for exchange." These were no 'misunderstandings'. Her U.S. counterparts perfectly understood that the KMT and the TPP have cut 1/3 of the special defense budget. 1/2

Skipping by the billions seemingly promised to Iran and the pinky-swear nature of the rest of it, this is how the core elements of the nuclear program stack up with what the JCPOA got us. Nuclear program the only arguable justification for all of this destruction, and... just yikes

"Strategically, the president achieved nothing." — Steven Cook, Middle East expert Read Jen Rubin's latest on the Iran deal @stevenacook.bsky.social @jenrubin.bsky.social

Read between the lines -- I mean, not even very far between the lines! -- of this story and what you find is a tale about rich men shopping for "wives" that will behave like ego-fluffing domestic servants. Just the most pathetic fucking people in the world. Man-babies, all around us.

The rules of techno-solutionist greenwashing: - It has to be 'real', in that a demo project exists - It also has to be $$$ and infeasible to scale, so you can dangle it as a promise but you're never held to account for why it isn't used more extensively

Five hours later, a masked stranger enters the White House UFC ring

Ah, yes, more attempting route around a democratically elected government focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

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6 sorties of PLA aircraft, 8 PLAN vessels and 2 official ships operating around Taiwan detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. 4 out of 6 sorties entered Taiwan’s southwestern part ADIZ.

trump is running up the national credit card and soon we're gonna be hearing about how dems have no choice but to "tighten our belts." so i thank @sereneblossom.gay for this exercise in working through *just how much* money we could raise by cutting out all the bullshit the rich use to dodge taxes

Lotta folks just now realizing how many Americans don’t know the difference between Northern Ireland and…Ireland. I’ve had this conversation like 4-5 times with Papa Long in the past year. Do not expect it to be common knowledge!

Holy shit, these people have no idea: The people launching the pogroms against immigrants in Belfast are loyalists, i.e. loyal to the British crown. They hate the concept of being Irish.

'Take it down!' Crowd electric as workers tear Trump's name off Kennedy Center www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned... 🙂🫶

This is the best headline I’ve seen about this depressing story www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

YOU CAN’T GENERATE ENOUGH POWER YOU CAN’T GET RID OF HEAT YOU CAN’T FIX ANYTHING THAT BREAKS YOU ARE CONSTANTLY BOMBARDED WITH RADIATION SO YOU HAVE TO MAKE ALL THE CHIPS MUCH BIGGER YOU CAN’T UPGRADE ANYTHING AND IT COSTS 1000X AS MUCH IT’S IDIOTIC AND YOU ARE RUNNING A GRIFT ON THE PUBLIC

Notably, The ISA Secretary General featured in this piece described as a "cheerleader for mining interests" was the only Secretary General to be voted out of office by the ISA Assembly.

Buried in this report about nuclear negotiation issues: Kushner and Witkoff took a field trip to Oak Ridge to learn how nuclear weapons work www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/u...

We have also tried to send refugees -- including Afghans who worked for the US -- to Eswatani and Equitorial Guinea as well as CAR, places to be clear they have no connection, no resources, nothing. And those are horrific human rights and/or unstable places. Death sentences, that simple. Evil.

NEW: When Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, prison officials had the former Honduran president's ICE hold lifted and he was driven to a posh New York hotel. That “can never be allowed to happen ever again,” said Rep. Norma Torres.

This reads like the opening scene of a pogrom

The majority of the United Kingdom's largest-ever drone package for Ukraine, set to deliver at least 120,000 drones this year, will be spent with British firms. https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-firms-named-in-uk-huge-ukraine-drone-deal/

Over 60,000 public comments opposed federal seabed mining leases near the Marianas. In response to the federal push, Guam just enacted a law deep-sea mining locally and restricting port access. Read more on how the community is fighting back: tinyurl.com/yckcrrca

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

Here’s me in @UoN_TRH on Cheng Li-wun. Generally speaking, I think she's done a lot of damage to Lai's reputation abroad, since she's good at appealing at those in the US who wish to throw him under the bus. But, well, she may cost the KMT domestically

the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...