A No Kings organizer in Franconia, VA tells @eggerdc.bsky.social that the turnout has been "beyond anything we had expected"

St Louis Federal Reserve in 2017 on alternative methods of tracking Chinese GDP www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-econo...

China slapped fees on U.S. owned, operated, built, flagged vessels as countermeasure to U.S. fees on China-linked ships. Trump’s raising tariffs on Chinese exports to 100% imposing export controls on software in reprisal to China export limits on rare earth minerals. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

"TikTok's board would become 'American-dominated,' sources further confirmed, including 'one member designated by the US government.'" So now TikTok could have both Chinese *and* US government surveillance and censorship? Sounds like a recipe for commercial success!

"If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." -- Justice Kavanaugh

Why is Congress still getting paid

Bloomberg: ‘ASML is preparing for disruptions, particularly due to a clause that requires foreign firms to seek China’s approval for reexports of products containing its rare earths, said the person familiar with ASML, […] noted that ASML is lobbying Dutch and US allies for alternatives.’

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

“Senior military leaders should have stepped in to prevent Trump from turning addresses at Fort Bragg and Norfolk into political rallies; the silence of the Army and Navy secretaries, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and some top generals and admirals is appalling…” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Foreign companies will now require Beijing’s approval to export products that contain even trace amounts of Chinese-sourced rare-earth minerals, or that were manufactured using the country’s technology on.ft.com/4ofimM8

Morning Bid: Asia stocks take tech train to new heights reut.rs/3VWJ0xe

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. (Published July with @texastribune.org)

Digital surveillance grids are part of a tech-driven approach to make the country’s grassroots governance more efficient—but also more pervasive

Good lord. @apnews.com

I wouldn’t advise anyone in Portland to walk your dog near this building.

Recorded Future just published a report diving into the Beijing Institute of Electronics Technology and Application (BIETA), which is almost certainly a front for China’s MSS, developing technologies to support intelligence and military missions. Full report: www.recordedfuture.com/research/bie...

Another tragic accident.

A battle is heating up over a possible relocation.

Best wishes for a peaceful and happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

For those outside of Chicago, these signs are pretty common

Ten years and five months apart

American taxpayers are paying people to post Bible verses on a US government account.

Not surprising that Beijing would politicize the Mid-Autumn Festival www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...

GOD: "Do not mistreat foreigners living in your country, but treat them just as you treat your own citizens. Love foreigners as you love yourselves, because you were foreigners one time in Egypt. I am the Lord your God." --- Leviticus 19: 33-34

Texas proudly invading Illinois. It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

2 years into the war, Americans’ skepticism of Israel’s military operation against Hamas and the Israeli government has grown: 39% now say Israel is going too far in its military operation against Hamas 59% now hold an unfavorable opinion of the Israeli government www.pewresearch.org/...

We do not deploy American forces against Americans in our own cities. Our military is not trained for domestic law enforcement. It’s illegal and un-American.

Congressional District Interactive Map: How Much Will ACA Premium Payments Rise if Enhanced Subsidies Expire? | KFF www.kff.org/affordable-c...

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE is] just picking up people who are brown and black and then checking their credentials. I don't know about you, but I don't carry around papers that say I'm a U.S. citizen. So U.S. citizens are getting detained and arrested."

Hsiao Bi-khim put out these “senior images” for the Mid-Autumn Festival

KPop Demon Hunters - SNL www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW9Q...

The man had been detained for more than 37 days without being charged with any immigration violation.

The Fog of Teaching. I know it well.

Needs more cowbell.

Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans. U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties. Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed. This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda. It was always about cruelty.

Since it's not the state but private companies buying Russian naptha, I wonder if public pressure may dissuade them focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

Beijing has assigned Sun Shangwu 孙尚武, 56, the deputy editor-in-chief of China Daily, to the post of chief publicity officer at its liaison office in Hong Kong, in an enhanced effort to tell good stories about Hong Kong. www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

I regret to inform you that in addition to the collapse of Reconstruction and the Red Scare we all need to bone up on how Woodrow Wilson cracked down on journalists and dissenters. We've got you covered, with this piece by Adam Hochschild www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hegseth says four killed in US strike on alleged drugs boat off Venezuela

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

Interesting read. 70,000 Taiwanese in Brazil is no small diaspora focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...

United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages to target people for deportation.

The Houston Ismaili Center has been in the works for nearly two decades.

Imagine the Last Supper reimagined in a Ming Dynasty courtyard: Christ at the center, not in Jerusalem, but beneath carved wooden beams and fluttering lucky clouds. In this early 20th-century painting, Peter wears a flowing blue hanfu, seated on a three-legged stool beside lotus blooms rising 1/2

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

This is a bad idea, whether it’s Netanyahu or Putin. Hosting the UN means letting people we don’t like attend the meetings. We signed hosting treaty to this effect.