Fascist scum of the earth, including Gregory Bovino, gathering in Porto, Portugal for Remigration Summit 2026, dedicated, according to their website, to "shaping the future of Europe and the West through sovereignty, identity, and demographic renewal."

In her new graphic memoir 'Names and Faces,' comic artist Leise Hook illustrates a story of identity, exploring “the in-betweenness of being mixed-race.” Author Q&A: www.chinafile.com/re... Read an excerpt: www.chinafile.com/li...

Came across a roll of armadillos in the woods near Nashville yesterday.

Immigration Bodhisattva. By Toronto-based artists for @loudnqueer_openmic. . . . . . #diffusedreligion #immigration #toronto #canada #queer

Tie Elon Musk to a chair and make him watch this.

Satan was not talking about AI when he said this: At first I thought that Libertie and Heav'n To heav'nly Soules had bin all one; but now I see that most through sloth had rather serve.

A+ slightly diminishing content for Sinophiles here

1/8 I just finished reading Chris Miller's excellent book on the collapse of the Soviet Economy. Some people might think that the topic is interesting, but largely irrelevant to global economic conditions today. They would be mistaken. This is a very relevant book.

Tennessee goddamn

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy

It’s funny how billionaires have cooked their brains so much that they think Nashville is on par with Shanghai

Also crazy that none of the headlines seem to indicate that anything really wrong is happening

What a horrible human being. And what's with the new unshaven, literally blue-collared look? Trying to give working class? The clothing messaging is conscious. So is what he said about Trump.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

From @djrothkopf.bsky.social "The point...is that it is a mistake to view Trump’s current crimes through lenses that seemed appropriate in the past. It is a mistake to think we can just turn the page without he and his cronies being held to account…because we... open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

My colleagues in East Asian Studies at Sheffield produce world class research and so many of the UK’s leading experts in Asian Studies have gotten MAs or PhDs there. This is an incredibly shortsighted choice that will diminish this country’s knowledge exchange with a vital region of the globe.

Raskin: "The whole administration now just just corruption -- highway robbery every day"

An awful example of how our legal immigration system is getting progressively worse.

This @ft graphic shows that trump suddenly got very interested in trading stocks

corruption is the thread that ties everything that Trump does together

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

So nothing

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 239 of The Continent Macron is back in Africa: energetic, ambitious, and still trying to convince the world Paris is relevant. Meanwhile, in Mayotte — legally France, geographically Africa — asylum seekers wait for la République to notice them. bit.ly/239_TC

Wow, Tennessee is leaping back to the 1850s, almost every day some news like this.

I didn't get my transgender for everybody during the Biden administration!

Why was Stephen Miller included in the Trump delegation to China? Foreign travel just one of the perks of being a Trump stooge? Or did Miller go to exchange notes with his counterparts on how to run an efficient internment camp?

Xinhua News agency’s main story today on the Trump visit has 5 photos—two of Xi, one walking group photo, one of Xi and Trump, and a group shot of Trump and Xi with Eric and Lara Trump. The Trump family’s hosts in Beijing know exactly what Trump’s priorities are. (Source in ALT text)

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

My favorite photo from Trump's last trip to China in 2017 (details in alt text). The optics are going to be very different this time around.

“.. Good morning from Beijing, where the US-China meeting is a sidebar on the front page of the China Daily.” - Annmarie Hordern, @bloomberg.com

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

This is a Venezuelan Poodle Moth and it’s a real thing

"AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy" www.404media.co/your-ai-use-... Made me think of this:

1/2 I knew Beijing was losing population, but I hadn't realized the demographics driving it. According to SCMP, "The percentage of Beijing’s population aged between 20 and 29 plunged from 21.3 per cent in 2015 to 11.4 per cent in 2024." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

Cartoonist and illustrator Leise Hook’s debut graphic memoir “Names and Faces” examines the in-betweenness of being mixed-race. Read the conversation between Leise and @goldkorn.bsky.social in @chinafile.bsky.social:

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

I was in Washington DC earlier this week. I saw a few gaggles of bored-looking National Guard Officers patrolling the streets. They reminded of something, and I finally remembered what it was (source in Alt text):

Like America's approximately 40% bitter-ender Trump voters…

French prosecutors are summoning Elon Musk to the French capital again—this time to face preliminary criminal charges in a sprawling investigation into his social-media platform, X. on.wsj.com/4wgu0Lf

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Surely the only reason Patel still has a job is that Trump wants to completely destroy the FBI's ability to ever investigate the Trump family in the future?

Oracle, Starbucks, Amazon etc. are moving in, but Nashville's iconic music venue Acme Feed & Seed might be in trouble after its property taxes "jumped from $129,000 a year to $589,000." I guess Kid Rock, who has a crappy bar labeled as a "honky tonk" nearby, isn't going to help.

Happening in Tennessee right now:

"I'm baffled. College graduates can't find jobs. At the same time, [the govt] is upping retirement age, encouraging childbirth, aggressively developing AI to replace humans, & not allowing people to drop out and take it easy. These 5 things are somehow all happening simultaneously." —Gongzi Ce

This would require Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand to agree on a thing, something they are famously good at.

The U.S.-Iran war only adds to the reasons the China human rights movement needs to move away from reliance on the support from the U.S. govt, who is increasingly a human rights violator both domestically and internationally. (My conversation with @asiasociety.org's Hai editor @goldkorn.bsky.social)

personally i believe yall are doing irreparable harm to Daniel Craig by continuing to indulge his mistaken belief that he can do a southern accent. that heist movie, these detective films...it can only end in tears

Last night in front of the the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream in Washington D.C.