On this day 40 years ago, a stream of charged particles was fired at Gordon Lightfoot, splitting him into Chris Pratt and Bryan Cranston

“Besieged by Imperialists”: North Korea’s State Media in English, 1998-2003," an article I've worked on off and on for more years than I care to remember, is now up at the Journal of East Asian Affairs. lnkd.in/e-RqC6Vh

The new issue--38.1--of JOEAA is online! With articles from Hon-min Yau, Rob York (@rjamesyork.bsky.social), Satoshi Machida, Leif-Eric Easley, and Sofiya Sayankina. All articles are Open Access. www.inss.re.kr/en/publicati... #BigIdeasForEastAsia

I must say: BlueSky is a much more fun place to be when Democrats are winning.

Chinese military officers have been in the theater behind Russia's combat lines "with Beijing's approval to draw tactical lessons from the war," reports Reuters. Pales in comparison to U.S. military coordination with Kyiv, but still a strand in the war's wider web. www.reuters.com/world/chines...

Maybe the court decision was delayed so they could be more thorough. Because I read it and ... yeah. They disassembled Yoon.

Lee Jae-myung's presidency is going to be bitter medicine but sometimes that's necessary.

Quick translated version of Constitutional Court's decision to uphold President Yoon's impeachment today. There will be a presidential election in 60 days, on June 3. Source: n.news.naver.com/article/366/...

South Korea will be focal point of liberal American envy for the foreseeable future.

Damn.

Yoon Suk Yeol is officially an ex-president and now an election must take place – one that will likely result in Lee Jae-myung succeeding him.

8-0. Coups are, in fact, illegal.

Congrats President Lee Jae-myung, I guess.

Given the lead in comments from the Chief Justice, seems increasingly likely that Yoon impeachment will be upheld.

Sure sounds like Yoon is screwed.

With everything that's already happening, we're just waiting for the #ConstitutionalCourt of #Korea to tell us whether a #coup is actually illegal.

Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

With all that's going on in the world, BR Myers is doing vlogs about how "woke" college students in the West have an inferior grasp of classical literature and proper English to the North Korean leadership. Let me know if and when he discovers the plot again. brmyers.substack.com/p/kim-jong-i...

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

“Media studies” was an endlessly mocked class in the UK press when I was a teenager, and it turns out probably the most vital class you could take.

Not a great time for leadership uncertainty. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

With Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, the “5 eyes” agreement will get a 6th eye.

“The surge of people trying to reach Europe, the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia has set off a broad panic, reshaping the political landscape,” the columnist @polgreen.bsky.social writes. “Yet despite migration’s centrality to our politics and our world, nobody really understands it.”

WAP (1980s DC hardcore)

I wonder how much of this is because the 민주당 wasn't content to impeach Yoon and demanded the head of Han Duck-soo. Either way, I would still favor Lee Jae-myung if an election against Oh Se-hoon took place tomorrow but it won't be an overwhelming mandate. www.koreaherald.com/article/1038...

Wrote this Sunday night, which honestly feels like weeks ago. www.scmp.com/opinion/worl...

It's *exactly* what the CCP has imposed on Hong Kong.

DeepSeek is much worse than TikTok If you are tempted to give your information to China, now is your chance.

John Fetterman’s a disgrace to the oaf community. He does not represent America’s lumbering buffoons, ham-fisted galoots, or men whose heavy footsteps are soundtracked by a tuba.

The president of Colombia. Donald Trump’s trade policy is a boon to every anti-globalist outside the US who ever bemoaned their country’s overreliance on American goods, and I don’t think the “nationalists” around him understand how much benefit the US derived from that reliance.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

I’ve been in Australia for the past week, meeting (among others) former PM Morrison. That said, the trip could’ve used more marsupials.

It is, indeed, going to be a long four years.

www.nknews.org/2025/01/joe-... In @nknewsorg.bsky.social today.

Oh great.

The Party of Restraint

New BlueSky followers today. I’m sure they all have great personalities.

No thanks.

We can talk about his face in a minute, but check out that chyron.

Before you give the staffers a hard time keep in mind there wasn’t a real justification that would’ve sounded any better.

www.hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversa... On Hawaii Public Radio talking about recent developments in Korea.

The very first thing Biden should have done was abolish all the bad Trump tariffs on our allies (& re-entered TPP) The (almost) very last thing he should have done is not do this very dumb CFIUS thing He got awful economic & geopolitical advice. I’ll never understand it. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2... Looking at our recent presidents is enough to establish a causal link between protectionism and cognitive decline.

Sigh. It wasn’t a nonevent BUT we took it seriously. It was a nonevent BECAUSE we took it seriously. Same dangerous attitude I’ve seen about ozone layer deterioration: if a major campaign of concerted action averted the problem, it must have been a fake problem. Not the correct lesson to draw!

Chip Roy says Mike Johnson doesn't have the votes. They *really* want to do this again?

www.staradvertiser.com/2024/12/30/h... But York said that while South Korea’s progressives tend to pursue a softer touch with the North, changes usually aren’t immediate, and they tend to maintain a confrontational stance — at least until back-channel talks deescalate tensions.

However, this editorial in the conservative Chosun Ilbo argues that Yoon has "no legal means" to prevent the enforcement of the arrest warrant. Blocking the Yoon arrest warrant "would itself violate the law and could lead to physical confrontation," it says.