RIP to my old calendar, you served well. Klaus @taiwanreporter.bsky.social sent me a fresh 2026 Taiwan photo calendar and the shots are seriously gorgeous. If you know anyone abroad who misses Taiwan, this is the kind of gift that truly hits the heart. Get it here: shopee.tw/product/4482...

Arigatou gozaimasu, CCP! You claim the San Francisco Peace Treaty invalid just because you (a rebel group back then) and the Soviets didn't get to dictate terms. Fine by me! If the treaty is void, Japan never legally renounced Taiwan. I guess that means I can breeze through domestic line at Narita!

Remember when Donald Trump kept obsessing over the size of Arnold Palmer's penis, gawked at it in a locker, and kept repeating this story over and over? Yeah. Bubba knows why.

So its revealed that Trump knew that Epstein was tapping into underage girls working at Mar-a-lago (and underage in Mar-a-lago spas of all places) and told Epstein to stop only after Epstein was already in trouble and under investigation. Yeah. Sounds very guilty.

Taiwan gives a CCP tourist throwing annexation/invasion flyers a 2 year ban for violating visa, but Jinnytty and LeLe Farley a 4 year ban? We treat the CCP better than our friends who have influence on millions! What the hell?

I feel the Republican outrage. Socialism and welfare should be for the ultra wealthy only, expanding that to the middle and poorer slave class is just wrong. /s

Dick Cheney is dead. As you know, death comes to us all. It just showed remarkably good taste this time.

US democracy has died. Jimmy Kimmel is a white Christian. If they could go after him, they will go after everyone else.

The fact that you could be fired simply for quoting Kirk already proves that he was not a good man. That said, Kirk should have been in court, not in a coffin.

Start in the Oval Office, Pam.

Whether it's Joe Biden condemning the killing of Charlie Kirk in 2025 or Charlie Kirk calling for the killing of Joe Biden in 2024, both men have issued strong words about the other's killing.

The GOP is so out of touch that they don't realize that it is normal for college students to have random roommates because college students can't afford the full price of rent. The fact that they think that college roommates are there to have sex with each other is wild.

If karma was real they'd say "He's a crisis actor. He was a part of a gay love triangle. FBI bait. Secret Antifa activist. False flag. Government setup. All to make America look bad."

I really don't understand people who support political candidates who have been lawfully and justifiably convicted of a corrupt crime. There are so many candidates out there, why break your principles for literal criminals?

It’s wild how Falun Gong media rail against the CCP in the name of “freedom” then turn around and promote American fascist politics, reject equity, and undermine basic rights. That’s not pro-freedom. It’s team authoritarian with a different flag. Shows like Ryan's News Room are a toxic.

Saw tons of posts about the recall election and how the DPP didn't win while not providing any context for the reality that neither did the KMT. If anything the KMT failed out in the first two stages of the recall but not without committing massive fraud and getting in big trouble for it.

So Donald Trump is adding another 15% to tariffs on Japanese products (30% now). I saw hundreds of posts sent articles claiming that Taiwan's Lai admin must be bad at negotiation while all neglecting the reality that the Trump administration is unpredictable and irrational by design.

What people don't understand about MAGA is that they're a big prosperity church scam. Trump is basically a prosperity pastor. Deprogramming is going to be extremely difficult.

When Trump says "In two weeks," it actually means: "I'm waiting for enough time for the news cycle to lose interest."

When you're banning Fahrenheit 451, you're no longer a true open democracy, Tennessee. pen.org/magic-tree-h...

Shawn Ryan has a good interview with Taiwan's VP, Bi-khim Hsiao. Worth a listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A5F...

Did you know that Taiwan is the most mountainous island in the world? 70% of Taiwan is covered by mountains and there are 268 peaks above 3,000 meters (10,000 feet). Indeed, Taiwan's extensive mountain range is beautiful above the clouds and absolutely worth a visit.

I actually enjoyed how the parade was basically "malicious compliance"; no parade for kings. If you really want to celebrate the military on its 250th anniversary, give them a big tasty barbecue and craft beers. Now that would be more American.

The only reason why they're doing the military parade in the evening starting at 6:30 p.m. is because Trump is infamously not a morning person. Military parades in the world in the world are usually done in the morning. He can't rise for the morning. He'll fall asleep.

Trump talking about gold cards helping the US economy is hogwash. The US is $36 trillion in debt, it would take 7.2 million people buying the $5 million gold cards. But only about 2 million or so in the world even have the money to do so, almost half already Americans.

U.S. State Department condemns the new charges against Joshua Wong in HK by the Chinese government while conveniently glossing over how the Trump administration back in 2020 refused to help Joshua Wong escape Hong Kong and condemned him to this.

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POPCORN TIME! Elon Musk and Trump going all out. Elon calling Trump an Epstein pedo, Trump calling for cancelling all gov contracts with Tesla and Space X. Elon promising to strand NASA in space. Tesla stock dropping 15%+.

Why does the TACO leadership look like a criminal line up of Batman villains? This one is a 22 year old intern from the Heritage foundation hired to lead terrorism prevention.

Here's an English video. Jiang's Empress clothing was problematic, but turns out she has no problems stifling the voices of other women. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHzo...

Problematic dynastic regent costume aside, seems like Jiang was behind the attack on peaceful Taiwanese and Tibetan protestors at Harvard and a leader of the controversial CSSA. Thank you Jane Ko for pointing this out. today.line.me/tw/v2/articl...

Foreign students with upcoming interviews for student visas to the USA are now encouraged to delete anything that might offend the radical right from support of LGBTQ, talk about abortion, gender identity, immigration, or political content. You don't even have to do this much to tour North Korea.

Calling for a shared world (among super powers) is fine at Harvard's Commencement, but wearing Qing-style imperial dynastic clothing for Chinese tyrants, infamous for mismanagement and killing tens of millions, is like me cosplaying as Emperor Palpatine and calling for a shared humanity.

Golden Dome is too expensive; I can do it for free. Just let the universities attract the kids of tyrants from all over, like Xi Jinping's daughter who went to Harvard and lives in MA. Free Golden Dome: China's not going to launch an nuke against East Coast because of her.

Trump just admitted it took him 20 years to basically understand what the world already knew about Putin. 20 years!

Witkruis/Plaasmoorde monument is about violent robberies against farmers white & black since 1990. There's 2500. Trump says: proof of White Genocide. Except since 1990, over 1.1 million in America have died from gun violence - by Trumps logic, Minority Genocide exists in America.

All I wanted was Bungie to not mess up Marathon. I guess that's too much to ask fate for.

All Trump did was negotiate with China to effectively raise their tariffs on US goods, pre-trade war it was 7.2% and now it is 10%. In exchange he punishes US companies that have their products made in China with a 30% tariff. Yeah we can all see how he bankrupted so many casinos.

She's right. The pro-China folks want us to forget that former Pres Ma once had a 9% approval rating & tons of protests against him, w Taiwan freedom rankings dropping under him. The KMT are with the CCP. laorencha.blogspot.com/2025/05/stop...

Was on ICRT's Taiwan This Week again. TVBS' Dimitri Bruyas kept interrupting, politicizing, and gish galloping. I tried to stay polite, but it was exhausting. Never seen a guest walk out before. Fabrication and sea-lioning aren’t “just asking questions.” In 3 yrs, never saw this before.

"Taiwan is basically Afghanistan with leaves ... lets take everything that sucked about Afghanistan and made it hard to control and put it on an island that's hard to get to." youtu.be/ljbsxywpKZw?...

I've had plenty of opportunities to join political parties and partisan media. I chose not to and I'm glad because I don't risk my career expressing my views. I recognize that this is a privilege and luxury.

KMT's Eric Chu is now lecturing Germany about transitional justice, something his own party fights tooth and nail against. Chu uses Big Lie tactics that Goebbels employed, and himself blamed the DPP for the KMT's mass murder sprees against Taiwanese people.

Make no mistake: China is extremely aggressive towards Taiwan. They fly aggressive sorties many times a day, even on vacations.

Public schools in America have budgets slashed so much they can't even afford free lunches for kids or a livable wage for their teachers, but Trump wants us to believe they've got trillions to pay the $10k-135k it costs to transition every individual kid in their classroom in a single afternoon

If I'm one of the less than 7% Chinese spouses that lost my documents, I get months to prove by gathering docs from China, or I can file for many exemptions or get delays up to a year to do so. This is not "Taiwan ripping families apart." It's really a documentation issue.

Pan Blues/Reds always say Taiwan is a pawn in an attempt to push it closer to China and farther away from other powers. Taiwan is one of the most important economies in the world, in one of the most geostrategic areas in the world, that it interfaces does not mean it's a pawn.

I'm no fan of the CCP, but this entire trade war is predicated on Trump wanting the Chinese laborer who makes hundred dollar products for the USA, for just $3 an hour, 6 days a week, 9am to 9pm, to spend 30x their salary on buying expensive US products that even Americans won't buy.