Denied a jury trial, Jimmy Lai declared guilty by three handpicked judges in Hong Kong. api.neonemails.com/emails/conte...

But David French, the guys flipping out over Drag Queen Story Hour are the weak men creating hard times. If they think something has gone terribly wrong, and that the thing is people reading books to kids at a voluntary family event, that's insanely weak. And an excuse to act on irrational hatred.

If you're wondering what happened to Nate Silver, he was into the COVID lab leak theory and got negative feedback online, including from epidemiologists and virologists and (GASP!) posters, which added to his belief that The Woke are victimizing Nate Silver. It spiraled from there. I'm not kidding.

People on Bluesky acting like this is bad/scary while hiding the fact you get a free Palantir hoodie out of it

I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

These agencies' budgets are WAAAYYYY too big. Eight people + 1 filming to remove a paper sign? Imagine if we staffed Head Start classrooms, VA hospitals, or nursing homes like that. bsky.app/profile/notu...

What does “basic competency” even mean? How about requiring basic competency in math or reading comprehension or writing? 🙄

WTAF

Great thread

Here is Congressman Randy Fine explicitly calling for the genocide of Muslims. This is abhorrent. We are disgusted by Congressman Fine's persistent and rampant anti-Muslim racism and call on all American Jewish leaders to speak out.

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

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Mongolia and Tibet concluded a bilateral treaty in January 1913, after having declared independence from the Daqing Empire and the ROC. The left pic is the Tibetan version; the right pic seems to be the Mongol version, which I am seeing for the first time (alas, in very low unreadable resolution)

Center-left politicians/parties adopting the same bad policies as the far right, just more politely & with less xenophobia, 🇨🇦 edition

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

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Marc surrounded himself with only people who kissed his ass and praised him for taking crazy risks, and now he views literally any suggestion that people merely think through the consequences of their actions, even from *the Pope*, as an affront to his entire concept of self.

No, but yes

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

The answer is "no," but her response is not completely wrong. McClain is deliberately threading a needle of military lingo to confuse viewers. Oaths of ENLISTMENT and oaths taken by OFFICERS are DIFFERENT. Anyone commenting on this needs to read Hertling's piece: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-ameri...

Once again, I remind you that this woman cannot be allowed anywhere near the strategy or leadership of the Democratic Party: bsky.app/profile/mcop... Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.

They line up perfectly.

“His determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy“. For fucks sake. Choose words that mean things. “his determination to challenge science”. “Deny scientific reason”. “His determination to kill untold numbers of healthy children.”

Trump is so obviously happy to actually be spending time with a cool dude instead of the vile shit-nosed flunkies that are constantly squirming between his toes. It must be incredibly refreshing to breathe even one lungful of air that doesn't have the fetid taste of Stephen Miller thick upon it.

a 34-year old DSA legislator turned mayor has MAGA's god emperor at heel like a geriatric puppy, what a world

I for one encourage the White House to keep up this messaging www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.” That’s seems really bad.

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

Remember that all of our tech billionaires think this is what the “light of consciousness” looks like

Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit

Blakemore Fellowships for Asian language study: deadline December 30. More information here: www.blakemorefoundation.org

Hey, Bluesky losers - look what you’re missing on Twitter!

Matt Gaetz's OAN producer Vish Burra deleted wildly antisemitic tweets and videos he shared earlier today, which showed a "Scheming Room" with a Star of David that depicted Jews as cockroaches who burned and ran when exposed to light. I've asked OAN president Charles Herring and Gaetz for comment.

We know the Chinese regime have been cultivating NY city & state politicians, fooling them with United Front "community group" outfits that coerce voters for them. They've been planting spies. And so on. So, is this the explanation why no NY politicians are stepping up now? 2/2

In case you're wondering what's going on with the SNAP case: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

Transnational repression at the IndieChina Film Festival: Transnational repression at the IndieChina Film Festival: open.substack.com/pub/donaldcl...

More proof that rich people are incredibly cheap. Cuomo had $4.9 million AGI in 2024; he donated $75K (1.53%!) to charity. He’s way below even the other cheapskates in his income bracket.

It’s ridiculous that it should need to be said that the US becoming less trustworthy does not make China more trustworthy. It’s the same China it was before Trump came back to the White House.

It's official: Trump is insane All these events he claims happened in 2020 - when none of these people were in any position of power and when Trump, not Biden, was president There are no documents, just the things Crazy Trump hallucinates

"Xilinhot, a city in Inner Mongolia, announced plans to collect blood samples to update an identification database [...]" China collected DNA and blood samples in the Uyghur Region in 2017, building a highly problematic database for surveillance. www.business-standard.com/world-news/c...

Vandalism.

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

reason.com/volokh/2025/... Here we go again. Giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming they didn't affirmatively intend to mislead the court, there's still no excuse for this kind of stupidity and laziness.

Holy cow who is running Andrew Cuomo’s campaign and how do they not understand the difference between South Asians and Southeast Asians.

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching." He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

Congrats again to the elites who told us this guy was a credible Treasury Secretary because he went to the right schools & cocktail parties (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) We have treaty obligations with our allies. Resign. Or start acting like an adult who swore an oath to country & Constitution.