Both pieces make you see and feel Hong Kong through their eyes, and highlight both the city's resilience as well as the deep-rooted problems plaguing many communities.

National cohort study of 28 million individuals: "After standardizing the characteristics of vaccinated individuals to those of unvaccinated individuals, we observed a 25% lower standardized incidence of all-cause death in vaccinated individuals compared with unvaccinated ones."

FreeWeChat has provided a window to and kept a record of how exactly the CCP censors the Chinese information space. It’s a total shame that an American company is bending to the CCP’s global censorship demands. Don’t fool yourself: this will come back to bite you. en.greatfire.org/blog/2025/de...

A sad tale that weaves together complex and conflicting threads around COVID origins, transnational repression, scientific misinformation, MAGA disinformation, the politics of fear/trust in science, and the deeply personal toll on individuals. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

Loved this nuanced op-ed piece by @joannachiu.bsky.social that captures what is worth preserving -- and what is wrong and urgently needs fixing -- in Hong Kong.

Listening to @barackobama.bsky.social talk about establishing new fuel efficiency standards on cars, how the benefits of the regulations outweighed their costs by 6 to 1, and the challenges of making progress on climate change in chapter 21 of A Promised Land. Meanwhile, here we are in 2025...

“The majority of cardiologists are men. The majority of patients with long COVID are female, and there’s a myth that the females [with long COVID] have a psychiatric disease."

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Ngl, this reads like the plot of a vertical CDrama, lol 😆 sc.mp/kgef5

2/ As the HK fire unfolded, flames engulfed 1,500 homes over in Bangladesh... Donations welcome here: www.bracusa.org/news/brac-an... And here: www.instagram.com/p/DRhGkqYkT_X/

1/ GUIDE: Hongkongers are responding to the deadly blaze in #TaiPo, donating supplies, money and blood to assist in the relief effort. 👉HKFP rounds up fundraisers and initiatives for readers looking to contribute. Please share: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/27/h...

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

One study found "there were 406 animal cafes across Asia in 2019, just over a quarter of which contained exotic species. And of the more than 250 exotic species recorded, nearly half were threatened with extinction or had a decreasing population in the wild."

In unrelated news, Canada officially had its measles elimination status revoked this month.

spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful

Just finished listening to Sarah Wynn-Williams' fascinating memoir and damning exposé, Careless People, on Facebook and the monstrous people who run it. It's so so much worse than you could imagine. Essential reading and glimpse into our potentially dystopian tech future. (Audiobook read by author.)

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

Per Reuters: - 44 people have died and 279 are missing - Some residents still trapped in buildings - Three from contruction company arrested - The suspects are held on suspicion of manslaughter - Wang Fuk complex includes 2,000 apartments and over 4,600 people

The images are apocalyptic Dozens killed in Hong Kong high-rise residential fire www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...

They had submitted extensive paperwork and paid fees. The foreign spouses had been fingerprinted, passed medical exams, no criminal records. They entered the country legally were authorized to work. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

From Lululemon and winterwear, to post-COVID travel and Starbucks, The Negotiation host Todd Embley chats with Crystal Tai, journalist and Managing Partner at @nuoraglobal.bsky.social about China's consumer culture. 🎙️Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/5dj6... 🎙️Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

"I think the thing that cannot be replaced at all is the reporting. I think I value the person...who has picked up the phone and spoken to real people..." Great convo between @thewalrus.ca EIC @cstarnino.bsky.social and @thelocal.to's @nickhunebrown.bsky.social on Nick's timely, must-read piece.

the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale

"The experimental mRNA vaccine prevented 60% to 67% of flu infections, while the conventional vaccine prevented 44% to 54% of infections." The side effects were minor, such as sore arms and fevers, not severe ones such as myocarditis.

Governments and institutions are obviously not infallible, but I continue to be gobsmacked by the way this administration has completely and thoroughly upended the credibility of the HHS and CDC.

If you watch Chinese dramas, you will likely have seen these vertical microdramas: 2 minutes long, and upwards of 100 episodes. Today, it's a multi-billion dollar industry that even Hollywood is cashing in on. @variety.com digs into how China succeeded where Quibi failed: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Is U.S. absence from climate talks a "self-inflicted economic threat"? Some COP32 attendees believe "Trump’s policies will eventually leave the U.S. itself dependent on China as the global energy market shifts to cleaner products. That trend could hollow out the U.S. industrial core..."

Our very own Jing Zhang explains what this year's Single's Day results tell us about China's new consumer culture. Subscribe to our Substack for free for more #ChinaInsights direct to your inbox. #chinaexperts #chinaconsumers #singlesday open.substack.com/pub/nuoraglo...

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"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This @nickhunebrown.bsky.social piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...

This is an absolute *must read* by @nickhunebrown.bsky.social on the impact of AI slop in an era where journalism trust is already depressingly low, and why fact-checkers are more important than ever. As a freelancer who agonizes over accuracy and getting quotes right, this was a mind boggling read.

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

Two of Canada’s wealthiest families to make joint $18M bid for Hudson’s Bay Royal Charter "...donation would be paired with a $5-million contribution to support conservation, public display, education and a national consultation process that would include First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities."

Ha. Not much to laugh about in my timeline, but this -- 🤌

Eric Trump: "You can send $500 million worth of bitcoin on a Sunday night at 11pm while having a glass of wine with your wife for virtually zero fees."

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

"...but her emails..."

Attention Black and/or Indigenous early-career journalists! The Local is partnering with The Philanthropist for a $10,000 fellowship. The fellow will write about issues that matter to their community and civil society, and will be offered mentorship and industry guidance. thelocal.to/early-career...

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein? Yes, you can read it here www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...

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If you've read @joannachiu.bsky.social's reporting from and on China, or her book, China Unbound, then you're familiar with her expertise and professionalism. She's also pretty awesome to work with -- congratulations on this exciting next chapter!

In the latest data for October, the number of return trips among Canadians travelling to the U.S. dropped by 24 per cent for air travel and by 30 per cent for land travel, compared with the same time last year. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Several members of the @nuoraglobal.bsky.social team are part of the @nuvoices.bsky.social collective. It's amazing -- and inspiring -- to see what happens when smart women come together and pool their expertise and experience!

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Baseball, like everything else in the US, would be way more boring without any foreign-born people.

The wonderful old-Twitter experience of a global group chat during a live event or breaking news is a thing you can't do on Threads bc of its trash algorithms and you can't do on X bc it's a Nazi propaganda weapon, but it's really happening on Bsky now and I hope more holdouts start to discover that

And before the Yankees, it was the Blue Jays' unforgettable run in 1992 and 1993. And before that, you have to go all the way back to the 1970s. www.google.com/amp/s/www.ml...