Thank you to @alecash.net and the team at @chinabooksreview.com for excerpting our graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION which the magazine calls "a dark read which pulls no punches." ⬇️ TAKE A LOOK AT THESE NEWLY EXCERPTED PAGES:

Happy publication day to HYBRED, by Jamie Mustard and Francesca Filomena! @badiucao.bsky.social and I were so honored to be asked to read it and blurb it! We love this graphic novel. Congratulations to all!

So great to see our book mentioned in this @publisherswkly.bsky.social article looking at publishers who support marginalized voices! 🔗 READ: bit.ly/pw-indie-revolution

At the Berlin Freedom Conference marking the fall of the Berlin Wall, @badiucao.bsky.social and I shared thoughts on the intersections of journalism, art, and activism — and how global Gen Z are making their voices heard. Thank you to the City of Berlin! Fight fascism! 📸 By Mo Wuestenhagen / © BFC

YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION is fiction — but a lot of nerdy research went into it, including drawing on serious war games scenarios, as I explain in this clip from our Literaturhaus Berlin talk! 📺 WATCH: bit.ly/libe-revolution

🇩🇪 Berlin's Shakespeare & Sons bookshop in East Berlin and Dante Connection in Kreuzberg currently have stock of our graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION, for those looking during Berlin Freedom Week!

Really interesting piece by @shigesaburoo.bsky.social of Nikkei about the influence Democratic Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder had on Japan's new PM Sanae Takaichi:

Thank you to Literaturhaus for hosting our Berlin book talk, moderated so memorably by Jakob Scherer! All part of the city’s official Berlin Freedom Week. Thank you to everyone who came out! What an incredible night! Fight fascism! 📺 WATCH: bit.ly/libe-revolution

Tomorrow is a big day for us in Berlin. @badiucao.bsky.social and I speak right after a speech by the former president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen! 😮 And in the evening — we have our first book talk in Berlin. 💛 For good vibes, here's a photo from our event in February in Taipei. What a year it's been.

Sobering stats from Hong Kong Democracy Council: As of Oct. 31, the number of Hong Kong political prisoners has reached 1,942. 🔗 www.hkdc.us/hong-kong-po...

Developing country vibes. ➡️ Nov 6 (Reuters) - United Airlines UAL.O and Delta Air Lines both started cancelling Friday flights after the Federal Aviation Administration directed reductions at 40 high-traffic U.S. airports to address air traffic control safety concerns.

I love Skylight Books in Los Angeles and this was my book haul last time I was there: Kaveh Akbar's MARTYR! and Nicole Wong's MAHJONG, which is a how-to guide. Go read some books, people! 🌱 Social media can be fun but unplug a bit and touch grass! Read and play mahjong!

🇮🇹 "It’s ironic that Meloni’s push to return Italian opera to its former glory risks weakening it." From @vanmusicmag.bsky.social by Kevin Ng:

It is wild to be in Germany watching Americans acting like absolute psychos because they confuse social democracy with communism. Mamdani's economic policy is like the very boring, centrist SPD here or something.

🇩🇪 Berlin! YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION comes to Germany — the anniversary week of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Come say hi to @badiucao.bsky.social and me at Literaturhaus this coming Monday, 10th November. 🔗 bit.ly/li-be-revolution

🇺🇸🇨🇳 "The first year of Trump’s second term in office may be remembered as the moment when the power dynamic between the United States and China shifted decidedly in Beijing’s favor." From @noahbarkin.bsky.social:

Mamdani's victory wasn't only a repudiation of an old and exhausted political establishment in the city, it was also a triumph over the framing power of the political press, and none more so than the New York Times, whose coverage and editorials worked relentlessly to dampen his appeal.

"You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." My column on the suppurating neo-Nazism on America's right. on.ft.com/4oxjjQj

The White House saying that the California vote is rigged is dangerous stuff and a precursor to what we’ll be seeing next year. America will have elections for years to come — the question is whether you want it to be one that operates like Turkey’s or Russia’s.

⚾️ Yoshinobu Yamamoto greeting the crowd with a confident “buenas tardes” in the stadium is everything I love about Los Angeles.

🎙️ I was this week's guest on @newlinesmag.bsky.social's podcast — talking about the changing nature of authoritarian attempts at soft power (they're getting much better and more subtle at it), from the arts to sportwashing. Thank you @amiefr.bsky.social for having me on!

This opening line is classic journalism and beautiful writing: “Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s arms were so tired, he needed help lifting the World Series MVP trophy.”

Clocks in USA go back one hour. Clocks in Russia already went back to 1937.

🌴 In good company at the Miami Book Fair! Florida needs some good trouble. 😉 I'm looking forward to José Zamora leading our conversation — a great free speech and free press advocate. Come say hi 11/23!

🇪🇺 In Europe, you can die from incremental technocracy: ➡️ BRUSSELS, Nov 1 (Reuters) - The European Union and China will continue to engage on export control policies, the European Commission's trade chief said on Saturday, a day after EU and Chinese officials met in Brussels.

All this griping about Shohei not speaking English from Americans who are not from LA miss the point that the Dodgers are partly the Indo-Pacific’s baseball team. Angelenos with their diversity understand that. Sorry not sorry for those who do not. Shohei is massive in Japan, Taiwan, etc.

Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social Announces New Imprint – Takumigraphics to Celebrate the Art and Craft of East Asian Comics in 2026. www.brokenfrontier.com/fantagraphic...

Join COURAGE to WRITE grantee Melissa Chan and co-author Badiucao, in conversation with José Zamora, at the Miami Book Fair on Sunday, November 23rd, at 12:00pm ET! @melissakchan.bsky.social @badiucao.bsky.social @miamibookfair.bsky.social Learn more: degrootfoundation.org/melissa-chan...

The thing is if you actually read South African press, a ton of post-apartheid, young, white South Africans are deeply mortified and definitely do not want to be associated with ethno-nationalism and reject MAGA. 🫣

The deportation of undocumented Haitians from the Dominican Republic is an undercovered story. Good to see Fault Lines report on this. From Natasha Del Toro, Jeremy Young, Adrienne Haspel, and the rest of the amazing team:

I love the reflections from readers who run book and comic blogs. This one is from Sean Kleefeld of Kleefeld on Comics — another one I missed but am so glad to find now. 🥹

Kind of a miracle Xi didn’t try to bring up Taiwan and Trump avoided some One China Policy / Principle rhetorical trap. Whoever on his team deserves a pat on the back.

Interesting optics – Trump clearly trying to play up the closeness of the two leaders’ relationship, nodding in agreement as Xi speaks, calling Xi a great leader, whereas Xi is much more subdued, not reciprocating with the bonhomie Trump seems over eager to project.

The world is incredibly messy right now, and @mcfaulmike.bsky.social's new book is the best read I've come across, helping make sense of where we are in the context of history. In later chapters, he offers a vision for the future. Congratulations on publication day. This is an important book.

👀 SCOOP: Art crimes detective Arthur Brand tells us he's just recovered a work stolen by the Nazis — and it's in his Amsterdam apartment right behind the mystery door!* Amelie Ebbinghaus of the Art Loss Register (world's largest private database of stolen art with 700K+ items) is clearly intrigued!

Literally the first book I grabbed when I decided during COVID lockdown to work on a graphic novel. The original idea was a 24-page Kickstarter comic with @badiucao.bsky.social. YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION became a 264-page behemoth. I learned so much from Scott McCloud's UNDERSTANDING COMICS.

More from my conversation with @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social yesterday about Autocrats vs. Democrats and the ideas shaping my book.

🇷🇺 Moscow (dpa) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow is prepared to give NATO and EU countries a non-aggression guarantee. ➡️💭 I mean, I learned in high school history class that non-aggression agreements were worthless...

🎨 Absolutely love being a journalist! I'll be talking to two art crime investigators — one who runs the world’s largest private database of stolen art (700,000+) and another who works solo, a lone wolf with contacts in the police and crime worlds. WED:

How cool to see Yellow Peril Books carrying YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION! The bookshop curates Asian American lit. I'm an American from Hong Kong and Taiwan; @badiucao.bsky.social is from Shanghai, now in Australia. Ours is a transnational diasporic Asian project. We couldn't be prouder!

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says she'll nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Cambodian PM had said the same a few days ago. Trump must be as pleased as a fox in a henhouse but this is pretty embarrassing, Dear Leader stuff. 📸 REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

⚾️ OMG.

🇺🇸 WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Air travel turmoil deepened with more than 1,660 flights delayed nationwide on Monday and more than 8,600 delays on Sunday, with air traffic controller absences surging amid a federal government shutdown now in its 27th day.

"The United States has long advised other countries on how to assassinate their own citizens suspected of leftist 'subversion,'" writes @franksmythdc.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social:

CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.

"Even if Labubu goes the way of Pet Rock and Tamagotchi, it... may be the first true manifestation of Chinese soft power in the modern era," writes @ghoshworld.bsky.social:

REVOLUTION in Taipei! A reminder that copies of the graphic novel are at Bookman Books and also available to order online! ➡️ bit.ly/bookman-revolution

So many American immigrants left dysfunctional countries where random stuff like this would happen and here we are in 2025.

🇱🇹 This also happened last night ⬇️: VILNIUS, Oct 26 (Reuters) - NATO member Lithuania closed Vilnius Airport and Belarus border crossings on Sunday after several objects, identified as likely helium balloons, entered its airspace, the National Crisis Management Centre said.

A heartbreaking love letter to America, beautifully executed by @mollymckew.bsky.social. There are too many important lines from it, I can't pull just one. Read all of it here: