“Taiwan is part of China” is not reality. It’s a prescriptive view that Taiwan SHOULD be part of China — not unlike Donald Trump calling Canada the 51st state or threatening to annex Greenland. 1/3

Affogato in Taipei with boo 🥰 to me there is no happiness greater than the deepening of our minds and souls through industrious hours, made all the more rich through the power of coffee.

On Taiwan’s defense: this would be a SALE — Taiwan would pay for its own weapons, unlike the U.S.-taxpayer-funded military AID sent to Israel and Ukraine. Surely Taiwan deserves the chance to defend itself against invasion. #Taiwan

On Taiwan’s defense: this would be a SALE — Taiwan would pay for its own weapons, unlike the U.S.-taxpayer-funded military AID sent to Israel and Ukraine. Surely Taiwan deserves the chance to defend itself against invasion.

If Taiwan were part of China, I’d already be in jail for this post. bsky.app/profile/chas...

Dazzling golden sun in Taipei today

I live in Taiwan, and this place is a country, not a bargaining chip to be traded between China and the US. Yet, as Trump and Xi meet, the whole world is talking about this place with seemingly zero input from its leaders. 1/3

I live in Taiwan, and this place is a country, not a bargaining chip to be traded between China and the US. Yet, as Trump and Xi meet, the whole world is talking about this place with seemingly zero input from its leaders. 1/3

不解釋 自己意會 Taiwan Is Taiwan! 🇹🇼

Trump has besmirched even the subcellular world. May purifying selection prove effective.

First-author paper representing years of work on HPV16 — the most carcinogenic human papillomavirus — has been officially ACCEPTED at Nature Communications! So excited to share our findings once it’s out. These folks truly make the world go ‘round 💕

After a decade-long week of cloud and rain in Taipei—Sun! 🇹🇼 ☀️

Wow, great thread and animation (see post #14) about coronavirus entry, S2-directed antibodies, and a possible novel, promising treatment (antibodies against TMPRSS2) that could work against pretty much any coronavirus. 1/4

Paper and ink are my last and greatest refuge from total mastery and domination by AI and the tech oligarchs who would control all; as long as any thought remains unexpressed; as long as any writing remains undigitized, we still have hope and secrets, skills that cannot be automated.

Taipei bus stop on a rainy night.

If the news always makes you feel better about the violence your own side is doing, it might not be news.

ACLU has also committed labor law violations in recent years (see Matt Bruenig’s) coverage of this, and they defend money in politics (i.e. the “right” of billionaires to buy elections). jacobin.com/2026/01/aclu...

Surprised to learn that #ACLU @aclu.org CEO Anthony Romero gets paid >$1M per year (per IRS filings). For context, the CEO of Doctors Without Borders earns ~$300K. I’ve donated to the ACLU for years and am now reconsidering. Am I overreacting?

Help me pick! I’m reassessing my charities and would love feedback. Do you have any favorites? I’m open to anything, but my top priorities are (1) in the U.S., to protect free speech, civil liberties, immigrants; and (2) worldwide, to counteract misery caused by my U.S. taxes.

One of more than a dozen posts shared by the US President between ~9pm and 4am, during an active war. It has since been deleted.

Israel is a terrorist state funded by the US taxpayer. On day 1 of the ‘ceasefire’, it launched its deadliest attack on Lebanon to date—hitting residential Beirut without warning during rush hour.

Every American Christian who spent decades preaching the sanctity of human life and remains silent is a hypocrite.

A word from the Christian candidate on Easter Sunday.

This is what our administration does to its own people. Why expect restraint abroad, where Tomahawk missiles massacre schoolchildren and kill civilians on a bridge — then strike again as rescuers arrive? The view that Americans are devils isn’t hard to understand.

Israel targeted the World Central Kitchen cars with a first missile; targeted the survivors with a second missile; targeted the last survivors with a third missile. Remembering the humanitarian workers killed in Gaza on April 1, 2024. wck.org/news/honorin...

Israel's Minister Ben-Gvir celebrates a new Death Penalty law allowing Palestinians to be executed by military courts—courts where approximately 99% of Palestinians are convicted, largely through confessions extracted under documented coercion and abuse.

Where will you be tomorrow? #NoKings Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org

A KING levies tariffs without Congress. Threatens to annex nations. Sends masked agents into cities. Mocks the deaths of critics. Fires inspectors. Siccs the law on enemies. Withholds funding from disloyal states. Issues hundreds of decrees. Pardons criminal allies. Amasses wealth. nokings.org

It is Israel, not Iran, that has nuclear weapons. Many folks seem unaware of this.

Healthcare in Taiwan is truly phenomenal. I pay $30/month for National Health Insurance. I’ve never waited more than 10 min as a walk-in at this ENT clinic, which costs only $8/visit, and I always leave with a clear diagnosis and treatment. I’m from the US. This is not normal—but it should be.

Pretty awesome that Taiwan has this measure to freeze gas and diesel costs, with a government oil company footing much of the bill as it assesses the situation. Further, the government may require Taipower to absorb electricity costs, meaning it may have to forgo much of last year’s profit.

Operation Epstein Fury. Tweets pulled from the Snopes compilation linked below. 1/6 www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

Popped into our heads and had to get it out! #FamilyGuy good old-fashioned values

Microsoft Teams will soon snitch on your location to your organization www.pcworld.com/article/3003...

Even if you decide not to delete, I feel like this incredible little book—only 150 pages—should be required reading for getting anywhere near a computer or phone. 1/6

Unsubscribe from Amazon. Plus, my thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg’s monopoly. www.resistandunsubscribe.com

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

🚀 UpScrolled has jumped to No. 1 on the U.S. App Store, overtaking ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Threads over the past day. Founder Issam Hijazi shares an update on the surge and what comes next, saying the platform belongs to its users: “We’re just building it.”

US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.

Shocking comments by the PRC ambassador to Australia about Taiwan. Disinformation, declaring that Taiwanese who oppose annexation should leave Taiwan, and directly linking Australia's sovereign national debate about regional security and Taiwan to good relations with China.

Bruce Springsteen: “King Trump’s private army from the DHS... It’s our blood and bones and these whistles and phones against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.”

I've covered ICE / DHS for about a decade now and more ICE agents are willing to talk now than ever before. The confidence the administration is trying to project is absolutely not reflected internally.

I wept as I re-watched Mon Mothma’s Senate speech from Andor. It is a mirror of our present reality. “Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The loss of truth is the ultimate victory of evil… 1/2

My US health insurance premium increased from ==> $332.26 / month in 2024 ==> $386.42 / month in 2025 (up 16%) ==> $447.93 / month in 2026 (up 16%) High deductible of $7,500. I am healthy, 37 years old, non-smoker. For comparison, health insurance in Taiwan is $30 / month.

Here’s a picture of ICE unloading chemical irritant directly on a protester’s face after he’s already down. Also a picture of 5-year-old Liam Ramos, detained by ICE with his father and sent to detention in Texas. (Both are legal with active asylum claims.) 1/2

When ICE sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

The moral compass needs recalibration which condemns MLK Jr. for affairs but praises the man who suppresses the Epstein Files.

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“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.”