Joseph Rock's former residence and museum near Lijiang has been shut down and rumoured demolished. So much for intangible cultural heritage

I would like a side-by-side account of the cost of: the Iran war, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, the Qatari plane, the WWE fight; DOJ settlement payoffs (like to Ashli Babbitt) and any other vanity projects I'm missing; compared with all of the "waste and fraud" supposedly saved by the DOGE cuts

#Tibet’s disappearance from the Trump–Xi summit agenda is more than diplomatic silence: it signals a deeper collapse of values based foreign policy, writes Yeshi Dorje thediplomat.com/2026/05/tibe...

It would be a real shame if HRW's forthcoming report didn't make a single mention of Tibet's minority languages. I sure hope they don't throw some of Tibet's most vulnerable communities under the bus just so they can present a more streamlined narrative.

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

BREAKING: The Pentagon has fired the Stars and Stripes ombudsman — the role Congress created to protect the military paper's editorial independence — after she publicly criticized the DOD's overhaul of the publication. w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“Former intelligence and law enforcement officials also have a responsibility to speak out. If they see intelligence being distorted, misused or politicized, they must say so clearly and publicly.” —Senate Intel Vice Chair Mark Warner www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/o...

When Democrats retake the majority, there will be a lot of priorities. As long as I'm in the Senate, one of those priorities will be consequences and accountability for any member of this administration that commits war crimes.

New analysis: China’s “Ethnic Unity” law could threaten Tibetan Buddhism by sidelining the #Tibetan language central to its teachings and transmission. The warning comes from Tsering Dolma, a Research Fellow at the Tibet Policy Institute. bitterwinter.org/the-new-law-...

“Tragically, the news media — even the most prominent — have never fully figured out how to cover Trump,” @sulliview.bsky.social writes. I’ve yet to read a well-reasoned defense of how the media IS covering Trump. Is there one? open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

The White House and Trump were aware of multiple contractors complaining that Lewandowski was shaking them down, even as his lover Kristi Noem had taken control over every contract decision worth more than $100K...and did nothing.

🚨🚨Judge Lamberth orders USAGM, by March 23, to bring back all 1,042 VOA employees, who have been on paid admin leave for a year and resume full broadcasting. The court also rules all the actions Kari Lake took to reduce US international broadcasting to a supposed "statutory minimum" are vacated.

Killing people and destroying things “just for fun” is psychopathic behavior and even saying it is something only a psychopath would do and every U.S. news organization should be shouting that from the rooftops. Editors: Rise to the challenge of truth-telling or make room for someone who will.

Indeed, Donald Trump's mental illnesses and the American press and political class's appalling and shameless cowardice in failing to address them will be someday be a mandatory part of the curriculum for secondary-school and university students the world over.

By restricting minority language education for most subjects, the new law ensures that "Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Mongolians will no longer be entitled to use their native languages for subjects in schools and universities. [...]", the Campaign for Uyghurs wrote... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New legislation will require schools to use Mandarin by default, taking priority over minority ethnic languages such as Tibetan, Uyghur and Mongolian. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

mayhaps we should evaluate the social networks and the single users with multiple fake accounts they use to push fraud and exploit people?

Leaked #GoLaxy documents suggest Chinese researchers are developing #AI systems for large-scale online influence operations. #Tibetan, #Uyghur, #HongKong diasporas are treated as key cognitive warfare arenas #认知域作战 Exceptional analysis from @doublethinklab.bsky.social & Athena Tong:

People keep comparing MAGA/ICE/CBP/MAHA to 1930s Germany. It's also more and more like late 1960s China, during Cultural Revolution. Or mid 1970s Cambodia, during "Year Zero." A war against knowledge itself. thehill.com/policy/defen...

New in PN: A conversation with @sulliview.bsky.social on the state of political coverage in 2026 "This is a long-term campaign against a reality-based press. Thanks to a lot of factors that are going on in the overall media ecosystem, it’s been successful."

NYT - In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted US court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to Cameroon. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/wo...

Really interesting post from @asharangappa.bsky.social tackling the imponderably difficult task of restoration at DOJ once the cavalry finally arrives and exploring a process akin to the "denazification" sorting that took place after WWII. open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

This has big "rob the bank while the building next door is on fire" vibes

• Ilham Tohti, life sentence, separatism (2014) • Li Huaiqing, 20 years, fraud, extortion & inciting subversion of state power (2020) • Ren Zhiqiang, 18 years, graft & abuse of power (2020) • Sun Dawu, 18 years, organizing people to attack state agencies (2021) 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/w...

Trump regime’s latest effort to whitewash history and control narrative: all State department posts on X made before Trump took office in 2025 will be removed. That includes accounts for US embassies, missions, ambassadors, department bureaus, programs. www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week. n.pr/3Mq3Y6i

New research led by Sriparna Pathak uses #ChinaIndex 2024 & 2025 data to map Beijing’s influence across South Asia. Essential read on Beijing’s regional footprint & how India has introduced robust countermeasures to reduce dependency & support democratic institutions. dtl.tw/prcinfluencesa

I mean, he bought Xitter because it is a machine for fascism that moderation had been neutralizing. His ability to create propaganda to lie about himself at scale is part of the reason it IS a machine for fascism.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Countering PRC #disinformation is now a CTA priority: Sikyong Penpa Tsering’s 30 Jan 2026 meetings in Washington, D.C. centred on pushing back on Beijing’s systematic narrative warfare, including on the Dalai Lama’s succession. tibet.net/sikyong-hold...

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Trump sent out a batsh!t crazy letter yesterday and people once again fell for it. The real story is not the letter, its just another tactic to get what he wants. It shows how he despises Europe and is helping Putin. Yet people comfort themselves by mocking him. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

EU officials say they keep posting to Musk's white supremacist pet project, X, to meet people where they are. But that doesn't hold much water. Von der Leyen and Kallas etc have huge convening power. News consumers will go to Bluesky or another if that's where EU officials go.

Major shifts in where Chinese asylum seekers seek to flee, and near record numbers in 2025, as mass emigration via asylum continues under Xi's rule. safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/chin...

RSF calls on the #UnitedStates government to halt deportation proceedings against Guan Heng, a Chinese national, and grant him asylum. His courageous and award-winning reporting exposed Uyghur detention camps in the Xinjiang region. If deported to China, his life will be put at serious risk.

"The massacres in El Fasher are among the most predicted slaughters in the history of atrocities. Yet no one, from world leaders to the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, has made it a sufficient focus." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

one of the critical things here is that 90 percent of journalism has been destroyed, and the remaining 10 percent is what was once the top 10 percent, highly status-driven, highly opinion-driven, and intensely New York/DC centered. there's no ladder to come up as a journeyman left.

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

The Trump family has amassed a $4 billion fortune since his re-election. During my time as Ambassador, I was accused of "focusing too intensely on the issue of corruption." There's no such thing. We need leaders who serve the people — not themselves. www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

I don't see Musk or Medvedev calling for the dissolution of the Commonwealth of Independent States or the end of Moscow's influence over post-Soviet republics in the name of sovereignty.

Take time to read Soyonbo Borjigin's personal essay on his career as a journalist in Inner Mongolia. Reads like a Murakami novel. Intimate and fluent in detailing the cultural, the political and everything else in the liminal. #mongolsky www.equator.org/articles/the...

A WSJ analysis of satellite images shows clear evidence of the Chinese military’s expanding footprint through a network of facilities that dot the Tibetan plateau.

“And, as it also turns out, much of the reality-based press is doing a poor job of even acknowledging that they have a role in saving democracy, much less doing anything about it.” @sulliview.bsky.social brings the receipts. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

For decades, Tibetans built a capital in exile in Dharamshala, India, and sent their kids to a school founded by the Dalai Lama. That's now changing. n.pr/49BpuhB

the NYT decides on its narratives and really, really has a hard time adjusting coverage to reality. it was the biggest pusher of 'resistance is dead', reflecting the general desire among the US establishment for Trump to be a punitive force against their critics. #nokings doesn't fit its story

“Is it that the Chief Justice doesn’t accept that the Court is losing credibility on a daily basis; that he thinks the Court doesn’t need that credibility in order to fulfill its intended role in our constitutional system; or that he doesn’t care?” Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:

Good to see these concerns about environmental damage done by fireworks in #Tibet; better still to also see it about mega-dams like #YarlungTsangpo, mines, roads, and other infrastructure projects causing serious harms.