#ProudBlue Cannabis NEVER should have been schedule 1 in the first place. Not that this changes any of the abhorrent s**t 47 has done & continues to do. apnews.com/article/trum...

U.S. is really reverting to its atavistic past: from anti-communism to good ol’ racism.

Latest in my series: the resurgence of #coffee, #coffeehouse, and #café culture in the land of tea.

It's mindboggling how brazen state-sponsored terrorism against the U.S. civilian population is becoming. It's not simply ICE fulfilling quotas; they're testing the boundaries to see how far they can take things. They will only get worse until there's a popular uprising.

Latest in my series on Chinese society and culture.

Latest post in my 12-part series on China: The surprising popularity of libraries in China.

Lighthouse Cafe, Danang, Vietnam.

This, exactly this is what will get their attention. Hit them where it hurts, their (originally yours) money.

Trumpsters and Magats blissfully unfiltered.

Five years ago I picked up a novel by an unknown Hungarian author in a bookstore cafe in Beijing with an interesting selection of English books, dipped into it and bought it. When the 2025 Nobel Prize winner for literature was announced his name rang a bell and here he is on one of my bookshelves.

The reason the orange excrescence will not get the Nobel Peace Prize is that the Nobel Committee would not intentionally nuke itself.

All we need is an IPA and an Imperial stout. Guangwu Road, Dali Old Town, China.

For the perplexed who wonder why these guys are turning on their own, what it seems to signify is that they are simply too eager to start the race war and get the Holocaust II machine up and running and run out of patience, losing it and taking it out on their own.

From Robert Darnton, The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789.

BookLife review: "Cook binds together [a] story of survival with complex character relations and involved plot twists. The bold characters, kinetic plot, unconventional take on justice, and rich atmosphere make this epic tale a studied contemplation of how beauty can usher in tragedy and sorrow."

An anti-fascist, anti-capitalist personal self-help guide for immediate practical application.

My current feelings about the Trump Administration, MAGA, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party machine that enabled Trump instead of locking him up, the Christian Right including Charlie Kirk, CBS, ABC, Disney, and everyone else that wants to lock US up in concentration camps:

Fascism always goes after sex. It's the ultimate target because it's what people fear most. The ulterior purpose is not to control sexuality itself but to make people afraid--not just of sex but of everything. That's how you control people.

It’s becoming starkly evident that the mainstream U.S. media are nothing other than the propaganda organ of the extortion racket known as the Trump Administration. It’s all noise pollution coming from on high. Don’t listen to any of it.

This eugenicist jumped the gun on what the Right is eager to put in action: get rid of undesirables to purify the race. The Nazis didn't start gassing the disabled until 1939. Fascism is never a straight line. U.S. Gov’t needs incidents like the Kirk murder to ratchet things up to the next level.

Some people say they're only here on bluesky to enjoy erotic content, and politics should be kept out. The problem is: politicians don't keep out of our sex lives either. And while I'm not here to push an agenda, I passionately believe in sexual freedom and every single point listed on this image.

It’s quite simple. You support Charlie Kirk, you’re a racist and a chauvinist.

Probably the best analysis of the Kirk shooting I’ve heard so far. From Mark Kenny on ABC Insiders this morning.

It is astounding that people are being fired for exercising their First Amendment rights to criticize this blatant racist and pro-violence agitator. What’s really going on is the Trump Administration is using the Kirk killing to whip the public in place and start acclimatizing to fascism.

While this racist fanatic is not representative of most Americans, this incident somehow epitomizes the atavistic state of the U.S. today.

More Trump stupidity: "South Korea, a close US ally, has pledged tens of billions of dollars in American manufacturing investment, partly to offset tariffs....The LG employees"--branded "illegal aliens" by ICE--"were arrested were on business trips with various visas or under a visa waiver program."

Jack White's diatribe against Trump is great. Read it.

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New release: THE TAO OF POISON. A novel. A poisonous maiden, a Daoist sex cult, and a violent anti-government rebellion. Visit the brutal Qing Dynasty. #writingcommunity www.amazon.com/Tao-Poison-I...

These astonishing poppy-seed stories keep on appearing. In any other country they’d be dystopian science-fiction fodder but not in the real dystopia of punitive USA. Note that punishing innocent people pre-dates Trump. It’s a systemic issue.

So glad I was spared this bullshit when I was growing up. I wonder if more and more young people may just ditch their phones and go offline. Their quality of life would improve.

This is unbelievable. They had only one person overseeing the flooding?

This is why socialism is necessary. Medicine cannot be in the hands of capitalists.

Big Business collude in promoting a toxic national diet of UPFs, geared to sicken and drive people into medical debt in order to hasten the dystopian institutionalization of indentured labor, so what's this about "not tolerating" illness? I think they mean not COMPLAINING about illness.

The sole positive news coming out of the Trump Administration.

Any Stillman piece is worth reading.

As bad as things are and as bad as they could get, these developments have been a long time in coming and predate Trump 1.0 and 2.0.

My upcoming historical novel set in 18th-century China, The Tao of Poison, features a polyandrous family.

Looking at Myanmar across the river from Mae Sai, Thailand.

This is a first - a weed hotel, in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Let's all be the rain on this motherfucker's parade. #NoKings #NoKingsDay

Cool.

The claws are coming out. These Brownshirts have the full-fledged support of Trump and the FBI. www.yahoo.com/news/neo-naz...

Nice walk to school today, Scholar’s Park, Ningbo, China.