johnraff.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

💥 “Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites over the past month.” No paywall: archive.is/3LjoW

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

New hasbara talking point just dropped. Ignore the fact that this has happened over a dozen times with body counts usually around 45-75 per incident. The bullets fired towards them just happen to end up inside them. Each bullet is a freak accident and nothing can be done

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

Obviously the Chinese are delighted with Trump 2. But Zheng Yongnian's article is so full of misunderstandings that you want to sit down with him and go over them one by one. Western Ideological Exhaustion and China's Trump Opportunity by Zheng Yongnian www.sinification.com/p/western-id...

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

He really is living in a fantasy world enabled by a myriad of eager sycophants.

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

It's a long academic paper, but from a quick read-through it all seems to make good sense.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A worrying trend in Japanese politics. Remember also how Hyogo governor Saito got re-elected?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Europe needs to be strong enough to have its own foreign policy. The US hardly looks like a bastion of democracy any more.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“If a nuclear deal had allowed Iran to keep several bombs worth of HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM out of IAEA safeguards, we’d say (correctly) that was a really bad deal, yet, that’s the outcome of military force.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Some interestion ideas, based on the concept of Trump - and his team - being reasonably intelligent... Tell Me How This Trade War Ends: The Right Way to Build a New Global Economic Order www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

⚡️🇬🇧 The UK will send 350 upgraded air defense missiles to Ukraine — funded by £70M in interest from frozen Russian assets, The Guardian reports. They’ve been adapted for ground launch. This marks the first time London has used Russian money to buy weapons for Kyiv.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Tamaki again. Has his bubble finally burst? Can we have a proper, serious, progressive opposition party please? Can the CDPJ get its act back together?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Fact check: Viral US Iran strikes videos are fake or old – DW – 06/24/2025 www.dw.com/en/fact-chec...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

AI is raising questions much faster than they can be answered. Anyway, this is well worth reading in my opinion: DeepSeek’s Democratic Deficit open.substack.com/pub/linguasi...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"...with Cheng Lei about her new book The Untold Story From Inside The Detention. The discussion is chilling. At about 17:00 she says she knows an inmate who got life for leaking to a foreign reporter about an official’s assets." sinocism.com/p/china-and-... www.youtube.com/live/vZIWNqh...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 193 comments

Welcome to the jungle: the "rules based international order" that Australia has lectured other countries about for decades is dead and buried. www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/24/d...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

‘When China next slaps punitive tariffs on imports, or seizes an atoll in the South China Sea, or interferes in the domestic politics of a Pacific state, or invades Taiwan, who will dare talk about violation of the international rules-based order?’

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

"One thing seems clear, however. Even if American universities resist - or outlast - Trump's efforts, they are no longer insulated from the scorched-earth warfare of American politics." The fallout from Trump's war on Harvard will outlast his term www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

WATCH: “This is fcking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the fck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…” A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...

submitted 5 days ago • 2100 comments

Project Here.

submitted 5 days ago • 106 comments

Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

submitted 5 days ago • 148 comments

This is being picked up on Jp media too. A commentator today said a sharper-edged Sanseito could turn into Japan's AfD. Seem to be various streams of irritation eg: Foreign workers (not sure what harm they're supposed to do) Foreign capital buying Jp firms and property Over-tourism and minpaku

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

To get around problem that only Congress can declare war, I told Donald to call it "special military operation"

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

I'd like to thank Donald for what he's just done to the oil price.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Where is the Ayatollah? I’m ready for my peace talks.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Successfully installed #BunsenLabs #linux today. Getting everything configured to my tastes and copying my files over. So far so good. First impressions : fast and responsive, no frills, easy on resources, no issues or problems so far (knock on wood).

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

"if the story of Japanese politics during the Heisei period was the concentration of power in fewer hands, the Reiwa period has been characterized by a swing of the pendulum to diffusion, fragmentation..." Reading the Tokyo elections - by Tobias Harris observingjapan.substack.com/p/reading-th...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Iran: The dangerous dream of regime change – DW – 06/22/2025 www.dw.com/en/iran-the-...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"All Japan’s leaders — and the public — appear to be asking for is for Japan to be treated as an ally, an ally that has been making contributions to regional security, instead of treated like a vassal." The Ishiba government says no - by Tobias Harris observingjapan.substack.com/p/the-ishiba...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments