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HKer, Bostonian, Kansan, always a critic of shoddy governance. A reminder of how quickly a police state can be created. Pronouns: meow, miao, 猫
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I keep thinking if Trump wanted spectacle, Z should have stood up, picked up his chair and smashed Trump and Vance ala WWE.

Michelle Obama: Kids should have nutritious meals. The pro-life party: This is an outrage! RFK Jr: Kids should have measles, mumps, and polio. The pro-life party: Yes, king! Tell it like it is!

This is awesome: the person who writes the snow report for Sugarbush used her platform today in response to Vance's visit. A great example of resisting with whatever power you DO have. www.reddit.com/r/burlington...

It's more than a little bizarre that the press was more vocal and judgmental about Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal than the current unscheduled rapid disassembly of our entire democracy and civil service.

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

Just like 1984's Winston Smith after Big Brother declared "we have always been at war with Eastasia," GOP senators are frantically tossing their past statements down the memory hole

I wrote this in response to a completely wrong comment on another thread, and thought I should repost it because it is central to how I (as a longtime Vietnam reporter) think about Ukraine.

Myanmar: "training is being led by [India-based] Mr. V Cyril Demitrius Pereira, a former publisher of Asia Magazine & past co-chair of the Asian Publishing Convention." Reps from other ASEAN nations attending w/ goal of "helping them to effectively convey key messages" to media, officials & public.

NEW: Google fixed three zero-day vulnerabilities in Android that were used by authorities to unlock phones with Cellebrite forensic tools. The fixes come after Amnesty alerted Google, following the analysis of a Serbian student protester's phone. techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/r...

Duh.

In response to the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office meeting, there are hundreds of comments on Naver (biggest South Korean web portal) expressing concerns that something similar could happen to South Korea & calling for preparations including nuclear armament.

18f were a bunch of badasses who actually *did* make government more efficient in a way that actually worked. And they did it while also being good people who cared deeply for the work, for each other, and for the people that used it.

Though given the continual ass kissing of Putin and Xi by Trump, Vance, and Musk, you have to wonder why a disgruntled former US govt employee would work for those 2 to get back at Trump.

If ancient Chinese witchcraft is not your thing but you still want to 打你隻普京手 打到你軍隊掉頭走, consider donating here: war.ukraine.ua/donate/

If Trump isn’t a Russian asset, he might want to try not acting like a really obvious Russian asset.

Cartoon on Zelensky/Trump meeting. When Trump later told him he had “no cards,” Zelensky replied: “I am not playing cards.” ———— Support my art & Pre-Order my first graphic novel ‘You Must Take Part in Revolution’ 🙏 www.badiucao.com/book

🇬🇪🇺🇦 The President of Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, is standing up for President Zelenskyy. She knows what she’s talking about.

🔴 BREAKING - PKK declares ceasefire with Turkey ending 40 years of armed struggle

*sigh* this is, of course, against a great many tax privacy laws, some of which were passed by Republicans after they got mad Trump's taxes got leaked

The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.

That they got to this so fast, and over such triviality, shows it was always around the corner

New state media www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Feels pretty obvious who the sucker is here, and yet Dems will adjust precisely nothing about their approach in response, which is why their base is ready to tear them out of office

Stopped watching Muir & ABC (disney) News Tonight after their shameful opening segment on Trump/Zelensky and switched to old MASH episodes. Too many in the US press corpse have already taken 2 knees in front of Trump/Vance

American cemeteries are filled with infant graves from the bad times... and just like @theatlantic.com telling us that we shouldn't be shocked about chicken egg scarcity/egg prices, we should just accept RFK Jr leading again to bad times high US infant mortality

Trump lackey Ed Martin just demoted several senior prosecutors in the DC office, including Kathryn Rakoczy, one of the lead prosecutors of members of the far-right Oath Keepers, and Elizabeth Aloi, who prosecuted Peter Navarro for defying a congressional subpoena. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Jim VandeHei has been a disgrace to the US politcial press corpse since WaPo... 2000? I remember him leaving WaPo to set up Politico and going that's a wet fart

Someone from Russian state media just slips into the Oval Office?????

Donald Trump is still screeching about Hunter Biden and the laptop. He was utterly unglued in the Oval Office with Zelenskyy trying to paint Putin as some wrongfully accused saint. Donald and MAGA will try to blame Hunter Biden's junk for everything.

This is now the most embarrassing thing JD has done on a couch

This included one of my HS best friends. He's worked for/with NOAA for 20 years, and just recently transitioned into a new role. Despite NOAA labeling him as critical and begging to keep him, his termination said he his skills/abilities/knowledge did not fit the agency's needs.

Winston Churchill visiting the WH in 1942. Not wearing a suit

Xinhua: Xi Jinping met Russian Security Council secretary Sergei Shoigu in the Great Hall of the People on Friday afternoon. 新华社:2月28日下午,国家主席习近平在北京人民大会堂会见俄罗斯联邦安全会议秘书绍伊古

Yep. You know, I don't often reskeet this account, but I thought to myself this morning that many folks need to learn from the Chronicle of Higher Ed's famed STFU School of Professional Development. Shut. The. FCK. Up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kWl...

Susan Collins is still utterly useless

This poor goose well into overtime hours with this sort of mealy-mouthed corporate press phrasing.

Earlier today

so glad journalists such as Matt are enjoying themselves participating in this shameful and ultimately deadly circus. they must sleep so well at night.

I’m sorry, but repeating this framing without skepticism is collaborating with your source to mislead your readers. They have been working on humiliating Zelensky and catering to Putin since long before the inauguration. Nothing about this is a response; it’s the plan of an abuser and a charlatan.

This was already beginning in the Clinton years. It worsened during every Fox News broadcast starting in the mid-1990s. Trump just finished the job.

It's not just an encapsulation of the administration—it's an encapsulation of what a great number of Americans generally believe. Americans discovering Ukraine 3 years ago and now purporting to be experts on a country they've never been to is actually a quintessential American position.