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Professor of international relations at the City University of Hong Kong, and formerly at USC. China, cross-Strait relations, econ, and more. Like to read medical science studies. Enjoy rock, jazz, films, and novels. Profoundly detest all rightwingery.
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Newsom: "He's been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period. Full stop. I would love to share with you what he actually talked about. It would send shivers up your spine."

This guy, who pushed for mass sickness & infection instead of vaccination during the COVID pandemic, sent out this repulsive, dangerous tweet at a time when Dr Fauci was getting death threats. Dr Kulldorff was appointed by RFK Jr, the world’s most extreme anti-vaxx activist, to ACIP. Repulsive tweet

In the movie The New Rose Hotel one of the heroes tells a joke: A dog walks into a bar.The dog's dressed to the nines in a suit&tie,spiffy shoes&a shirt w cufflinks.The bartender asks:"What'll you have? The dog says, "a scotch&toilet water."

Biggest mic drop of the day, right here. 🎤🫳

Anyone who has ever downplayed the threat of the anti-vaccine movement has either not been paying attention or has been bamboozled.

Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

The US dollar: * worst performing G10 currency this year * tracking for its worst year-to-date performance since 1975. 🇺🇸

Trump to Zelenskyy: “You don’t have the cards.” Meanwhile Zelenskyy:

Russia wanted air superiority. Ukraine gave them air flammability. 🔥✈️ "'Russian bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' aircraft in mass attack, source claims" kyivindependent.com/enemy-bomber... #RussianAirFarce

Needs to be said: As of 2025, the 10 states with the highest poverty rates: 1. Mississippi– 19.3% 2.Louisiana–18.6% 3.New Mexico –18.1% 4.West Virginia–17.0% 5.Kentucky–15.9% 6.Arkansas–15.3% 7.Alabama–15.0% 8.Oklahoma– 14.5% 9.Tennessee–13.5% 10. South Carolina–13.5% Who’d they vote for?

I’m one of 20 assistant professors in A&S at UNC who has had their tenure decision deferred. I was planning to spend my summer editing my third book. Now? 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.wral.com/video/unc-fa...

Bonica’s data indicates that judges across the ideological spectrum are ruling against Trump at similar rates. He’s lost in 72% of rulings issued by Republican-appointed judges and 80% of rulings by Democratic-appointed judge. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Nicolle Saroukos, a U.S. military wife, was jailed, strip-searched and deported when she simply tried to visit her husband in Hawaii. Saroukos, an Australian, had a valid visa. This is how the Trump regime treats military families: youtu.be/0cYsSl-twEg?...

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... What a complete f-ing idiot and ultra-uber-fool this brainworm snack is.

Weird how this is exactly what PROOF said would happen: that if he didn't end our democracy outright or try an illegal third run for POTUS he'd have his eldest son run so he could control the presidency from the shadows. That'll never happen, non-Trump biographers said. They don't get this family.

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

The propaganda derived from the intersection of alternative medicine and the anti-vaccine movement is a bottomless pit of science illiteracy.

2nd lowest consumer confidence since … 1952. 🤡 #UMich

A serial killer used his last words on Earth to shout-out President Donald Trump on Thursday. "President Trump, keep making America great. I'm ready to go," Glen Rogers, known as the "Casanova Killer," said as he lay strapped to an execution gurney seconds before his death.

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

Trump Cut Deal To Let *Sinaloa Cartel Members* Into US apnews.com/article/el-c...

There's always a tweet.

Trump says on the Hugh Hewitt show that the US will raise the case of Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong publisher facing national security charges, in trade negotiations with China. Trump told Hewitt in October that Lai will "be easy to get out." hughhewitt.com/president-tr...

BREAN: ISM Services Prices Paid, “which we have found to be a useful indicator of PCE price inflation trends, jumped by 4.2 points to the highest level since January 2023 ..” 🇺🇸

US policy uncertainty right now is off the charts -- worse than during covid, 2008 financial crisis, debt limit showdowns, after 9/11, you name it. www.policyuncertainty.com

There's never been a better time to become vegetarian. www.cbsnews.com/news/usda-wi...

Trump Allies Sue John Roberts To Give White House Control Of Court System talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945. For Americans, the Second World War would rage for three more months, until VJ Day in August. But for Russians and those influenced by them, "Victory Day" falls in May. Trump follows the Russian practice, not the American.

RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

RFK Jr on measles: "The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris."

Deranged Trump: “I'd like to be Pope. That'd be my number one choice.”

This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"

I knew he would do this. I wrote a whole article about how he would do this. I am not surprised he’s undermining vaccination. I know he’s an anti-vaxxer & a predatory crank. And yet…you have got to be fucking kidding me. He’s promoting infant mortality.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b... Trump’s attack on Christmas

White House calls #Amazon ‘hostile’ for reportedly planning to list tariff costs - www.theguardian.com/technology/2... hilarious: #trump doesn't want people to know what his insane tariffs are doing

Three countries rank higher than California in GDP: the United States, China, and Germany.

I guess they think only immigrant truckers will fail.

NEW: DeSantis directed the University of Florida to cancel a nearly-complete search for its next dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — because the governor believed the finalists were not in alignment with the state's opposition to DEI

If you still order from Amazon, you probably noticed the bump in prices. Folks are starting to see the proof in their own lives. Trump’s tariffs aren’t “making China pay”—they’re making us pay.

The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.

Three months into Trump’s term and Pew finds his approval rating has plummeted Approve: 40% (-7% vs. Feb) Disapprove: 59% (+8% vs. Feb) His approval rating ties his rating at this point in his first term — worse than any other president in recorded history.

Just-out YouGov polling shows Trump's approval on the economy continuing to plunge — and his handling of immigration turning negative very sharply. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trump is now almost underwater on approval of his handling of immigration, widely regarded as his strongest issue — and 20+ points negative on inflation. In 3 short months, he has completely lost his advantage on both the issues voters elected him to fix: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-has-...

Expect more headlines like this. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...