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you can watch the stock market tank in the bottom corner of Fox's broadcast as Trump talks about tariffs

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Night Stall #hongkong #streetphotography #streetphotographyhk

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Me every time I check my news feed.

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It took six weeks to get here

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This isn’t just a complete lie, it’s also a totally insane one. Why aren’t other news networks just reporting that as such? You don’t need to have a both sides debate on this. It’s not subjective! A US senator just said something completely untrue and insane. That’s actually a story!

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JUST IN: The White House has been clear that it intends to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, and that it will be McMahon's job to oversee that effort.

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Which suggests to me that the only reason Trump even wants Zelenskyy to bother showing up at the White House is to sign the paper, publicly grovel before him and Putin, and thank them for their mercy. Preferably while weeping with gratitude and fealty.

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💯 – If the US was in the same position as Ukraine (handed a vaguely worded peace deal we had no say in crafting that requires us to (1) let the invader keep the land they took and (2) pay the negotiator half of our mineral rights forever), we'd tell them to f*** all the way off.

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Framed #1088 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 framed.wtf Never heard of it.

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It's science!

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These are all Transformer names

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Pretty obvious how dangerous this is, and that it invites vigilantism (just how would one "take her to the embassy?"). Whether GovHK had a hand in the letters or not, I doubt they're unaware that their bounty offer could result in activists being harmed or killed by vigilantes.

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“I didn’t know I was going to Russia,” said 21-year-old Paek, who was drafted at 17 into special forces. “I realized it only when I arrived.” Compelling read in WSJ, interviewing two captured North Korean soldiers www.wsj.com/world/north-...

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Oh wow, I was just listening to her on my way to work this morning. RIP

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Welcome to my annual Oscars joke. (Didn't watch the other one, don't know who won, don't really care, not my thing. If it's yours, have fun!)

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This is very dumb but also probably a view shared by a not-inconsiderable number of people. There has been a real cost to treating the Nazis as the embodiment of evil, in that doing so has obscured the reality that they were a political entity that emerged from forces present in all modern polities.

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Comparing Taiwan to Hawaii is like comparing One Country Two Systems to the current spat between Trump admin and New York City (which is to say they're both bad analogies using two situations that aren't even remotely the same).

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Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour was shrouded in fog over the weekend - readers shared photos of the skyline with HKFP. Photos: Waddle Kong, Walter Leung, Alan Kwok & Sean Cheng.

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Over one-third of women in Hong Kong said they experienced sexual harassment at work, a survey has found. Reasons for not reporting workplace sexual harassment included believing harassment was not unusual, fearing that reporting would worsen the situation, & thinking that reporting would not help.

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Trump is describing a policy in which the US government will take billions of taxpayer dollars and hand them directly to his billionaire allies in exchange for fake digital tokens. Stealing our money and paying it to his friends in exchange for nothing.

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The view from the Peak last night (📷: Eugene Lee/SCMP)

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There it is. The opening salvo is cooking the national books. They've tipped the whole economy into recession. So this their angle. And as long as we're talking about Dept of Commerce, when do we starting hearing about those cash on the barrel deals for pardons and well everything?

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When you can’t afford cancer research, foreign aid and weather forecasters because you’re investing tax dollars in crypto grifts

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This is called fraudulent accounting, and it’s what Trump was found criminally guilty of by a New York court.

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Full house on the Sunbeam Theatre's final night. (The Sunbeam Theatre's the last private Cantonese opera theatre in Hong Kong.)

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The downside is that if he's impeached (and assuming he doesn't use the military to stay in office anyway), you get President Vance and a vengeful MAGA mob who could do the same or worse damage. Not saying that's a reason to not impeach, just saying we'd need a contingency plan for the fallout.

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NEW @npr.org: When DOGE updated its savings tracker this week with new “receipts,” it quietly deleted errors worth billions, added new errors and still has little verified savings from cancelling contracts — about $2.3 billion (up from ~$2 billion) More digging:

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Let’s revisit this analogy when NY has an unelected “local leader” appointed by DC who exists to represent the federal government’s interests rather than residents’, the state assembly is stacked with unelected Trump loyalists, and election results favouring the opposition are regularly overturned.

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NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes for work that’s been done. One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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apnews.com/article/davi...

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A part of Hong Kong that's also Ukrainian. (Ivan the Kozak's owners are a Hong Kong-Ukranian couple who are both pro-Hong Kong and Ukraine.)

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AP: “.. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 794 in all, are expected to yield no savings.” @apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/doge...

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Framed #1086 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf Luckily I recently rewatched this.

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You can also go into Settings to the Accessibility tab and set it so Bluesky will ask/require you to add alt text before you post. That's what I did to get into the habit of it.

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Lindsey Graham just said he's "never felt prouder of Trump and Vance" and Zelenskyy "needs to resign" because he's "not someone US can do business with". I mean, if the plan is to run a sort of global protection racket and extort money, your first easy target not paying up must be REALLY annoying.

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You can bet your bottom dollar Xi Jinping is paying very close attention to this.

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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

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Good 🧵. The suit thing is obvious meat for the MAGA base, but @dieworkwear.bsky.social is right: had Zelenskky worn a suit, would it have made a difference? Neither answer speaks well of the MAGA minions pushing this otherwise pointless meme.

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A pro-democracy political party announced its plan to disband, a polling organisation said it would halt self-funded research and may even shut down. In full: buff.ly/vAMyDCX

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Clearly maintaining the White House dress code is very important

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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

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"For Trump, as always, it’s about grievance. In this case, Trump was apparently incensed at the suggestion that Zelensky had failed to demonstrate personal gratitude and loyalty to him ..."

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Republicans are lining up to denounce Zelensky because their base was seduced by a cranky old racist with a fondness for dictators. Just wild how the whims, prejudices, and weird obsessions of a senile 78-year-old have completely supplanted the party’s priorities — and reshuffled the world order.

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How come you never hear about girlcotts? Nonbinarycotts? Gotta diversify our cotts and whatnot.

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How it started/How it's going

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