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TODAY'S PIC: My old college roommate, a friend of 40 years, is visiting Taiwan, so I'm taking him to Alishan

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Chiayi's historic Beimen Station, the gateway to Alishan. Recently decommissioned, and restored, the station is a short distance from the popular Hinoki Village, and is part of a railway cultural park that celebrates the history and development of the city. www.goteamjosh.com/blog/beimeneki

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Some of us have been saying this since 2020 and even before: Dems should make corruption the central issue in US politics and public life and go on the offensive against GOP/MAGA/Trump transparent and hypocritical corruption and grifting. Most voters hate corruption.

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How cute. Bluesky censored a photo of a statue that is visible every day in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C.

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lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye

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Tadaa.

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Hello Kaohsiung! 🎞️: Kodak Tri-X 400 #BelieveInFilm

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Don't tell them about Baron Wilhelm von Steuben, the Revolutionary War-era Liberace of highly effective military training. It's not a coincidence his statue includes allegorical figures of nude dudes.

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We saw this happen for years with Arizona's Joe Arpaio stopping people for "driving while hispanic looking," so why on earth would they expect that to change. The cruelty is a feature not a bug for the Trumpers.

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John Bolton: "Ronald Reagan would be turning over in his grave. This isn't 'peace through strength.' This is going over to the other side."

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The real fraud? The blatantly false claims by DOGE that they are saving money. youtube.com/shorts/6L1AY...

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Insightful discussions at a recent European Chamber lunch w/ Director-General of the Investigation Bureau under the Ministry of Justice Michael Chen. Eiger's @johnaeastwood.bsky.social had the honor of moderating the event, exploring key developments in Taiwan’s intelligence and security landscape.

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Apparently the Trump trade war is giving us the Charlie Sheen version of "winning". www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/e...

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Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

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Trump's so fucking stupid. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w?...

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Trump proving again how much of Putin owns him. www.reuters.com/world/white-...

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I love that there's still a paper that makes a political cartoon the centerpiece of its front page. This was once commonplace. By veteran cartoonist Bill Bramhall.

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差不多

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Those aren't DEI hires, these are men and women who emerged from the crucible of prejudice and achieved greatness. youtube.com/shorts/KKn6O...

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When Trump, Vance, Gabbard, and the rest of them say that Ukraine doesn’t want peace, they mean Ukraine doesn’t want to surrender to the Russians.

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You can always tell the Russian bots on Twitter by their shit content and the massive string of numbers after their handle.

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Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro

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Nice car, but I'm not sure I like it in gold-and-white.

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DTF printing at home? Now I can skip the lines to buy takeout dumplings from Ding Tai Fung when my wife texts me "DTF tonight?"

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My Bay Area colleague, @repkevinmullin.bsky.social, came to the House Floor — post-surgery — using a walker, to vote NO on the budget. Rep. Pettersen brought her newborn from Colorado to vote NO. We’re pulling out all the stops—@housedemocrats.bsky.social are not going down without a fight.

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Not very subtle. Every time a subsea cable gets sliced around the world, there's always some Chinese-owned ship dragging an anchor or other cutting device about the area. Similar behavior resulted in "customers only" bathroom policies at gas stations. www.ft.com/content/eb4a...

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Fascinating that that the Trump presidential bust would be so sad looking and, thanks to a very tiny-footed base, extremely unstable and easy to topple.

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John Adams busted pretending to be Benjamin Franklin...

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Team Taiwan for the win!

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Yeah, firing all the air traffic controllers is still a very bad idea. www.huffpost.com/entry/plane-...

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Fascinating where the GOP gets influenced. They must have seen how Harvard University allows random PRC graduate students with no position in campus security to manhandle protestors with zero repercussions.

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At RightsCon 25 in Taipei with fellow @eigerlaw.bsky.social partner Heather Hsiao. Great to see many familiar faces.

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New pod: @leahgreenberg.bsky.social is highly illuminating on how the huge anti-Musk backlash hitting House Rs at town halls shows Dems have a big opening to mobilize the opposition along 2017 lines. We discuss the ferocity of the anger over Musk and what it means: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

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The CIA is conducting a damage assessment to determine potential damage from an unclassified email sent to the White House identifying for possible layoffs some officers by first name and last initial that could have exposed undercover agency roles.

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Depressing brilliance from my pal Ruben Bolling.

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amazing, somehow I did not even know this

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Can we just seize the Russian assets already and give them to Ukraine? Good lord just do it

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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

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Nailed it.

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From the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna: "Ok, ok... that's enough sunlight for today. Cover up, and we'll try again tomorrow."

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