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🧨 Who else feels Elon Musk has strong Jiang Qing energy, especially with his young Tech Guards who are bent on destruction and believe they know better than everybody else — while the old man still ranting and raving lets his spouse run the revolution.

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They took away Ukraine’s nukes and now they want to take its rare earth minerals.

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My theory why so many dudes weirdly, viscerally hate Zelenskyy: It’s because he didn’t flee when the tanks rolled into Ukraine. Deep down, bros around the world know they wouldn’t have done the same, so there’s an attempt to tear down the man that reminds them of their own cowardice.

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Thank you to @politico.com and @phelimkine.bsky.social's China Watcher newsletter for your Q&A with @badiucao.bsky.social and I! YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION is out on March 4th! 🔗 www.politico.eu/newsletter/c...

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🌴 Hey Los Angeles! Announcing my hometown, West Coast book debut! @badiucao.bsky.social and I are presenting our graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION at the beautiful Wende Museum on March 8! Join us! 🔗 RSVP: wendemuseum.org/program/you-...

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Zelensky’s approval rating is about the same as Trump’s… Better by a few points, actually. 🙃

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💥 WAR IS PEACE! ✊ FREEDOM IS SLAVERY! 🤡 IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!

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As we see American billionaires bend the knee, it only underscores just how much billionaire Jimmy Lai sacrificed for Hong Kong, for freedom of expression, and an open society. The global exemplar for democracy is a 77-year-old Asian Cantonese dude.

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💥 Announcing our March BOOK TOUR! Taipei, Los Angeles, New York, DC, and San Francisco — with others in the works (ping if you'd like us for an event!). @badiucao.bsky.social and I are so excited to take our graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION on the road! 🔗 www.melissachan.com/events

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"Mr. Xi views China’s domestic problems as short-term irritants and considers the United States and the American-led world order to be in inexorable decline," writes @bglaser.bsky.social:

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🇬🇧🇺🇦 LONDON/PARIS, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Britain said it was ready to send peacekeeping troops to back up any peace deal for Ukraine as European leaders gathered on Monday to agree a unified strategy, while Russian and U.S. officials prepared to meet for their own competing talks.

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The Gulf of Mexico / America name change is a distraction relative to bigger stories, but name changes also matter — consider when St. Petersburg was called Leningrad. Or when Kazakhstan changed Astana to Nur-Sultan and then back.

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Final call for US pre-orders of YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION, my graphic novel with @badiucao.bsky.social about a fascist US and techno-authoritarian China at war! Order from Bleak House Books for delivery! Also from Amazon if you must. 🔗 www.melissachan.com/revolution

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💀 A helluva political cartoon from Portuguese artist Zez Vaz:

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🇪🇺 EUROPE! It's the final call for pre-orders of YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION, my graphic novel with @badiucao.bsky.social about a fascist US and techno-authoritarian China at war! Order from Berlin's Shakespeare & Sons for delivery across the continent! Also from Amazon if you must. 😆

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Yes the Trump folks are crass about it but Ukraine has two options for who'll invest in developing their rare earth minerals: the US or China. So it's a question of which is a bigger security exposure. Also, a reminder of European failure when it should be obvious contender.

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The US but Europe especially need to be careful about dangling promises they do not intend to keep to Ukraine, whether it’s vague stuff about NATO or EU membership. Ukrainians are committed — but at some point, there might be enough fed up citizens you get something like Georgia.

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🎙️ Really good podcast episode: "Trump's Whack-A-Mole with Federal Employees." Since Andrew Heaton's show is called THE POLITICAL ORPHANAGE, I won't guess how different our personal politics may be, but I find him fair and he tries to explain things.

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Have shown my willingness for peace by bombing Chernobyl nuclear plant.

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🇹🇼 我和 @melissakchan.bsky.social 即将来到台湾！为我们合作的漫画《YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION》举行国际新书发布会！活动由 @doublethinklab.bsky.social 和黑熊学院 kumaacademy 共同承办。时间：2月26日 7PM 地址：台北市中正区武昌街一段 18号参与链接 forms.gle/uowdYqDLA5GA...

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🇹🇼 So excited about this RightsCon session I helped organize! "China, Iran, and beyond: Graphic novels and political comics in an age of disruptive tech," hosted by @indexoncensorship.org and @doublethinklab.bsky.social! With Shabnam Adiban, Pan Cooke, and @badiucao.bsky.social!

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🇹🇼 GLOBAL BOOK LAUNCH: A SPECIAL TAIPEI EVENT! @badiucao.bsky.social and I are so excited to speak in Taiwan about YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION, hosted by @doublethinklab.bsky.social + Kuma Academy! WED February 26 @ 7 PM! A Mandarin-language talk. 🔗 REGISTER HERE: forms.gle/uowdYqDLA5GA...

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🚨 BOOK TOUR HEADS UP! @badiucao.bsky.social and I will be in: 🇹🇼 Taipei late February — 🇺🇸 then Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and DC in March! Details soon! And if you want us for an event, ping us! YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION is hitting the road!

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🇹🇼 Our graphic novel also takes us to Taiwan… co-author @badiucao.bsky.social draws some beautiful market scenes. 🍍 YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION is out March 4. 🔗 PRE-ORDER HERE: melissachan.com/revolution

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1967 Red Guards, 2025 Tech Guards!

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Hear me out — America can do this without Canadian steel imports. Every citizen who loves this country as much as Trump does needs to rip all the metal out from their house, go to their backyard, and build steel furnaces and melt this shit up and start winning! 🦅

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🚀 Mars's corporate and colonial future? A must-read by David Ariosto on what looks like Trump and Musk repeating the model of 17th century's Virginia Company that set up America's Jamestown settlement, complete with debt bondage.

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🇹🇼🇪🇺 Interesting read from @newlinesmag.bsky.social. Taiwan’s Literature Is Having a Moment in Central and Eastern Europe. By James Baron:

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🇨🇳 "If, as many have argued, the social dissolution wrought by neoliberal capitalism has revitalized fascism in the West, it has been similarly important in the rise of ethnonationalist dictatorship in China." Great and timely essay by @elifriedman.bsky.social:

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The messaging to save USAID. Appeals to Americans about sick and hungry children in Africa — do not work. The China / Russia security case also fails. Show how it’s a domestic issue. A dozen media orgs should be in the Midwest interviewing farmers over the closure of the Soybean Innovation Lab.

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It does seem in this moment that our system suffers from not having a shadow cabinet and the accountability system, such as it is, of question time.

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Wonder how long it'll be before Trump starts telling Americans to bang on pots in order to scare the sparrows.

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🇲🇳 Remember the Mongolian Olympic athlete outfits that everyone loved? Well, turns out the Mongolians rock 🧨🐍 Lunar New Year, too. Same atelier, Michel & Amazonka:

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💥 Thank you to Robin Kwong and Contemporary Narratives Lab for your interview with @badiucao.bsky.social and I about our graphic novel, YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION! The Lab explores how innovative approaches to storytelling can break down complex issues.

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YOU CAN'T POST YOUR WAY OUT OF FASCISM: "The greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism." Essential reading by Janus Rose in @404media.bsky.social:

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🎙️ NEW PODCAST ALERT! @badiucao.bsky.social and I are on the New Books Network speaking to host @bequelin.bsky.social about our upcoming graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION, and about human rights + resistance! 🔗 Full episode here: newbooksnetwork.com/you-must-tak...

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El(on) Presidente

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"The news media has shown it is fully capable of delivering this type of coverage during other events. Think about how it covers natural disasters and terror attacks. Think about how it covered the Covid-19 pandemic, with unflinching ‘round the clock special coverage," f/ @oliverdarcy.bsky.social:

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