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An American perspective at the western frontier of liberal democracy, framed and focused through the lens of life in Taiwan. #LiberalHawk #NeoIdealist #TaiwanIsACountry
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h
Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 7h
Leading ADN vendor F5 says nation-state actor had long-term access to its production environment and engineering resources. CISA is ordering agencies to update F5 products and isolate them from the internet. Passwords, API keys, data at risk.

www.cisa.gov/news-events/...
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Pacific Standard 🚜🌻☂️ @pacstandardtw.bsky.social · 5h
This is 💯 Colby's work 👇
Trump, China, and Declining US Influence in Asia
Under the second Trump administration, China overall is in a better position to spread its influence in competition with the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 6h
NEW: In my OUR LAND newsletter, the time Stephen Miller asked me to meet him for coffee & tried to recruit me for a left-right anti-immigration crusade.

link.motherjones.com/public/41978...

To support kick-ass journalism/analysis, sign up for a FREE trial subscription to OUR LAND at davidcorn.com
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 7h
"Bitcoin is providing property rights, connecting people to the world, and keeping resistance alive—often in places where nothing else can reach." —Alex Gladstein

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 7h
"Just becoming partisan is not a long-term strategy. Personally, as a journalist, I also find it an uninteresting strategy."

So much to say about this, but first let me tell you what it is. Thomas Evans, NPR's editor in chief, interviewed by Carolina Abbott Galvão in @columjournreview.bsky.social
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Matthew Bradford @matthewbradford.bsky.social · 7h
Chinese president is behind patriarchal turn in politics with activists silenced for ‘promoting gender antagonism’.
Xi directs quashing of Chinese feminists even as he praises advances at women’s conference
Chinese president is behind patriarchal turn in politics with activists silenced for ‘promoting gender antagonism’
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 6h
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth:

Allies often say that #Ukraine's security is synonymous with European security. Now it is time for all NATO countries to turn words into action in the form of PURL investments. All countries around this table - no free riders.
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Vladimir Kara-Murza @vkaramurza.bsky.social · 6h
Under Vladimir Putin, the scale of repression against those who disagree with the Kremlin has surpassed anything seen in our country since the death of Stalin. The number of known political prisoners in Russia already exceeds the respective figure for the whole of the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s.
Opinion | What Putin is crushing in Russia
The arrest of opposition leader Maxim Kruglov is a blow against the last vestiges of Russian democracy.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 7h
Presidents have the right to fire general officers and have done so in the past. But there is no precedent for the rapid dismissal of so many senior officers without any real explanation, evidence of failings, or misconduct. This looks like an attempt to install compliant leaders. bit.ly/47aHw7J
The Dilemma of Duty Under Trump
What his assault on the U.S. military means for America.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 8h
As I said, this is a big problem for Trump peace plan:

Arab states are not going to send peacekeeping troops if they will have to fight Hamas, and Israel and the United States will not permit reconstruction funds to flow if Hamas will siphon them off as it has in the past.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 8h
Meet the Master Race!
Insane GOP Telegram Chat Rips Off The Mask

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Meet The Master Race
Insane GOP Telegram Chat Rips Off The Mask
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Pacific Standard 🚜🌻☂️ @pacstandardtw.bsky.social · 7h
Surprising? 🧐
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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 8h
Chinese druk – De Groene Amsterdammer: „Het is verrassend hoezeer de Thaise autoriteiten zich daarbij inmiddels voor het Chinese karretje laten spannen.”
Ook buiten China ontsnappen Chinezen niet aan de druk van hun overheid
‘Ze zeiden dat ik niets tegen de Chinese regering mocht schrijven’, aldus de in Thailand woonachtige schrijver Wang Ji.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 8h
“People talk about trying to change society,” a young Bob Dylan said, in 1964. “All I know is that so long as people stay so concerned about protecting their status and protecting what they have, ain’t nothing going to be done.”
What Bob Dylan Wanted at Twenty-three
From 1964: A portrait of the artist trying to move past “finger-pointing” songs, and finding a new voice in the process.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 8h
US Treasury Secretary Bessent:

85 US senators are willing to give President Trump the authority to put up to 500% tariffs on China for the purchase of Russian oil.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 8h
A federal court just blocked a ridiculous law that banned almost all speech on public college campuses in Texas after 10 p.m., including student journalism.

Huge win by @thefireorg.bsky.social defending the First Amendment.

Free speech doesn’t have a curfew.
VICTORY: Federal court halts Texas’ ‘no First Amendment after dark’ campus speech ban
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the University of Texas from enforcing a law that bans virtually all free speech on public university campuses after dark
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Vladimir Kara-Murza @vkaramurza.bsky.social · 8h
Что ни день, то новая весточка с Родины. Оказывается, нас с Яшиным сегодня заочно арестовали за участие в «экстремистской организации». Ещё бы узнать, что за организация такая.
Басманный суд заочно арестовал оппозиционеров Кара-Мурзу и Яшина
По делу о "фейках об армии"
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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 8h
78% of Americans say they want Congress to renew the ACA tax credits. But Congressional Republicans would rather shut down the government than listen to their own constituents.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h
The Telegram messages laid bare how those who represent the future of the GOP talk behind closed doors.
Vile text messages from Young Republican group chat are exposed
The Telegram messages laid bare how those who represent the future of the GOP talk behind closed doors
www.independent.co.uk
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h
Uday's comments consistently reflect the view that Christianity is a tool to be used to recruit political support and keep supporters in line rather than a faith. And that's extremely revealing. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
‘Insane and offensive’: Eric Trump sparks fury with claim president is ‘saving God’
Eric Trump’s passionate case for the White House’s impact came as he promoted a new memoir, ‘Under Siege’
www.independent.co.uk
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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 12h
NEW: How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
New details here about how the Army’s top uniformed lawyer was fired just weeks after raising concerns about the use of the military domestically and mass firings of DoD employees www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...
How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics
For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 12h
New @nberpubs: "China’s Lending to Developing Countries: From Boom to Bust" www.nber.org/papers/w34359
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 12h
“This guy is an officer, who also wears a civilian hat, who is also representing the secretary, who also is in the secretary’s front office, who also still has a private law firm,” one person said. “It’s like, who is he representing here?” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth’s legal fixer at the center of Pentagon’s new media restrictions
Tim Parlatore represented Hegseth when he faced sexual assault allegations, and he also counts alleged mobsters and President Donald Trump as former clients.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 12h
Unlike with targeted killings conducted as part of actual armed conflicts under prior administrations, Trump 2.0 is both posting boastful videos of the U.S. strikes in the Caribbean AND refusing to disclose which specific entities and individuals are being targeted.

Propaganda plus secrecy.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d
Further premeditated, lawless killing in the Caribbean.

Making at least five such US strikes.

Against unidentified "narcoterrorists" affiliated w/ an unspecified "designated terrorist organization" allegedly trafficking unspecified narcotics.

POTUS is asserting a license to kill outside the law.
Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h
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