Blitzping
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Blitzping
@blitzping.bsky.social
Soldier, scholar, icee addict. I know *some* things about China, natsec
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Amen Thompson asked #Rockets PR for a word challenge for his interview, and he completed it. Cracked himself up in the process.

“We had to get that done expeditiously.” 😂😂
October 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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RIP Ace Frehley.
October 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Police already deployed on this sunny late afternoon to remind everyone they nothing happened on this day 6 years ago.
August 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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The latest hit out of the Pacific, premiering on 103.9 #WEZ, it's the new hit single, 'Lynchpin'!
July 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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"Rather be ashes than dust" - Statement from the Hong Kong League of Social Democrats, at their final press conference.
June 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.

In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
June 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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We remember today those who died in the 8964 massacre & we remember our friends, who can no longer comemorate publicly.

It is heavy but looking at this pic of two protesters dancing before the crackdown, showing the joy, smiles & comradery displayed in resistance, that can't be forgotten either.
June 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Hell yes. My higher ed colleagues just informed me that Harvard is quietly offering FREE online courses on U.S. government and civic engagement.

This. This right here is how you punch a bully in the damn nose, then dunk on him. So proud of my former employer-client.

Let’s goooo‼️🇺🇸🇺🇸
Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
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May 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Jalen Green goes REVERSE on the lob 😲
April 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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There are still tickets available for the big L.A. wildfire relief benefit show at the United Theater on Broadway tomorrow night. Here I am at soundcheck with Paul Shaffer and Al Jardine - the lineup for this thing is absolutely INSANE. Hope to see you there!
March 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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The Army deleted my “Why I served” video where I talked about how I decided I wanted to attend West Point/join the Army after one of the cadets my family used to sponsor died in combat. Probably deleted because she was the first black woman to be CSM at West Point.
March 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Two US senators have introduced a resolution “to condemn the Chinese government for its destruction of Hong Kong’s autonomy through the 2020 NSL and 2024 Article 23.

www.foreign.senate.gov/press/rep/re...
Risch, Shaheen Condemn Hong Kong Government for Rights Abuses | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
WASHINGTON- U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,...
www.foreign.senate.gov
February 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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can't make this up. when Jimmy Lai said he's not Chinese but Hong Konger, the judge asked 'are you yellow skinned'? extraordinary how biological racial nationalism that assumes phenotypic difference = race = nationality (and by extension =political loyalty) is explicitly invoked in legal proceedings
(1/3) Today’s #JimmyLai trial court transcript is absurd. Let’s break it down. Instead of upholding justice, the judge fixates on forcing #JimmyLai to accept a national identity he rejects. The judge said twice, "We are #Chinese," when Jimmy Lai said, "We are #HongKongers."
February 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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“The impact will be hugely negative,” says Teng Biao, “A lot of dissidents and activists don’t want to make it public but have received money from NED. It is unlikely that most of the organizations can get alternative funding.”
www.thewirechina.com/2025/02/12/d...
DOGE's Latest Target is Seen as a Gift to the CCP - The Wire China
The National Endowment for Democracy has long been a thorn in the CCP's side. On Tuesday, its funding was frozen.
www.thewirechina.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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An emotional story that is repeated many times each year when bodies are found, but this one is unique because of the background of this Chinese American soldier with birthright citizenship who was found in a mass grave in Germany.
In 1944, Sgt. Yuen Hop was shot down over Europe & killed by German SS soldiers on the way to a POW camp.

80 years later, his 94-year old sister Margery Hop Wong finally got a chance to say goodbye after his remains were recovered from a mass grave & identified.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
Her Brother Disappeared in War 80 Years Ago. She Finally Got to Say Goodbye.
Margery Hop Wong last saw her older brother Sgt. Yuen Hop in 1943. He was a soldier missing in action, until researchers solved the mystery behind his death.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The new acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official:

1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it

2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)
February 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
@marcelias.bsky.social would federal workers have standing to engage in civil litigation against Musk for violation of PII laws?
February 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This is the content I’ve been waiting for since the snowstorm was forecast for Louisiana.
Ok I put “Freebird” over the airboat in the snow.
January 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Yes, I am eating a Potbelly Dream Bar in my bathtub, why do you ask?
January 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
My favorite part of the whole ROK coup is the thought that somewhere in the middle of all this were conscripted members of BTS. Total shenanigans.
December 3, 2024 at 11:20 PM