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I would add that @michaelturton.bsky.social's columns are a living proof that one can unequivocally and fiercly support Taiwan without failing to criticize its government or its society when criticism is warranted.
I somehow missed Monday’s (always excellent) Notes from Central Taiwan column. Low wages and an extremely toxic ‘boss’ culture are major issues in Taiwan that never genuinely get addressed by the government-at least not in any meaningful way. @michaelturton.bsky.social @royngerng.bsky.social
Notes from Central Taiwan: The DPP needs to raise wages for workers - Taipei Times
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November 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I would add that @michaelturton.bsky.social's columns are a living proof that one can unequivocally and fiercly support Taiwan without failing to criticize its government or its society when criticism is warranted.
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If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
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It’s time to proscribe these psychos as a terrorist organisation.
It’s intolerable to imagine that they could register a Nazi party in Australia today & the only thing standing in their way is they can’t use an obscene name.
It’s intolerable to imagine that they could register a Nazi party in Australia today & the only thing standing in their way is they can’t use an obscene name.
Bloody hell.
A 17 year old Canberra boy (a nazi) was planning a chemical weapon attack in Canberra.
He wanted to attack non-white homeless people with chlorine gas, and live-stream it.
He said “white revolution is the only solution.” 😳
Fuck me.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
A 17 year old Canberra boy (a nazi) was planning a chemical weapon attack in Canberra.
He wanted to attack non-white homeless people with chlorine gas, and live-stream it.
He said “white revolution is the only solution.” 😳
Fuck me.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Teen Nazi planned to livestream gas attack, police allege
Isolated young Australians are being groomed online by Nazis into plotting terror attacks on home soil.
www.smh.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It’s time to proscribe these psychos as a terrorist organisation.
It’s intolerable to imagine that they could register a Nazi party in Australia today & the only thing standing in their way is they can’t use an obscene name.
It’s intolerable to imagine that they could register a Nazi party in Australia today & the only thing standing in their way is they can’t use an obscene name.
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Wow, it's almost as if the supposedly crazy conspiracy theory that mainstream media wouldn't touch - that the Kremlin has kompromat on Donald Trump through his ties to pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and this explains his tepid support for Ukraine - is actually true.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wow, it's almost as if the supposedly crazy conspiracy theory that mainstream media wouldn't touch - that the Kremlin has kompromat on Donald Trump through his ties to pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and this explains his tepid support for Ukraine - is actually true.
He is the consummate buffoon. As contemptible as they come, but in his own way a child, crawling around a sandbox trying to find his toys. Completely out of his depth, and a real albatross for the legislature.
In short, a model late-era KMT leader.
In short, a model late-era KMT leader.
This stance by KMT Legislature Speaker Han Kuo-yu (President Lai should retract his remark that China is "a foreign hostile force") echoes Stephen Wertheim's recent piece in Foreign Affairs (or maybe it's the other way around).
This amounts to saying that acknowledging the threat is a provocation.
This amounts to saying that acknowledging the threat is a provocation.
President, legislative speaker exchange barbs on China threat to lawmaker - Focus Taiwan
President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) should retract his remark that China is "a foreign hostile force" and remove a clause in the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) charter that advocates Taiwan indepe...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
He is the consummate buffoon. As contemptible as they come, but in his own way a child, crawling around a sandbox trying to find his toys. Completely out of his depth, and a real albatross for the legislature.
In short, a model late-era KMT leader.
In short, a model late-era KMT leader.
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English version omits some interesting data about indigenous population growth:
As of October 2025, Taiwan’s indigenous population stood at 624,159—up 14,989 (+2.46%) from a year earlier and 967 (+0.16%) from the previous month. 2.68% of the total population.
www.ris.gov.tw/app/portal/346
As of October 2025, Taiwan’s indigenous population stood at 624,159—up 14,989 (+2.46%) from a year earlier and 967 (+0.16%) from the previous month. 2.68% of the total population.
www.ris.gov.tw/app/portal/346
中華民國內政部戶政司 - 人口統計資料
人口統計資料
www.ris.gov.tw
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
English version omits some interesting data about indigenous population growth:
As of October 2025, Taiwan’s indigenous population stood at 624,159—up 14,989 (+2.46%) from a year earlier and 967 (+0.16%) from the previous month. 2.68% of the total population.
www.ris.gov.tw/app/portal/346
As of October 2025, Taiwan’s indigenous population stood at 624,159—up 14,989 (+2.46%) from a year earlier and 967 (+0.16%) from the previous month. 2.68% of the total population.
www.ris.gov.tw/app/portal/346
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A whole lotta liberals who were willing to take Epstein’s money turning off their phones tonight.
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A whole lotta liberals who were willing to take Epstein’s money turning off their phones tonight.
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
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Had my flu shot and, since I was at it, a Covid shot as well, all free as I turned 50 this year. Thanks Taiwan.
Prepping for a great Christmas so I got my flu shot. Here in Taiwan it costs US$30 for people under 50, even with insurance. Worth it! Vaccines are among our most incredible discoveries—a silent molecular armor.
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Had my flu shot and, since I was at it, a Covid shot as well, all free as I turned 50 this year. Thanks Taiwan.
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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Hmmm
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Hmmm
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
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Donovan again. Good stuff
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
Donovan’s Deep Dives: KMT’s Cheng Li-wun sowing disunity right out of the gate - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Donovan again. Good stuff
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
...and this.
It reframes the alliance hierarchy — Japan becomes the moral and legal first responder, not the junior partner waiting for cues.
Takaichi’s move is both strategic deterrence
she turned Japan’s legal framework into a geopolitical truth that Washington cannot ignore.
Takaichi’s move is both strategic deterrence
she turned Japan’s legal framework into a geopolitical truth that Washington cannot ignore.
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
...and this.
...this, ...
Takaichi just made it harder for the U.S. to maintain “strategic ambiguity.”
If Japan’s own law defines Taiwan’s defense as existential to Japan, then Washington cannot afford to appear less committed than Tokyo.
If Japan’s own law defines Taiwan’s defense as existential to Japan, then Washington cannot afford to appear less committed than Tokyo.
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
...this, ...
THIS, ...
Beijing now knows that any Taiwan invasion automatically raises the question of Japan’s right to collective self-defense, not just moral support.
It’s a signal to both allies and 🇨🇳: Japan no longer hides behind ambiguity; it operationalizes deterrence within law.
It’s a signal to both allies and 🇨🇳: Japan no longer hides behind ambiguity; it operationalizes deterrence within law.
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
THIS, ...
The BBC will never learn, because they refuse to admit what they are deliberately doing.
They have been contacted too many times over the decades about bending the editorial knee for the CCP and/or the KMT for it to be anything but policy/house style.
It's a disgrace; it's the contemporary BBC.
They have been contacted too many times over the decades about bending the editorial knee for the CCP and/or the KMT for it to be anything but policy/house style.
It's a disgrace; it's the contemporary BBC.
Terrible headline, BBC.
When will thy ever learn?
Suggestion: "Why China chose to throw hissy fit after PM pointed out military adventurism at Japan borders is bad"
When will thy ever learn?
Suggestion: "Why China chose to throw hissy fit after PM pointed out military adventurism at Japan borders is bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The BBC will never learn, because they refuse to admit what they are deliberately doing.
They have been contacted too many times over the decades about bending the editorial knee for the CCP and/or the KMT for it to be anything but policy/house style.
It's a disgrace; it's the contemporary BBC.
They have been contacted too many times over the decades about bending the editorial knee for the CCP and/or the KMT for it to be anything but policy/house style.
It's a disgrace; it's the contemporary BBC.
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Author Michael Wolff appears to have kept information under wraps for more than a decade about Trump knowing there was child trafficking at Mar-a-Lago.
It seems his priority was to help Epstein manipulate the situation so Epstein would have leverage over Trump.
It seems his priority was to help Epstein manipulate the situation so Epstein would have leverage over Trump.
Epstein mentioned Trump multiple times in private emails, new release shows | CNN Politics
Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender whose death by suicide has spawned intense scrutiny of the high-profile people he knew, mentioned Donald Trump by name multiple times in private correspondenc...
www.cnn.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Author Michael Wolff appears to have kept information under wraps for more than a decade about Trump knowing there was child trafficking at Mar-a-Lago.
It seems his priority was to help Epstein manipulate the situation so Epstein would have leverage over Trump.
It seems his priority was to help Epstein manipulate the situation so Epstein would have leverage over Trump.
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Rape is the distillation of the far-right worldview that Trump embodies: a gleefully sadistic act of domination carried out as fulfillment of a supposedly natural hierarchy. It would be weird if Trump wasn’t a rapist, given his ideological commitments—which is before you get to all the accusations.
i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Rape is the distillation of the far-right worldview that Trump embodies: a gleefully sadistic act of domination carried out as fulfillment of a supposedly natural hierarchy. It would be weird if Trump wasn’t a rapist, given his ideological commitments—which is before you get to all the accusations.
Don't fuck with Taiwan.
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Don't fuck with Taiwan.
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Great news as Prof Lidia Morawska who has done fantastic work on particulate matter and raised awareness of the fact that covid 19 can be spread via airborne route has just won a prize in recognition of her achievements
Australian scientist who alerted world that Covid is airborne wins top science prize
Prof Lidia Morawska says recognition of her research comes at a fraught time – an ‘age of anti-science’
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Great news as Prof Lidia Morawska who has done fantastic work on particulate matter and raised awareness of the fact that covid 19 can be spread via airborne route has just won a prize in recognition of her achievements
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The Guardian: More than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during their detention, according to a report published on Wednesday.
Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador endured systematic torture, report finds
Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prison
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The Guardian: More than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during their detention, according to a report published on Wednesday.
All that money spent on tedious dinosaur movies when they could've invested in drop croc epics.
As mammals replaced dinosaurs, drop bears replaced drop crocs.
Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
All that money spent on tedious dinosaur movies when they could've invested in drop croc epics.
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"Relatives share the final words of those killed amid ‘horrifying’ surge in capital punishment under the rule of [Newcastle United's owner]."
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘I’ll be executed on Tuesday’: families reveal panicked last calls from foreigners on Saudi’s death row
Relatives share with the Guardian final words of those killed amid ‘horrifying’ surge in capital punishment under Mohammed bin Salman’s rule
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
"Relatives share the final words of those killed amid ‘horrifying’ surge in capital punishment under the rule of [Newcastle United's owner]."
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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These two screenshots together capture a quiet but growing shift among Japan’s conservative and defense-oriented politicians: they are beginning to see Trump not as a reliable ally, but as a transactional nationalist whose “ally-bashing” rhetoric directly threatens Japan’s strategic interests.
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 AM
These two screenshots together capture a quiet but growing shift among Japan’s conservative and defense-oriented politicians: they are beginning to see Trump not as a reliable ally, but as a transactional nationalist whose “ally-bashing” rhetoric directly threatens Japan’s strategic interests.