skeeter boy
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
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Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?
June 19, 2023 at 6:10 PM
Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?
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The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
what's interesting is that schmitt/hochman/whoever wrote this is aware enough of how foreign this is to the actual american experience that they have to include "continental europeans" into this category of legitimate americans
September 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
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I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
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This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.
August 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.
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This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
August 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
It appears there were casualties after the collision between the Chinese destroyer and Coast Guard vessel judging by the movement of Chinese ships afterward x.com/GordianKnotR...
August 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It appears there were casualties after the collision between the Chinese destroyer and Coast Guard vessel judging by the movement of Chinese ships afterward x.com/GordianKnotR...
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Not sure how I’m going to get through these next four years without becoming a crazed street preacher going, “Repent! Repent! You will meet God one day!”
The woman will be given the choice of whether she wants to take her newborn, a US citizen born Wednesday, with her when she is deported, CBP says.
Guatemalan woman who just gave birth in Tucson faces rapid deportation
The woman will be given the choice of whether she wants to take her newborn, a US citizen born Wednesday, with her when she is deported, CBP says.
tucson.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Not sure how I’m going to get through these next four years without becoming a crazed street preacher going, “Repent! Repent! You will meet God one day!”
The air force of the navy of the army
Well thank goodness there is nothing else so confusing in their Air Force-
Which? The PLAAF or PLANAF?
Excuse me?
The PLA Air Force or the PLA Navy Air Force?
On the topic of bombers and tankers.
Well then, both.
Theaters?
Both.
So the PLANAF have Y-20 tankers?
No. At least, not yet.
Which? The PLAAF or PLANAF?
Excuse me?
The PLA Air Force or the PLA Navy Air Force?
On the topic of bombers and tankers.
Well then, both.
Theaters?
Both.
So the PLANAF have Y-20 tankers?
No. At least, not yet.
July 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The air force of the navy of the army
Xiang gang? Yeah, that's what I call my friends in Hunan
July 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Xiang gang? Yeah, that's what I call my friends in Hunan
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The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
July 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
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There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.
July 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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i just want people with an avatar that’s an animal or a cartoon or a famous person to know that that’s still what i think you look like
June 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
i just want people with an avatar that’s an animal or a cartoon or a famous person to know that that’s still what i think you look like
WSJ, three years ago: Flight data indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed a China Eastern jet www.wsj.com/world/china/...
June 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
WSJ, three years ago: Flight data indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed a China Eastern jet www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Every time someone responds to an obviously normative-aspirational claim ("this not who we are", "this is not America", etc) with some I'm-very-radical descriptive rebuttal ("er actually America has always done <similar bad stuff>") an angel dies. Like, no joke, dead. Direct causal result of this.
June 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Every time someone responds to an obviously normative-aspirational claim ("this not who we are", "this is not America", etc) with some I'm-very-radical descriptive rebuttal ("er actually America has always done <similar bad stuff>") an angel dies. Like, no joke, dead. Direct causal result of this.
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Are they roasting Trump's military parade on Weibo?
June 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Are they roasting Trump's military parade on Weibo?
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June 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.
June 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.
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I had no idea samurai in feudal Japan were that dedicated to troubleshooting Flash
May 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I had no idea samurai in feudal Japan were that dedicated to troubleshooting Flash