TK
@trukid.bsky.social
Researcher, Writer, journalist, photographer, maybe perpetual grad student? Feet in China / Head frequently somewhere else. Edinburgh Futures Institute '24, NYU '22
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never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
August 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
Not all heroes wear capes.
“As an immigrant, I wanted it to be known that we aren’t going anywhere and we will face you head on with every ounce of courage that we have.” www.advocate.com/exclusives/d... #Pride #ImmigrantHeritageMonth
Drag artists who crashed Donald Trump's first Kennedy Center show want him to know: 'You can’t erase us'
“Knowing he would be there made my attendance more crucial," drag queen Mari Con Carne told The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Not all heroes wear capes.
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IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country."
Don't let that slide by.
Don't let that slide by.
June 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country."
Don't let that slide by.
Don't let that slide by.
Oh. My. God. This is horrifying.
Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.
June 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Oh. My. God. This is horrifying.
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there is a go fund me to support the surviving husband of jonathan joss
www.gofundme.com/f/help-king-...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-king-...
June 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
there is a go fund me to support the surviving husband of jonathan joss
www.gofundme.com/f/help-king-...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-king-...
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This is super cool.
Massive @niedermeyer.online energy here, ole boy converted an old Toyota pickup to electric for less than $6k.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjXFDpL3/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjXFDpL3/
May 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This is super cool.
So just finished Season 2 of The Last of Us and what were they thinking!? That wasn't Seattle rain.
May 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
So just finished Season 2 of The Last of Us and what were they thinking!? That wasn't Seattle rain.
Been speaking to a LOT of panicked faculty, parents and students here in China today. Now is when students at snagging visas for summer exchange trips and camps (so not just those heading to college). The lack of info on how temporary this "pause" may be is freaking a lot of people out.
Exclusive: New student visa interviews are on pause as Trump’s admin weighs requiring foreign students applying in the U.S. to undergo social media vetting.
Trump team orders stop to new student visa interviews, as it weighs expanding social media vetting
The directive came in a Tuesday cable obtained by POLITICO.
www.politico.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Been speaking to a LOT of panicked faculty, parents and students here in China today. Now is when students at snagging visas for summer exchange trips and camps (so not just those heading to college). The lack of info on how temporary this "pause" may be is freaking a lot of people out.
Do they make you submit proof of citizenship when you RSVP?
May 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Do they make you submit proof of citizenship when you RSVP?
Real quote from the teenager who is about to start applying to college in a few months: "Wait. You mean you can own the land the house is on? And you don't have to give it back to the government?"
Guess this one's been in China long enough.
Guess this one's been in China long enough.
May 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Real quote from the teenager who is about to start applying to college in a few months: "Wait. You mean you can own the land the house is on? And you don't have to give it back to the government?"
Guess this one's been in China long enough.
Guess this one's been in China long enough.
Just finished Ancillary Justice. In awe of the craft behind it. Why have I not run into this book sooner?
May 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Just finished Ancillary Justice. In awe of the craft behind it. Why have I not run into this book sooner?
Fighter jets are DEI now?
at this point it’s starting to feel like these jets are just committing suicide
Another Navy jet falls into sea, marking fourth major mishap in months
The latest loss of an F/A-18 fighter jet occurred during a failed landing aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Fighter jets are DEI now?
Yay!
May 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Yay!
Doesn't feel like a good sign that the dude's already practicing his "thoughts and prayers" face. They know Grok can't land planes, right?
NEWS: Transportation secretary Sean Duffy tells reporters outside the White House moments ago that the president has signed off on his plan to modernize ATC -- details of which will be announced on THURSDAY.
May 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Doesn't feel like a good sign that the dude's already practicing his "thoughts and prayers" face. They know Grok can't land planes, right?
What the what?? I know a lot of people who work in auto plants, and I have yet to meet someone who is doing it with the hope that their kids, too, will work at the auto plant. The dream is typically for the kids to do something that makes more money or happiness. Those are the jobs of the future.
Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."
April 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
What the what?? I know a lot of people who work in auto plants, and I have yet to meet someone who is doing it with the hope that their kids, too, will work at the auto plant. The dream is typically for the kids to do something that makes more money or happiness. Those are the jobs of the future.
Interesting dive into parts of how China's social media censorship works. Makes some excellent points about what it is NOT.
A deep dive on online Russian army recruitment ads, China’s censorship apparatus, & how some Western media guess Beijing’s stance by reading between the wrong lines. Apparently, it’s not obvious: ⚠️ China is not censoring its social media to please the West. 🔗 Read: whatsonweibo.com/china-is-not... 🔒
China Is Not Censoring Its Social Media to Please the West
Russian recruitment ads, China's censorship, and how Western media sometimes guess Beijing's stance by reading between the wrong lines.
whatsonweibo.com
April 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Interesting dive into parts of how China's social media censorship works. Makes some excellent points about what it is NOT.
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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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April 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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What the what!?
April 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
What the what!?
My salt fork made it all the way to China!
April 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
My salt fork made it all the way to China!
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Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
www.freep.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
April 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
As journalism becomes harder to do (and harder to get paid for), it also becomes more dangerous.
“Worldwide, threats to journalists in conflict zones are increasing. In 2023, a journalist or media worker was, on average, killed or murdered every 4 days. In 2024, it was every 3 days. Most reporters harmed or killed, as is the case in Gaza, are local journalists.”
watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
As journalism becomes harder to do (and harder to get paid for), it also becomes more dangerous.
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Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one
April 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one