Jeremy Goldkorn
@goldkorn.bsky.social
What you need to know about China this week: thechinaweek.com
Lessons from China, Russia, South Africa, North Korea etc. for Trump's America: rhymingchaos.com
Other links: jeremygoldkorn.com
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Lessons from China, Russia, South Africa, North Korea etc. for Trump's America: rhymingchaos.com
Other links: jeremygoldkorn.com
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Pinned
The CIA plot to kill the Congolese prime minister
As the U.S. continues blowing up boats in the Caribbean, author Stuart Reid tells the history of an earlier low point of careless American meddling.
www.rhymingchaos.com
Stuart Reid is author of The Lumumba Plot, a rip-roaring Cold War cloak-and-dagger tale. In this podcast, I talk to him about the CIA's plans to assassinate the Congolese prime minister in 1960, and resonances with the Trump regime's Caribbean killings.
Reposted by Jeremy Goldkorn
A camel train leaving Peking, early 1920s by Herbert G Ponting. Camels arrived with coal,fruit, charcoal or vegetables from the Western Hills nearby or from further with tea etc. But, they left with at best some rugs, grass mats (pongs) or small toys and other items for the return journey….
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
A camel train leaving Peking, early 1920s by Herbert G Ponting. Camels arrived with coal,fruit, charcoal or vegetables from the Western Hills nearby or from further with tea etc. But, they left with at best some rugs, grass mats (pongs) or small toys and other items for the return journey….
War is peace over at Trump's Truth Social feed:
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
War is peace over at Trump's Truth Social feed:
China vs US
US workforce stats 2022: agriculture 1.62%, industry 19.28%, services 79.1%
US household spend 2023: housing 32.9%, transportation 17%, food 12.9%, personal insurance & pensions 12.4%, healthcare 8%, entertainment 4.7%
Sources:
www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/201...
www.bls.gov/news.release...
US workforce stats 2022: agriculture 1.62%, industry 19.28%, services 79.1%
US household spend 2023: housing 32.9%, transportation 17%, food 12.9%, personal insurance & pensions 12.4%, healthcare 8%, entertainment 4.7%
Sources:
www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/201...
www.bls.gov/news.release...
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
China vs US
US workforce stats 2022: agriculture 1.62%, industry 19.28%, services 79.1%
US household spend 2023: housing 32.9%, transportation 17%, food 12.9%, personal insurance & pensions 12.4%, healthcare 8%, entertainment 4.7%
Sources:
www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/201...
www.bls.gov/news.release...
US workforce stats 2022: agriculture 1.62%, industry 19.28%, services 79.1%
US household spend 2023: housing 32.9%, transportation 17%, food 12.9%, personal insurance & pensions 12.4%, healthcare 8%, entertainment 4.7%
Sources:
www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/201...
www.bls.gov/news.release...
Reposted by Jeremy Goldkorn
Tennessee-7 can elect a progressive woman who wants to eliminate the grocery tax in TN, or they can elect a Tr*mp loyalist who supports every terrible thing Tr*mp is doing to regress America. @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Tr*mp PANICS over Tennessee special election as progressive poised to flip red district BLUE
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Tennessee-7 can elect a progressive woman who wants to eliminate the grocery tax in TN, or they can elect a Tr*mp loyalist who supports every terrible thing Tr*mp is doing to regress America. @aftynbehn.bsky.social
New AI-generated propaganda music video from China’s state-owned Xinhua news agency.From a tweet with this text: “‘Mess with fire, you're gonna get fried…’ Enjoy a new song from China's CD Rev rap group, say no to Japanese militarism”
From: x.com/XHNews/statu...
From: x.com/XHNews/statu...
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
New AI-generated propaganda music video from China’s state-owned Xinhua news agency.From a tweet with this text: “‘Mess with fire, you're gonna get fried…’ Enjoy a new song from China's CD Rev rap group, say no to Japanese militarism”
From: x.com/XHNews/statu...
From: x.com/XHNews/statu...
Elon Musk did it for the LOLz
The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Elon Musk did it for the LOLz
RIP Google Reader 😭
Don’t get me started on how they ruined google scholar
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
RIP Google Reader 😭
Reposted by Jeremy Goldkorn
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I did a Q&A with Violet Feng on her new film:
Violet Feng's "The Dating Game" follows a romance coach in Chongqing and three of his students. In this Q&A, Feng talks about:
• China's gender imbalance
• 'Left behind' children
• AI boyfriends in China
• Pick up artist culture & global crises of masculinity
• China's gender imbalance
• 'Left behind' children
• AI boyfriends in China
• Pick up artist culture & global crises of masculinity
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I did a Q&A with Violet Feng on her new film:
To which one should add that the white nationalist, although most definitely not of color, is from a developing country and is already ruining America.
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
To which one should add that the white nationalist, although most definitely not of color, is from a developing country and is already ruining America.
Reposted by Jeremy Goldkorn
Stuart Reid is author of The Lumumba Plot, a rip-roaring Cold War cloak-and-dagger tale. In this podcast, I talk to him about the CIA's plans to assassinate the Congolese prime minister in 1960, and resonances with the Trump regime's Caribbean killings.
The CIA plot to kill the Congolese prime minister
As the U.S. continues blowing up boats in the Caribbean, author Stuart Reid tells the history of an earlier low point of careless American meddling.
www.rhymingchaos.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Stuart Reid is author of The Lumumba Plot, a rip-roaring Cold War cloak-and-dagger tale. In this podcast, I talk to him about the CIA's plans to assassinate the Congolese prime minister in 1960, and resonances with the Trump regime's Caribbean killings.
Reposted by Jeremy Goldkorn
It remains very striking to me that some of the most sober, clear-eyed reporting on the neo Nazi movement in America comes from local reporters like Phil Williams. I can't think of anything as frank and grounded as this from national outlets. Give this guy a follow.
MUST WATCH: Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill
A Phil Williams NC5 Investigates report on a neo-Nazi targeting kids online, telling them to prepare for a 'race war'
www.newschannel5.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It remains very striking to me that some of the most sober, clear-eyed reporting on the neo Nazi movement in America comes from local reporters like Phil Williams. I can't think of anything as frank and grounded as this from national outlets. Give this guy a follow.
Stuart Reid is author of The Lumumba Plot, a rip-roaring Cold War cloak-and-dagger tale. In this podcast, I talk to him about the CIA's plans to assassinate the Congolese prime minister in 1960, and resonances with the Trump regime's Caribbean killings.
The CIA plot to kill the Congolese prime minister
As the U.S. continues blowing up boats in the Caribbean, author Stuart Reid tells the history of an earlier low point of careless American meddling.
www.rhymingchaos.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Stuart Reid is author of The Lumumba Plot, a rip-roaring Cold War cloak-and-dagger tale. In this podcast, I talk to him about the CIA's plans to assassinate the Congolese prime minister in 1960, and resonances with the Trump regime's Caribbean killings.
Reposted by Jeremy Goldkorn
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
New Rhyming Chaos podcast with @mtemkin.bsky.social talking to @mariarepnikova.bsky.social and me, on many things including forgotten heroes like senators Morse and Gruening, lone dissenters against the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Trump is the symptom, not the disease
What we can actually learn from history to make sense of the world and its leaders in 2025, with historian and author Moshik Temkin.
www.rhymingchaos.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
New Rhyming Chaos podcast with @mtemkin.bsky.social talking to @mariarepnikova.bsky.social and me, on many things including forgotten heroes like senators Morse and Gruening, lone dissenters against the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Reposted by Jeremy Goldkorn
“Winnowed down, the Lolita mentions in the records really reduce to three specific items, each of which points to a different way Epstein was enabled by public figures.”
This, like Andrea’s book on Nabokov, is a stunner.
This, like Andrea’s book on Nabokov, is a stunner.
I looked at the twenty-nine mentions of LOLITA in the Epstein emails released this week, and what they say about America today.
Lolita and Epstein's emails
A good reminder that there are monsters among us.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“Winnowed down, the Lolita mentions in the records really reduce to three specific items, each of which points to a different way Epstein was enabled by public figures.”
This, like Andrea’s book on Nabokov, is a stunner.
This, like Andrea’s book on Nabokov, is a stunner.
I stumbled on an old post of mine from 2013 on Medium. I sound a little naive and shrill, but I think my argument has stood the test of time, even if I misidentified some of the risks of putting your kids' photos on the internet.
Why do you put photos of your children on Facebook?
A rant against parents who knowingly dump their babies in the Panopticon
medium.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I stumbled on an old post of mine from 2013 on Medium. I sound a little naive and shrill, but I think my argument has stood the test of time, even if I misidentified some of the risks of putting your kids' photos on the internet.
Reposted by Jeremy Goldkorn
The Epstein Files are the new government shutdown are the new 2024 elections are the new indictment for mishandling classified documents are the new indictment for election interference are the new indictment for campaign funding violations are the new conviction for defamation and adjudication of
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The Epstein Files are the new government shutdown are the new 2024 elections are the new indictment for mishandling classified documents are the new indictment for election interference are the new indictment for campaign funding violations are the new conviction for defamation and adjudication of
I returned to the Sinica Podcast to discuss the vibe shift on China in the U.S. with @kaiserkuo.bsky.social:
We Were Right: Kaiser and Jeremy Reunite to Riff on the China Vibe Shift
This week on Sinica, I welcome back Jeremy Goldkorn, co-founder of the show and my longtime co-host, to revisit the “vibe shift” we first discussed back in February. Seven months on, what we sensed th...
www.sinicapodcast.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I returned to the Sinica Podcast to discuss the vibe shift on China in the U.S. with @kaiserkuo.bsky.social:
"In the era of graphomania…everyone surrounds himself with his own writings, as with a wall of mirrors, cutting off all voices from without."
—Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
—Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
A theory I have is that Substack is making people less careful readers, in that so many Substacks do not have an editor going “we don’t need this spoonfeeding or this pointless disclaimer that bad things are bad”, and so people increasingly expect more “bad things are bad” style disclaimers.
Once more I am begging those of you with Substacks to get an editor to look over your long, heartfelt screeds.
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"In the era of graphomania…everyone surrounds himself with his own writings, as with a wall of mirrors, cutting off all voices from without."
—Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
—Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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Pre-internet, you needed to know facts.
Google-era: The facts are all there, but you need to know what questions to ask to find them, and how to use them.
AI-era: The machine assures you that your questions are brilliant. You need to know some facts to evaluate its answers.
Google-era: The facts are all there, but you need to know what questions to ask to find them, and how to use them.
AI-era: The machine assures you that your questions are brilliant. You need to know some facts to evaluate its answers.
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Pre-internet, you needed to know facts.
Google-era: The facts are all there, but you need to know what questions to ask to find them, and how to use them.
AI-era: The machine assures you that your questions are brilliant. You need to know some facts to evaluate its answers.
Google-era: The facts are all there, but you need to know what questions to ask to find them, and how to use them.
AI-era: The machine assures you that your questions are brilliant. You need to know some facts to evaluate its answers.
She knows where to find the real Nazis now:
"A prominent far-right German activist and influencer is seeking political asylum in the US, arguing she is being persecuted at home for her beliefs."
www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
"A prominent far-right German activist and influencer is seeking political asylum in the US, arguing she is being persecuted at home for her beliefs."
www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
She knows where to find the real Nazis now:
"A prominent far-right German activist and influencer is seeking political asylum in the US, arguing she is being persecuted at home for her beliefs."
www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
"A prominent far-right German activist and influencer is seeking political asylum in the US, arguing she is being persecuted at home for her beliefs."
www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
It’s like a bizarro British version of Trump’s TikTok dilemma. The risks and incentives are all mixed up. None of the current options are palatable, so the decision is kicked down the road.
Very British China problems
London's awkward relationship with Beijing, laughing Xi, China launches another aircraft carrier, recommended articles and podcasts etc.
www.thechinaweek.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It’s like a bizarro British version of Trump’s TikTok dilemma. The risks and incentives are all mixed up. None of the current options are palatable, so the decision is kicked down the road.