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Craig Duffy @pinkcowduffy.bsky.social · 17d

Everyone has their favorite historical parallels to the rising authoritarianism right now in America. The one I find myself looking to most is Hong Kong/China. Particularly personified by two excellent books from journalist @louisalim.bsky.social

Louisa Lim
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF AMNESIA
TIANANMEN REVISITED

香港人心油
Indelible City
LOUISA LIM
Dispossession and Defiance
IN HONG KONG
"A truly extraordinary elegy" - Al WEIWEI

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Booze, Food, Travel @boozefoodtravel.bsky.social · Sep 1

Labor Day afternoon cappuccino and a book. The way it should be.

Cappuccino and Indelible City by Louisa Lim

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Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social · Sep 11

What a list to be in! Thank you @georgiarybanks.bsky.social

Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · Sep 10

For the cast:
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders

For slowing down:
The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd
A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
Orbital, Samantha Harvey

For getting lost in:
James, Pervical Everett
Indelible City, Louisa Lim

Cautious recc:
Chernobyl Prayer, Svetlana Alexievich

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · Sep 2

Amazing authors supported YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION by providing praise which appeared on the back cover (known as blurbs). We want to thank each of them, starting with @louisalim.bsky.social! Thank you Louisa — it meant the world to us to get your thumbs up!

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Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social · Aug 28

Congratulations!!!

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Kristin Carao @mikaelakristin.bsky.social · Aug 18

Session 3: @sophtree.bsky.social, @louisalim.bsky.social & @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social about resistance, literature as power & literature as activism. #StellaDayOut

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Kristin Carao @mikaelakristin.bsky.social · Aug 5

Looking forward to one of the best literary events of the year! 🥳 #StellaDayOut is happening this month & here in Melbourne, it's on 18th of Aug 2025 (Mon). Feat. @clairegcoleman.bsky.social @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social @louisalim.bsky.social
Melbourne – Stella share.google/gQyQRF7f7nOf...

Melbourne – Stella

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Aug 3

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 27

Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.

Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · Jul 22

A great, and quietly shocking, episode of @littleredpodcast.bsky.social.

@louisalim.bsky.social, @graemeksmith.bsky.social @wingkuang.bsky.social

Karma Chameleon: The CCP turns to Buddhism

Podcast Episode · The Little Red Podcast · 22/07/2025 · 49m

podcasts.apple.com

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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · Jun 18

#China: Today, Sebastien Lai, son of #HongKong writer and media publisher #JimmyLai, addressed the UN Human Rights Council as a representative of PEN International and called for his father's release.

Watch his statement here🔽

China-Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai’s son calls for his father’s release at the UN Human Rights Council — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide

18 June 2025: Today, Jimmy Lai’s son, Sebastien Lai, addressed the 59th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) as a representative of PEN International during an Interactive Dialogue...

www.pen-international.org

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · May 1

Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

www.nature.com

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · Apr 30

On April 15, 27-year-old Mei Shilin (梅世林) put up three pro-democracy banners on an overpass in China’s southwestern Sichuan province.

Authorities reportedly detained Mei soon afterward, and his current whereabouts are unknown.

Another ‘Bridge Man’ in China Forcibly Disappeared

On April 15, Mei Shilin put up three banners on an overpass outside Chengdu’s Chadianzi Metro Station in China’s southwestern Sichuan province. The authorities reportedly detained Mei soon afterward. ...

www.hrw.org

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · Apr 15

Periodic reminder and proof that Hong Kong is NOT part of the People's Republic of Amnesia. (Cc. @louisalim.bsky.social)

#MilkTeaAlliance Galleries @mtamuseum.bsky.social · Apr 14

กิจกรรมล่าสุดของพวกเรา
สนับสนุน #พันธมิตรชานม และพันธมิตร
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More: mtag.info/gal2live
Original tweet by @FY4Chan
Link: twitter.com/1427500444327104514/status/1908762210631115020

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Ilaria Maria Sala @ilariamariasala.bsky.social · Apr 15

I was at HKU yesterday and this is what the “democracy wall” looks like now. It has the same name. And cameras though. But nothing else

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Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social · Apr 9

The piece you didn't know you needed to read.

Trump’s Oval Office Is an Interior Designer’s Nightmare

Has he never heard of negative space?

www.thecut.com

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · Mar 15

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · Mar 13

More than BTW, I want so much for Hong Kong to not become part of the People's Republic of Amnesia. And believe it still isn't. With regards to the Tiananmen Square Massacre and also the events that @louisalim.bsky.social wrote about in her "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong".

64 scrawled on a reflective surface. Seen in Hong Kong in February, 2025.

721, 831, 101 scrawled on a wall in Hong Kong. Photo taken on March 13th 2020 -- five years ago.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Mar 2

This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK.

Extraordinary.

The mail on Sunday headline which reads Now Stop The State Visit for Bully Trump

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Melissa Hung @melissahung.bsky.social · Feb 28

Just thinking about when the Atlanta shootings happened and Asian American journalists were told they were too biased to cover it.

Anyhow, there's many reasons that I helped start an Asian American magazine, but telling our stories on our own terms is one of them.

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · Feb 28

Years ago a white editor* asked if I was biased about immigration stories because I'm an immigrant. I've been asked a version of this question dozens of times since. The driving idea is that people who embody difference introduce bias; it's the framework that maintains white supremacy in newsrooms.

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WIRED @wired.com · Feb 28

Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)

The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think

What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

www.wired.com

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · Feb 28

Zelensky has now responded to his Oval Office meeting with this series of tweeted thanks to world leaders reaching out in consolation.

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · Feb 28

From @louisalim.bsky.social's "Indelible City": "At the end of July, ...local triads in Yuen Long... ran amok inside a subway station... [D]ressed in white T-shirts, [they] were looking for black-clad protestors but ended up beating anyone in their path. The police did not arrive for 35 minutes..."

Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · Jan 2

96. HONG KONG

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
by Louisa Lim

A compelling and personal account of pro-democracy protests, local history, global politics and daily life in Hong Kong

Had me hooked from the very start

Related pod: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

#ReadTheWorld

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Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social · Feb 26

NYT: #Trump’s New Crackdown on #China Is Just Beginning, with a clamp down on Chinese investment & access to technology. But the wild card may be the president himself.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Trump’s New Crackdown on China Is Just Beginning

The administration is positioning itself to clamp down on Chinese investment and access to technology. But the wild card may be the president himself.

www.nytimes.com

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Silvia Montaña @silmonn.bsky.social · Feb 26

A viral image on Reddit and TikTok seen in London 👍

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