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Jeremy Goldkorn

@goldkorn.bsky.social

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What you need to know about China this week: thechinaweek.com Lessons from China, Russia, South Africa, North Korea etc. for Trump and Musk's America: rhymingchaos.com Other links: jeremygoldkorn.com

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 3d

The daily onslaught of outrageous news of corruption, destruction of government capacity & attacks on science and education in the U.S. right now is dizzying. “What now?” you scream as you scroll through the morning’s news. It’s a little like the world Geremie Barmé stepped into in China in 1974

A constant bombardment of noise and information: China, 1974 to America, 2025

Geremie Barmé lived in China during the dying days of the Cultural Revolution, when every day brought a new political upheaval. It's a familiar feeling in Trump's world.

www.rhymingchaos.com

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 14h

Good to see this in USA Today.

USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 14h

"Had an older president like Joe Biden babbled like this there would have been immediate calls to airlift him to a sanatorium," writes columnist @rexhuppke.bsky.social. bit.ly/4n7pB7X

A photo of of Donald Trump. Text added to the image reads: "Opinion by Rex Huppke: Anyone with courage has to acknowledge Trump isn’t well. And he’s getting worse."

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 1d

I saw a post of yours that made sense. Now I can't find it! Interested in world politics, especially China and Global South, authoritarianism, how to resist fascism in the U.S., wild animals etc.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 3d

A constant bombardment of noise and information: China, 1974 to America, 2025

Geremie Barmé lived in China during the dying days of the Cultural Revolution, when every day brought a new political upheaval. It's a familiar feeling in Trump's world.

www.rhymingchaos.com

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5d

They're still using Signal and they are still *terrible* at operational security

taber @kvetch.gay · 5d

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 5d

Brett Kavanaugh:

• "I liked beer, I still like beer."
• A person’s "apparent ethnicity" is a "relevant factor" when deciding whether ICE thugs should arrest them or rough them up.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6d

"Kavanaugh Stop" is good slate.com/news-and-pol...

There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating.

These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.

slate.com

Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 5d

They want the social media clips and sizzle reels.

29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 5d

ICE has hired its own photographers and videographers, who are also wearing masks.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Simultaneously, ISP arrest a woman who's hyperventilating as Bovino and ICE move into the lot.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5d

Very possibly no political official in history has made so much corrupt money at a pace like this. Mobutu and Marcos looted a greater share of their countries’ wealth over decades but in absolute terms and in speed, Trump shamelessly puts them to shame.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 5d

I think Musk actually imitated the design of the Casspir, the apartheid South African era police and military vehicle used to suppress protests:

Apartheid-era South Africa armored vehicle Casspir, which looks a little like a Cybertruck.

Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 8d

The original Chinese Locknet:

The Locknet

locknet.chinafile.com

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 8d

不相上下

Welcome to the beginning of Locknet, U.S. version.

Screenshot of Baidu.com search result for "White Paper Revolution" that reads: "Sorry, there are no results for this search."

See Wikipedia for details on White Paper Revolution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_China

Screenshot of results for Google search for "does trump show signs of dementia." The AI result at the top is "An AI Overview is not available for this search."

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 8d

Nope.

Not "reigned in." Abolished. Torn out root and branch. Removed from existence.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8d

ICE is out of control. They must be reined in.

A post on X by Paris Schutz (@paschutz
), a CBS Chicago reporter, timestamped 23 hours ago, includes a photo of a car with a damaged hood and text overlay. The post reports that journalist Asal Rezaei was doing her job when an ICE agent shot directly at her car today, unprovoked, with chemicals entering through an open window, causing her to feel sick for two hours. It mentions no protester was in sight, and she was simply driving by to check the scene, about 50 feet from the entrance, an area local authorities and news organizations have been monitoring for weeks. The post also notes this incident follows the detention and release of journalist Steve Held the previous day.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 8d

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 8d

New Rhyming Chaos podcast:

Mobutu: The dictator who wanted to make Zaire great again

Scholar Pedro Monaville discusses the rise of Mobutu Sese Seko, and life and politics under his rule in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

www.rhymingchaos.com

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aurelia and aureliette will see the stars @boneyardofnames.bsky.social · 8d

well, if people have dreams of stopping this, this is more or less than time. once the military is completely in on the thing, I'm sorry to say, there's really no (non-violent, non-revolutionary) way out.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8d

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 8d

Now only prancing dandies who can't do pull ups and who dress in ill-fitting suits with tacky pocket squares

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8d

Hegseth: “No dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship, no more gender delusions.

“We are done with that shit.”

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 9d

it's crazy. there's a wave of backlash against China's new K visa meant to attract STEM graduates on social media. why? the same thing everywhere, fear of immigration, more specifically racism against Indians. influencers push conspiracist misinfo that claims Indians are studying the visa and that

screenshot of Weibo post spreading misinformation about Indians targeting China's K visa

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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 10d

Hongkongers did this in 2020 before the history museum’s permanent exhibition “Hong Kong Story” closed for an extensive revamp. Slated to take 2 years but still ongoing, many fear it will rewrite the city’s past through a “patriotic” lens — fears only deepened by the new “National Security Gallery.”

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John Delury @johndelury.bsky.social · 11d

I wrote a new Substack about Kim-Xi-Putin vibes in Beijing, and to my surprise it ended up being mostly about hands.

Shoutouts @vanjackson.bsky.social @sheenagreitens.bsky.social @victordcha.bsky.social @colinzwirko.bsky.social @josephtorigian.bsky.social

substack.com/home/post/p-...

I Watched This Kim Jong Un Documentary So You Don't Have To

what we can learn from North Korean propaganda on Kim's visit to Beijing & the contrast between Putin and Xi

substack.com

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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 11d

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

This is fucking horrifying.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 11d

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 11d

The hummingbirds are still here

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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 11d

Hello.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 12d

A point that needs to be made explicitly: Jimmy Kimmel faced down Donald Trump and won. Period.

“Trump can talk tough, puff out his chest and act like he’s an unstoppable force. But he’s not. Money talks. The masses talk, and they matter.”

My column:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Kimmel won, proving the people have power. And they're not on Trump's side. | Opinion

Regarding Jimmy Kimmel's brief suspension, I haven't seen enough people stating the obvious: The comedian won. Bigly. Donald Trump lost. Also bigly.

www.usatoday.com

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