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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17h

Children around the world have died because Trump and Musk needlessly destroyed USAID. These are some of their stories.

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AP: Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Yenni Kwok @yennikwok.bsky.social · 1d

Btw the Hokkien mooncakes were quite common in my hometown Jakarta, even more common than the Cantonese mooncakes (which we have in Hong Kong)

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Yenni Kwok @yennikwok.bsky.social · 2d

What do you mean have “moons”? Do you mean the egg yolks?

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Yenni Kwok @yennikwok.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
Apart from Cantonese mooncakes, there are also other kinds of mooncakes: Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew, Hainanese, etc.
Image: SG Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth
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Different kinds of mooncakes: Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew, Hokkien and Hainanese

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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 4d

Police have been confiscating & using books as evidence as part of the crackdown against protesters in Indonesia. Trying to link certain books to the recent uprising.

They literally doing the "not like that meme" re the gov'ts encouraging reading program too 😒

Reading as evidence: Indonesian police’s book seizures during protests cause outrage

A recent wave of book confiscations during police crackdowns on alleged “provocateurs” behind nationwide protests has triggered sharp criticism from rights groups, who say the practice undermines free...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

BREAKING: Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war.

Death toll in in the Israel-Hamas war passes 67,000 Palestinians, Gaza’s Health Ministry says

The death toll in the nearly two-year Israel-Hamas war has surpassed 67,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 5d

Fascinating watch on an individual that manages China’s relationship with Paraguay—including efforts to convince Paraguay to switch ties from Taiwan to China—but is involved in bribery, stealing power for crypto mining, human trafficking, the works

Is China using an alleged criminal to get Paraguay to ditch Taiwan? I 101 East Documentary

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 5d

Watching Jay, I realize I am simply exhausted by folks in positions of leadership who are driven to distraction by critique.

If you can't function with critique and pushback, a leadership position is not for you.

Leadership REQUIRES you to absorb and process the critique of stakeholders.

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Yenni Kwok @yennikwok.bsky.social · 5d

Wait, what happens??

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Yenni Kwok @yennikwok.bsky.social · 5d

I didn't know that Cinta-J was like a mini-Southeast Asia in Hong Kong: a Filipino restaurant started by an Indonesian-Chinese couple, later run by their son and his Filipina wife, housed in a building owned by the Malaysian government.
I hope it will reopen soon...

Music, dance at Cinta-J as patrons bid farewell to Filipino restaurant in HK

Hundreds of people came to say goodbye to the 42-year-old restaurant, beloved by Hong Kong’s Filipino community, after the landlord refused to renew its lease.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6d

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

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Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d

DHS includes a bunch of false and defamatory statements in their tweet about Kilmar Abrego Garcia as they prepare to send him to Uganda.

DHS: With today's ruling, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's final order of removal stands.
This MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, domestic abuser, and child predator will never be loose on American streets.
His lawyers tried to fight his removal from the U.S. but one thing is certain, this Salvadoran man is not going to be able to remain in our country. He will never be allowed to prey on innocent Americans again.
Never forget the Democrats flew to a foreign land on the US taxpayer's dime to break bread with this terrorist gang member and visit him in prison. While they continue to fight for criminal illegal aliens, we will continue to put the safety of the American people FIRST.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 7d

This should be a truly massive scandal in the Jewish world. Obviously, many of us knew and assumed this was occurring, but the proof is now out there and it needs to be called out.

We have US-based influencers pretending to speak for themselves but actually working directly for the Israeli govt.

Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post

Netanyahu referred this week to a 'community' pushing out preferred messaging in US media — and boy are they making a princely sum

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 11d

The martial law that only lasted from 10.27pm on December 3rd, 2024, to 4.30am on December 4th, 2024, thanks to the efforts of many Korean people, including them.

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
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National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

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Febriana Isnaini @febisnaini.com · 10d

To all of the people who keep parroting the narrative that the protests in Indonesia were results of foreign interference: congrats, you're helping to spread Russian propaganda!

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George Soros Biayai Media untuk Provokasi Demo Agustus 2025? | Cek Fakta

YouTube video by Tempodotco

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 10d

here’s korean protesters throwing their shoes at a likeness of netanyahu

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Tempo.co @tempo-poster.bsky.social · 11d

CNN Journalist's Palace Credentials Revoked After Questioning Prabowo on Free Meal Program Issues - https://en.tempo.co/read/2052556/cnn-journalists-palace-credentials-revoked-after-questioning-prabowo-on-free-meal-program-issues

CNN Journalist's Palace Credentials Revoked After Questioning Prabowo on Free Meal Program Issues

The press credentials of a CNN Indonesia reporter were revoked after the journalist questioned Prabowo about the Free Nutritious Meal program.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 12d

A proposed bill in Indonesia will expand censorship of LGBT+ content online.
It expands the authority of the Broadcasting Commission to censor digital platforms
It threatens freedom of expression and will futher suppress an already marginalized community.

Stop Indonesia’s bill to censor LGBT+ lives online

Indonesia is moving to ban LGBT+ content across digital platforms. Activists warn this will fuel harassment and arrests. Urge lawmakers to reject the Broadcasting Bill and defend free expression – cen...

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Rishi Iyengar @iyengarish.bsky.social · 12d

Mass walkout from the UNGA hall this morning as Netanyahu took to the podium for his speech.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13d

do i just not know how to make money or something??

Harvard Crimson headline reads: "Harvard's Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism"

Reuters headline reads: "Trump aid Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say."

CBS News headline reads: "US says Russia funded media company that paid right-wing influencers millions for videos"

MSNBC story reads: "Steve Bannon pleads guilty in border wall fraud case, avoids prison time
Bannon was indicted in 2022 over his alleged role in the “We Build the Wall” fundraising campaign. He had faced up to 15 years if convicted.

Steve Bannon has pleaded guilty to defrauding donors in a border wall scheme, reversing an earlier not-guilty plea after landing on an agreement with New York prosecutors that will see him avoid a prison sentence.

In a New York courtroom on Tuesday, Bannon pleaded guilty to one count of scheme to defraud in the first degree. He was sentenced to a three-year conditional discharge and waived his right to appeal as part of the plea deal.

Under the agreement with prosecutors, Bannon cannot serve as an officer or director of a charity or not-for-profit group in New York state, nor can he hold assets for any charitable organizations.

Bannon, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in 2022 on charges of money laundering, scheming to defraud and conspiracy over his alleged role in the “We Build the Wall” fundraising campaign. Prosecutors accused Bannon and three others of pocketing donors’ money instead of using all of the funds to build a wall along the southern U.S. border as promised.

Bannon had faced up to 15 years if convicted. Like the president, he has claimed without evidence that the criminal charges against him are politically motivated.

He had also faced federal charges over his role in the scheme but was pardoned by Trump in 2021. Unlike federal charges, the president can't pardon state charges, so Trump can't pardon Bannon in the New York state case.

Bannon served four months in prison last year for being in contempt of Congress after he defied a congressional subpoena to testify in the House select committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. He repeatedly sought to appeal his sentence in that case, and even brought his appeal all the way to the Supreme Court, where it was ult…

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 13d

“I’m proud of the kids. They’ve got guts,” my favorite Hong Kong neighborhood Nepali chef, a soft-spoken middle-aged man who shared protest videos from his restaurant’s Instagram account, told me when I stopped by for lunch. “Somebody had to do it.” www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Nepal’s Revolution Wasn’t Televised, but It Was on Discord

The country’s Gen Z uprising illustrates both the promise and limitations of online-brokered protest

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13d

Demonstrators were angered by a plan to spend $4.2m on cars for lawmakers in one of Southeast Asia’s poorest countries.

East Timor MPs bow to protesters, vote to scrap lifetime pensions

Demonstrators were angered by a plan to spend $4.2m on cars for lawmakers in one of Southeast Asia’s poorest countries.

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Korea JoongAng Daily @koreajoongangdaily.com · 13d

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in court Friday to stand trial on additional charges of aggravated obstruction of official duties brought by the special counsel probing his alleged role in a botched martial law declaration.

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Former President Yoon attends court hearing for obstruction of official duties charges

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in court Friday to stand trial on additional charges of aggravated obstruction of official duties brought by the special counsel probing his alleged role in a…

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