Majestic ❤️

This is worth reading. Local and central governments in China censor information about these increasingly common attacks to try and prevent copycats (and presumably because they threaten CCP legitimacy), but this makes understanding why they are happening more difficult.

Remove the stuff about grants and prestige and this is bang on.

Jeepers. I had no idea.

These issues have huge economic implications. The economic cost of the Chch terrorist attack was tens / hundreds of millions of dollars. Disinformation driven vaccine hesitancy causing lockdowns. And many more.

Amid all the excitement about the Brian Thompson shooting, note that on the same day, a mentally ill man shot two kindergartners at a 7th-Day Adventist school in California in solidarity with Gaza and Yemen

Migrant teen stabbed to death in NYC by group of men who asked if he spoke English independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

Excited to see the "only way to defeat bad ideas is through debate" approach in action.

Myanmar regime has lost control of the border with Bangladesh: bbc.com/news/articles/…

Horror in France as gunman opens fire at a refugee camp, killing two security guards and two migrants - after shooting dead another victim in nearby town dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

The five remaining members of the Bali Nine in jail over a drug smuggling plot have returned to Australia under a deal negotiated with the Indonesian government. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Australia is grateful to Indonesia and President Prabowo for the return of the five men on humanitarian grounds.

Will this case make people wait before tweeting as if they know who the perpetrator was straight after attacks? (the answer's no, ofc).

Actually, he called you a "true hero."

"His interviews and social media posts reveal him as a militant critic of Islam with sympathies for Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is fiercely opposed to Muslim immigration. He had become increasingly hostile to Germany and critical of its strict hate speech laws"

At least 10 people killed and dozens injured after a U.S. citizen rams a vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians in New Orleans apnews.com/article/new-or…

Alternatively, Australia could itself own and deal with the extremists it creates chng.it/bL47G9QLSv

In late 2024 the FBI tipped off NZ police to a man who was planning a mass stabbing at a mall or mosque. He was found to possess a bayonet and knife, child pornography and a video of the 2019 Christchurch attack. He stated he sought notoriety. m.youtube.com/watch?v=dnsqjI…