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Metal roof getting blown off a building in Kaohsiung during #Typhoon #Krathon #山陀兒

as Michelle Kuo (郭怡慧) reminds us, Taiwan has been "colonized by more countries than any other place in the world" (six governments, five ethnicities) thedial.world/articles/news/…

Smart, forceful comments on the view of the US election in Taiwan from Michelle Kuo (郭怡慧). thedial.world/articles/news/…

Pleased, at long last, to see my article on Chinese character simplification in print! (Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 83/2) muse.jhu.edu/pub/109/articl… 1/6

6/ In Taiwan, people are skeptical that the U.S. will help defend their country. But they have internalized a basic lesson of post-colonial studies, Michelle Kuo (郭怡慧) writes: “that colonized peoples must make complex choices within a limited set of options.” thedial.world/articles/news/…

China continues its conquest of Bhutan, because, well, the world doesn't seem to care, so why not? The persistent lack of pushback from the international community against so many of Beijing's violations of international laws and norms is why now we have such a big problem.

Thrilled to welcome Michelle Kuo (郭怡慧) Michelle Kuo tomorrow morning 18 Oct 10:20am to my NTNU 台師大 undergrad class The Representation of Taiwan World Culture, with support from NTNU International Taiwan Studies Center. Do please give a heads up if you're going to come.

Texas plans to execute Robert Roberson at 6 pm tonight, despite evidence of his innocence. The courts and parole board have failed to stop the execution. So legislators have issued an “unprecedented subpoena” in a last-ditch effort to save his life. texastribune.org/2024/10/16/rob…

In a stunning move, a Texas House committee voted unanimously to subpoena #RobertRoberson ahead of his execution today in a last-ditch effort to save his life. texastribune.org/2024/10/16/rob…

4/5: there is a terrible brokenness to a legal system that delivers results like this--consistently. It is the result of decades of indifference to changes in science, to the reality of newly discovered evidence, to the moral horror of the state committing murder.

Fr. Marcelo Pérez Pérez was murdered this morning as he concluded 8am Mass in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. A Tzotzil Maya, Fr. Marcelo was an outspoken defender of human rights in a region long-plagued by horrific cartel violence & abuse of indigenous rights.

“I just finally came to the conclusion he was an innocent man,” said a juror who originally voted in favor of Roberson’s conviction and death sentence. “In good conscience, I could not live with myself thinking that I had a hand in putting an innocent man to death.”

The Right is about to pivot hard against Taiwan, btw. You can already see it happening.

Yea maybe we should have tried that open primary idea

Until the day I die, I'll never get over the fact that ostensibly smart people with years of experience in and around politics insisted that Biden not resigning made good sense, and that leaving in power a man who the whole world knows is demented wouldn't have any consequences.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an “emergency martial law,” Tuesday accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities. apnews.com/article/south-…

Horrifying scenes in Taiwan's legislature today, as rogue KMT legislators violently attacked DPP legislators, in order to push through 3 rogue bills—they pushed Huang Jie to the floor, threw Ariel Chang to the wall, kicked and beat Chen Pei-yu, and Lin Chu-Yin injured her arm.

Make no mistake, KMT & TPP are now controlled by CCP to wreak havoc in Taiwan's legislature. CCP is also using violence & disregard of Taiwan's legislative system to show Taiwanese that it disrespects Taiwanese, and wants to make a mockery out of them. Defend Taiwan's democracy!

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court is under attack. In May, it struck down a KMT-led legislature’s unconstitutional power grab. In retaliation, the legislature is dismantling the Court—refusing to approve new justices and rewriting the rules to block its operation. Here’s how: The

Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. President Trump now oversees the military and the