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He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
― Friedrich Nietzsche

[LGB Alliance @AllianceLGB]

Most gender non-conforming young people grow up to be gay or lesbian. So why are we treating them as though something is wrong with them? This is specifically an LGB issue and LGB Alliance has been saying so for years.

The research is consistent and has been for decades: the majority of children who present as gender non-conforming – who don’t fit neatly into social expectations of how boys and girls should be – grow up to be same-sex attracted adults. Happy. Well-adjusted. Gay.

That matters because the clinical response to these children has shifted dramatically. What was once watchful waiting, letting children develop naturally, has in many settings become active affirmation of a trans identity. The long-term consequences of that shift are not yet fully understood.

LGB Alliance does not oppose support for young people who are struggling. We oppose a system that tells a teenage lesbian she might be a boy and that medical intervention is the answer before anyone has asked whether she might simply be gay.

There is a word for the historical practice of telling gay and lesbian young people their identity needs to be corrected and that they need clinical intervention. We fought hard to stop it. We will not accept a new version of it.

Gay teens aren’t sick. They don’t need drugs or surgery. They need adults who will tell them the truth: being gay is not a problem to be solved. https://t.co/HizhksDdBs

[Michelle Shipworth @MShipworth]

Two-tier policing: why Britain is making China’s mistake.
Superb by @yinfiyin .
#TwoTierPolicing #PRChina
https://t.co/fxcTmJRqtY

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

Starmer announces that the UK is banning social media for people under 16.

Setting up a social media profile will require doing a facial scan or showing ID.

[GORM THE OLD @GORMTHEOLD25]

GTA: Chinese Cultural Revolution (A.I. Video)

[China Commission @CECCgov]

Seven years ago, millions of #HongKongers took to the streets to defend the freedoms and autonomy they were promised. The world must not forget their courage or the #CCP’s broken promises. Political prisoners must be freed, and the work of defending the liberties that made #HongKong a beacon of opportunity and prosperity must continue.

[Yinfi @yinfiyin]

Thanks for sharing the video. It was my first attempt to systematically reflect on China's complex censorship machine, following years of personal experience.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I think possibly the best thing about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire is how angry it makes a bunch of losers who've never built a thing in their lives.

[Ami Kozak @amiKozak]

@NYCMayor He creates millionaires. You rob them. Reason one billion not to trust you.

[中国人权-Human Rights in China @hrichina]

擦星星事务所创办人段荆棘发表文章，详细介绍了近日被中国当局逮捕的缅甸学者敏辛。敏辛于6月3日抵达云南昆明机场时被拘押，中国外交部证实其因涉嫌"间谍活动、危害国家安全"已被采取刑事强制措施。他是美国公民、加州大学伯克利分校政治学博士候选人，也是缅甸独立智库"战略与政策研究所"（ISP-Myanmar）的创办人与执行主任，长期就缅甸政治转型及中缅关系撰写分析。据知情人士透露，他此次系应一家中国学术机构邀请、为出席会议而前往昆明。

段荆棘的文章追溯了敏辛跌宕的一生。他出身缅甸一个中产知识分子家庭，父亲是英语教师，也是坚定的异见者，会把反政府传单趁夜投进街坊门下，书房里摆满马克思、罗素与缅甸诗歌。1988年，缅甸爆发历史上规模最大的民众起义，短短两个月逾万人罹难。年仅十几岁的敏辛走上街头，高举学生抵抗运动的象征"战斗孔雀"旗帜，并参与创办了缅甸第一个全国性高中学生联合会。

1989年，军情部门上门抓他未果，转而带走了他的父亲。母亲让他"快跑"，从此十六岁的敏辛成为军政府头号通缉对象，踏上长达九年的逃亡之路。他辗转借宿于朋友家、热心陌生人家、少数民族村寨与佛教寺庙，在同一处不敢停留超过三个月。藏身灰尘弥漫的阁楼、甚至蟑螂横行的水箱时，他靠使馆图书馆借来的书自学不辍，读卡夫卡、陀思妥耶夫斯基、萨特，身旁放着一本英文词典。九年间，为了不连累家人，他不曾与父母联系一次。

1997年，他冒死在雨夜翻越泥泞陡峭的边境山岭逃往泰国，几度几乎坠入黑暗的深渊，靠挚友一把拽住才得以生还。而那位护送他的挚友返缅后被捕，遭受酷刑并被判死刑。同年，他的父亲在他出逃数月后因心脏病离世，未能见到儿子日后的成就。

敏辛最终抵达美国，从一个没有高中文凭的流亡者，成为伯克利历史上第一个无中学与大学学历却被录取攻读硕士的学生，并成为职业记者，为自由亚洲电台、《华尔街日报》《远东经济评论》撰稿。他曾随昂山素季参加竞选，也曾当面向曼德拉请教如何将流亡者的内疚"转化为积极的力量"。段荆棘写道，敏辛与她一样身处流亡，是"一起抗议、一起开会、一起写文章的同道"。

中方显然知晓敏辛的美国公民身份，此次逮捕恰发生在川习会谈之后，绝非偶然。一个用一生记录、分析与守望缅甸政治的学者，如今却以"危害国家安全"的名义被关押。国际特赦组织已呼吁立即释放敏辛。

原文链接👇
https://t.co/dBQfQaqH9N

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The way people lost the plot during COVID and became proudly authoritarian.

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

“台湾情报部门宣布开设中国民众联系窗口”
6月14日，台湾国家安全局推出一个面向中国公民的情报线索网站，鼓励中国境内外人士提供与情报相关的信息。

台湾国安局称，中国近年来经济压力上升、政治管控严密，社会和民生问题加剧不满，因此“越来越多民众联系台湾相关机构，希望提供各种信息”。

该网站打开后会播放一段约一分钟的 AI 生成宣传视频，内容是一名中国公务员目睹同事被调查、免职，并称“老战友们正一个接一个地莫名其妙地消失”。

视频结尾，这名官员购买手机并输入“现在是改变的时候了”。

目前，该网站在中国大陆被屏蔽

[Foundation for the History of Totalitarianism @HofTotalitarian]

Today we unveiled our recreation of the man who stood in front of a column of tanks the day after the Tiananmen Massacre. Kate Adie, the famous BBC news reporter, made a speech recalling how she had seen unarmed people fall down - shot - as the massacre proceeded. People were astonished that the Chinese army, the PLA, was shooting at their own people. Every effort was made to stop the event becoming known around the world. Film footage was smuggled out. Kate herself was lucky to get out alive.

[Foundation for the History of Totalitarianism @HofTotalitarian]

The Tiananmen Massacre is a forbidden subject in China today which makes this eyewitness account all the more important. Kate Adie, BBC reporter, was there.
https://t.co/NzK4vR9aWu

[Michelle Shipworth @MShipworth]

Chinese Internet Maintenance Day.
35th May 1989.
How a non-existent date defined modern China.
@yinfiyin on the Orwellian consequences of outlawing #FreeSpeech .
https://t.co/e5gC7VxPNX

[Yinfi @yinfiyin]

This is how a regime maintains ostensible loyalty by denying citizens the right to grieve.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Geopolitical analyst and China expert Melissa Chen on the CCP's weaponization of antisemitism to divide Western society:

“China's goal is to subvert the world order. It's a very easy way for them to paint Israel as a Western project.”

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

This is an extremely serious and dangerous moment.

From this statement it seems likely that China has occupied the Scarborough Shoal.

[Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 @benedictrogers]

It was an honour to deliver this video message, presented at the commemoration of the #Tiananmen massacre in #Taiwan today, on behalf of @FortifyRights and @hk_watch

#FreeChina #FreeUyghurs #FreeTibet #FreeHongKong

#StandWithTaiwan #TaiwanMatters

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

The UK is pulling in a disproportionate share of European capital.

Dealroom data shows the UK has raised $13.9bn in 2026 YTD, equal to 48% of all European VC funding, far above its long-run average of 35.5%.

UK startups raised $23.6bn in VC funding in 2025, up 35% from 2024 — the first annual increase in four years and the UK’s third-highest year ever for VC investment.

London has also regained its position as Europe’s leading tech hub, overtaking Paris in Dealroom’s 2026 Global Tech Ecosystem Index, driven by AI and deep tech investment.

The UK now has a tech ecosystem valued at around $1.2tn, more than 200 unicorns, and remains Europe’s strongest venture capital market.

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

MARCO RUBIO: "Marxism is the single most evil & destructive ideology that mankind has ever known."