Thousands of words, one confession:
The American dream collapsed, and I want to go home.
A generation of China’s brightest students left believing they were joining history’s winning side.
They became professors, engineers and corporate middle managers in America—respectable, comfortable, and permanently outside the room where real power was exercised.
Meanwhile, the classmates they once dismissed as the B-team built China’s industries, laboratories, infrastructure and technological rise.
The deepest wound is not that America declined.
It is that China succeeded without them.
They spent decades convincing themselves that leaving was advancement.
Now FBI suspicion, racial ceilings, political insanity and a collapsing national myth have made that lie harder to maintain.
So beneath all the analysis of Trump, Taiwan, McCarthyism and overseas Chinese identity is one private confession:
I thought I had escaped China’s past.
I did not realize I was abandoning its future.
The American dream did not merely break.
China outgrew it.
I have so many questions: How is it that not a single news organization filmed him leaving the hospital? Why is there no photo or video of him in his current condition at home? Why aren’t there any Capitol Police officers outside his Washington, D.C., residence? Did anyone actually see him at the airport?
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Social Cohesion is not being addressed at this Royal Commission farce
A one sided whingefest insulting to all others who suffer from real racism
Disgraceful so many abandoned by the RC while they watch the ‘specialness’ of the few thrown in their face
Abdul El-Sayed, James Talarico, Zohran Mamdani, and others like them represent a wing of the Democratic Party that actually wants to deliver for working-class people — not just talk about it, but force real change. That authenticity has Trump, a man who's never helped anyone but himself, desperate and lashing out. He knows these people embody everything he is not: decent human beings.
Well it looks like Trump is likely already preparing to possibly interfere in the Midterm elections since there were some of Trump’s agents in Michigan yesterday sneaking around.
OSLO, NORWAY RIGHT NOW.
I’m here and the streets are packed. A massive wave of people have taken to the streets to protest Israel’s terrorism.
The anger is impossible to ignore.
Norwegians are fed up with Israel.
I think the possibility of billions of deaths definitely ranks climate change as as big a threat as WW2 @TomSwarbrick1
Dr Peter Kalmus was a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory until 2026 and an Adjunct Professor in the Division of Earth and Climate Sciences at Duke University. He holds a BA in Physics from Harvard University and a PhD in Physics from Columbia University. His research uses satellite observations and climate models to study extreme heat, severe weather, ecosystems and climate impacts, and he has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He is also the recipient of NASA’s Early Career Achievement Medal.
“We need to stop supporting dictators and Israel. The American taxpayer is paying $30,000 a year for every Israeli man, woman and child and most of that money is going into military spending & the repression of the Palestinians...”
—Former CIA officer Robert David Steele (2017)
Here's the psychological trick authoritarian politics depends on:
Make you exhausted.
Make outrage constant.
Make corruption boring.
Make cruelty routine.
Make you believe resistance is pointless.
That's why refusing to become numb matters.
Your exhaustion is part of the strategy.
Take a deep breath, keep your fists in the air. Times will get better, as soon as these parasites are removed from office.
One of the most awe inspiring places just outside Melbourne has finally reopened after five years, following a freak storm that uprooted mountain ash trees and destroyed more than 200 local homes.
A true jewel hidden among the forest.
📍William Ricketts Sanctuary
BREAKING: PANIC! Trump SCRAMBLES at the last minute to block court order exposing his tax returns and business documents in BBC lawsuit.
Donald Trump sued the BBC for $10 billion. Now that lawsuit is about to expose exactly what he doesn't want anyone to see, and he's panicking in real time.
A federal judge overseeing the case ordered Trump to hand over tax returns, ownership documents, and financial statements dating back to 2023 for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust — the entity holding roughly 400 of his business entities. Trump had 10 days to comply. He waited nine of them, then asked the BBC for a voluntary extension. When they said no, his lawyers filed an "emergency" motion just one day before the deadline, desperately trying to freeze the order entirely.
Why the sudden panic? Because Trump's OWN lawsuit created this mess. He sued the BBC over a 2024 documentary that edited his January 6th speech, claiming it damaged "the value of his brand, properties, and businesses." That's exactly the language that opened the door to full financial discovery — Judge Enjoliqué Lett ruled the trust's records were directly relevant to assessing those claimed damages.
Now, realizing what he unleashed, Trump's team is scrambling to rewrite the complaint entirely, suddenly claiming he only wants damages for "reputational harm," not financial losses — even though he's still demanding a staggering $10 billion. BBC's attorney has already pointed out the obvious contradiction: Trump built his entire political brand around his supposed business success, so you can't claim reputational damage while hiding the finances that reputation is built on.
Trump's lawyers accused the BBC of having "political motivations" for wanting his financial records public. But Trump is the one who chose to sue. He's the one who claimed financial injury. And now that a judge has simply asked him to prove it, he's desperately trying to change the rules mid-game rather than open the books.
If Trump's emergency motion fails, his trust must hand over the records or face sanctions. Trial is set for February 2027, with the BBC also seeking to depose Trump under oath.
Sometimes the lawsuit really is the trap you build for yourself, and only someone as clueless as Dementia Donnie could not foresee the outcome of his litigation.
Please like and share if you can’t wait to see Trump’s financial details laid out in an open court!
This is huge: JB Pritzker just slammed Donald Trump for providing tariff refunds to CORPORATIONS but not the people. Every leader should be calling this out.
Gambling harm doesn't discriminate along party lines - it hurts all Australians.
I welcome @aliciapayne_cbr, @jeromelaxale, @drmikefreelandermp and @louisemillerfrostboothby joining crossbench, Coalition and Greens calls for stronger gambling reforms
The Govt needs to listen to the Australian people and strengthen the legislation
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🇵🇱🇺🇦 FM Radosław Sikorski:
“Russia didn’t win the Crimean War.
It didn’t win the Russo-Japanese War.
It didn’t win WWI.
It didn’t win the Battle of Warsaw.
It didn’t win in Afghanistan.
And it didn’t win the Cold War.”
The idea that Russia cannot be defeated is propaganda.
I'm running out of words 💔 I can't even imagine how absolutely heartbroken, enraged, betrayed, and abandoned Ukrainians must feel. Into year 5 of a war in Europe where an imperialistic monster is ravaging a democratic country.
Please don't forget Ukraine 🇺🇦