Kalvin Leigh 🇺🇲🇹🇼🇺🇦🇮🇱

born in Taiwan, raised in NYC - photographer, military vet, believes in sustainability, environmentalism, nuclear energy, & normie progressive Democrat

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Taiwan ≠ China

[Taiwan Freedom - 台灣自由 @TaiwanFreedom89]

Taiwan has never been part of the People's Republic of China for a single day.
Taiwan is a country.

[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

We have learned absolutely nothing.

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Hot take: we should build more data centers. Not even joking.

I wrote about why the panic over data centers gets so much wrong & why we should build more of them responsibly.

Read it on my Substack: https://t.co/LoEFl1bBIY

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My first ever series on Substack is a deep dive into the man who propped up Graham Platner: Bernie Sanders.

From Sanders' beginnings, to how he let perfect get in the way of good, and how after 35 years in Congress, he has nothing to show for it.

https://t.co/7ac5JRNRGF

[Chris Horton 何貴森 @heguisen]

Reminder that the UN doesn't recognize Taiwanese sovereignty, and supports the annexation of the 23 million people of democratic Taiwan by the Chinese Communist Party

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

The tragedy of Biden's presidency is that it proved no matter how many legislative wins you pile up, no matter how much bipartisanship you engage in, and no matter how good economic data looks, if you don't "play" the role like the media wants, you'll be deemed a failure

[Sir Rottweiler 🐾 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 @SireRottweiler]

I will never vote for a member of the DSA.

[WhickTV - Bane of Christian Nationalists @WhickTv]

Its true. What is happening rn, what we're fighting against:

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

🚨 DSA’s Democratic Party Host Body

When DSA uses the Democratic ballot line to primary actual Democrats, that’s the party surrogate model in full effect.

DSA is using the Democratic Party’s ballot line and party name while building what it hopes will become a separate socialist party inside it, whether that ends in a breakaway, a takeover, or DSA being forced out.

DSA’s euphemism for this is the “party surrogate model.” A more honest term is political parasitism, with the Democratic Party serving as the host body.

That’s why I always think of the xenomorph chestburster from Alien when describing this. DSA can dress it up however it wants, but the model is still built around using the host until it is strong enough to burst out.

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@christinelu This mirrors my experience almost exactly. Growing up in the US, I couldn't read Mandarin and everything I learned about Taiwan was framed around China. Only in the last decade have I found English-language books focused on Taiwan itself rather than its relationship to China

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

In today’s Wumao Soup, we’ll talk about Taiwan, the sovereign country the Chinese Communist Party insists is not a country, but constantly threatens to invade just like a country, while the “antiwar” crowd is eagerly encouraging them to start that war, endangering millions.

1/20

[Disinformation Destroyer @DisinfoIsBad]

If you're on Twitter, you have to learn the difference between liberals and leftists.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

NEW: A milestone pediatric cancer bill years in the making made it to the Senate floor last night. It was the last hurdle before passage. Cancer victims were watching in the gallery. Sibling survivors too.

And then it failed. Because of one vote. Bernie Sanders'.

Here's why.

https://t.co/ohWZqFzNGb

[Jay McGill Says Punch Left and Hold The Center 🫏 @Jay_McGill94]

Can I make something perfectly clear on here?
I'm a liberal, but not a WFP/DSA type liberal though.
I'm center-left, not hard left or extreme left.
Hope this helps.

[Denise Wu @denisewu]

It’s pathetic that global activists and leaders are screaming “genocide” and advocating for Palestine statehood while ignoring the predicament of Uyghur Muslims in similar conditions in Xinjiang.

[Craig Lawrence @clawrence]

Sorry everyone - I was told I need to stay in my lane... So...

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@mattyglesias @AOC 🤷

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@Rizabellepow In 2020, the only two major presidential candidates not to release their full tax returns were Trump and ... Bernie Sanders.

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@Tendar Ok, I'm all about shitting on all the terrible things DOGE is doing, but it's a little hyperbolic to say that losing 600 civilian workers would render Tinker "inoperable". Source: I was stationed there and still have friends stationed there.