Desmond Leung 😷

Global Civilian, Addicted to Sports, Red Devil

[Desmond Leung 😷 @dez1o1]

2019 #9June a million of #HongKong ppl took2the street&demanded the withdrawal of extradition bill proposed by #CarrieLam , the chief executive of HK Gov at that time. She neglected the voice of HK ppl&still decided to table the bill. This is the day of the FALL of HK. #5DN1L

[Hong Kong Democracy Council @hkdc_us]

On the 4th anniversary of the #June9 march of 1.03 million #HongKongers, HKDC’s short video reminds that while it was still going on, the regime rejected its demand that the extradition bill be withdrawn, setting up the confrontation to come.
#FightForFreedom
#StandWithHongKong

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

The Iranian diaspora protest on behalf of their captive brethren inside Iran. They want the same thing: Freedom, and the collapse of this evil regime.

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

Great work by the Treasury. Terrorist financing extends far beyond bad actors like Iran, right to our own doorsteps.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Jamie Dimon’s call for a stronger alliance between the US and its traditional allies could signal a bigger fracture with Trump’s “America First” approach.

Jeremy Warner looks into why prominent figures in America’s business world are voicing concerns about the president’s direction ⤵️
https://t.co/i9GZesC5Ec

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Multiple international outlets reported overnight that al-Hamami, 29, the son of an Omani father and a Syrian mother, was banned from flying in Oman because of his extremist views.

At the time he was a trainee first officer at Oman's national carrier. The ban came in 2024, and he was moved into an administrative role. He left the airline in February 2025, after several years with the company.

Officials involved in the investigation, quoted by ABC News, said he is cooperating with his interrogators and told them his intention was to crash the plane in Israel.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

💔 “Hit a mine or die of hunger”: residents of Oleshky are trying to escape the city on their own

According to Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, dozens of residents of occupied Oleshky are leaving the city today however they can — by bicycle, moped and on foot. There is no organized evacuation.

People are taking enormous risks: roads and roadsides may be mined. But, according to Lubinets, for many, staying in the city means dying from hunger and disease.

Ukraine is urging its international partners to push for humanitarian access and a safe corridor for civilians.

[Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang]

Pedro Sanchez acts like China’s agent. It’s time to suspend Spain’s NATO membership for as long as he’s in office.

[ABC News @ABC]

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna are heading to California to rally Saturday in support of an initiative that would place a one-time, 5% tax on the wealth of billionaires in the state. https://t.co/2ul8ruJokr

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Sabine Taasa’s husband Gil and 17-year-old son Or were murdered by Hamas.

At the Dutch premiere of the NAZA “documentary”, she was booed, insulted and thrown out.

This was her speech outside the cinema and her warning to the West!

[Karoline Preisler @PreislerKa]

Germany #Berlin #b0310

[Young Kim @RepYoungKim]

The CCP will stop at nothing to bypass our laws & try to steal our most critical technologies. We won’t let them.

I'm grateful to our law enforcement for working to safeguard our supply chains & defend America’s Super Intelligence edge. 🇺🇸

https://t.co/ZwtjwMm7Hh

[Arno Berg 😷 @arnohb112]

.@YouTube: This @the852spirit Account saved lifes while the brave People of #HongKong were fighting for #Freedom. Instead of closing you should #StandWithHongKong and open the Account again. #freedomofpress

[The Associated Press @AP]

A dual U.K.-Iranian national arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England has been released on bail, authorities said. https://t.co/HEhh23SXAn

[Nikkei Asia @NikkeiAsia]

US congressman demands Starbucks close first stores in China's Xinjiang https://t.co/Mg1PN8n8t9

[The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动 @TGTM_Official]

A Taiwanese studio made a film about the Cultural Revolution in 1981. China still will not let its own people watch it, rate it, or argue about it.

《皇天后土》 (The Coldest Winter in Peking) was pulled in Hong Kong after one day. On the mainland it was never released. Douban keeps the page and kills the comments.

Beijing’s own 1981 verdict called those ten years a catastrophe. It never published a death toll. Independent counts from local records put deaths around 1–1.6 million and the persecuted in the tens of millions.

The Blue Kite and To Live were banned for showing the same decade. Farewell My Concubine was cut before it could stay in cinemas.

If the Party line is “we already settled this,” why is the film still untouchable 45 years later?

A government that can narrate its own famine and purge does not need a foreign studio to do it. One that cannot, bans the foreign studio too.

[Reuters @Reuters]

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese work gathering pace on Antelope Reef in South China Sea, latest satellite images show https://t.co/HAtb89EJ0k https://t.co/HAtb89EJ0k

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Israel is investigating how dozens of Omani pilots were able to fly to Tel Aviv in recent years despite its restrictions barring crews from countries without diplomatic relations.

The security breach emerged after an Omani co-pilot tried to crash a Flydubai passenger plane bound for Tel Aviv on Wednesday ⤵️
https://t.co/Nmc5gdqyMT

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Taiwan’s coastguard fired a water cannon at a Chinese fishing boat after it allegedly crossed into the waters around a contested cluster of islands on Thursday

🔗: https://t.co/LIlwxL5du3

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

The bakery chain said 740 jobs could go between now and 2028 as part of a plan to change where it makes its food.

Greggs will start installing more automated machinery instead of relying on its workforce at the sites, making the existing factories redundant.

🔗: https://t.co/w6BlPg4D0H

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

As the last American troops depart Iraq, let's honor the sacrifice of the men and women in uniform who put their lives on the line in this dangerous theatre, and for all who perished in the line of duty. May we strive every day to ensure their sacrifice was not in vain.

[Michael Lucci @Michael7ucci]

ICYMI: Yesterday, the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act passed the Senate.

This bipartisan legislation is a vital step toward holding Communist China accountable for its human rights atrocities.