Silver Lining

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[柴静 @Chai20230817]

Update: An emergency application has been filed with the court. Several witnesses and I have submitted materials to support the review.

The case is not over.

Full statement in English below

In response to inquiries from multiple German media outlets, I am issuing this statement regarding my interviewee Xu Xiaoren (known online as Macaron), who currently faces imminent deportation from Germany.

In March 2025, Xu was the only Chinese citizen I encountered on the Russian frontlines willing to appear on camera, showing his face, to condemn the war:

"Every inch of land is paid for in blood. It is inhuman and immoral."

For the year that followed, he endured relentless persecution and lived in flight because of this. Guided by professional ethics, I documented his journey through video, audio, and over 100,000 words of investigative notes, cross-verified by multiple witnesses, to record the risks the interviewee faced and to offer him a measure of protection.

In thirty years of investigative journalism, this is the first time I have had to do this. It shows how grave I believed the situation to be.

In February 2026, Xu escaped Russia. By April, I was informed that he had reached Germany, facing immediate deportation. He asked me to submit these original records to @BAMF_Dialog.

I never got the chance. No evidence was reviewed. No contact was made — with me or any other witness. Instead, BAMF ruled his application "manifestly unfounded," dismissing my statement as "mere rumors and unsubstantiated assertions."

An emergency application has been filed with the court. Several witnesses and I have submitted materials to support the review.

I am grateful for the attention of the press. A man who admitted he entered the war by mistake, who then defected from within it, and what he became over that year, may tell us something about how wars could truly end: the reflection, the suffering, the compassion, the change. It is a battle of the human soul. I ask the German people to hear his story, and to judge for themselves.

Full statement in English

[Silver Lining @yanbaili]

@bbcchinese 评论里的翻墙蜘蛛到哪都是被屠的命哈，还是这几年顺直变得点冰箱冻肉下水道碎肉不够多🤭

[Lorde @lorde]

She is three days old. Favs???

Some L4 facts:

— First song started (and second to last finished) was David

— Last song started was Clearblue. Last song finished was Broken Glass

— Hardest song was FD, to write, to produce, to sing. Kicked my ass

— We cut a song last minute because I thought it diluted the vision!! One of my absolute favs that I wrote with Fabi. Couple really good B sides knocking around actually

— I had had dreams of sampling Morning Love for like 8 years, it’s so sexy and murky to me and I loved the contrast w the really organic fragile guitar stuff. Happened to be in the exact same key, meant 2 be

— I had constant constant insomnia making this album. I wrote most of the FD lyrics, CA first verse, Clearblue, and David second verse right before dawn.

— My favourite sound on the album is a tie btw the ripping tremolo + icy vocal adlib at the end of David and the start of Hammer. People always thought the linked start and end of PH was intentional; it wasn’t, but starting and ending Virgin at the fountain was <3

Love u, thank u so much for listening. Got a show to cook now 😋 https://t.co/ssU7DadvzF

[mylittlebutterfly @Jessie_511]

@liamgallagher 不行真的太好笑了….

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

1989年6月3日晚至6月4日凌晨，中共军队将坦克开进天安门广场，对和平要求民主的广大学生和市民进行了残酷的血腥镇压。在六四36周年之际，我们与中國人权 @hrichina、人道中国 @HChina89
合作发布 八九民运“六四”36周年罹难者系列推文。
共同声援难属群体天安门母亲要求真相、赔偿、问责的三项诉求，为死难者伸张正义。

[Lee1ng @lilaoshizuikeai]

即便再温和的内容，也令他们恐惧。
记住，是他们在恐惧，所以我们更要鼓起勇气。

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

台媒中央社报道，前央视记者、主持人柴静，其旧作《看见》今天传出在中国大陆下架通知。北京贝贝特出版顾问有限公司今天发出图书下架通知，表示《看见》一书因「质量（品质）问题」停止出版发行，决定将该书全部下架并召回，请平台接到通知即刻停止销售此书。
中央社记者致电北京贝贝特退货组，对方表示，无论是不是从该公司出货，这本书都要全面回收、下架。
「看见」这本书2013年就出版，已销售多年，内容是柴静讲述在央视10年历程，也反映出中国社会变迁，近年并不特别受到关注。
目前，在中国社交平台上关于此事的贴文正被平台陆续删除。

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

伊朗伊斯兰政权将开设精神病院来“治疗”那些拒绝在公共场合戴面纱遮住头发的女性。
德黑兰道德警察局妇女与家庭负责人梅赫里·达雷斯塔尼表示，科学和心里治疗将教会女性戴面纱。

[Silver Lining @yanbaili]

@whyyoutouzhele 经济下行，平台和公司都没把商家和服务人员当人看，完全消费者至上，没有申诉和沟通的渠道，这里两夫妻吃霸王餐还给差评真的是支猪本性

[Carmen @meotmoon]

I don’t support all women.
Some of you bitches are stupid as fuck.

[rose zelman @poppytools]

Marjorie Taylor Green
Lauren Boebert
Ted Cruz
Rick Scott

All won their races. WTF is wrong with this country.

And the fact that Donald Trump got any votes at all.

We are truly an Idiocracy

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

一名博主因为在微博上转载了这组辟谣图片而遭到了微博的禁言。

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

This is Nazi shit

[朱韵和 @zhu0588]

“六四”记忆：成都规模宏大的激烈抗争（1/2）
1.在市中心游行声援北京的学生
2.成都的学生在北京的学生几天后在天府广场开始了他们自己的绝食抗议。
3.6月4日警察对抗议者使用了催泪瓦斯和眩晕手榴弹，试图驱散主要广场的人群。
4.6月4日武警清场后，警察和投掷石块的愤怒人群之间爆发了激烈的战斗。

[Silver Lining @yanbaili]

Sinister amplified the live horror recorded by VHS infinitely, and there were countless horror films expressed using the same image for the next 10 years.
But “It Follows” has created a new history of horror movies.

[evil @EVILSCRE4M]

Battle of the 2010s Horror Movies: Round 1, Match 5

It Follows vs. Sinister

Vote for your favorite via comment or QT!

[Apple Music @AppleMusic]

1. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill

#100BestAlbums

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

5月15日，在日内瓦人权与民主峰会上，夏巢川@karasu_ga_warau作为白纸运动亲历者发言，讲述她因为白纸运动两次被捕的经历以及在中国从事女权及LGBT活动时受到的打压。
“他们希望我们忘记。
他们希望我们对我们自己土地上正在发生的事情视而不见。
更重要的是，他们希望我们生活在恐惧之中。
但我们的声音不会被压制。
我们的存在永远不会被审查。”

[Variety @Variety]

Jessica Lange says "so much of the industry now is not about the creative process."

“We’re living in a corporate world, and it certainly has rolled over into the film industry...there are many instances where I feel like the artistic impulse is overwhelmed by the corporate profit motive. You look at some of the best films of the past year — what do they have in common? They’re not from America. My favorite was ‘Anatomy of a Fall.’ How often do we get to see a film like that, where the ambiguity of things is never sewn up?”

Read more here: https://t.co/EDQj5ESHEY