3/ On March 7, the US struck a freshwater desalination plant on Iran's Qeshm Island, cutting water to 30 villages.
Iran's FM named the source: missiles from the US Navy's 5th Fleet base in Bahrain's Jufair.
Iran immediately retaliated — against that specific base.
The US hasn't denied it.
I still remember when Microsoft was considered the Big Bad Wolf. Whatever they did or do now is considered mild compared to the rest of the industry.
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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I remember driving through se of these roads in Gunma, it was fun.
I think many of us learned about 驚螯 from the Ashes of Time.
I suddenly remembered my 8-digit ICQ UIN out of the blue. I feel old.
Are you telling me that Jumbo has always been a hologram since Godzilla destroyed it in 1994?
🤣🤣🤣
I never read it but knew it as 咆哮山莊 from childhood in Hong Kong. I ended up reading a translated and abridged version of 基度山恩仇記 in the same published series.
1 in 8 Americans...
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
Inmediahk reports that at approx 4:40am, a court watcher in line for the Jimmy Lai trial sentencing proceedings was detained and taken away by the police after she was found with an Apple Daily keychain, Apple Daily being the newspaper founded by Jimmy Lai.
20-year sentence for a 78 year old man, albeit 2 year served already awaiting trial.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
I can see my old childhood homes from here! Always amazes me how Aberdeen and Ap Lei Chau change in the last few decades.
The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports.
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
Texas fire department helps ICE detain roofers—using tower ladder truck that should be reserved for local emergency.
Agents grab at workers' legs to yank them off multi-story house—even using pepper spray atop roof.
Firefighters did equip ICE with safety harness for this risky series of maneuvers.
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
Fuck, it still hurts so much. But thank you for revisiting.
According to Grok, although the sender to Epstein (the one in China replying) is redacted and officially unidentified, Jes Staley is the leading name speculated upon based on matching circumstantial evidence from prior Epstein disclosures.
我很喜歡雪後那種寂靜
Derzou Uzala is one of the best films from Kurosawa's catalog. It was hard to find even 20 years ago on torrents.
讓我想起區家麟的＜潮池＞
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
MingPao Canada sustained my immigrant need of language in my formative years. I remember fondly sending a handwritten passage in and it was posted in their revolving guest column and they paid teenage me $35. Chinese media has changed a lot in the last decade.
I also just learnt that Mayor Mamdani is an Arsenal fan. Good stuff.
Jesus.
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One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.
ICE is a paramilitary that kills people in the USA.
1/ Ex-lawmaker Eddie Chu has been released from prison after serving more than 4 years in jail for "conspiring to subvert state power" in the city’s largest nat. security case. hongkongfp.com/2026/01/15/e...
