Pam Logan

Me: OK, Google, where can I read an English translation of the Qing dynasty imperial records?
Device: you’ll have to link your Spotify account first.

The Trump administration is a rapid-fire, cluster-delivery spaghetti throwing machine. No one in the WH looks closely at any one noodle. The point is: once in a while, one sticks.

Anybody tracking the number of Trump/DOJ lawyers who’ve been disbarred over these types of shenanigans?

Chart from The Economist showing China's overseas loans and grants*, $trn, 2023 prices, cumulative

Map from The Economist showing China's overseas loans and grants, 2000-23, $bn, 2023 prices

Some eye-opening new data: China's loans and grants to countries around the world since 2000 add up to $2.17trn. The biggest recipient? America ($202bn)

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"Bluesky is basically Twitter in 2014" . . . before Twitter's algorithms were installed with for the purpose to maximize user time doom scrolling and rage commenting.

How very warlord of him. Emperor Qianlong must be smiling.

Aid cuts are devastating health services in Africa The sudden dismantling of USAID has led to more death and disease

Africa is headed for a mass casualty era as US aid for healthcare and food has been slashed. My NGO (KhamAid.org) trained village midwives in Tibet. Why didn’t USAID do more to build capacity when it had a chance? #Africa #hunger #HIV
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Can the president dictate to banks the terms of their mortgage loans?

Oh wait I forgot. He’s King.

China has a grave problem Forget huge tombs—why not scatter your loved one’s ashes at sea?

The Chinese government is now paying incentives to people to use “ecological“ burial practices. They should issue back payments to Tibetans, who have been feeding remains of the deceased to vultures for centuries. #Tibet #skyburial

China has a grave problem
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My team, led by conservation architect John Sanday, took apart and rebuilt a 3 story wall on a 600 year old house in Tibet. It’s still standing. Story told in this book: www.pamela-logan.com/compassion-m...

Most Unnecessary War Ever. The drugs will keep coming.

So privileged is more like it.

Impact? Can this filing be used as evidence in other cases? Can DOJ stop this from happening? Can Pirro take it back?

Don’t say “tied to.” That’s misleading. Say “correlates with.”

It helps if the man has sisters. Mine has three, so he’s thoroughly steeped in the female perspective.

Literally hundreds of Chinese people have called me ayi (auntie) even tho I’m not Chinese, far less their aunt. Literally hundreds of British people have called me “love,” even though they were strangers. Please don’t make them stop.

A vote for Cuomo is a vote for naked female skin in public spaces. That’s what it boils down to: prurience.

How is this not perjury to the American public?

The love of my life:

I just ordered 800 lollipops. Because the bar in my neighborhood is high. m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61z... #halloweenexcess #sugarcoma

Inside Mongolia’s ‘Mars camp’: The extreme adventure that wants to turn tourists into astronauts | CNN For adventurers who’ve checked off Earth’s extremes, a new frontier offers an opportunity to be part of history.

Remember when people traveled to Mongolia to experience a centuries-old way of life? Not anymore. #Mongolia www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...

Yes it’s important that the other side bear a portion of the burden. But it’s maybe too much to expect for some people who have burdens of their own, such as poor education or low levels of empathy.

Do you think the skill is teachable? I think some lessons could have helped me during my socially inept younger years.

With a nice helping of extortion on the side.

That #thrill when your adult stepchild phones you for help with a trigonometry problem.

When I was a member of DOE’s speakers bureau, a high school wanted to fly me to their city to speak to their students, but my agency wasn’t allowed to accept the free ticket. Ethics regulations.

Progress? Might be.

Microplastics. And they’re in our water, too.

Chinese car owners would pay crazy money to get assigned this auspicious tag number, which has “wealth wealth wealth wealth”embedded in it.

That AI needs to be trained on real diarrhea. The color and texture are wrong.