MW Hyde

The three journalists who helped ruin Ava Cordero's life when she tried to stop Epstein in 2006 *currently* work at NBC News, New York Magazine, and News Corp Australia. The one at NBC News is covering... Epstein.

Trump's pick for Secretary of Commerce...

Trump repeats claim of 'stopping' India-Pak war with new twist: '11 expensive jets shot down' Speaking at his Board of Peace event, Trump once again brought back his claim of warning both countries using trade deals as leverage.| India News

The man's mind is cooked. Trump now says 11 aircraft shot down in May 2025. But as HT says "his initial claim made last year, he mentioned of five jets...The number increased to seven jets in August, and to eight jets in November, followed by 10...." www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/t...

a government for, by and of degenerates

Terrible decision of European countries to give this Board of War a glimpse of credibility by attending. Truly shameful.

LOL

Always good when proof of stupid laws rushed through parliament occurs quickly

WTAF.

And for those who can't see past abbreviations, the "ACT police" are the fucking FEDS.

So it's on you, Albo. Again.

Donovan’s Deep Dives: The ugly math facing the DPP this election year - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Been on the road, so I missed this analysis of DPP chances in the 9 in 1 elections by my colleague and friend Donovan
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

A lot of people posting about Taiwan. Some are complaining that many posters don't know much. I however am surprised by how much people know. And it's great that people are concerned.

This is important, but the irony is that Hass simply replicates the cognitive problems of the Trump admin advisors.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Why Everyone's Talking About Stephen Colbert, CBS, The FCC And James Talarico

Taking it to the next level.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQIl...

Josh Johnson destroying Elon Musk for begging Epstein to come to the pedo island is the funniest shit I’ve seen this morning.

a young boy in a blue shirt is talking into a microphone while smiling . Alt: a young boy in a blue shirt is talking into a microphone while smiling but then he starts crying.

Xi Jinping explaining he's totally fine with Eileen Gu winning silver

A Hangzhou court sentenced #ZouWei (3.5 years) and #ZanAizong (3 years) for gathering to honor Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo. Beijing calls that 'picking quarrels' — and uses that vague charge to jail defenders of #HumanRights.
👉 www.nchrd.org/2026/02/aler...

The instant bipartisan response to Trump's moronic comments by key folks in Congress invested in Taiwan's security suggests Trump is NOT in a position to go full r***** with Xi and weapons concessions. There's a lot of time and a lot of recalibration to play out before Dada meets Orange Caligula.

And here's the thing: name one GOP lawmaker who is better than AOC at grilling people in committee. AOC has enough form to annoy a lot of folks, but has abilities that these GOP jackasses never had or forsook long ago.

Building a Taiwan consensus is key, not using Taiwan to throw around dunce caps.

They are all a bunch of insecure dweebs who are shaped by college cliques and the instinct to be contrarian. Also getting into the right parties.

"The furor over Trump's comments about U.S. weapon sales to Taiwan may spur bipartisan support for legislation from Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore) and John Curtis (R-Utah) aimed to codify the Six Assurances as law" via @politico.com NatSec Daily www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I have run out of patience with people who diss AOC for not painting in black and white, after whining about Biden's Taiwan Strait "gaffes", which obviously weren't.

NONE of these people know what is going on. Their business model is hyperventilation and collecting pennies.

Staggering the amount of panic in thinktank land and academia over Trump's latest belching when you consider the mass of law and precedent girding guardrails in the Taiwan Strait. There are forces weighing on Trump's egomaniacal behaviour. For heaven's sake, people, grow a spine and ask around.

Biden's comments on Taiwan were not gaffes, and more than not being dangerous, they were absolutely essential.

A potentially important migrant labor action in Taiwan.

Robert Duvall and Frederick Wiseman on the same day ... the loss of titans.

Fuckin sick weirdos.

Midi Z’s Taiwan-Set Crime Thriller ‘The Exiles’ Reveals First Look, Additional Cast Sam Worthington and Taiwanese actress Ke-Xi Wu are tense and pensive in the evocative first look from Midi Z’s upcoming Asia-set crime thriller, The Exiles, currently shooting in Taipei. The image finds the actors during an ominous twilight hour somewhere in coastal Taiwan.

Sam Worthington and Taiwanese actress Ke-Xi Wu are tense and pensive in the evocative first look from Midi Z’s upcoming Asia-set crime thriller, The Exiles, currently shooting in Taipei. The image finds the actors during an ominous twilight hour somewhere in coastal Taiwan.

Its hard to imagine the Russian army NOT collapsing in the near future.

A desert scene in Monument Valley featuring tall, eroded red sandstone rock formations rising against a blue sky with white clouds in the background. In the foreground stands a modest wooden structure with an open white door revealing an interior workspace where a woman wearing a pink shirt and dark shorts stands at a white folding table. Outside the structure, five blue plastic barrels are arranged on the sandy ground, along with an orange bucket. To the left, a wooden platform with scattered items and a simple covered frame structure are visible. The ground is reddish-orange sand with sparse patches of green vegetation, and wire fencing can be seen in the middle distance stretching across the desert landscape. (ALT Text by Claude AI)

In this week's issue of Triptych, I feature the Taiwanese-Anglo-American photographer, Eliott Ross, whose project "A Question of Balance" explores the relationship between the Diné (Navajo Nation) and water and that of Utah’s Washington County, some eighty kilometers away.

This is somewhat more of an old-fashioned ICE ruse. Arguably this is a sign of the agency going back to more standard “targeted enforcement” tactics designed to be not as disruptive as the more recent aggro-style arrests. Watch for more like this to come.