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@mattschrader.bsky.social

Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff. Opinions are not my employer's.

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Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago. The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

14.10.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4023    πŸ” 1142    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 131
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Have spent almost two years teaching myself CAD and 3d printing in spare moments just to design and make this one thing and now the thing is almost made. Just a tremendous waste of time and I could not love this hobby more.

12.10.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not exactly a hot take but I am firmly of the opinion no two people have ever been hotter in a movie than him and Maggie Cheung in ItMFL. Cannot even imagine what seeing him in that would do to the Shang Chi latecomers.

12.10.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know I knowπŸ˜‚ just wasn't expecting the babyface. Even in Chungking Express a couple years later he looks like the grown up Tony I'm used to

12.10.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pizzer berns?

12.10.2025 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wat

12.10.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Truly

12.10.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That right there is quality

12.10.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watching Hard Boiled for the first time, somehow did not know Tony Leung is in this and holy cow does he look young

12.10.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Have been turning more to history as of late to find hopeful lights to shine on the present. This piece is filled with excellent, inspirational examples speaking to that precise question.

11.10.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One would think they would but it seems they do not!

10.10.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This was definitely worth breaking Google search to push on people

09.10.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok you got me

09.10.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ζ²‘ηœ‹ζ‡‚

09.10.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This would be like writing the U.S.'s National Defense University is "associated" with the Department of Defense, except that NDU doesn't go to elaborate and hilarious lengths to disguise its relationship to gullible foreigners.

09.10.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today's niche China field gripe: It's the year of our lord 2025 and I'm still seeing purportedly serious China analysts write that CICIR is "associated" with the MSS, as if there is somehow something unclear about the relationship. CICIR *is* the MSS. It's literally an MSS bureau.

09.10.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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BIETA: A Technology Enablement Front for China's MSS Discover how China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) almost certainly operates BIETA and its subsidiary CIII as public fronts for cyber-espionage, covert communications, and technology acquisition. C...

Some impressive, careful work here by Devin Thorne of Recorded Future (whom I wish was on bsky so I could tag him). www.recordedfuture.com/research/bie...

08.10.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Know I'm preaching to the choir saying this to the author of Our Towns, but also more stories about local and state-level officials enacting policies that *work*

06.10.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not the best, and no one's ever going to agree with me, but No Line on the Horizon might be the most interesting thing U2 have done post their Achtung/Zooropa trip to outer space

04.10.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Least I can do/say πŸ™

04.10.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"how dare the world's most well-known Catholic suggest I feel shame!!!"

03.10.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
I work in US policy – being Chinese is now an occupational hazard

Put this by @franceshisgen.bsky.social on my list awhile back, and being the scatterbrain I am it took a bit to get around to it. It's worth a few minutes of your time, if for nothing else than to acknowledge the bravery it takes to stand up and say this right now. nuvoices.com/2025/07/01/i...

03.10.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

"Demanding," Bondi's own word, is a far more blatant example of improper jawboning than any of the connect-the-dots, passive examples in the Twitter Files and adjacents, which seldom rose beyond "pretty please."

03.10.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i love you/how dare you

03.10.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Big tech CEOs have spent more than a decade puffing their chests and saying that they are more like heads of state running global companies with bigger revenues than many countries

… but now they’re all folding to actual government pressure faster than any tinpot dictator has ever folded

03.10.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1651    πŸ” 311    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 13
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Just say β€œblood and soil” already and save us a few steps.

01.10.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

"thank God it landed in that smoking crater over there!"

01.10.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🎢from the, town of Springfield/ he's about to hit a chestnut tree🎢

01.10.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I for one believe we can make this happen!!

01.10.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

30.09.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 10811    πŸ” 3288    πŸ’¬ 219    πŸ“Œ 595

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