Isham Cook

Insights into China (Part 4): A visit to the library The surprising popularity of libraries in China.

Latest post in my 12-part series on China: The surprising popularity of libraries in China.

Lighthouse Cafe, Danang, Vietnam.

This, exactly this is what will get their attention.

Hit them where it hurts, their (originally yours) money.

‘I love Hitler’: NY GOP caught up in racist chats

Trumpsters and Magats blissfully unfiltered.

Five years ago I picked up a novel by an unknown Hungarian author in a bookstore cafe in Beijing with an interesting selection of English books, dipped into it and bought it. When the 2025 Nobel Prize winner for literature was announced his name rang a bell and here he is on one of my bookshelves.

The reason the orange excrescence will not get the Nobel Peace Prize is that the Nobel Committee would not intentionally nuke itself.

All we need is an IPA and an Imperial stout. Guangwu Road, Dali Old Town, China.

Mormon church gunman was marine ‘who supported Trump’ The gunman who rammed his truck into a Mormon church and opened fire on worshippers was an Iraq war veteran who had previously shown support for Donald Trump.

For the perplexed who wonder why these guys are turning on their own, what it seems to signify is that they are simply too eager to start the race war and get the Holocaust II machine up and running and run out of patience, losing it and taking it out on their own.

From Robert Darnton, The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789.

The Tao of Poison. A novel. A poisonous maiden, a Daoist sex cult, and a violent insurgency.

BookLife review: "Cook binds together [a] story of survival with complex character relations and involved plot twists. The bold characters, kinetic plot, unconventional take on justice, and rich atmosphere make this epic tale a studied contemplation of how beauty can usher in tragedy and sorrow."

Five steps toward personal emancipation in an Orwellian world An anti-fascist, anti-capitalist personal self-help guide for immediate practical application.

An anti-fascist, anti-capitalist personal self-help guide for immediate practical application.

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My current feelings about the Trump Administration, MAGA, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party machine that enabled Trump instead of locking him up, the Christian Right including Charlie Kirk, CBS, ABC, Disney, and everyone else that wants to lock US up in concentration camps:

FBI Readies New War on Trans People “We’re looking at the entire spider web”

Fascism always goes after sex. It's the ultimate target because it's what people fear most. The ulterior purpose is not to control sexuality itself but to make people afraid--not just of sex but of everything. That's how you control people.

It’s becoming starkly evident that the mainstream U.S. media are nothing other than the propaganda organ of the extortion racket known as the Trump Administration. It’s all noise pollution coming from on high. Don’t listen to any of it.

Fox host apologizes for saying mentally ill homeless people should be executed Brian Kilmeade's comments circulated widely online.

This eugenicist jumped the gun on what the Right is eager to put in action: get rid of undesirables to purify the race. The Nazis didn't start gassing the disabled until 1939. Fascism is never a straight line. U.S. Gov’t needs incidents like the Kirk murder to ratchet things up to the next level.

Some people say they're only here on bluesky to enjoy erotic content, and politics should be kept out. The problem is: politicians don't keep out of our sex lives either.

And while I'm not here to push an agenda, I passionately believe in sexual freedom and every single point listed on this image.

It’s quite simple. You support Charlie Kirk, you’re a racist and a chauvinist.

Probably the best analysis of the Kirk shooting I’ve heard so far. From Mark Kenny
on ABC Insiders this morning.

People are losing jobs due to social media posts about Charlie Kirk Some GOP officials want to clamp down on perceived expressions of schadenfreude about Charlie Kirk's death. Conservative activists are publicizing social media posts that are "celebrating" his death.

It is astounding that people are being fired for exercising their First Amendment rights to criticize this blatant racist and pro-violence agitator. What’s really going on is the Trump Administration is using the Kirk killing to whip the public in place and start acclimatizing to fascism.

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Black man shot at while waiting to go to work says South Carolina needs hate crime law When Jarvis McKenzie locked eyes with the man in the car, he couldn't understand the hate he saw. When the man picked up a rifle, fired over his head and yelled “you better get running, boy!” as he s...

While this racist fanatic is not representative of most Americans, this incident somehow epitomizes the atavistic state of the U.S. today.

US Hyundai raid: South Korea vows support for citizens detained by ICE US immigration officials detained 475 workers on Thursday - most of them South Korean nationals - saying they were working illegally.

More Trump stupidity: "South Korea, a close US ally, has pledged tens of billions of dollars in American manufacturing investment, partly to offset tariffs....The LG employees"--branded "illegal aliens" by ICE--"were arrested were on business trips with various visas or under a visa waiver program."

Rock Star Calls Trump 'A Danger' To 'The Entire World' In Fiery Instagram Post "I was raised to believe that we defeated fascism in World War II and that we would never allow it again in the world," musician Jack White said Wednesday on social media.

Jack White's diatribe against Trump is great. Read it.

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These astonishing poppy-seed stories keep on appearing. In any other country they’d be dystopian science-fiction fodder but not in the real dystopia of punitive USA. Note that punishing innocent people pre-dates Trump. It’s a systemic issue.

Students have been called to the office — and even arrested — for AI surveillance false alarms Lesley Mathis knows what her daughter said was wrong. The teenage girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, triggering the school’s surveillance software. Mathis said th...

So glad I was spared this bullshit when I was growing up. I wonder if more and more young people may just ditch their phones and go offline. Their quality of life would improve.

Texas county emergency management official says he was asleep during deadly flood A county judge said it was "too late" to issue a Code Red evacuation alert.

This is unbelievable. They had only one person overseeing the flooding?

This is why socialism is necessary. Medicine cannot be in the hands of capitalists.

Trump official brutally mocked after saying he was 'not going to tolerate' sick Americans Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, declared that the administration will no longer “tolerate” what he called a culture that makes ...

Big Business collude in promoting a toxic national diet of UPFs, geared to sicken and drive people into medical debt in order to hasten the dystopian institutionalization of indentured labor, so what's this about "not tolerating" illness? I think they mean not COMPLAINING about illness.