@mikg.bsky.social
Freelance video journalist and documentarian living in Taipei. See my stuff at www.michaelsaulgarber.com
“First they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that.”
apnews.com/article/publ...
Pan-blue discourse posits something you might call Schrödinger's recall threshold: it is simultaneously too easy to initiate a recall vote but also too hard for the KMT to muster enough support to trigger one.
28.07.2025 04:35 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
25.07.2025 19:00 — 👍 8761 🔁 1188 💬 76 📌 66Future civilizations will puzzle over the meaning of layer upon layer of twisted steel guardrails that run through the sedimentary rocks on Taiwan's valley floors.
21.07.2025 04:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Less than a day later, as the Senate debated the bill, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the remote Alaska Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings on local public broadcasting stations that advised people to get to higher ground.
17.07.2025 08:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Murkowski said in a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday that the stations are “not just your news — it is your tsunami alert, it is your landslide alert, it is your volcano alert.”
apnews.com/article/trum...
'The Dalai Lama on Sunday was seen wearing a cap embroidered with the word, “Team Taiwan” while watching a modern neo-techno performance of the traditional San Taizi (三太子) dance, as he celebrated his 90th birthday in Dharamsala, northern India.'
www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
China uses its civilian air passengers as decoys.
youtu.be/fzb5_yaF5gI?...
Relentless coverage in HK and Taiwan’s Chinese-language press lately on a rumoured 7/5 quake in Japan. A sad sign of public susceptibility to misinformation and media willingness to exploit that.
Especially galling is SETN’s countdown clock: ghoulish if you take it seriously, imbecilic if you don’t
Increasing "waste, fraud, and abuse" seems like a pretty apt way to describe ICE's mission here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...
The Kremlin’s spokesman has very gently disputed Trump’s claim that he spoke to Putin “yesterday” and supposedly told the Russian leader to sort out his own mess before trying to mediate Iran. “Life is so packed with events right now that looking back a few days feels like yesterday.” LOL
18.06.2025 17:35 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
..." the White House Office of Management and Budget has previously described the hotline’s L.G.B.T.Q. section as “a chat service where children are encouraged to embrace radical gender ideology by ‘counselors’ without consent or knowledge of their parents.”...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
Israeli tanks kill 59 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food aid, medics say - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
17.06.2025 18:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ukrainian morale booster includes a subtle nod to Taiwan
www.instagram.com/reel/DK81NqV...
Whose health care is provided for? Not for most people in China. Their work units were meant to provide medical care with locally sourced funds, and even that system has long since collapsed.
16.06.2025 11:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"I would be a hypocrite if I did not fight for those who today are facing conditions that over 40 years, I've faced as an undocumented migrant to this country," Carvalho said Thursday.'
www.instagram.com/reel/DISe_Qo...
Via CBS, "Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn’t hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
14.06.2025 02:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ok ok, I get that Andor was a cool show, but the government doesn't need to directly re-create every scene verbatim.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Self-identified marine does not think sending marines to police American protesters is a good idea.
www.instagram.com/reel/DKu25yY...
DHS issues a poster with imagery reminiscent of McCarthyism propaganda during the Cold War when Americans were urged to report suspected communists.
12.06.2025 00:21 — 👍 68 🔁 36 💬 6 📌 13
