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part of this story—which US reporters shouldn't overlook—is the pro-trump advocacy of hong kong pro-democracy media execs mark simon and jimmy lai, who believe "only trump can save hong kong."(jimmy

I went to Donald J Trump State Park an hour north of NYC. Nobody knows it's there because it isn't a real park. It's barren land Trump bought for $2.75

Thread: I'm a part-time courier for @Postmates, @UberEats, @Caviar. I'm young, college educated, and do this on the side, on my own schedule. I am the mythical worker these companies

short thread: the increase in "alt-imperialism" (western left support for non-western state violence) on social media platforms in recent years reflects how western leftist identity politics and leftist fake news

uber is buying postmates. as a part-time courier who works for both, this is bad news. while both are staunch anti-worker companies, fewer and bigger players means even less worker

to the china-fetishizing western leftists anxiously thinking of new ways to smear hong kongers fighting state violence: relax. tomorrow many of us will no longer be able to voice our

growing divide between leftists who embrace vs reject cold war dynamics. one camp supposes inter-imperial conflict as given (even desirable) and are already siding with a geopolitical bloc. other sees

There are not neat analogies to Western politics for Hong Kong's movement. So many tropes & binaries Westerners take for granted — East vs. West, left vs. right, capitalism vs.

in 2014 when i was a new journalist at cnn my white boss pulled me into his office and said there were complaints from coworkers about my tweets supporting #blacklivesmatter

seen some pro-ccp western leftists sharing this @ForeignPolicy article praising prc response to covid. the author is a venture capitalist and investment bank exec who has defended the tiananmen massacre

should i even do it...all right let's do it. https://twitter.com/ProleLumpen/status/1250256775741239296 A thread of @lausanhk articles that have called out anti-Mainland xenophobia among Hongkongers and Hong Kong protesters, from August 2019