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Americans sour on some of Trump's early moves, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds | Reuters

Things are getting bad to the point that ordinary people are not able to tune it out anymore, and the pundit class' answer of is looking less and less compelling. Regular people are looking for explanations and guidance. Talk to them. They want to know what has worked in the past, and what can work now. They're open to new ways of understanding the world, and we have that. Be accessible if you can.

https://subium.com/profile/schumer.senate.gov/post/3lgsulzgfys22

https://subium.com/profile/kenklippenstein.bsky.social/post/3lgsynfiql22i

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appear to follow a fringe, self-described “vegan Sith” ideology that started in the Bay Area

https://xcancel.com/CitizenCohn/status/1884265317159035099

年年有余，岁岁平安 comrades

I am quite drunk and very well fed. Fireworks are banned in Wuhan proper and yet they're going off still.

Admittedly anecdotal but I recall when my brother went on a school trip to Japan, him and his school mates were expected to do an embarrassing dance number akin to the Haruhi Suzumiya dance for the students of a Japanese school; I also recall folks who went to teach English in Japanese schools who were merely hired as aides to repeat what the teacher was saying but in a goofy manner. I was like "What a racist cult- oh wait we do that too".

I remembered Ken Jeong and hearing him speak in an interview and was shocked he didn't have that accent he puts on in his movies. I then remembered some Asian Americans who said you have to sell out deeply to be accepted in America, and if you say one thing that can be interpreted as pro-China (even calling out Japanese war crimes against China), you lose everything. We like our non-white Americans to be stereotypes and we get scared when we can't otherize them; we're also quick to distrust them.

The deportees arrived in a military plane in handcuffs and Colombia demanded they be picked up via presidential plane in America. Trump refused and threatened sanctions and Colombia placed tariffs on American goods, so Trump had to take it down a notch and the deportees were flown out respectfully via the Colombian president's plane.

Standing up to bullies works folks.

Alternative link: https://xcancel.com/lesleyabravanel/status/1883866783695978796

Or alternatively: wtf happened from 2002 to 2018?

From a really interesting book on socioecological energetics- Environment, Power, and Society by Howard Odum.

https://xcancel.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1884023740826280053