So I finally got into WT.Social from the waiting list. First thing I see is an offensive post which I can’t hide, report, or edit. Thanks, but no thanks. Even Reddit is better…

The Left’s Role in the Hong Kong Uprising

ICE arrested 250 foreign students at fake university in metro Detroit

Six films that explain what’s happening in Hong Kong 《Finally watched Ten Years, still need to see The Crossing》🎥

I have never seen a single Adam Sandler film.

China’s growing threat to academic freedom

Google fires four employees at center of worker organization efforts

⭐️ Trump Got His Wall, After All 《Important overview of changes to US immigration policy》

Algeria, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Spain, Sudan, the UK, and Zimbabwe

What Xi Jinping Learned—And Didn’t Learn—From His Father About Xinjiang

⭐️Propaganda is a heady drug, and Beijing got high on its own supply. 《I’m much more scared of a self-deluded CCP than of a merely cynical CCP.》

The Consultant: “being shown a script and asked to add the “Māori” or “cultural” bits”

‘the fixation on teaching normal adults how to bathe and make friends stems from a prevalent belief among Han Chinese that Uighurs are “backwards.”’

No, koalas are not ‘functionally extinct’, but they are in trouble 《Correction for yesterday’s share》

New leaks: Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm

The Keystone Pipeline oil leak is almost 10 times worse than initially thought

⭐️Worth reading: Marxist economist Michael Roberts on Graeber’s recent NYBR piece. (Which is also very worth reading if you haven’t already!)

America’s shift to a crummy-job economy

Should We Have Billionaires? “the super-rich got their money because we structured the economy in a way that allowed them to get super-rich.”

Why Tulsi Gabbard’s ‘Hindutva’ Link Deserves Scrutiny

Koalas ‘Functionally Extinct’ After Australia Bushfires Destroy 80% Of Their Habitat

Unpublished data from Stanley Milgram’s experiments cast doubt on his claims about obedience

“Cancel culture” has always existed — for the powerful - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Civil society groups protest the sale of .ORG to a private equity fund and a collection of Republican billionaires

Bolivia interim president announces peace talks amid renewed fury over deaths