Cindy Wan
@cindywan.bsky.social
Angry girl heartbreakingly watching history unfold in my little hometown of Hong Kong. Fuck GovHK! Fuck the CCP! Fuck billionaires! Fuck MAGAs!
Nice look at PTS and Taiwan's television renaissance at a time when KMT-led budget cuts threaten to undermine public media in Taiwan
"Before Netflix: The Hidden History of Taiwan’s Television Renaissance" by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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A Food & Environmental Hygiene Department officer in Hong Kong has been found guilty of "misconduct in public office" for issuing littering fines to 5 innocent persons, some of whom were not in town when the fines were issued and faced arrest warrants for the baseless but unpaid fines.
The great thing about patriotism is that there's no problem that can't be solved by siccing the cops on ppl. Especially when you don't understand how anything works.
Hong Kong pro-China columnist Chris Wat Wing-yin, in what seems to be a push for broader acceptance of mobile payments such as AliPay and WeChat Pay said that the "only" reason why some businesses are cash only is tax evasion and the authorities should investigate such businesses
You can't stop the wok - the fabulous @bernunithk.bsky.social continuing her great work documenting Hong Kong food culture
A fantastic article by @bernunithk.bsky.social on the legend that is Stephen Yan, a Hong Kong-born Vancouverite whose cooking show Wok with Yan aired on CBC from 1980 to 1995 www.scmp.com/postmag/food...
Working for ICE requires a college degree? In what Universe?
The In-N-Out Burger shooter comes from a family immersed in Trump propaganda. The shooter loved General Flynn, Elon Musk, and RFK Jr. He was pro-natalist and wanted to join ICE, but didn't have a college degree.
Former CE Leung Chun-ying asks, "What's the deal with new residential developments having English names but without Chinese names?" The Hemlock has some thoughts: www.biglychee.com/2026/08/04/f...
ZERO DAY ATTACK A ten-part series on China's infiltration of Taiwanese society through grey zone tactics, from elite capture in the military to funding social media influencers and local politicians. Commendable focus on how people who have business or family in China may react in a strait crisis.
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." ― Margaret Atwood
Hmm… the Greatest Dear Motherland will fix this ASAP…?
Why are they so happy?
Not a word about verifying the gender of boys... this is little girl specific. Child sexual abuse on a state level 'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners www.rawstory.com/project-2025...
'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners
A Washington State ballot measure that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before taking part in sports provoked nationwide outrage.IL26-638 w...
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Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
We disgrace ourselves as a nation each and every day Donald Trump remains in office. The drafters of the United States Constitution provided a remedy for a criminally insane president like the one we have—impeachment and removal ...
Huh? Maybe give them free Disneyland tickets?
The Li Ka Shing Foundation and Disney are giving away 24,000 free tickets for Hong Kong's domestic workers to see Toy Story 5 on four Sundays in six cinemas this month. Registration begins on Wed August 5, 9:00pm at the link below; tickets are first-come, first serve: s.klook.com/lksf_toystory5
A president threatening senators who’ve stopped being afraid, a senator who won’t speak for his own daughter, and a health agency raising drug costs in an election year — this is what a party looks like when it’s spent everything it had on loyalty and has nothing left to offer anyone else.
I wish there were more people from outside the US on Bluesky. But yes, there are indeed a good number of people who are NOT from the US on here. (Also, for those who didn't realise: some of us non-Americans CAN and DO write in and read English!)
Republicans PUT A CRIMINAL in charge of their party… And now, we learn over 300 Trump Org. accounts were flagged, and closed for MONEY LAUNDERING. Are you SURPRISED?! 😎✨
Do you realize the Declaration of Independence says we’re required to remove this administration because of it’s “long train of abuses” and “absolute Despotism”?