Drake Long
@drmlong.bsky.social
Senior Associate, China Warfighting Initiative, Marine Corps War College. Focuses: China’s territorial disputes, Taiwan, ASEAN. Writing a book on the seabed! Opinions my own.
The Indonesian military now appears to be using Turkish-made Bayraktar TB3 drones against civilians in West Papua: humanrightsmonitor.org/case/again-c...
Again, civilian injured and residents displaced following drone strikes on Balamai Village, Intan Jaya Regency -
Makelon Majau, was injured by an Indonesian military drone in Balamai Village in Hitadipa District, Intan Jaya Regency, on 22 June 2026.
humanrightsmonitor.org
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MI6, DGSE, Ukraine... L’Express reveals an unprecedented ranking of Europe’s best spies
Who is mocked as a "gathering of researchers"? Who is making a "remontada" with its Action Service? L’Express presents the first ranking of espionage agencies in Europe, compiled by a jury of sixty in...
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A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
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THE DAY THE WAR ENDED A documentary on Taiwan's fate during WWII. Rockstar politician Freddy Lim interviews the Taiwanese who fought, protested, or survived the war and witnessed Aug 15, 1945 — the day Taiwan went from being Japan's colony 🇯🇵 to the Republic of China's island 🇹🇼 youtu.be/JDQbvobNVeM
《終戰那一天》正式預告｜8.14 時代回望
YouTube video by 牽猴子電影粉絲俱樂部
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This is a really special @petejamison.bsky.social story on the last day of an American factory, owned by a Trump donor and offshoring all its jobs to China www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The last day of an American factory
A Trump donor called for an end to offshoring. Then his company moved much of this plant’s work to China.
washingtonpost.com
Every five days, a mosque is attacked in the UK. How many of them have you heard about? How many of them made the nightly news? At least 70 attacks in the past year alone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust
More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism
theguardian.com
For years, I have, and my peers & competitors have, reported about Musk co. employees' civil rights violations, Musk being found to have engaged in union-busting, his bashing trans people, endorsing AfD & so much more. It's not new - but I'm glad it's being discussed bluntly by famous columnists now
All In with Chris Hayes@allinwithchris.bsky.social · 6d ago“The world's richest man is also one of the world's most vociferous and vocal bigots," says Chris Hayes.
Seven Seas is hiring! We're currently looking for an ART DIRECTOR to join our team. Info at the link: sevenseasentertainment.com/about/jobs/
Didn’t Judge Box-o-Wine call him a terrorist?
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
American Bangladesh Foundation will be starting up a fellowship program for the typical aspiring young policy/foreign affairs professionals...soon. Been very nice to see this whole effort grow. If interested in hosting a fellow, reach out on the website (not to me!) americanbangladeshfoundation.org
Bangladesh's next investment should be in people, not just projects
Bangladesh's economic transformation was built on decades of investment in people, businesses and infrastructure. To sustain that progress, the country must now invest just as deliberately in institut...
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So, Josiah Lippincott is a Hillsdale College PhD (why does a college have a PhD program? To mint bullshit credentials for culture warriors, of course) whose scholarship argues that the USA should have stayed neutral in WWII and let the Axis murder everyone. That's who they're hiring.
Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 6d agoCongrats to WVU for hiring a literal fascist!
barber or uh very low-rent c-string thug for local mafia. or both?
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The inability of @nytimes.com to properly credit other journalists (in this case Abby/us) is something that of course journalists feel most dearly. But it is absolutely indicative of the arrogance that leads the paper—which is great/I support—astray and weakens the trust that people have in it.
Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · last wk.Read my July 18 story for the original reporting that the New York Times didn’t link to... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... So our Cambridge History of War and Society is out and available! My co-editor Jennifer Keene and I are so appreciative of all our authors—see list in the image. We’re very proud of this volume and it’s because of all the incredible scholars who contributed.
This should be widely read. The readers can make the judgement themselves. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...
He Served China’s Police State of Xinjiang. He Says It Imprisoned Him, Too. (Gift Article)
After nearly 10 years carrying out Chinese government repression in Xinjiang, a former police officer is now seeking asylum in Germany.
nytimes.com
It's tempting to dismiss this as the worst people in the world fighting, but Vance is also a good weathervane of where the right in the US is headed since he has no inner convictions at all, and he seems to believe that the future of the US right is openly antisemitic extremely online young people.
Things like this need more attention...this new paper by David Autor, Anne B., David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson finds that not only have tariffs not only failed to raise employment, but people in tariff-exposed regions supported the tariffs because they're "confrontational" It's affect, not interests
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once again i think both @sodrock.bsky.social and @diplomatofnight.com did great work in the Reconstruction Papers starting to think about what a genuinely liberal foreign policy might look like you can read their essays right now! they're free! www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...
The Reconstruction Papers
The Reconstruction Papers is ready to order in the US. Global readers can order a print-on-demand version. US Readers Order Here For nearly a century, the conservative movement's white w...
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · last wk.DSA has a bunch of schtizo amateurs writing their inhumane foreign policy pronouncements. What excuse do all the Dem aligned beltway think tanks have?
One place to check whether China is willing to take advantage of Russia's weaknesses is in Russian Far East. In this new essay for @nbr.org, Joanna Nawrotkiewiczj analyses Beijing's art of restraint in this contested territory along China's #Borderlands. strategicspace.nbr.org/the-northern...
The Northern Frontier: China’s Presence in the Russian Far East
More than three years ago, on June 1, 2023, a notice from China’s General Administration of Customs took effect that most of the world scarcely noticed. Vladivostok—Russia’s great Pacific port and the...
strategicspace.nbr.org
In Iran, the U.S. won every battle but lost the war—a lesson for Beijing that decapitation and high-tech weapons don’t guarantee victory, writes @juliacurlee.bsky.social.
The Short-War Illusion: What Iran Teaches Beijing About Taiwan
In Iran, the U.S. won every battle but lost the war—a lesson for Beijing that decapitation and high-tech weapons don’t guarantee victory.
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Trump has burned through around a third of US stockpiles of key precision munitions in his failed war in Iran, ABC reports.
Spanish #seafood company Nueva Pescanova abandoned building a commercial #octopus farm - which would have confined ~ 1M octopuses annually & put pressure on wild fish stocks used for feed - after years of pressure from #animal-welfare groups, NGOs & scientists. #VeganFTA tinyurl.com/bdzzu7mr
Octopus Farm Plans Abandoned After NGO Campaign
Compassion in World Farming welcomes the abandonment of plans for the world's first commercial octopus farm after five years of campaigning.
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Added the beatdown ability, which unleashes more punches based on how many melee abilities are in your moveset. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday