David Cowhig 高大伟
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Retired US State Dept guy, worked 10 yrs in PRC (Beijing and Chengdu), good at reading 'communist Chinese' Qiushi etc., now studying ancient Chinese and literature. Enjoy studying languages. Ham call WA1LBP. Translation blog: gaodawei.wordpress.com
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
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America’s Most Divisive Historian Gets a New Biography (Gift Article)
Dave Zirin traces the radical career of Howard Zinn, whose “A People’s History of the United States” has sold millions of copies.
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Trump Administration Revokes Visa of Brazil’s Ambassador in the U.S. (Gift Article)
The State Department has canceled the visa of the Brazilian ambassador in Washington, deepening a diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
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Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
Behold Donald J Trump: a man who dodged Vietnam with bone spurs, then spent decades learning nothing from it. America couldn't carpet bomb, napalm, strafe a determined people into surrender then. But our own "Agent Orange" was too busy cashing Dad's checks to notice. The lesson remains unlearned...
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Opinion | The Suicide Crisis in Wyoming (Gift Article)
Wyoming has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation.
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FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
No news show should be booking RFK Jr. without an eject button. He’s spent years spreading dangerous misinformation with real-world consequences, then pretending none of it was his fault.
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Watching China in Europe - August 2026
The CEO of VW has called on the EU to take tougher trade measures against China - a sign that the economics of EU-China relations have reached a tipping point. But the politics is about to get messy.
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Investigations and a Billion-Dollar ‘Shakedown’: How Trump Targeted Higher Education (Gift Article)
Donald J. Trump has unleashed the power of the presidency against American colleges, with mixed results.
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Doctor here-Story time: I received a call today from a sick friend in another state, & I recognized it as a neurological emergency sent him to ER. Likely diagnosis: Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis, which can cause blindness. 1 of the authors of original 1990 diagnostic criteria: Anthony Fauci MD🙌🏻🫡
RFK Jr.: “You probably don’t understand this as you’re not a scientist.” Dana Bash: “You’re not a scientist either.”
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Warning: the President of the United States is kidnapping American citizens off the streets of blue states. Some of them return —most do not. Some are murdered in concentration camps owned by the President’s cronies. All of it is one big fat crime. None of our electeds will stop him. Will you?
I've done a lot of interviews, but Hannah, 11, was hard to keep up with!
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‘Comradely’ Talks and a ‘Deer Leader’ Mascot: Scenes From the D.S.A. Summit (Gift Article)
At a national meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America, nervous energy and a sprawling tableau of sometimes-competing interests were on display.
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On this Sunday morning may you find a moment of peace in all this chaos by reflecting on the beauty of nature that is all around us! A beautiful and awe-inspiring scene of the Colorado Rockies! Christina McKinnon Photography
The schools that stood up to Trump thug demands—first Wesleyan and Princeton, then Harvard, then many others who were emboldened—have won in court and earned honor in history and support from alums. Columbia showed that appeasement always loses. It's never enough. Don't do it, Yale.
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d agoNeed to have some frank talk about #Yale President McInnis, General Counsel Alexander Dreier and the trustees. First, they keep saying that they are compelled to enter into a settlement with the #Trump administration. Untrue. 1/
You can be arrested, tortured, and made to confess to a crime that never happened.
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Trump, Paul Weiss and the Capitulation of Big Law: 5 Takeaways (Gift Article)
The law firm Paul Weiss led the legal resistance against President Trump. Then it led a sudden retreat across the legal industry. A Times investigation examined how it caved to White House pressure.
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How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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