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Liang HM

@taiwanworldhistory.org

Taiwan in World History, democracy, world history, geostrategery, sarcasm and irony.

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 2d ago

By the early 1900s “the serial format popularized by Dickens had largely died out in Britain and America, and most serious writers of literature seem to have shared Henry James’s desire to keep their pages free from other people’s images.” —Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Picture This | Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Throughout the history of print, illustrators have helped visualize writer’s stories, and at times became storytellers themselves.

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 5d ago

“A mandate is a command, we sometimes forget. It is mandatory for Democrats to respond to the voters’ concerns. If they don’t, their party could soon suffer its own collapse.” —@josephoneill.bsky.social on what comes after victory

Now What? | Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake

Since 2019 Joseph O’Neill has been writing essays for the Review exhorting the Democratic Party to play offense in the face of what was beginning to seem

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 6d ago

“Democrats…should be relentless in their focus on affordability…. But they should also maintain the link that is already in voters’ minds between their cost-of-living crisis and the vast self-enrichment of Trump and his cronies.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

The Next Generation | Fintan O’Toole

The American left has won a historic election by successfully linking the affordability crisis to Republican corruption, and the whole Democratic Party must now learn from their example.

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WIRED@wired.com · 7d ago

What do Abdul El-Sayed, Annie Andrews, Amy Acton, and Jamie Ager have in common, beyond their victories in this week’s midterm elections? Each is either a doctor or a scientist. And each had the backing of the pro-science political action committee 314 Action Fund.

The Blue Tsunami Swept Doctors and Scientists Into Office

More than 80 percent of congressional candidates backed by the pro-science PAC 314 Action won, including Michigan senator-elect and epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed.

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Liang HM@taiwanworldhistory.org · 6d ago

王定宇TingYu Wang@tingyu-wang.bsky.social · 7d ago

高金素梅叛國遭起訴求刑14年，涉收1.7億為中共發展組織，為中共阻擋國防預算和國安立法。 檢方查出，高金素梅還涉及依照中共官員指示，在立法院反對軍購案、影響法案審議等，干擾我國議事運作。 目前仍在逃的張俊傑，是高金素梅的大帳房，負責安排原民團體相關人員前往中國，接受統戰訓練，滲透原民部落地區，試圖作為「第五縱隊」使用！ 檢方查出，高金及其辦公室前後任主任張俊傑、陳智葟、助理林怡君，涉自2005年至2016年間起，將部落工作隊及國會團隊統合成「祖靈之邦團隊」，採「一套人馬，兩塊招牌」手法，引進中共巨額資金（約新台幣1億7千萬餘元）為中共發展組織。