Some news--my first book is coming out from @RepeaterBooks in January! It's fiction, but drawing from the experiences of my early 20s as a young activist in the Sunflower Movement, Occupy Wall Street, the founding of @newbloommag, and beyond.

It's tonight! Will be moderating, should be a great conversation.

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Saw this meme about the Holy Trinity and about national literatures outside of a church

Why did LTN choose this photo???

Unfortunate to see this kind of action against migrant workers on campuses.

Somewhat light on details on Taiwanese civil society, but probably not wrong overall--the big difference, of course, as to what changed Ukraine is Crimea, and Taiwan has not had such a moment.

Interesting read on what happens with activists become policymakers.

RT @newbloommag: 🗓️📢We now have an "events" page on our website 🥳

It's encouraging to hear of major Taiwanese unions unionizing migrant workers, something they did not do in the past--even if this is due to declining union numbers. But unsurprising there are efforts to impede this .

Er, what of the destruction of every last hospital? All the journalists killed? All the children starved to death? Ever think about how Drew in another lifetime would be a really great tankie, what with his apologism for Israel's ethnic cleansing? Can just swap it out to whoever

Strait Talk Okinawa is recruiting participants! I attended Strait Talk Tokyo last year and I strongly recommend it, Okinawa is very important perspective to bring into cross-strait conversations. There's an explainer session this week.

Could be big. Keelung deputy mayor testifies she handed over 200 million in political donations to the TPP to Ko Wen-je personally from Keelung mayor George Hsieh and the chair of the Mandarin Oriental but the money may not have gone in TPP’s account .

For all the pan-Blue claims that it was all just DPP propaganda, the show has proven to have a deep interest in understanding perspectives from opposing political views. This, ironically, makes it all the more interesting to watch after the failure of the recalls.

Hm, the second episode of Zero Day was significantly better than the first. Which I guess is what happens with anthology works. The focus is a sympathetic, humanistic character study of a young man who ends up becoming part of a pro-China gang group.

So more security checks for Hongkongers, yet again?.

Probably true, though I would prefer to hear it from a leader of the Philippines who is not the son of a murderous dictator.

Yeah, maybe DPP politicians should try to avoid sounding like Ko Wen-je?.

Oh, so now we know rather certainly what Huang wants to do to keep in the limelight if he steps down from TPP chair.

As usual, nobody wants to announce first they want such a position. Yet I wonder what Lu is planning, she definitely wants to run for president but it's also possible she wants someone else to handle the chairship.

Ko's detention extended again for another two months.

Looking forward to this talk with Wei Yang a great deal.