The best thing Taiwan’s central government can do in the face of the all the changes made by the legislature… is to give them full credit.

RT @michaelturton: @commiepommie Taiwan has never been part of China. Is not now, and is not under int'l law. Taiwan people do not want to….

RT @michaelturton: We are on track to have less than 100K babies this year. Another win for the construction-indust….

RT @michaelturton: The 8/23 election talk-talk has been focused on the Recalls. But there is also a referendum on re-opening the nuke plant….

I don’t know why Donald Trump is spending 200 million tax-payer dollars on a room in the White House to hold his balls… when the Halls of Congress seem to be doing quite a fine job of it.

RT @michaelturton: Excellent.

RT @michaelturton: "This is a colossal strategic error. Lai was specifically flying through the US to visit three Latin American countries….

RT @michaelturton: Canceling Lai is very public, but this prolly more important

RT @michaelturton: election maps for recent recall.

RT @michaelturton: I think I will just keep reposting this. "In 2001 Taiwanese historian Lee Hsiao-Feng (李筱峰) observed in an article in t….

Someone is threatened by strong women.

You know who they fear for who they attack. The lack of awareness in his own gatekeeping is astounding. There are many ways of holding our multiple and overlapping identities. The local leaps to make literacy a prerequisite for national and ethnic identifications… wow!.

RT @kevincarrico: I don’t want to over-dramatize, but in the grand scheme of things, I think that the recall results are definitely cause f….

Lots of people lining up this afternoon.

A little rain never hurt anyone… but a bad government has.

Just in time the KMT reminds the nation why a mass recall movement is necessary after rejecting seven judicial nominees. The timing couldn’t be better.

RT @michaelturton: Excellent recall backgrounder.

RT @michaelturton: KMT refuses to fund Taipower debt subsidies. KMT put in the biggest electricity price cut ever in 2016 just before the D….

When your entire party remains afloat upon a raft of Chinese money… your platform will undoubtedly drift far from popular opinion.

Cycling Taiwan’s Rift Valley: Yuli to Hualien

There was something really great about sharing my memories of this man’s grandmother… to tell him I’ve carried these memories and stories with me all these years long after she died. He was so pleased.