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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Surely it's only a matter of time before a US civilian injures or shoots a masked, unidentified "ICE agent" who is in the process of kidnapping someone in a public space?

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Well-meaning economists who are conceding that Trump's tax cuts will "no doubt stimulate growth, the question is by how much" should all hang their heads in shame, because they fail to account for the foundational economic principle: the law of diminishing returns.

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Concentration camps (with merch!). Gestapo. Forever War. Genocide. A system of indentured serfdom, slavery, for farm workers seized by ICE. A useless corporate press championing this descent into racist, violent fascism. What a shitty July 4th, America

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I feel like the odds of a US debt crisis within the next decade is now better than a coin toss.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

On Monday of this week, Hamas' Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip published an updated list of those killed in the war, a 1,227-page chart, arranged from youngest to oldest. The Arabic-language document includes the deceased person's full name, the names of the father and grandfather, date of birth and ID number.
Unlike previous lists, this compilation notes the precise age of children who were under the age of one year when they were killed. Mahmoud al-Maranakh and seven more children died on the same day they were born. Four more children were killed on the day after they entered the world, five others lived to the age of two days. Not until page 11, following 486 names, does the name appear of the first child who was more than six months old when he was killed.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

When lawlessness is permitted it encourages further lawlessness. If justice is not allowed under law then it can only be gained extra-legally.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

From now on I’m going to refer to the Trump admin as the “US regime” because that’s honestly what they deserve.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Raf Epstein rips into “friends & colleagues” in the media for not asking “whether or not what Israel is doing is illegal” in Iran & “not even asking questions about what the intelligence is” Phil Coorey “I don’t think they care” Epstein “But that’s the problem!”💥 #ABCInsiders

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Further demonstration of the Trump admin's inability to do any 2nd order thinking is how Trump's two-facedness when it comes to his Iran "peace talks" will inevitably persuade any trade partners (esp. China) that nothing he says can ever be trusted & they should always prepare for the worst.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Thinking very much about this today re. Israel

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Why do accessories design even bother making clutches that can’t fit a smartphone?

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Just bringing this pre-election tweet back.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The US and Israel are apparently the only two countries in the world who are allowed to attack another sovereign nation preemptively, illegally, without international condemnation, under the fuzzy rationale of “self-defence.”

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 16/06/2025

Australia has an opportunity to get out of AUKUS. We should take it. We ask the Albanese Government to prioritise Australia's interests and security, and to join the UK and the US Governments in undertaking an independent parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS. ✍️ Add your name: theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Kind of hoping DJT goes full Putin and throws Musk in jail. That might be the wake up call America’s oligarchs need.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

If my arithmetic is not mistaken, this throws the Liberal party leadership vote into question.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Each international student is like a small business making a decision on where to invest up to hundreds of thousands of dollars for the next 4 years, and DJT is telling them the US is not a bet worth taking.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

If Trump has his way, he'll throw the US economy into a crisis as sharp and as brutal as Venezuela's. Good luck trying to find a country to accept all your economic refugees then.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

About time Moodys faced reality. Fitch downgraded the US’s credit rating in 2023 and S&P back in 2011.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

While the US tariffs effects have yet to flow onto the cost of consumer goods yet, I expect them to do a real number on the influencer + socmed advertising economy, in a way that will be noticeable to anyone on FB/IG.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I wonder if a schism in the Catholic Church would go about as well for the US as its current administration’s attempt to wage a trade war against the rest of the world.

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Sameer Ketkar @socraticsandal.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm guessing Tony Gilroy didn't want to revisit his past work. He wrote a great and unheralded feature film called BEIRUT that's an adult spy drama dealing with how Beirut went from the Paris of the Middle East to a wartorn place.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I’m enjoying the Ghorman storyline on Andor, but can’t help feeling they really missed a vital opportunity by going with the most obvious and familiar comparisons to the French resistance instead of less familiar anti-colonial struggles eg Beirut the “Paris of the Middle East.”

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

If RFK Jr believes in the miasma theory of disease then surely he would be strongly pro-masks?

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Feeling a real need to rewatch Michael Winterbottom's Thomas Hardy adaptation "The Claim" all of a sudden.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

When US farmers overproduce because of mechanisation and economies of scale it’s a virtue but when Chinese manufacturing does it it’s an attack?

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

1/Just back from 2 weeks in Asia. US engaged in the most far reaching attempt to restructure the global economy in a century and we have hit the omnishambles portion of the program: undermining US economic security and weaken US credibility in the world. fortune.com/article/trum...

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Trump had a ‘test case’ for trade negotiations with Japan. The failure to reach a deal now has analysts wondering if any will be signed

Trump’s team had hoped for some quick wins when it came to tariff negotiations. That’s looking increasingly unlikely.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Within the context of general propaganda and government PR over the years, it's fascinating to me that even US centrist media are now solidly saying that China's statements on trade war talks (or lack thereof) are more believable that the White House's.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

in canadian culture, publicly calling their prime minister "governor" and saying they're "ripping us off" and you want to annex them is not received as the joke it clearly is. few know this.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The two most significant inciting incidents on ANDOR are caused by petty sexual jealousy, meaning Cassian Andor became one of the most important people to ever live in the Star Wars galaxy because of how hot Diego Luna is.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 21/04/2025

With Andor Season 2 dropping tomorrow, it's worth recalling that Season 1 contained the best bit of writing ever in Star Wars.

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Just watched a bunch of finance reporters and analysts discuss whether investors should be treating the US like an "EM". That would be "emerging market".

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

How on earth is this movie already 22 yo?????

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I know a lot of US business and economic reporters probably don't know a whole lot about economic history or developing countries but let's just say central bank independence is a pretty important cornerstone of good governance and stability in western democracies.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 17/04/2025

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

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Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut

The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Unstoppable force, meet immovable object.

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SJ Worrier @sjworrier.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Sarah Kendzior knew and no one with power wanted to listen. Everything she said has been proven true. Our so-called democracy has fallen apart like wet toilet paper while the cowards with power sit around reassuring us that it will magically survive if we just wish hard enough.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Businesses operating in China plus expats like me have been aware of China's capital controls for decades, but this is the first clear explanation of it I've seen in Western media. Well worth a view. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBTg...

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Is Trump right about China manipulating its currency? | About That

YouTube video by CBC News

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Fascinating conversation about the realities of manufacturing in the US and what it would take to develop a manufacturing base for consumer goods—including housing for engineers, VC financing, state/local incentives, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P8U...

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What an American Stove Maker Wants You to Know About US Manufacturing | Odd Lots

YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Repost now that a total ban on rare earths and critical minerals to the US is in effect.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I think Australia should scrap #AUKUS completely, but someone should definitely calculate how much more those submarines are going to cost if the tariffs on inputs are going to stick around.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Chinese leader going to Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia on one of his rare international trips, while Trump waits for foreign envoys to come pay obeisance to him in Washington.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Unrealistic top-down quotas with highly punitive repercussions if unmet leading to local abuse. Another reminder of the Cultural Revolution.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Trump is playing FAFO with the rest of the world.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

As always, I’m reminded of the rhetorical game hospital administrators during the early pandemic had to play. They were never “out of masks” or “overwhelmed,” instead they were eternally “at risk of being overwhelmed”.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

He didn't know the exemptions were coming and he has no idea how long they'll last. Nobody does, we're all just supposed to dance around the Mad King until bond markets treat us like the unpredictable pariah state we've become.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

In hindsight, Trump ripping up the US-Iran nuclear deal should have been a sign to world leaders that while he loves a deal, he does not accept that he can ever be bound by them.

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Diana @dianaliwen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

US media finally catching on to significance of China weaponising its production of rare earth minerals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAUa...

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Chinese Rare Earth Shipments Held Up as Trade War Upends Exports

YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts

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