Reposted by Donald ClarkeCNN @cnn.com · 12hThe FBI arrested a 34-year-old California woman who has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent for China and allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president's son and his family, federal officials said. cnn.it/3VMrwqg 48526
Reposted by Donald ClarkeMarty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 14hSamuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."cbsnews.comThe Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justiceJustice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet. 3541517438
Reposted by Donald ClarkeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12hA 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability 472078735
Reposted by Donald ClarkeRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit 465142432845
Reposted by Donald ClarkeDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Denis Healey on David Owen 620246
Reposted by Donald ClarkeZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I keep seeing people say some version of "it used to be normal to politely disagree on things before the Internet," and I don't think that's right. It was and remains normal to not be a shithead in face-to-face communication. We just have less of that now, and WAY less with people we disagree with. 1734725
Reposted by Donald ClarkeNikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning 3663843741
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Our robot masters not quite ready to take over yet. 110
Reposted by Donald ClarkeDan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not even The Onion could make this up: Before deciding whether to intervene in Venezuela, Trump reportedly spent hours consulting an AI chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to his plan to invade the country and overthrow Maduro. 15338131
Reposted by Donald ClarkeEdward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There's much complaint about how all the press (and this interview) is negative, but this synopsis is incredibly generous. It's like saying Tristram Shandy is about a man and his Uncle Toby, or Infinite Jest concerns both tennis and Quebec. 123
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Document dated Nov. 14, 1933 from a local government in the Chinese Soviet Rep.: "Collect Shares from the Worker and Peasant Masses to Establish Consumer Cooperatives." It's indignant that shopkeepers, having been attacked essentially for being shopkeepers, stopped keeping shop. How dare they! 000
Reposted by Donald ClarkeKharis Templeman @kharist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My new article on Taiwan's slow-motion constitutional crisis is out today at the Journal of Democracy. The main theme: Taiwan's constitutional framework is poorly designed to handle divided government. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/ta...journalofdemocracy.orgTaiwan’s Deadlocked Democracy | Journal of DemocracyA wealthy, high-quality democracy has seized up. No populist, no stolen election—just divided government colliding with a constitution built for single-party rule. With Beijing watching… 054
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Xinjiang Victims Database is a very worthy cause that desperately needs support. If you cared about this stuff back in 2017 when the news first started leaking out, please don't let compassion fatigue affect you! www.gofundme.com/f/xinjiang-v...gofundme.comDonate to Xinjiang Victims Database Work, organized by Gene Bunin[The above photo is of the Kashgar night market, taken by the database curator in April 2018… Gene Bunin needs your support for Xinjiang Victims Database Work 064
Reposted by Donald ClarkeMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it. 512533
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you don't have time to read the book, check out the podcast. open.substack.com/pub/chinatal...open.substack.comLogan Wright on Broken China.5% growth...how did it get so bad? 020
Reposted by Donald ClarkeJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity. 1253240511
Reposted by Donald ClarkeIan Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 29/09/2026New way for trillionaires to debase themselves in breathless servitude to another man just dropped 4857097
Reposted by Donald ClarkeMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid 1343707488
Reposted by Donald ClarkeAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says 78882412034
Reposted by Donald ClarkeCake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The good news about this is every generation needs a series of movies about heists of nazi gold. The bad new about this is that we're the nazis. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...nytimes.comTrump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat. 616874
Reposted by Donald ClarkeMike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026For years we've heard that Biden created a "Ministry of Truth," which didn't actually happen. But, I still hear people talking about it. But then Trump directed his FCC boss to be a literal Minister of Truth and the story disappeared within a day or two. What are we even doing here? 6585173
Reposted by Donald ClarkeChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Earlier this evening a federal jury struck down a brazenly unconstitutional traffic stop scheme "that turned mass surveillance of American drivers into a pipeline of pretextual traffic stops and unconstitutional searches." ij.org/press-releas... 514256
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not sure there are *that* many, but it’s probably still in 8 digits. 031
Reposted by Donald ClarkeWalter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Woman accuses Idaho drag performer of exposing himself, uploads edited version of his act blurring out what she claims are his private parts. After he sues her for defamation, her appellate filings misstate and hallucinate Idaho law. Idaho Supreme Court upholds $1.1 million verdict in his favor.reason.com$1.1M Libel Award to Drag Performer Who Had Been Accused of Exposing Himself UpheldIdaho Supreme Court finds false caselaw quotations, after jury found false factual assertions. 13567109
Reposted by Donald ClarkeMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“I am a Dutch mother who did not give birth to children to send them to trenches!” Bad news the Russian Orthodox church is explicitly telling women to have children to send to trenches 726655
Reposted by Donald ClarkePhil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great research by @tesler.bsky.social on the GOP man crush on testosterone. I really loved this chart.goodauthority.substack.comRepublicans’ fascination with testosterone in three chartsWhy depictions of testosterone as a measure of manhood resonate with Republicans. 212130
Reposted by Donald ClarkeRyan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One note about this, because I was curious: remarkably, the state-level explanatory power of Google searches for testosterone and Trump vote survives controls for education, income, and rurality. 1126683
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Here's a good analysis by Feng Zhenghu of some problems in China's new exit-entry regulations. H/T to @gaodawei for the translation. davidcowhig.substack.com/p/2026-feng-...davidcowhig.substack.com2026: Feng Zhenghu | Those Words “May Refrain from Informing”: The Weight of Article 6 of the New Exit-Entry RegulationsSome other translations on law in China: 000
Reposted by Donald ClarkeAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac... 4954161200
Reposted by Donald Clarketruth-is-truth.bsky.social @truth-is-truth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So, ICE agents were "shocked and frustrated" that they were supposed to go after "the worst first" as opposed to cowardly and lazily rounding up landscapers, kitchen staff and maids? Did I read that crrectly? 46612
Reposted by Donald ClarkeShelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yuja Wang celebrated Glenn Gould’s birthday here in Toronto at his sculpture in front of the CBC building on Front Street. She looks deferential, attentive. There is Gould in her playing: his clarity, immaculate structural articulation, and a formal, unsentimental address. An entirely apt pairing. 062
Reposted by Donald ClarkeBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026ah there's the cowardice I know 1136854
Reposted by Donald ClarkeThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is a book about how completely unprincipled attention hounds will always make their way to the right because they know the right will have them. The NYMag piece? I guess that’s a story about how unprincipled attention hounds deserve attention as long as they’re shitting on democrats. 361314162
Reposted by Donald ClarkeDarren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"You see, they sign up for health care, they pay for health care, and then they don't *use* that health care. It's the perfect crime and they thought they were going to get away with it." 1431068
Reposted by Donald ClarkeJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 26/09/2026PSA from Gangsters of Capitalism 312330
Reposted by Donald ClarkeMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The match isn't "controversial." 🇮🇪 doesn't refuse to play against 🇨🇳, 🇷🇺, or any other country doing awful things or committing war crimes. They played against Yugoslavia under Milosevic & 🇷🇺 through Putin's many war crimes. Either you apply this standard equally to all countries in sports or you don't 3253
Reposted by Donald ClarkeBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wild. This should create a Streisand effect, which Dem ranking members can enhance by sending the companies document preservation demands. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 211198350
Reposted by Donald ClarkeThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The weakest, most pathetic sanewashing you will see. China really is laughing. Wow. 21716140
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Department of Ballsy Arguments That, Alas, Didn't Fly 100
Reposted by Donald ClarkeKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Will every Republican running for office be asked to disavow this Nazi supporter? 511120291
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026www.cartoonshateher.com/p/behind-eve...cartoonshateher.comBehind Every Left-Lib Is a KN95 Lesbian Bar ExperienceWhy are so many liberals and leftists loving a wacky story about dogmatic leftist bar patrons? Because everyone can relate. 000
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026donaldclarke.substack.com/p/a-1932-jud...donaldclarke.substack.comA 1932 judgment from a Chinese Soviet Republic court with a surprising twistTake a look at the 10th charge against the defendant 000
Reposted by Donald ClarkeAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026i once again ask what in the hell is going on with Trump's huge ass and the contraption he has on it 8563160620
Reposted by Donald ClarkeCongressional Asian Pacific American Caucus @capac.house.gov · 24/09/20263 days after DHS made a racist post saying, “you don’t know how to drive Mr. Singh,” a Sikh truck driver was stabbed 17 times at a Wyoming rest stop. Hateful rhetoric has real-world consequences, and it's putting Sikh and South Asian American lives at risk.nytimes.comA Sikh Truck Driver Was Stabbed at a Rest Stop. Others Feel Targeted Too. (Gift Article)A crackdown on immigrant commercial drivers and a DHS social media post targeting Sikh drivers preceded the attack, which has left the Sikh community deeply unsettled. 157
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just out: a Career China map from the amazing Career China newsletter. careerchina.substack.com/p/now-live-c...careerchina.substack.comNow Live: Career China Map 🌏I’m excited to share a new career resource developed by the team at Mapping Global China: an interactive, searchable map of every China job featured in this newsletter: 110