Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"All mimsy were the borogoves..." Avid reader, occasional world traveler, raises chickens in Texas.
Interested in #Books #SFF #Photography #Travel #Nature #Science #Journalism #News #USPolitics #USPol #Ukraine #Etymology and other things.

I create threads of news articles I find interesting, and occasionally share a #GiftArticle #GiftLink so those without subscriptions can read the whole article.

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2025-09-04 18:47:35 UTC

"That small boat was attacked off the coast of #Venezuela which is over a 1000 nautical miles away from here. The #UnitedStates was obviously well out of range of that boat...
This civilian, non-military #boat was not struck in self-defense... they just summarily killed everybody on board...
extrajudicial murder...
Whatever pretext this admn may claim, this looks for all the world like a flagrant violation of #US & international #law”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyNxeMIIF94
#Trump #Hegseth #Politics #News

2025-09-04 01:17:12 UTC

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Trump arranged for US military jets to do flyovers during the Epstein survivors' press conference. He was trying to drown out the survivors' voices. Trump failed. His attempt only showed how desperate he is to distract from the #EpsteinFiles.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/operation-squirrel
#Trump #Epstein #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinSurvivors #Press #Media #News #EditorialCartoon #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #US #USA #UnitedStates #GOP #MAGA #Republicans
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2025-08-21 07:11:23 UTC

"We've officially reached the "show me your papers" phase of Trump's fascist takeover."
-Marisa Kabas
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lwutywcay22g
#Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #UnitedStates #America #US #USA
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2025-08-20 05:26:24 UTC

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"Many of these #Americans don’t even trust their own experience—at least not first and foremost... How do they get their sense of what’s what out there?... by scrolling their #apps and soaking in the #algorithm...
Why do #Republicans think #America in general—and its cities in particular—have a massive raging #crime problem? Because their scroll surfaces them a parade of crime content... and a barrage of right-wing influencers"
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-wants-cop-violence-in-your-feed
#Trump #Politics #SocialMedia #News #US
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2025-08-17 02:29:03 UTC

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@nprofile…efkj
"Federal Agent in D.C.: “Proud Boys? They’re great guys. They love the United States.”"
You cannot claim to "love the United States" when you fear and hate half of the people who make up the United States.
White nationalists are NOT patriots. They are cowards who hate the idea of equality, liberty and justice for all that the USA stands for.
Racists are not patriots, they are simply fear-filled bigots.
#Memes #Quotes #Racism #Bigotry #ICE #Trump
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2025-08-14 21:46:03 UTC

"Although the notion that #Trump is making colossal sums off the Presidency has become commonplace, nobody could tell me how much he’s made. Norm Eisen, a #government ethics lawyer... said, “We don’t know the full amounts.”
...
A more considered accounting seemed in order. I decided to attempt to tally up just how much Trump and his immediate family have pocketed off his time in the #WhiteHouse."
https://archive.ph/Z9rQ1#selection-567.0-571.170
#Corruption #DonaldTrump #GOP #USPol #News #Press #US #USA
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2025-07-30 12:28:40 UTC

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"Whether our mother was there in body or not - we are all second, third & fourth generation to victims of #starvation & extermination. And the one commandment the victims left us, all of us, is simple: #NeverAgain
...
But in 2025, the #Israeli army, on orders from the political echelon, is destroying #Gaza & exterminating its population...
Gaza's besieged population has also been deliberately & systematically starved."
https://robertreich.substack.com/i/169603272/silence-in-the-face-of-gazas-starvation-is-absolute-betrayal-of-holocaust-victims
#Israel #WarCrimes #Politics #News #WorldNews
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2025-06-01 22:48:46 UTC

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"When financial regulators are picked for ideology rather than expertise, markets fail... When disease researchers must pledge fealty to political positions, public #health suffers. The consequences won't be abstract—they'll be measured in lives lost and futures destroyed.
For 142 years, the merit-based civil service survived because both parties recognized that functional #government requires professional expertise. That consensus is dead."
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dismantle-a-democracy-one
#Trump #GOP #Politics #USA
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2025-06-01 22:40:54 UTC

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"While 19th-century patronage was transparently transactional— #jobs for political support—this iteration comes wrapped in #Orwellian language about "merit."
The contradictions are glaring. Applicants must explain their "commitment to the #Constitution" while pledging to "advance the President's Executive Orders"—but what happens when those orders violate the Constitution? The structure makes clear which loyalty matters more."
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dismantle-a-democracy-one
#Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA
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2025-06-01 22:17:55 UTC

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"Under this plan, every federal #job applicant... must now write essays explaining how they would "advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities."
...The hiring reforms aims to complete the systematic takeover of the federal #government as outlined in #Project2025 taken directly from the #Authoritarian playbook... A merit-based civil service that took generations to build is being dismantled via memo."
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dismantle-a-democracy-one
#Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
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