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Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense issued a confusing text message alert in response to a Chinese satellite launch

newbloommag.net/2024/01/09/mis

#Taiwan #TaiwanElection

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Richard Bush's analysis of Taiwan's presidential election

"quality-of-life issues are more salient than China once was. To put it differently, China and domestic concerns are always entangled in complicated ways. The presidential candidates are each in their own way trying to reassure voters regarding China while promising policies to improve the quality of life."

brookings.edu/articles/explain

#Taiwan #TaiwanElection

Whew! That UNC-Dook football game was a barn burner. Go Heels!

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Looks like is having issues. My push to GitHub keeps failing. I haz a sad.

I asked the stewardess for a glass of red wine. She said "shiraz or cab". I replied "cab". She said "That's what I thought. You look like you drink cabernet sauvignon". I guess I'll take that as a compliment.

Day 2 of our golf trip. We played Mid Pines and Pinehurst #4. The conditions at Mid Pines were phenomenal. #4 kicked my butt.

Day 1 of our golf trip done. Played Pine Needles and Southern Pines. My phone says I walked 14 miles.

Back in North Carolina listening to @superchunk . Doesn’t get much better than that.

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I suppose the upside for Barr and Durham is that this NYT story does not have any information about them standing over a corpse that they murdered in cold blood. Other than that it's an unmitigated disaster. nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/poli

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This means he's heard even worse shit than we have.

RT @ABC@twitter.com

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says that he "always" had some questions related to now-Rep. George Santos' resume amid ongoing revelations about the lies and embellishments by the freshman lawmaker from New York. trib.al/VOHJSW9

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