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Lev Nachman
@lnachman32
Political scientist. Assistant Professor
@nccu1927
. Formerly
@FairbankCenter
@UCIrvine
. I study political participation & protest. He/him.
Taipei City, Taiwanlnachman.comJoined April 2010
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Scott Kurashige
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Whatever we learn next, please be clear you can’t understand places like Monterey Park without Asian American Studies research the mainstream generally ignored for years. Tim Fong wrote this book 29 years ago. tupress.temple.edu/books/the-firs
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Scott Kurashige
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Here’s a BBC report of the mass shooting in Monterey Park near Lunar New Year festival site because over 3 hours after the incident, I could not find any national news reports from major U.S. print or broadcast media. (LA Times has headline coverage.) bbc.com/news/world-us-
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Shoutout to Taiwan’s convenience store staff working through the Lunar New Year holiday. They deserve a giant 🧧and better wages for everything they do to keep Taiwan running.
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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤
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This epic's been making the rounds and for good reason: medium.com/@SamTaiwan/fro It's a brutal exploration of Taiwan's hostile bureaucracy and, for anyone (including myself) who has their own horror tales of what it took to stay here, an emotional rollercoaster from start to end.
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From Taiwan Gold Card to Taiwanese Citizenship
I became a Taiwanese citizen in April 2022, which was one of the biggest achievements of my life. I obtained citizenship after five years…
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Anne Meng
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🚨NEW PAPER ALERT!!
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and I are excited to share our new working paper “Subjective and Objective Measurement of Democratic Backsliding.” 🔥Our hot take🔥: Contrary to the current narrative, we DON’T find evidence that we are in a period of global democratic decline 🧵1/
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The change in rhetoric could be a sign of Lai hoping to reassure the international community that he will be as pragmatic as Tsai, but until this is in the DPP's English language messaging, I'd say its more domestic audience oriented than international.
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After the DPP’s local election loss, perception is that 抗中保台 is no longer mobilizing voters like it did in 2020. 和平保台 is less China-centered and feels less existential (in a good way!) Regardless it’s one of the more interesting outcomes of the local elections.
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The DPP has started replacing its 抗中保台 slogan with 和平保台. It’s become part of the new party chair William Lai’s go-to phrases, and will likely be central to the DPP’s campaign rhetoric as the next national election gets closer.
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Ari Kohen
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Morons in the Nebraska legislature hate lgbtq people so much that they’re well on their way to outlawing high schoolers from seeing performances of Shakespeare.
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Erin Reed
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Nebraska comes out with its first anti-trans bill and its a doozy. It is a drag ban that targets trans people. People under 21 years old can't see drag. It defines drag as trans people performing. It would charge trans people with misdemeanors. What on EARTH?
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Section 1. (1) For purposes of this section drag show means a performance in which:2 3 (a) The main aspect of the performance is a performer which exhibits 4 a gender identity that is different than the performer's gender assigned 5 at birth using clothing, makeup, or other physical markers; and 6 (b) The performer sings, lip syncs, dances, or otherwise performs before an audience for entertainment.7 8 (2)(a) No individual under nineteen years of age shall be present at 9 a drag show. Any person nineteen years of age or older who knowingly 10 brings an individual under nineteen years of age to a drag show shall be guilty of a Class I misdemeanor.11 12 (b) No individual under twenty-one years of age shall be present at 13 a drag show if alcoholic liquor is being served at such location. 14 (3)(a) Any business, establishment, or nonprofit that hosts a drag 15 show and allows an individual (i) under nineteen years of age in 16 violation of subdivision (2)(a) of this section or (ii) under
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Emily Feng 冯哲芸
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A publishing editor. An accountant and rock music fan. Young journalists. A techno fan who happened to be at a bar near the Liangma River when protestors held a peaceful vigil against Zero Covid on November 27. Now they - almost all women- are arrested.
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China's authorities are quietly rounding up people who protested against COVID rules
Residents held vigils to commemorate people who have died in lockdown. Several have been arrested.
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Yen: “Regardless of COVID’s origin as a lab leak or from nature, we need better research for when the next pandemic comes so we can be better prepared, because another pandemic will happen.” Fwiw, Yen Pottinger seems reasonable and is trying to push back where she can.
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Yen said “You wouldn’t believe it, in the US we still had to fax information to offices! We still use fax machines! Some people here might not remember what those are!” *Laughs in Taiwanese bureaucracy*
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Moderator asking “the US failed miserably in response to COVID, why? What went wrong?” “Biden is failing in the same way as the previous administration!” Mostly non answers. Vague mentions of institutional failing, CDCs fault. Won’t name Trump to be at fault. Embarrassing.
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In the event moderator’s defense, she immediately turned to Matt’s wife, a virologist, and asked what she thought as an expert. The room laughed, and she did a polite “I slightly disagree.”
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Pottinger: “Letting experts decide policy is akin to autocracy.” What the fuck?
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Lmao hearing them talk about how masks are important and how there was “confusion” in America over masks 🤔 Where did American confusion over masks come from I wonder???
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Hearing Pottinger speak about how wildly unprepared China is to open, how many will suffer from COVID because of weak health institutions and a lack of governmental preparedness is jarring. Not because he’s wrong, it’s just the Trump admin he advised did the *exact* same thing.
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Lev Nachman
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Enoch does so much for Taiwan’s military and civil society preparedness, it feels like the DPP did him a disservice by running him now. I hope he gets on the party list for the next election cause he deserves to have a seat in the Legislative Yuan.
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