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Philippine Navy makes history firing an anti-ship cruise missile for the first time, integrating with U.S. forces to “simultaneously sense, target, strike & destroy” a decommissioned ship during a Maritime Strike exercise in the South China Sea, 7 May

【职业艺术家收入低】澳大利亚只有约10%的艺术家全职从事创作，其余超过90%的人主要收入来自其他与艺术相关的工作，例如教学，甚至与艺术创作无关的工作。近一半的职业艺术家从他们的创意作品中获得的年收入不到一万澳元。他们的平均年薪为54,500澳元，比全国平均年薪低了26%。

Rest of World spoke to more than a dozen employees who said that TikTok remains answerable to ByteDance rather than its international leadership.

Amazing and authoritative reporting from Caiwei Chen and Viola Zhou

restofworld.org/2024/tiktok-ch…

I study at the University of Queensland. Police were just called into campus because an anti-Zionist protester pissed in the office of a Jewish lecturer

theaustralian.com.au/nation/police-…

The level to which your society values freedom and what you're willing to do to keep it is directly correlated to how long you lived under Russians.

Macron welcomes Xi in France.

They want to kill Jews. They don't care if they are in Israel or Brazil.

That's what 🔻 stands for.

TikTok says the Chinese Communist Party won't allow it to be sold.

Clear proof Beijing has always controlled TikTok.

The speed at which things are getting worse in Georgia is alarming. A wave of brazen attacks on opposition politicians and government critics by plainclothes thugs tonight.

我出生在豫陕晋三省交界的农村，产煤。
从小天就是灰的，有时一摸鼻孔，就能抠出一坨煤渣。
跟《工厂》里的环境，不能说一模一样吧，也得说没有区别。
「我没有热爱这里，我只是出生在这个地方]。
这是我的心里话。
「我妈常说，她老了也会在这儿，但她不指望我会在这儿」。
这也是我妈的心里话。…

乌克兰国家安全局（SBU）逮捕了两名乌克兰国家卫队上校，指他们涉嫌参与俄罗斯暗杀乌克兰总统泽连斯基（Volodymyr Zelensky）和其他高级官员的阴谋。

乌克兰国家安全局称，两名上校属于俄罗斯联邦安全局（FSB）的特工网络，他们被以叛国罪逮捕。…

在母校的Wardlaw Museum看到了Parastou Forouhar ，一位現居德國的伊朗異見藝術家的作品。1998年，她的父母因反對伊朗政權而被謀殺。她母親的名字是Parvaneh，波斯語中蝴蝶的意思。每隻蝴蝶都喚起她的靈魂。在The Time of Butterflies中，你似乎被美麗所包圍。當你仔細觀察時，現實卻大不相同。…

For Dummies: How to bypass your own sanctions.
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😄 法国不远了 别捧了

Germany, France and other European countries are deploying ships and aircraft to the Pacific at an unprecedented scale, joining Japan and the U.S. on exercises in the South China Sea.
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter…

This op-ed by Dr. Dilnur Reyhan 🖋📚🌳🌈 reminds us that Europe isn't doing anything about the largest atrocity targeting an ethnoreligious group since the Holocaust:
'Welcoming Xi Jinping to France is a policy of complicity in the Uyghur genocide'
lemonde.fr/en/internation…

這是維權網每日的郵件推送，每天都有類似這樣的事在中國發生，只是大部分人不知道。

這樣的郵件，我看了快二十年了。

Y'all know that woman who posed for this photo during the #TblisiProtests in Georgia....

Ana Manidze, the woman behind the viral photo from the #TbilisiProtests , had this to say about Georgia Dream’s insults towards protesters:

I just interviewed her. Her name is Ana Minadze and she is a 20-year-old university student. Will post our full video later today on my Black Diplomats Substack.