I resigned from Trump's DOJ in Feb when I was pressured to drop NYC Mayor Adams' case. NOTUS reports that since Trump took office, my section, Public Integrity, went from 36 people investigating public corruption to TWO. Who benefits? Corrupt politicians.

Join us tomorrow (Oct 10) for an evening where people, ideas and creativity come together! CONVERGE BKK brings together professionals and creatives across business, science, technology and the arts to spark new connections and collaborations. Details here fccthai.com/event/converge…

The Government is shut down, people are getting laid off, health care is becoming more expensive and the “ruling” family is out promoting their next grift.

Trump busy updating the Stonehenge scene in the brilliant 1984 Spinal Tap movie. “And oh, how they the danced, the little children of Stonehenge ..” Spinal Tap

📣 Join us + NYU Wagner for a keynote conversation with Thant Myint-U—renowned historian, writer, and #NYUCIC Non-Resident Fellow—on his new book, Peacemaker. 🇺🇳 The book is a biography about U Thant, his grandfather, who led the United Nations through a time of great turbulence, risk, and

Tonight! At FCCThai

Paul Risley Spinal Tap

Our statement on the indictment of Murray Hunter, an Australian writer and blogger, by the Thai authorities. fccthai.com/news/fcct-stat…

What we are reading in Southeast Asia: “Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s” by UN historian, Thant Myint-U. A thrilling account of how the UN can be a force for peace and a driver of change - then and now. amazon.com/Peacemaker-Tha…

“As you deport people, that's going to suppress private job numbers of small businesses .. “ Lutnick trying to put a positive spin on a rare moment of candor.

Reading poolside: “Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s” by Thant Myint-U Riveting read of the UN and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam and the Six Day War. On sale now everywhere including 紀伊國屋書店 (Books Kinokuniya) 公式 bookstores. A GREAT gift for Christmas.

Stairway to nowhere, Wireless Road entrance to Lumpini Park, Bangkok. The staircase stone mason is listening to Burmese pop music on her phone while she works. Sean Boonpracong

Asian Openbill Stork in #Benjakitti Park. In the heart of #BANGKOK #Thailand #birding Sean Boonpracong

What a journalist. I remember him most for broadcast coverage of the 1991 Iraq War. FCCThai Annelie

SHARE THE ROAD: Kwais on their way home after a day in the rice fields, somewhere north of Khon Kaen #Thailand #NewYearsEve ⁦Sean Boonpracong⁩

Invoke the 25th Amendment please. P.S. Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 and you were both stellar in defense of normality at the jaipurlitfest

The Riverview. A great Montana noir thriller by Jamie Harrison.

Let's get back to when politics made sense.

I have been laid off today from the The Washington Post, along with most of the International staff and so many other wonderful colleagues. I’m heartbroken for our newsroom and especially for the peerless journalists who served the Post internationally — editors and correspondents

I don’t mind that Europeans frame the post-WW2 era as a “rules-based” “global order” that’s now seemingly crashing down. But it’s irritating that many don’t even see that this is a parochially European perspective - like the “Cold War” - and that for the vast majority of the