this week’s popular posts
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US secretary of state Marco Rubio was able to accompany Trump on his brief visit to Beijing despite being under sanctions from China —a man... -
A couple of times in recent history the US chairman of the joint chiefs of the armed forces have stepped in to prevent, the last time tha... -
Further rubbishing the Iranian response to the US fourteen-point peace plan, calling the proposal stupid and “a piece of garbage” he did not... -
Via tmn , we appreciated this corresponding pair of brief encounters that reporter Adam Nayman shares on the entertainment beat of departe... -
Illustrated by AI generated images with the off-the-shelf prompt “lovely knitting” to demonstrate not only the lack of understanding that... -
all roads lead south : US Democrats disadvantaged further by gerrymandering and redistricting reversals ahead of mid-term elections with rul... -
Via Clive Thompson’s latest linkfest (lots more to discover there), we discover this catalogue of scores of visual phenomena and optical i... -
Though we couldn’t quite place the memory at first something familiar about this intriguing side-quest from the Allusionist hooked us im... -
Taking a pragmatic approach to the region, China lobbies for a lasting ceasefire for the region and oppose the militarisation of the Strait... -
Courtesy of friend of the blog, Nag on the Lake , we are introduced to the 1957 experimental demonstration, one of the first uses of ...