Big The New York Times investigation: A leading chain of psychiatric hospitals is luring patients in and then refusing to release them, even when detaining them is not medically justifiable. Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻‍♀️ Katie Thomas Virginia Hughes nytimes.com/2024/09/01/bus…

Klimt Eastwood.

🏜️ ⛈️ Parts of the #Sahara #desert is expected to receive 30-50 times the usual #rainfall expected in September, bringing in rain to an area that receives little to no rain during the course of the year. FRANCE 24's Environment Editor Valerie Dekimpe explains how it may play out ⤵️

A reminder that China, which has more Internet users than any country, has blocked Twitter since 2009.

Li Ka-shing's 1881 Heritage mall used to house tenants like Tiffany, Cartier and Chopard. Now only 3 out of more than 30 shops there are occupied. Elsewhere in #hongkong top shopping streets, rents have fallen as much as 90% as Chinese spending plunges bloomberg.com/news/features/…

NEW investigation: A look at how pro-Beijing diaspora groups and Chinese diplomats coordinated to repress anti-CCP protesters -- including through violence -- when Xi Jinping visited San Francisco for last Nov's APEC summit washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

First turbine at #RevolutionWind✅ An historic milestone for #RI and #CT’s clean energy journey and America’s first multi-state offshore wind farm. Siemens Gamesa revolution-wind.com/news/2024/09/r…

How China extended its repression into an American city - impressive and disturbing investigation by Shibani Mahtani and her colleagues at the The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

Wow. First turbine up at Revolution Wind . This project will supply power to Connecticut and Rhode Island. By my count, four offshore wind farms are under construction off the US East Coast (one for MA, one for NY, one for VA, and this one). Another, South Fork Wind , is already done.

Some of these early scenarios imagine county/state officials refusing, obstructing, or delaying certification of vote totals. That is a bad idea. Certification officials are like score keepers. They record results. They are not players or refs in a game, to make or challenge

new from the RNC co-chair.

Today is my first day as a China correspondent for The Washington Post! I will be in DC until the end of September, and then will be based in Taipei. Got ideas of China stories I should be covering/want to meet up in DC or Taipei? Email me at [email protected]

I'm delighted to announce that MIT SSP has received a transformative gift from the Stanton Foundation to create a Center for Nuclear Security Policy. And even more delighted that my long-time colleague, Vipin Narang, will serve as its first director. news.mit.edu/2024/mit-secur…

Tucker Carlson's video in a Russian grocery store was apparently deemed not subtle enough for a Russian influence operation.

The good news is there's someone out there with deep pockets willing to put real money into alternative media and actually pay their talent well. The bad news is that it's the Kremlin.

Liz Cheney at Duke: “As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.”

An unpopular view now but if you read “When McKinsey Comes to Town” you’ll see how, um, managerially challenged US Steel has been. Huge payouts to subpar CEOs. Adopting arguably deadly ideas from consultants. You’d think a competent Japanese owner might be an improvement.

Cheney officially endorses Harris:

BREAKING: The U.S. government charges former Trump 2016 campaign adviser Dimitri Simes with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds. apnews.com/article/trump-…

Never seen this. From a 1998 annual report for a HK company - Deng Xiaoping's son-in-law lists his address as Zhongnanhai (the leadership compound in central Beijing). When ya got it, flaunt it, I guess.