Eric Kohn 🥃
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Eric Kohn 🥃
@iEricKohn
CEO @AFempowers | Former @ActonInstitute & @IllinoisPolicy | Editor/Podcaster @BlueshirtBanter | Producer, THE HONG KONGER #FreeJimmyLai | #NYR #RepBX #GoIrish
- Today, human rights activist and publisher Jimmy Lai will walk into a courtroom in Hong Kong to be tried on charges under the CCP-imposed National Security Law. The outcome is predetermined. We are about to bear witness to a travesty of justice. #FreeHongKong #FreeJimmyLai 1/
00:00 - Today marks the 35 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The Chinese Communist Party's crackdown on pro-democracy protestors changed the course of modern history. It also changed Jimmy Lai's life, putting him on a collision course with the CCP. 1/
00:00 - Hong Kong has passed new national security legislation. Yes, again. The new Article 23 takes the brute force of the 2020 National Security Law currently being used to persecute Jimmy Lai and turns the government repression up to 11. 1/
00:00 - “Aaron Judge has left the game with a wrist injury”
- Today is Jimmy Lai's 76th birthday. He should be spending it celebrating with his family and friends. Instead, he sits in a jail cell in Hong Kong, awaiting his third trial on bogus charges, set to begin December 18. It's the very definition of injustice. 1/
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00:00- Today marks 1,000 days in prison for Jimmy Lai. The Chinese Communist Party will try to tell you that he's a fraudster and a seditious collaborator with foreign forces. They're lying. Jimmy's crimes are committing acts of journalism and telling the truth. #FreeJimmyLai 1/
00:00 - Replacing Kevin McCarthy with Steve Scalise and the point of that is/was ... what?STEVE SCALISE is the House Republican's nominee for speaker of the House. 113-99
- San Francisco really shit the sidewalk here
- NO BRISKET, NO PEACE NO BRISKET, NO PEACEJust occupied the local BBQ joint and indignantly demanded brisket on vague human-rights grounds. Will update you all as necessary.
- Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay, as designated by the @UN. It's a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom. One place that has lost that commitment is Hong Kong, where Jimmy Lai is on trial for committing acts of journalism 1/
00:00 - “Price controls will win elections! Hugo Chavez never lost one of his!” - Sohrab, probably
