memeorandum: Rare protests against China's ‘zero covid’ policy erupt across country (Lily Kuo/Washington Post)

2:15 AM ET, November 28, 2022

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Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests — For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's radically reduced anti-propaganda team grappled on Sunday with a flood of nuisance content …

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New York Times:

Deadly Fire in China Fuels Protests Over Xi's Covid Policies — Protests became rare once the government cut off most routes to collective action. But ubiquitous Covid rules, bringing shared suffering, have created a focus for anger. — The fire began with a faulty power strip in a bedroom …

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Lily Kuo / Washington Post:

Rare protests against China's ‘zero covid’ policy erupt across country — Protests erupted in cities and on campuses across China this weekend as frustrated and outraged citizens took to the streets in a stunning wave of demonstrations against the government's “zero covid” policy and the leaders enforcing it.

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Yuan Yang / Financial Times:

China's zero-Covid protests create a rare nationwide coalition of interests — Both factory workers and urban elites oppose a policy that the Communist party has no easy way to abandon — Every day, somewhere in China, there is a local protest going on. The country sees hundreds of strikes a year …

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Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:

Chinese Protests Spread Over Government's Covid Restrictions — Demonstrations have erupted in Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities — Protests are erupting in major cities in China over President Xi Jinping's zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19, an unusual show of defiance in the country …

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Reuters:
Blank sheets of paper become symbol of defiance in China protests

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Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:

Key Trump 2024 Rivals Silent After His White Supremacist Meeting — Many of Donald Trump's potential 2024 rivals and some top Republicans have fallen silent on the former president's dinner with a notorious white supremacist, illustrating the party's continuing struggle to escape his grasp.

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Andrew Solender / Axios:

GOP lawmakers hushed on Trump's dinner with white nationalist … - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said in a statement to Axios: “Republicans who continue to remain silent become complicit in legitimizing bigotry and hate when the leader of their own party mainstreams fringe white nationalists and antisemites.”

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Jackie Shafer / Zionist Organization of America:

ZOA Deplores Pres. Trump for Dining with Jew-Haters Kanye West & Nick Fuentes, and Demands he Condemn Them — Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, a child of holocaust survivors, released the following statement: … President Trump's stirring call to the entire nation …

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Rebecca Morin / USA Today:
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:

The far right is losing. That's why America has never been so dangerous. — “Tis the season, apparently. Pre-Thanksgiving travelers who clogged the busy Gate D10 at Seattle-Tacoma International were shocked — although maybe slightly less shocked than they would have been five years ago …

Ben Smith / Semafor:

Junot Díaz in limbo — Your Email addressSign Up — It took a bit of persuading to get the writer Junot Díaz to meet me at the McNally Jackson bookstore on Spring Street in Manhattan last Saturday. Once inside, he pulled his Detroit Tigers cap low over his eyes and pretended to browse the nonfiction paperbacks table.

Deepa Bharath / Associated Press:

Asian faiths try to save swastika symbol corrupted by Hitler — Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building's co-op board calling her Diwali decoration “offensive” and demanding she take it down. — “My decoration said ‘Happy Diwali’ and had a swastika on it …

Bill Barrow / Associated Press:

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David Siders / Politico:

Republicans shrug off Trump '24 bid: 'The excitement's just not there' — Donald Trump's lackluster campaign announcement was one thing. His real problem is fast becoming the collective shrug Republicans have given him in the week-plus since. — Far from freezing out potential competitors …

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David Smith / The Guardian:
‘They will bend the knee’: Lincoln project cofounder cautions against dismissing Trump

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Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Can Ron DeSantis ride the culture war to the White House?

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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:

Meet the Voters Who Fueled New York's Seismic Tilt Toward the G.O.P. — Republicans used doomsday-style ads to prey on suburban voters' fear of crime in New York, helping to flip enough seats to capture the House. — GREAT NECK PLAZA, N.Y. — Lynn Frankel still has bouts of nostalgia for her old life …

Sean Ingle / The Guardian:

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Washington Post:

After more than 600 mass shootings this year, let's be honest about guns — The mass shootings that plague this nation are a uniquely American jumble of contradictions. Each new one horrifies, and yet fits into a depressingly familiar pattern. Communities count the dead …

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