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I profiled BYD, whose stratospheric rise to become the world's largest EV maker almost beggars belief.

No silver bullet transformed BYD into what it's become; rather, it achieved excellence in several areas all at once — and its competition isn't ready.
thewirechina.com/2023/06/18/byd…
One of the things I found most striking while reporting this piece:

In 2013, BYD's flagship EV, the e6, cost $49,000 b/f subsidies and had a 300km range.

In April, it released the Seagull, with an identical range, which starts at $11,000.

That's a 75% fall in $$ in 10 years. ImageImage
That ability to slash prices is possible in large part because BYD is incredibly vertically integrated.

That meant that while most of the auto industry was hobbled by the pandemic, BYD was spitting out cars.

Between Q1 '21 and Q1 '23, its sales increased more than 500%. ImageImage
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June is here, and so is our weekly list of stars who ruled your hearts, in this week’s edition of IMDb's Popular Indian Celebrities Feature 💛

The remaining list can be found on the IMDb app on iOS and Android 🍿

Who's your favorite? 🍿 Image
With the OTT release of Ponniyin Selvan 2 on @PrimeVideoIN and her birthday last week, Sobhita Dhulipala leads this week’s IMDb Popular Indian Celebrities Feature ⭐ Image
After making her web series debut as SI Anjali Bhaati in #Dahaad on @PrimeVideoIN and her birthday in the previous week, Sonakshi Sinha roars to #2 on this week’s IMDb Popular Indian Celebrities Feature! Image
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#SCOOP: More ASIAN HATE in #Seattle. Prosecutors say they charged WHITE HOMELESS man w/HATE CRIME after breaking nose of Chinese student near @cityu+allegedly yelling “China virus”+”Covid” at others. @SeattlePD w/arrest. Dropping story soon. @MayorofSeattle #StopAsianHate Image
WHAT SUSPECT TOLD POLICE: @SeattlePD says the suspect told officer that he sleeps in nearby #Belltown homeless encampment with his boyfriend. So much more in this court document. #Seattle #StopAsianHate Image
STORY I BROKE: Earlier this week, I reported on another Asian hate incident in #Seattle now gaining NATIONAL ATTENTION. This is not a good look for city, where Asian Americans now make up second largest minority group. @MayorofSeattle #StopAsianHate

news.yahoo.com/woman-filmed-g…
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#Scoop: Two major law enforcement agencies investigating #Pelosi attack can't agree on who opened the door once San Francisco police arrived:

Dept. of Justice:
"The 2 officers opened the door..."

SF DA's Office:
"Mr. Pelosi opened the door with his left hand..."
@nbcbayarea
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A source familiar w/ the investigation, who personally watched the police body camera video, tells us SF DA's office got it right, adding that the video shows police knocking the door, then backing away. Door then opens from the inside and you can see Paul Pelosi opening it.
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Does who opened the door matter? We have no reason to believe it does, but with so many conspiracy theories already swirling online, contradicting stories from investigators are only fueling falsehoods.
DOJ & DA's office did not respond to our request for comment.
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🧵#Exclusive #Scoop
1/ San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins sat down w/ us for a wide-ringing, one-on-one interview, her first since the election.
We spoke about the criticism she's facing, the Paul Pelosi attack, & her plans to end "lawlessness."

Let's break it down.
@nbcbayarea
2/ Jenkins says as DA, "all crime" is now considered illegal in San Francisco.

She says her predecessor Chesa Boudin (recalled by voters in June) ordered staff not to pursue charges for quality of life crimes (i.e. graffiti), resisting arrest, & certain assaults against cops.
3/ We contacted former District Attorney Chesa Boudin to get his response to Jenkins' criticism of his office.

I reached him by phone.

He answered.

I identified myself.

Then, Boudin hung up.
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#CeJourLà 15/10/1959 #FrançoisMitterrand fut victime d’un attentat-piège. Suivi par une voiture suspecte alors qu’il rentrait chez lui, il bondit hors de sa 403, enjamba la clôture du jardin de l’#Observatoire et se jeta dans l’herbe tandis que sa 403 était mitraillée 1/12 ⤵️
Le 22/10/1959, #RobertPesquet instigateur de l’attentat, révélait, preuves à l’appui, qu’il avait prévenu sa victime et mis au point avec elle le déroulement des événements. 2/12 ⤵️
#FrançoisMitterrand, opposant à #CDG, était alors harcelé : incendie de sa villa, explosifs sur son palier, menaces sur ses enfants. Paris Presse annonçait l’arrivée de tueurs. Pesquet lui prétendit que sa propre vie était en jeu s’il ne montait pas un attentat contre lui.3/12 ⤵️
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Heh @KariLake, what island is that ?

And who is your friend Barbra. I only know one Barbra.

She seems to be a Trump hater:
people.com/music/barbra-s…
Never mind my second question. Figured it out.

#BarbraSeville taught Kari Lake everything she knows about make-up. Image
Barbra Seville: Arizona's #1 Drag Queen
gigsalad.com/barbra_seville…
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Well that was truly awesome. A presentation from a medical student Maddie Pritchard from Aberdeen on the effects of social deprivation on outcomes for frail older patients.

A complex subject! #bgsconf #SDOH (social determinants of health). ImageImageImageImage
I’ll tweet some of Maddie’s graphs. Some fascinating results, that aren’t straightforward to explain….

#bgsconf Image
Check them out. It’s complicated because frail people in some parts of Scotland are younger than in some other parts. So judging outcomes related to age and frailty vs deprivation is complicated.

#SDOH #bgsconf ImageImageImageImage
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FOLLOWING UP ON MY #SCOOP:

@SeattlePD sent me a statement confirming @SeattleParks HQ on 100 Dexter Way N. was indeed trashed Saturday night. But right now, investigators say they’re still looking into the motive and person or persons responsible. #Seattle Image
@SeattleParks spokesperson also says it’s HQ was vandalized.

But my parks sources are asking why there’s no mention of the msg left behind saying, “You sweep, we attack. You sweep we strike.”
Sources believe radical homeless activists are behind this brazen vandalism.#Seattle Image
#SCOOP: Just learned a window was also busted out at @SeattleParks West Central Dist. HQ a few days ago. Unclear if related to vandalism at Dexter Ave N. location. But multiple sources say they’re concerned radical homeless activists against sweeps are trying to intimidate them.
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#Scoop
@BILD just revealed that the “industry list” of weapons, German companies offer to Ukraine, was sharply cut short by @OlafScholz’ government before giving 🇺🇦 the chance to buy arms in Germany.
Among others, all heavy weapons were removed from it.
bild.de/bild-plus/poli… Image
While Ukraine was offered Marder IFV, Boxer APC and even Leopard-2 MBT as well as Panzerhaubitze 2000 by German companies, it is not allowed to buy any of these systems in Germany now, despite having all of them on a “needs” list, handed by 🇺🇦 MoD to 🇩🇪 MoD in late March.
Even worse, Kyiv sent two more desperate requests for heavy weapons to Berlin on April 9 and April 16 - just three days before the Scholz speech. Both of them were ignored and our @Bundeskanzler falsely claimed yesterday that the “industry list” was coordinated with the 🇺🇦 MoD.
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#McKinseyGate Cool ! pour une fois je vais pouvoir parler d’un sujet que je maîtrises.
Disclaimer 1 : le conseil, c’est mon métier donc pour certains, je suis en plein conflit d’intérêts, donc inapte à en parler.
Disclaimer 2 : mon employeur n’est pas McKinsey.
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#Scoop : 100% des entreprises du CAC40 font appel à des cabinets de conseil alors que leurs effectifs sont pléthoriques.
Mais… pourquoi ? Pour engraisser leurs potes des cabinets de conseil ? Pour diminuer leurs résultats et payer moins d’impôts ?
Ben NON !
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La raison principale est qu’une entreprise, ou l’Etat, peut avoir besoin de renforts et/ou d’expertise sur un sujet spécifique et pour une période courte.
Prétendre être expert sur tout et tout le temps est un mensonge qui est l’apanage des experts auto-proclamés.
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⤵️1 La #fachosphere pro #Poutine en émoi! D'après mes #FakeNews qui trainent depuis plusieurs heures sur twitter; l' #OTAN #NATO aurait bien assuré que l'organisation ne s'étendrait pas aux pays de l'ancien bloc #soviétique.
2 C'est une très vieille assertion de #Poutine qui se sert de celle ci pour justifier son invasion de l' #Ukraine qui date d'un discours du 18 avril 2014: lemonde.fr/europe/article…
Et depuis elle est reprise régulièrement par l' #extremedroite poutinienne.
3 Mais là attention et même le blog très #RougeBrun d' #OlivierBerruyer l'affirme, @derspiegel a déniché une recherche très sérieuse de deux chercheurs certifiant la vérité de cette assertion.
Las, c'est faux. Complètement faux. Tout d'abord sur la "fraicheur de l'info"...
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#Scoop
We obtained a foreign intelligence report, detailing the Russian plans for the “post-war-order” in Ukraine.
The report - based on Russian government discussions - details how pro-Kremlin forces are to take over Ukrainian cities and surrender them to the occupation army, the Verkhovna Rada is replaced by a FSB-picked “People’s Rada” which appoints a Kremlin loyal puppet government,
which then proclaims a state of emergency in 🇺🇦, clamping down on all 🇺🇦 dissidents to the new regime & putting those opposing it into detention camps.
As a last step, 🇷🇺 plans a national “referendum”, tuning the nation of 🇺🇦 into a autonomous region of a Moscow-led “union state”
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#BREAKING:
Happy to scoop this:
@malcolmkenyatta announced his campaign has been endorsed by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), AFT PA, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT), Teamsters Local 623, Teamsters BMWED, One Pennsylvania, AFSCME DC33, AFSCME 1199C and....>
LGBTQ Victory Fund,Democracy for America, (DFA), Working Families Party (WFP),Brand New Congress, and local officials throughout Pennsylvania. If elected, Kenyatta would be the Senate's youngest member, and the first openly LGBTQ+ person of color to ever serve in the U.S. Senate.
There are numerous other people running for the open PA Senate seat, including Dr. Oz, but no one with the track record of Democratic progressivism that Kenyatta has shown throughout his years in the state legislature. He was among the keynote speakers at the 2020 DNC.
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GROS #scoop
D'après la commission d'enquête sur le 6 janvier, c'est Rick #Perry, ex-gouverneur du Texas et ex-ministre de l'énergie, qui proposa par SMS à Meadows, secrétaire général de #Trump, dès le 4/11/2020, 1 scénario de renversement du résultat à venir de la présidentielle
2. On parle de ce SMS-là (texte reproduit ici lors de la présentation à la Chambre), versé par #Meadows à la commission d'enquête spéciale de la Chambre, qui a fait déjà couler beaucoup d'encre, car il s'agit, textuellement, d'une proposition de trucage du résultat des élections. Image
3. En fait, l'interlocuteur de #Meadows, qui serait #Perry, proposait dès le lendemain du vote que les législatures républicaines d'Etats encore disputés (Géorgie, Caroline du Nord, Pennsylvanie) désignent leurs propres grands électeurs et que tout cela remonte à la #CourSuprême
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#SCOOP US allies are very concerned that @JoeBiden is considering a landmark shift in nuclear policy that would undermine the #NuclearUmbrella that protects them, as #China rapidly expands its military, including nuclear-capable #hypersonic weapon on.ft.com/3BuxTi2
France, Germany, UK, Japan, Australia and others have told US they are opposed to "No First Use" and "Sole Purpose" nuclear policies. Some are worried that Biden not aware of their opposition. (Me and @HenryJFoy)
Pissing rain outside, which feels like a perfect excuse for #GunpowderIrishGin. Happy #GinOClock & #Sláinte.
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#Scoop: As promised, releasing more of @dghconference's "secret" list of co-sponsors.
❎Not a single co-sponsor is an expert in the study of Hinduism.
❎DGH sponsors have no competency to define Hinduism. That's why DGH attacks on Hindutva are transparent #Hinduphobic tropes
Univ. admins. are dissociating, but stating that the DGH event is an academic meeting, thus support faculty.

Academic??
-"Dismantle" implies activism/violence.
-Indian communist politician is speaking.
-Hinduism is defined in contradictory, Hinduphobic terms.

List! 🥁...
-Global Legal Studies Center, University of Madison-Wisconsin
-Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
-South Asia Institute, UT, Austin
-South Asia Program, Cornell
-Program in South Asian Studies, Princeton
-Centre for South Asian Civilizations, U Toronto, Missi.
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#Scoop
According to information, exclusively obtained by @BILD, Chinese internet company #Tencent is trying to buy German games developer #Crytek for more than 300 Million Euros via a European subsidiary.
Crytek supplies several western armies with military simulation programs.
Multiple employees of Crytek, based in Frankfurt, are afraid, that if their company is sold to China, their software will be used for military purpose by the PLA or China will use its ownership of the company to spy on western militaries and arms manufacturers, using CryEngine.
According to our investigation, Tencent - claiming to be an independent company - is highly pro-CCP and already in 2017 promised to the Chinese leadership that it will raise its party member share sharply from 23% at this time - especially in leading company positions.
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MAFIA STIRING #COVID19 VACCINATION PROGRAMME

This #news was broadcasted live by the Swedish public tv @SVT on the 12th of April morning show.
The headline: “Theory: mafia stirs part of the vaccination plan”.

Why in #Italy no-one had the #scoop?
Simple: it's #FakeNews /thread
But how Sveriges Television could mislead his public stating the mafia control @Palazzo_Chigi's vaccination campaign.

Correspondent from Italy @JenniferWegerup answers this is no news to Italians, because they largely expected it.
As they all live in the Godfather's Corleone. Francis Ford Coppola "The Godfather" movie cover
Wegerup claims: “In a tapping one of the regional medical staff say ‘We can vaccinate even your cat if you want’ to a person connected to the mafia”.

Is it true? No. That's an old news of a doctor who vaccinated family, friends and "cats".
And charged with everything but #mafia!
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#SCOOP - Biden administration has relaxed restrictions on US officials meeting counterparts from #Taiwan, in yet another example that taking tough stance towards Beijing. #China on.ft.com/3mAWdJC
US officials will be able to meet Taiwanese officials at federal government offices, and also at the de facto Taiwanese embassy and consulates across the US.
In one big change, US officials can attend events at Twin Oaks, which served as the Republic of China (Taiwan) ambassador's residence until the US switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing four decades ago.
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#Scoop
@BILD obtained secret RU state news chat protocols & possesses witness accounts of two RT employees, describing how the Putin regime used @de_rt_com last year to spy on Alexei @navalny, @leonidvolkov & Maria @pevchikh & tried to "penetrate into @ChariteBerlin“.
#PutinAtWar ImageImageImageImage
@BILD @de_rt_com @navalny @leonidvolkov @pevchikh @ChariteBerlin The spying operation was led by @Ruptly /RT DE chiefs Dinara Toktosunova and Ekaterina Mavrenkova as well as RT DE's new online managing editor Ivan Klyopov.
They gave direct orders to the tasked two German employees of the Russian state channel. ImageImageImageImage
@BILD @de_rt_com @navalny @leonidvolkov @pevchikh @ChariteBerlin @Ruptly According to the interviewed RT employees, Dinara Toktosunova is closely connected to @M_Simonyan while Ekaterina Mavrenkova also seems to have good contacts to the Russian government.
They believe all their findings went straight to Moscow. ImageImage
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#Scoop: New York Times columnist Bret Stephens says that publisher A.G. Sulzberger “spiked” his column that was supposed to run on Monday morning in which he took issue with NYT’s handling of the Donald J. McNeil case (McNeil was ousted for his use of racial slur).

Thread….
First, context: The McNeil case has created some chaos inside the Times.

See this via @joepompeo: vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/b…

So, what did Stephens take issue with in this unpublished column?….

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Stephens took issue with the fact that NYT Exec Editor Dean Baquet said "We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent.”

"Do any of us want to live in a world, or work in a field, where intent is categorically ruled out as a mitigating factor?” BS asks. "I hope not."
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#SCOOP A person familiar w/case tells @CBSNews the leader of the Proud Boys - Enrique Tarrio - was arrested shortly after leaving DCA (in a vehicle) on a charge of destruction of property (misdemeanor) connected to the burning of a BLM banner/flag from DC church. He is being
booked by MPD + because it is a misdemeanor, he will most likely be released as early as this evening. Hate crime charges were considered, however the person familiar said, there was a lack of evidence to support those charges. The source said the destruction of
property charge was brought + under seal. On timing, the source said the arrest was not related to the pending demonstrations, rather directly related to Tarrio's return to DC and his alleged past conduct.
@CBSNews
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