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... While Malaysia will likely be able to suppress the arbitral award eventually, this case is a reminder that boundaries drawn in colonial times sit uneasily with more ancient cultural linkages. Oblivious to the modern border between Malaysia and the Philippines, locals have traveled across the Sulu Sea for years. Malaysia set up an expensive new border force after the 2013 intrusion, but it has failed to stop the illegal movement of people between Sabah and Mindanao. Indeed, most of the foreign Islamist fighters who joined the seizure of the city of Marawi in Mindanao in 2017 arrived via Sabah....

George Takei’s decades-long feud with William Shatner is rocketing into space. The “Star Trek” actor threw enough shade at his former on-screen captain to cause an eclipse, as he dismissed Shatner’s flight this week on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin capsule and described him as “not the fittest specimen.” “He’s boldly going where other people have gone before,” snarked Takei, 84, when Page Six asked him what he thought of Captain Kirk’s brief trip Wednesday to the edge of space. “He’s a guinea pig, 90 years old and it’s important to find out what happens,” Takei added, as he spoke at...

Mr. Sulu, people WANT TO WORK.Your party destroys millions of jobs and then pays people NOT to work.That’s not compassionate; it’s stupid, and deeply harmful. pic.twitter.com/5UAC8GkTBy— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 8, 2021 .@BetteMidler is unhappy with me.🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/hVwPUznzSG— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 8, 2021#Ted "Get a Job" #Cruz has a great job; he sits on his fat ass all day, collects $175,000 a year for doing ZIP but opposing #progress, with staff, office, police escorts, donors & bootlickers galore, and a pension vested after 5 years of "service". He deserves to lose that job.— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) September 7, 2021Dems really...

George Takei @GeorgeTakei Ours is a cold and righteous anger, Mr. McConnell. When you lose your senate majority and your claws no longer pull the levers of the White House, our retribution for your brazen acts of court packing will be as bold as they are decisive. Democrats, do not fear to strike back. 4:27 PM · Oct 26, 2020·Twitter

Star Trek actor George Takei is accusing people who voted for and still support President Donald Trump of helping to destroy America, calling it a “tragedy of enormous scope.” The left-wing Hollywood star tweeted late Sunday that Trump supporters are completely ignorant of their destructive powers.

LOS ANGELES - George Takei, best known for his role as Mr. Sulu in "Star Trek," came out as homosexual in the current issue of a magazine covering the Los Angeles gay and lesbian community. Takei told The Associated Press on Thursday that his new onstage role as psychologist Martin Dysart in "Equus," helped inspire him to publicly discuss his sexuality. Takei described the character as a "very contained but turbulently frustrated man." The play opened Wednesday at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Los Angeles, the same day that Frontiers magazine featured a story on Takei's coming out. The...