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An event for New Yorkers on Thursday:

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I know Hongkongers who became protest regulars and stalwarts in 2019 who'd never gone to protests pre-June 16th, 2019. Not even Occupy 2014. (One reason why I absolutely believe that day's protest march was a 2 million (+1) event.) When asked why, they'd say "6/12". No need to say more.

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I'm following – knock me down – the protests in the US, mainly on TikTok. And I could scream when I see so many people peacefully protesting in so many cities, while the German media only shows images of riots. THAT is framing!

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This is how you normalize authoritarianism.

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Real world: - Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment. - Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals" - Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up PUNDIT world: - Is it smart politics? - Is Gavin running? - Doesn't Trump look strong!

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the number of verbs necessary to describe the journey of the liberation day tariffs is too many.

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“RELATIONSHIP IS EXCELLENT!”

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The far right mega-influencers marching in lockstep.Using the LA protests to drive one message, repeated nearly verbatim: "time to ban all third world immigration, legal or illegal." This is what a disciplined, ethnonationalist propaganda campaign looks like.

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Among the 1 million Hongkongers who took the streets on June 9th, 2019: old and young, people in wheelchairs, etc. All of whom really f**king love Hong Kong. And are now regularly branded as "rioters" by the Hong Kong government -- and pro-Beijingers, many of whom have never set foot in Hong Kong.

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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Ridiculous! Business owners are now faced with two choices: hire staff with their own free will and risk 7 years of prison time if one of them does something GovHK doesn’t like, or not hire anyone at all. Fucking NSL further fucking the economy!

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The very ironic thing here is that Wong had very little to do with the 2019 pro-democracy protests so when you really get down to it, the government is slapping endless sentences on him for what he did in 2014 when he was a teenager

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Reminiscent of Hong Kong tactics - barricades going up around DuPont before pride weekend

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Wow. Just finished this book, “Waiting to be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide” Very powerful. So gut wrenching what has happened to the Uyghurs, and how relatively little attention it has gotten. Beautifully told as well with a gripping narrative and a poet’s eye.

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The moment a core legal protection like habeas corpus stops being universal and is made conditional instead, it loses so much of its power and frankly its purpose 🥺

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So we're in Arendt's phase of totalitarianism where the regime, in order to sustain its "revolutionary" fervor, turns inwards and creates new enemies among its own ranks.

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The silver lining of using this extremely bad analogy for one of the clearest aggressor-victim wars in history is that Putin must have hated being talked down to this way.

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Not a single one of those things is a crime. Also collectively they do not constitute a crime. #GovHKBullshit

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More polling just dropped -- by a pretty huge margin Americans think that having international students at US universities is good for the country, not bad -- 56% to 14% (+42) and for 18-29 YOs, nearly 1/2 say international students are "very good"

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Hong Kong 6/4 memorials are still illegal. Why does that matter? "After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...

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We remember today those who died in the 8964 massacre & we remember our friends, who can no longer comemorate publicly. It is heavy but looking at this pic of two protesters dancing before the crackdown, showing the joy, smiles & comradery displayed in resistance, that can't be forgotten either.

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I first saw this footage on June 4th, 1989. 36 years on, seeing this still sends chills down my spine. Especially because I also had seen news footage before that of the so-called People's Liberation Army gunning down, and getting their tanks to run over, unarmed civilians. Unlike the denialists.

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As I said the annual June 4th vigils used to take place in HK. You can no longer do this.

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It's funny (not really funny) too how Hong Kong has sooooooooo many commemoration dates. June 4th, 9th, 16th, July 1st, 21st, August 31st, October 1st, November 11th... just to name a few.

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Excellent review by @matthewblongo.bsky.social (author The Picnic, which won the Orwell Prize given by @orwellprize.bsky.social last year) of the superb recent @stanfordpress.bsky.social book by Ed Pulford (& discusses the same author’s earlier Hurst book too) lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-a...

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Today marks 7 years since the death of Tohti Mehet (shahit.biz/eng/83697/), who was detained in January 2018 and sent to camp for alleged involvement in the Barin incident (of 1990). He died a few months later, at the age of 59.

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It would be nice if the @nytimes.com could call this announcement out for what it is: a racist blanket ban that is reminiscent of the Chinese Exclusion Act of the 1890s. Why hold back on this or treat this sudden and unprecedented move like normal policy? This is unhinged, so call it out!

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Was really privileged to see a screening of @drdavidtobin.bsky.social and Mirshad Ghalip’s “Echoes of Home” at this year’s AAS. Really excited to see that the trailer for it is getting a wide release. An excellent, funny, touching and thought provoking film.

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Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

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If you want to come to the US to study, the US government says it will review your social media posts before granting a visa. China does not do this.

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This Jubilee debate video with Jordan Peterson really exposes him for what he is: A very vane and angry man of mid intelligence, in a suit that makes him look like a clown, who is instantly humiliated in any debate with an undergraduate student who has a brain:

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the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies

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they use "western heritage" six times here, zombie huntington is so back

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New article just out in The China Journal: “Vanishing Quotas" - We track how Tibetan political representation is being hollowed out under Xi Jinping—and replaced by Han cadres in the TAR. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Some highlights from our findings:

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Exactly this. Or like banning people who were part of the Cub Scouts. This is even true for adults: So many academic posts have party membership as a basic requirement for being hired.

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Narrator: they were not considering the offer

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Existential for us here at CMU. Five alarm fire, hope the admin is ready to knuckle up

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I know authoritarianism in the US is the new thing, but well, I also continue to study authoritarianism in China. Here's my newest piece, just published in @TheChinaJournal This article traces changes in the intellectual school of New Leftism in China: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/

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We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.

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Another reason why Rubio’s announcement is ridiculous: so many people have these kinds of connections to the party that are basically formalities or requirements for study/employment. This is not a carefully vetted security operation. This is an indiscriminate ban, and it’s incredibly bad policy.

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It goes without saying but this is an incredibly stupid decision for a multitude of reasons, but primary among them is that there’s no rationale behind any of it. Just pure, bigoted, knee jerk stupidity.

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#asn2025 Book panels are a treat! Which ones will you check out today?

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“Young Chinese women have small fingers” Ladies and gentlemen the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/t...

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