Andrew Grant
@angrant.bsky.social
Assistant Professor University of Tampa, PhD UCLA, Author of The Concrete Plateau, Cornell UP 2022, Living the subtropical dream/nightmare
Such a travesty, and one of the handful of crimes against humanity Musk and Dear Leader will be remembered for.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.
I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.
I missed it, did Hegseth recite the script for Pulp Fiction?
PhD candidates who plan to apply for our October 3-5 dissertation workshop on "Global China" at NYU Shanghai are reminded that all materials must be submitted by May 30 for consideration. Prepare your application today! https://bit.ly/AAS-GlobalChina
I'm so happy I had my passport renewed a few years ago. So very very happy.
They should put JD Vance in charge of election “reform” now.
I just discovered the perfect inbox search to find all of those pesky article reviews I agreed to: "Thank you for agreeing"
A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."
motherjones.com
ICE agents taking cosplay in new directions to deceive Americans.
Al Franken@alfranken.bsky.social · 6mo agoDon’t look away from MN. ICE is still wreaking havoc across the state - changing their tactics to deceive Minnesotans - pretending to be construction workers or folks delivering groceries. Still over 2,000 ICE agents in the state. They’re not going anywhere, your anger and outrage shouldn’t either.
“Institutions that once proclaimed their commitment to humanistic inquiry now appear eager to embrace a set of tools whose leading use cases—predictive policing, military targeting, advertising, and porn—stand in profound contradiction to the values they claim to uphold.”
Palden Gyal@paldengyal.bsky.social · 6mo agoA Pedagogy of the Inevitable: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Thanks Jeff! Thanks Zuck! “More together” indeed!
Forbes@forbes.com · 6mo agoICE And CBP Bought A Record $140 Million In Cloud Services From Amazon And Microsoft Under Trump
Exciting for the kickoff of the Asian Borderlands Research Network conference in Taipei today. It is my first time attending in person. I am presenting on my recent research on China's borders with Nepal and Kazakhstan. What leads to Border Fortune? TLDR: Changes to security and logistics. #ABRN2026
In case you thought they just meant undocumented immigrants…
"Chinese authorities arrested dozens of Tibetans who were protesting a mining project in one of their communities, according to Tibetan activists and the government in exile, an act of defiance by a community that has been tightly controlled by Beijing." www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
Exclusive | Tibetan Activists Say China Has Detained Protesters Who Staged Rare Act of Defiance
Chinese authorities arrested dozens of Tibetans who were protesting a mining project, according to Tibetan activists and the government in exile.
wsj.com
A Poem for Semester’s End Twas the night before course evals, and all through RMP, the students were bitching, “I worked too hard for the C!” The ChatGPT essay, submitted without care, And the always faithful, never failing, “this grade just is NOT fair!”
How terrified of the administration is @cnn.com to lead with such a limp headline? "Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media" You can't say sleep, you can't say dozed, you can't even say with conviction that he closed his eyes. Cowards.
Digitally visiting Centro SELISI in Venice on 10/23 to give this talk. Open to all who register: Unstable Bordering: Chinese Development at Two Nepalese Border Sites. Zoom (registration required): unive.zoom.us/mee.../regis...
They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦♂️
Some of the readings and materials I am folding into my Silk Roads History class this semester. Really enjoying it!
My head is actually spinning at how many current and future colleagues, both in the China field and beyond it, we are about to lose because of this
When did promoting cancel culture become part of the DHS mandate?
Khorgos is a self-contained duty-free territorial unit that carves out territory from Kazakhstan and China. You need entry from either side, but then can't cross through the other country's migration: you have to go back home. How common are border sites like this around the world?
Anti-ICE Superman mural vandalized in Chicago, but artist came back and repainted it with Krypto pissing on ICE. Subscribe to my rumble to help the cause: rumble.com/v6y7a1c-minn...
