It was a true pleasure for me to have this conversation with Chenchen on her new book, which I have thoroughly enjoyed reading. Also my first time working with Made in China Journal, which I’ve been reading for a long while, and that’s great experience too!

Made in China Journal@madeinchinajournal.com · 3w ago

In 'Easting the West', @chenchenzhang.net stares into the abyss of digital reactionary discourse in China, showing how the Chinese right appropriates the language of postcoloniality to reproduce racial and civilisational hierarchies and justify exclusion. A conversation with @clydewang.bsky.social.

This article by my partner, Dr. Zifeng Chen, is finally published online @criticasianstds.bsky.social ! Through ethnography in a dozen community WeChat groups during Covid, this article discusses the self-governmentality of Chinese citizens during the pandemic. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When Citizens See Like a State: Pandemic Governmentality in Chinese Gated Communities

During the Covid-19 pandemic, China was known for its onerous zero-Covid policy, which required tremendous work at the local governance level. This paper examines the extent to which the state pene...

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denying a visa to the man who imitates a statue of a man we assassinated

Bradford Pearson@bradfordpearson.bsky.social · last mo.

dog shit country, truly

Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

Look, maybe the Knicks DID win, but the way this progressed just confuses people and reduces confidence in the whole 'sports' process. -NYT Editorial Staff

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Look, I’m sorry but I just can’t believe the Knicks came all the way back. And I bet a lot of my fellow basketball fans feel similarly. This calls into question the legitimacy of their Game Four win.

Minnesota GOP convention has moment of silence for Derek Chauvin www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Minnesota GOP convention has moment of silence for Derek Chauvin

Yesterday, the Minnesota Republican Party held its nominating convention in Duluth. But the most outrageous moment came early in the proceedings. You read that right. The Minnesota GOP saw fit to have...

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1000000000000% this

Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

Americans are taught Kent State was a brutal aberration- scared untrained guardsmen who went too far and were checked by public outrage. But Kent State was one of many massacres of antiwar student protestors in May 1970 - UNM, Jackson State, the (non-military) Hard Hat Riot - all met with impunity.

Josh Lappen@jlappen1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I find it deeply grotesque seeing politicians mark this May 4 as Star Wars Day and not as the anniversary of Kent State. We are still living in Kent State's aftermath - the complexity of nonviolence, the impunity of state murder, the leadership of students in protest, the uncertainty of struggle.

Exactly one year ago today:

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

In 2026 you can even hear people saying Vietnam was a victory lol

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

McCormick: "We were horrible in Vietnam until we did Rolling Thunder Two, then we won. As soon as we do half-measures, we lose. The faster we get this over the better. If we seize Kharg island, it could be done almost flawlessly. If we have enough firepower, it would be very easy to defend."

See that's the problem with academia now. The end goal is not to *know* things. It's to *produce* things.

Derek Silva@derekcrim.bsky.social · 5mo ago

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Stephen Miller: "The human rights that we are gonna protect are not of the savages that torture and rape and murder. The human rights we are going to protect are of the peaceable citizens who have an absolute human right to live in physical safety and security every day of their lives."

LINDSEY GRAHAM: Our goal is to make sure Iran cannot become again the largest state sponsor of terrorism. WELKER: Does the the president have a plan to guarantee that happens? GRAHAM: No. It's not his job.

I’m now officially a fan of Bad Bunny.

This gotta be the best stage set in Super Bowl halftime show history.

Bill Belichick is so great that I use him in my intro class as an example to illustrate what the concept of "modernism" entails. I don't like him and he was the reason why I'm not a Pats fan, but still... His exclusion does not challenge his legacy. It challenges the legitimacy of the HOF.

Well, this was said by your saint himself.

Media's norm of being "balanced" is always a myth. NYT used to report about lynching African Americans by saying that "on one hand" lynching is evil but "on the other hand" "Negroes are prone" to rape. When Ida Wells argued against that, NYT said she was a "slanderous and nasty-minded mulattress."

Omar Sakr@omarsakr.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How have people watched these same outlets lie every single day about Gaza, about the videos we all can see, and yet expect it to be different with respect to their own situation? Why do you think they lied to begin with? Because that was the order that came down to them: protect the empire.

The mental health talks are sickening. At times like this, the best thing the university leaders can say is that everyone take care of themselves. Not even a call for unity or condemnation of the murder. Self-care mentality is what makes this society awful.

Kevin Wei Luo@kevinweiluo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Message from the University of Minnesota leadership, in response to the killing of our alum Alex Pretti today.

There are people who believe that atrocities will simply end after the next election. But if the "opposition" party continue to act cowardly like this, at next election there will be ICE agents patrolling the polling stations and preventing colored people from voting, if there is an election at all.

The shamelessness of this administration and the cowardice of the "opposition" party is just incredible.

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Actually, that's one concern I've always had about gun control. Any control measures will inevitably start from some sort of racial profiling as "background check," after which colored people will be banned from carrying weapons while Kyle Rittenhouse will continue to walk around with guns.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 7mo ago

Sorry, but I’m not mad at this. Are you? Or is it, “2A for me, but not for thee”?

Man I want that Klint Kubiak to be the new Ravens head coach.

One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Big clash this afternoon between DHS agents and protesters in a residential street in Minneapolis, following a DHS agent hitting another vehicle. Tear gas was deployed in people’s yards and agents pepper prayed people.

I’ve always disliked Jin Keyu, but these acts by Summers are just disgusting. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

My dearest mentor, Professor Joseph Fewsmith, unfortunately passed away this week. I wrote this little tribute with great pain. But no writing is enough to express my love and gratitude for Joe.

ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 9mo ago

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say