This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye

The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye

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To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Marsha Blackburn's new ad is so racist that it makes me wonder if mainstream Republicans could have gotten away with something like this back in the 1980s or 90s.

"I think the biggest thing is that right now, trans people are being dehumanized. I’m kind of doing the opposite, I'm humanizing that experience.” I asked Prefontaine Classic mile winner and trans non-binary runner Nikki Hiltz about how the track and field community has supported them.

This 👇💯

Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤@ryanhk.blue · last mo.

Reading this spurred me to write a thread that got out of hand and became a post — not to downplay the imposition of Han norms, but just say this is an incomplete understanding of what "Sinicization" means in Xi's China. Beyond cultural and ethnic identity, it is about enforcing political identity.

My mayor socialist My congresswoman socialist My city councilwoman socialist My state senator socialist My assembly member socialist Knicks in 5

no disrespect to the STEM types but there used to be a joint in Beijing that would give you a free bowl of noodles if you could write 𰻞 by hand

Nicholas A. Christakis@nachristakis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Apparently, there is a cafe in Shenzen’s biotech hub that gives you free coffee for a month if you publish in @nature.com or @science.org. ;-)

Alien Tort Statute aside, Cisco's complicity in building Great Firewall and enabling the targeting of FLG activists in China is undeniable. While Cisco was eventually supplanted by Chinese competitors, Golden Shield could not have got off the ground without it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US supreme court ends lawsuit alleging Cisco helped China pursue Falun Gong

Suit ⁠alleged California-based company developed technology that allowed China to surveil members of movement

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In which the Deputy Secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus joins in on the dunking of the former DNC Chair after NYC DSA candidates endorsed by Zohran Mamdani achieve a clean sweep of AIPAC and establishment-backed candidates up and down the ballots:

Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.

Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.

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My only regret is that Dolan gets to enjoy this

These crowd shots around New York are so fucking diverse. I fucking love this town

It took Mamdani five months to get rid of the NYC deficit and oversee a Knicks title. 🫡

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

I remember the China hawks telling us that we need to be concerned about Chinese tech because of the possibility of surveillance, so I'm sure they'll bring those concerns just as vigorously to this case as well

If you look at the past 8 days, we’ve seen an assault on the entire knowledge pipeline in both the Executive Branch and the Legislature. Let’s start from the top. 🧵 The new 2 CFR controls who creates knowledge (grants) and how it’s disseminated (publication, conferences, etc) …

This book (written by a scholar with language competency in Japanese using LLMs to translate secondary scholarship Korean, which he cant read) raises important questions we as a field have to face about expertise and translation, as well as what the role of language-learning is in history (🧵)

배뢰아@baessi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

일본사 전공한 독일 역사학자가 한국사의 노예제에 관한 책을 냈는데 한국어와 중국어를 못 해서 AI로 번역시켜서 자료를 읽었다고 써 놓음. 😡 무려 De Gruyter Brill 출판사에서… 📖 Zöllner, Reinhard. Slavery and Servile Societies in Korean History: The Hidden Background of Modern Korea, De Gruyter, 2025. doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Why? Because it is my duty. 毋忘六四

they do not like Mamdani and want him to fail, the same way they wanted him to lose to Cuomo: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...

Mamdani Is Under Pressure to Act Amid Slowing Job Growth in New York

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"The increasing involvement of technology companies in mathematical research raises the risk that research questions may come to be prioritized because of their amenability to automated mathematics, rather than expert judgment of their deeper significance."

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.

leidendeclaration.ai

someone like bari weiss who is used to bullying low level reporters and adjunct professors into getting fired is not going to like how this plays out for her when the same tactics are applied to someone whose contract was written by high powered entertainment lawyers

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Pelley told 60 Minutes colleagues that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss said Pelley had created a “hostile work environment” & that Weiss asked him to write an apology letter. Evidently, this is not a request Pelley will comply with” perhaps as it’s not hostile to object to a fascist takeover

I haven't read this piece yet but this section captures a lot of my dissatisfaction with many trans and LGBTQ+ orgs, who seem to have settled into a rut of doing outreach for the Democratic party rather than acting independently of it.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3mo ago

I have followed @perrybaconjr.bsky.social since his 538 days for his consistent and urgent moral clarity, and he has outdone himself yet again.

9pm: yawning 2:12am: time to become a scholar on uncontacted tribes

very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I had some thoughts about the broader context of the modern SCOTUS, why it's out of control, and what we can try and do about it.

Again, Xi/🇨🇳 may believe this, & we are stupidly trying to commit hegemonic suicide, but it's important to note that everything folks are rightly worried about in 🇺🇸 (aging personalist authoritarians, corruption, debt, repression, concentration camps, etc.) is far worse in 🇨🇳: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This by Ryan Hass rings true to what I've seen/ heard/ learned about current PRC leaders' view of US. (TL;DR China has enormous problems, but the US is blowing itself up.) Can't imagine MAGA team has any inkling of this. (Cf: "Quick, easy victory over Iran.") www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Every day I buy a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1 because May loves pineapple and May 1 is my birthday. I tell myself that if she doesn’t come back by the time I’ve bought 30 cans, then our love will expire too Chungking Express 重慶森林 dir. Wong Kar Wai #may1

lol yes it’s me, China apologist

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Coming in at number 12 with seven likes is a little-known China apologist, James Palmer, the deputy editor of Foreign Policy, who uses the handle Beijing Palmer. Devine warns that foreign actors like China are working hard to exploit social media ecosystems."

A "young faculty stimulator" online game was launched in China in December 2025 and by January 2026, it had attracted 600k players. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When career anxiety becomes gameplay: lessons from China’s ‘young-faculty simulator’

A popular online game simulates life as an academic — and throws the challenges of being an early-career researcher into sharp relief.

nature.com

some of you really need to learn about the history of Catholicism, because liberation theology is back on the menu baby

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4mo ago

* POPE LEO CRITICIZES 'NEOCOLONIAL' WORLD POWERS HOURS AFTER CRITICISM FROM US PRESIDENT TRUMP @reuters.com