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China Digital Times | Berkeley
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
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A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
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Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
https://wapo.st/49WOdx1
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China Digital Times
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CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for October 2025, Part One "Topics targeted include: sentencing of officials over a detainee's death; environmental issues; Nobel Prizes; the deadly crash of a Xiaomi electric vehicle; the re-sentencing of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan …"
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CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for October 2025, Part One
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/11/cdts-404-deleted-content-archive-summary-for-october-2025-part-one/
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United Farm Workers
2 days ago
These tomato pickers earn 86 cents per 25 lb bucket. On an average day a worker fills around 170 buckets --or more than 4000 pounds of tomatoes picked by hand. The fruit is picked green so it ripens red by the time it reaches your store.
#WeFeedYou
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China Digital Times
3 days ago
Translations: Mourning the Decline of Investigative Reporting on China's National Journalists' Day "Based on our daily monitoring, there are now only 36 domestic news organizations that still conduct investigative reporting (that is, reporting that supervises official power)."
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Translations: Mourning the Decline of Investigative Reporting on China's National Journalists' Day
Last Saturday, November 8, was China’s National Journalists’ Day—often an occasion for mixed feelings among China’s beleaguered independent journalists. The WeChat account 磨稿子 Mó Gǎozi, or “Polishing ...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/11/translations-mourning-the-decline-of-investigative-reporting-on-chinas-national-journalists-day/
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China Digital Times
6 days ago
"Each act of remembrance, each shared fragment of reality, becomes part of a collective memory that no censorship can destroy. It is through memory that a people reclaim their humanity."
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China Digital Times
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From CDT Founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang's acceptance speech: "At CDT, our mission is to speak truth to power—not with hatred, but with clarity and courage—and to preserve collective memory as history."
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China Digital Times
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NED – China Digital Times: 2025 Democracy Award Honoree
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China Digital Times: 2025 Democracy Award Honoree - NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
NED honors China Digital Times for its unwavering commitment to chronicling the Chinese people’s struggle for freedom.
https://www.ned.org/china-digital-times-2025-democracy-award-honoree/
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We are now less than $100 from our goal thanks to so many generous donors. Help us get there before the year ends!
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Nate Schenkkan
9 days ago
This came up in a work context earlier today, and I take it for granted this information is out there, but apparently not everywhere: I don’t work at Freedom House anymore. I was laid off at the end of May along with most other staff at the organization (over 80%) due to the US foreign aid cuts.
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How Berkeley started the modern sanctuary movement
Berkeley made history as a sanctuary city during Vietnam. And five Berkeley churches founded East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, setting off a national movement.
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/05/sanctuary-movement-history-berkeley-trump-administration-immigration-deportation?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Briefing%20110525&utm_source=aad4b5ee64&utm_source=Berkeleyside+newsletters&utm_campaign=f01c85c939-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_11_05_07_39&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-f01c85c939-333391509&mc_cid=f01c85c939&mc_eid=b4f413629d
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“At CDT, our mission is to speak truth to power—not with hatred, but with clarity and courage—and to preserve memory as history...Freedom begins with truth. And truth, when held in collective memory, becomes the seed of a freer future.” - Xiao Qiang
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Anil Dash
11 days ago
youtu.be/dZ5msDv_X4o?...
It’s time 4 a new direction!
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China Digital Times
12 days ago
Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law" "CDT Chinese editors noted censorship of the following combinations: 'Sanlitun + lift ban on political parties', 'Sanlitun + protest', 'Sanlitun + warrior', 'Sitong Bridge + Sanlitun' …"
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Beijing Banner Protester: "Establish a New China That is Free, Humane, and Governed by Rule of Law"
The image above shows a one-man protest that reportedly took place at the high-end Taikoo Li Sanlitun mall (formerly Sanlitun Village) in Beijing on October 25, shortly after the end of the Party’s Fo...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/11/beijing-banner-protester-establish-a-new-china-that-is-free-humane-and-governed-by-rule-of-law/
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16 days ago
“If everything’s positive energy, there’s no energy at all.“
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Transgender World
17 days ago
Following the tragic death of Middlebury student and trans athlete Lia Smith, social media was flooded with unverified claims about what led to her passing.
www.transvitae.com/s...
#transgender
#trans
#LGBTQ
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Slow Your Roll: Why Truth Still Matters in Tragedy
After Lia Smith’s death, unverified claims spread fast. This article urges truth, care, and fact-checking over speculation to protect trans lives and families.
https://www.transvitae.com/slow-your-roll-why-truth-still-matters-in-tragedy/
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Thank god he didn't mention his "cousin brother."
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China Digital Times
23 days ago
Netizen Voices: “Stop Complaining, Hu Xijin. You Played a Part in This.” "Hu asking why everyone's so quiet is like the head palace eunuch asking a junior eunuch, 'Hey, how come your equipment is only good for taking a leak?'"
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Netizen Voices: “Stop Complaining, Hu Xijin. You Played a Part in This.”
Two posts from nationalist pundit and former Global Times Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin criticizing what he describes as a “collective silence” on Chinese social media have sparked intense discussion on Ch...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/10/netizen-voices-stop-complaining-hu-xijin-you-played-a-part-in-this/
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Well worth ten minutes of your time. A remarkable speech for an American political candidate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLD7...
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What to know about your rights as feds head to Bay Area
What to say to ICE agents at home, at work and on the street. How to find a lawyer and someone who's been detained.
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/22/what-to-know-about-your-rights-as-feds-head-to-bay-area?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Briefing%20102225&utm_source=aad4b5ee64&utm_source=Berkeleyside+newsletters&utm_campaign=be2b249fab-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_10_22_11_35&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-be2b249fab-333391509&mc_cid=be2b249fab&mc_eid=b4f413629d
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The Last Mile with USAID
27 days ago
Jedediah Smith Redwoods, October 19, 2025. Sunlight spills through trees older than empires. The air smells like time remembering itself. Nothing digital survives here. Only roots, silence, and the slow patience of forever.
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China Digital Times
about 1 month ago
CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for September 2025 "CDT's new monthly series of censored content that has been added to our [free, open, and searchable] '404 Deleted Content Archive.'"
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CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for September 2025
CDT presents a new monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we will publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the ...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/10/cdts-404-deleted-content-archive-summary-for-september-2025/
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Speaking of favorite covers, I somehow just became aware of this album's existence and haven't been able to stop listening to it since:
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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Cat Power: Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
Read Andy Cush’s review of the album.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/cat-power-cat-power-sings-dylan-the-1966-royal-albert-hall-concert/
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Jeff Sharlet
about 1 month ago
Fascinating thread. I learned about Angel Island from a student who wrote her final project on the poems, not in school, where I should have. If your school missed it, too, you could start here.
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Yo-Yo Ma: “Earth Hymn” (Live from Snæfellsnes)
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Yo-Yo Ma: "Earth Hymn" (Live from Snæfellsnes)
Viktor Orri Árnason’s “Earth Hymn,” filmed live in the shadow of the Snæfellsnes glacier, is a plea to the world from the edge of a changing planet. “Earth Hymn” is from RITUAL, a large-scale performa...
https://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/54984_Yo-Yo_Ma-_Earth_Hymn_-Live_fro
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Luís M. Rocha
about 1 month ago
RIP Diane Keaton. Always to see her in anything she has ever done. A Ray of sunshine.
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Kevin Bacon Always Wanted To Kiss Diane Keaton - The Graham Norton Show
YouTube video by BBC America
https://youtu.be/kADG1WA-4vE?si=LFRjgRm-lNwLlwgq
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China Digital Times
about 2 months ago
Jerome Cohen, the "Evergreen Pine of Rule of Law in China," Remembered
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Jerome Cohen, the "Evergreen Pine of Rule of Law in China," Remembered
The death of Jerome Cohen last week at the age of 95 prompted a wave of tributes to the legendary professor of Chinese law. Outside legal circles, Cohen may have been best known for his involvement in...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/10/jerome-cohen-the-evergreen-pine-of-rule-of-law-in-china-remembered/
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Translations: As CAC Tackles “Malicious” Negativity Online, Popular Influencers Hit With Bans "Hu and Zhang often danced on the red line, but they had a firm grasp of where the boundaries were. Now both have crashed and burned, because the line has begun moving higher. Whose turn will be next?"
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Translations: As CAC Tackles “Malicious” Negativity Online, Popular Influencers Zhang Xuefeng, Hu Chenfeng, Lan Zhanfei Hit With Bans
Amid a new two-month “Clear and Bright” campaign by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to clean up internet content that “maliciously incites” polarization, pessimism, anxiety, and other neg...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/10/translations-as-cac-tackles-malicious-negativity-online-popular-influencers-zhang-xuefeng-hu-chenfeng-lan-zhanfei-hit-with-bans/
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eileen chengyin chow
about 1 month ago
I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem
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Andreas Landwehr
about 1 month ago
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken money directly from Chinese investors, according to previously sealed testimony, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies
The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-china-investors-court-testimony
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"Here’s where Coates’ clarity comes in handy. You treat people humanely—everyone. People can come in the tent without agreeing on every policy. But you have to make the demand that all people will be treated humanely. That belief guides what you yourself will do."
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Shelly Kraicer
about 2 months ago
Strolling along Dongsi 8 Tiao hutong 东四八条 in Beijing this pm I saw this gate, with a little Buddha statue inside. Then I read the plaque. *Everything* happened in this house. (Manchus to Martial arts to Mara Hari).
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The Wire China
about 2 months ago
The Wire China is currently seeking applications for a staff writer. Follow the link below to learn more about the position and how to apply.
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Open Postions - The Wire China
The Wire China is Seeking Applications for a Staff Writer.
https://buff.ly/9K9e3rO
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Jerome Cohen, the First American to Practice Law in China, Dies at 95
An expert on China—and a sometime critic—Cohen defended companies and dissidents.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/jerome-cohen-the-first-american-to-practice-law-in-china-dies-at-95-ad9e50bf
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Not now, Hayward Fault.
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Kristin Shi-Kupfer
about 2 months ago
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International Institute for STEM
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www.gov.cn/lianbo/bumen...
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联合国教科文组织国际STEM教育研究所在上海成立_部门动态_中国政府网
教育部部长怀进鹏代表中国政府与联合国教科文组织总干事阿祖莱签署国际STEM教育研究所《所址协定》和《运行协定》。
https://www.gov.cn/lianbo/bumen/202509/content_7041621.htm
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"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got outta hand."
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Follow the Money - All the President's Men (4/9) Movie CLIP (1976) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
https://youtu.be/vETxuL7Ij3Q?si=kgfhWslI3OrfFpt8&t=115
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"Pema Tashi, a Tibetan military instructor stationed at Kindergarten No. 5, said that the soldiers’ emphasis on ‘red’ education was 'taking root in young minds…like seeds sown quietly.'”
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This is where we are as a society I guess.
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2 months ago
I spoke with
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's Jessica Batke about their recent Locknet report, which provides a brilliant, concise, detailed but accessible overview of China's online censorship system.
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This guy who was found abandoned on the side of the highway at 7 weeks old weighing 4 pounds has now outgrown one chair and needs to sleep on two.
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Donald Clarke
2 months ago
University of Montreal seeks China specialist in political science. No French language skill is needed to be eligible, although you will need to learn with what a colleague who's there calls "their amazing support" once on the job.
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Carrières
Devenez professeure ou professeur au rang d’adjoint ou agrégé en politique ou en relations internationales de la Chine dans le monde contemporain
https://rh-carriere-dmz.synchro.umontreal.ca/psc/rhprpr9_car/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=3&JobOpeningId=529870&PostingSeq=1
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@cr_progress
2 months ago
Sara Jacobs: "Filler is gender affirming care. Boob jobs is gender affirming care. Botox is gender affirming care. Lots of my colleagues have received gender affirming care and let me be clear, I think everyone should have access to the gender affirming care they need." Nancy Mace: *screams*
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Nate Schenkkan
2 months ago
This covers well the damage of what’s happening, and I’ll add: people outside this ecosystem underestimate how much information it produces that others rely on for their knowledge of world affairs
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Global Voices
2 months ago
Where others overlook, we listen. Where others erase, we translate. Support Global Voices’ mission to center the Global South.
#KeepGVStrong
globalvoices.org/donate/
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James Griffiths
2 months ago
As part of a consortium of researchers and journalists, I spent the better part of a year digging into leaked documents from Chinese security company Geedge, which plays a pivotal role exporting the Great Firewall around the world:
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/15c699a...
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Leaked files show a Chinese company is exporting the Great Firewall’s censorship technology
Geedge Networks is providing censorship capabilities to foreign governments, including those in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/15c699a82d9db5826f64383b7d51b2bd13499f60a36b6c0a0ac093b7518ff190/WKAKIFFK4JHDPO5VRXLVCWHIO4/
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