There's a famous Korean film about this island just off of Nagasaki. UNESCO's decision is a travesty. Very important story. 👇

Pay attention!!!

Excellent & insightful historical piece by Minju B ‪@haebangbae.bsky.social‬ on South Korea after the impeachment and its recent elections. "Korea Under Ceasefire: The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea."

"What Yoon Suk-yeol's martial law decree demonstrated was South Korea's intense political culture of militarization & violence, imposed & reinforced by US military occupation, that cannot be solved with a vote," writes Minju Bae (@haebangbae.bsky.social): thenewinquiry.com/korea-under-...

White House official: “The US-ROK Alliance remains ironclad." Translation: we will never allow your democracy to have any say whatsoever in your full cooperation with US military strategy. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Le sigh

The Trump White House doesn't know that South Korea exists. "Ironclad alliance"! 😂

To those following Lee Jae-myung's election (lol), see my piece about the ongoing US occupation of Korea in @newinquiry.bsky.social thenewinquiry.com/korea-under-...

Friday! Join Walden Bello, Bhumika Muchhala, @pauladlerstein.bsky.social, and @llchristyll.bsky.social for a discussion on global activism and global governance. Register here: tinyurl.com/HPEAAWL

My piece about the ongoing US military occupation of Korea thenewinquiry.com/korea-under-... is here! @newinquiry.bsky.social

"We will persist, with even greater resolve, and we will pass that strength on to our children and our children’s children – until Palestine is free. I eagerly await the day when I can tell our son the stories of his father’s bravery..."

Or the dockworkers who have resisted the shipment of arms to Israel!

South Korea 'at breaking point' ahead of tomorrow's ruling on President Yoon's impeachment. Latest:

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), the second largest union in Korea with over 1 million members, says it will declare a general strike if Yoon’s impeachment is overturned. www.chosun.com/national/lab...

Rumeysa Ozturk is apparently being held in an ICE facility in Louisiana, owned by GEO Group, a private prison company that does much of the immigration prison contracting. Here's an image of what happened to GEO's stock price, nearly doubling from Nov 4 to Nov 11. Hate is a for profit business.

My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

People are rightly mocking the White House for accidentally inviting a journalist to a group chat about bombing Yemen but it feels like we should also probably be talking about how they're bombing Yemen.

"The suit hinges on a First Amendment principle that Americans have a right not only to express ideas but also to hear them"--this is about the suit that @knightcolumbia.org filed with @aaup.bsky.social and @mesa1966.bsky.social this morning.

BREAKING: South Korea's Constitutional Court rejects PM Han Duck-soo's impeachment

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

feels like a good day to meditate on scripture,

EXCLUSIVE: In his first public remarks since being detained by federal immigration authorities, Mahmoud Khalil criticizes the conditions in US detention and says he is being targeted by the Trump administration for his political beliefs. Read here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Breaking breaking breaking: Israel attacks Gaza massively.

Gaza is under attack, being bombed heavily. Those people. What a horrible fucking world.

so they starved Palestinians through a complete blockade, cut off all remaining electricity to the water desalination plant, and is now bombing Gaza. And our leaders are disappearing and deporting people for speaking out

The Battle for Higher Ed - a webinar series with Scholars for Social Justice / Freedom & Justice Institute 4/1 Premilla Nadasen 4/23 Tiffany Willoughby-Herard 5/6 Maura Finkelstein

*whispers* Those Democrat senators are not just capitulating to MAGA. They *are* MAGA.

A strong letter from the @columbiajournalism.bsky.social faculty journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

Who is making the database of all this ICE activity?

Simply put, Trump/Musk is destroying everything supporting the public good: health, education, welfare, arts, science. And yet apparently half the voters in this country are fine with it. How is that possible? Where do you find hope?

NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

Re Jelani Cobb, its in a sense true “no one can protect you” but for him to say that on the day that Columbia changed its website to say they will allow Ice on their campus without a warrant, after a year and change of of abusing their students, is really something.

We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

I thought there was a hiring freeze at Harvard

In case you missed it, the day before Mahmoud Khalil’s detention by Ice none other than Shai Davidai tweeted at Rubio demanding his deportation. And once he was apprehended, he felt these were legit “consequences” for him protesting. A faculty member @columbiauniversity.bsky.social the shameful.

BREAKING ✍️ @theintercept.com: A New York federal court has ordered that Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil cannot be deported from the U.S. until a further court order. Khalil remains jailed, without criminal charges, at the LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana. theintercept.com/2025/03/10/m...

really exciting how the palestine exception has disemboweled the most significant mainstream resistance movements from trump 1.0

If you do not act to protest Columbia admin collaborating with ICE & Trump to illegally detain Mahmoud Khalil, you are consenting to your campus being next. You are giving a green light to your admin to hand over your students and colleagues. Enough is enough. ACT NOW.

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

No more war games!!!!

Good morning to anti-imperialists only

NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

Still buzzing from yesterday's 삼일절 samiljeol that nodutdol organized. an absolute honor to hear from Korean Abomb survivors who are still fighting for recognition, justice, and restitution from the US and Japanese governments. positionspolitics.org/minju-bae-de...

Israel is refusing to enter phase 2 of ceasefire talks and is closing off all supplies to Gaza. We’re fighting for a reality where Israel can’t simply cut water, food, and medicine off from 2 million people in Gaza.

As a historian, I like to say that we live in precedented times.