each of them represents one of the five elements: Fire, Metal, Air, Water, and Anti-Trust.

This totally applies to us East Asians too, and we would frequently tell feel-good stories of overcoming racism to find success in this country in a way that focus on our hard work and gloss over who did the heavy lifting to fight racism in this country and fight for civil rights for all.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

White people aren't doing well... Every Black and brown person on the PLANET reading this and thinking my mom's childhood friend's second cousin is considered our Aunt... LOSERS...

This is cultural racism. Anyone heard about the desi aunties? I mean, it's a real thing. It is legit what he would have called his dad's cousin, and that connection might be remote in many families, but that is, again, CULTURAL.

Lia Smith, a transgender athlete who was on Middlebury's swimming and diving team, was just found dead by suicide this week. www.them.us/story/lia-sm...

i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

My favorite Song dynasty poet:

Everyone has roasted me for my #4 choice for so long and I am vindicated

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Pope Leo XIV sent a separate message Thursday to Catholic Charities USA, praising its work with migrants and urging members to keep serving as "agents of hope" despite a federal funding freeze. www.axios.com/2025/10/09/p...

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack. As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all. Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

“Apple made similar claims in 2019 when it removed HKMap, an app that allowed Hong Kong protesters to trace the movements of law enforcement … At the time, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle spoke out against ‘Apple’s censorship of apps.’”

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register

I've seen Zohran talk about this before, but this answer is so so so good and makes me so hopeful about his mayoralty taking socialism seriously means taking government efficiency seriously we can't be negatively polarized into opposing efficiency www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/n...

Harvard makes it impossible to figure out where an egregious tenure denial ends and a slow death of a Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality program begins, and sowing confusion might be the point

As an alum, my first reaction to the news was "not this bullshit again." The denial of tenure at Harvard to so many scholars of race, gender, and sexuality (and I mean both through the ad hoc process AND through the overuse of casual employment) breaks my heart. And our education suffers/suffered.

If my writing about autism does anything, whether it be in my books, my columns or my reported stories, I hope it advances the idea that autistic people are whole human beings as they are with legitimate needs and inner lives that deserve to be told the same as other stories.

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

"This defiance, of course, had its costs—material, social, + psychic. My father lost his income + his pension; my parents lost friends who shunned them for fear of being implicated in their politics. And then there was the betrayal by those once considered comrades who went over to the other side."

the average male farmer in rural china is now 60 years old, because of the combination of demographic crash and departure for the cities. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure. The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.

Look I understand that political cultures and legal regulation in Canada and the US are different but I honestly believe that if this happened at my university my colleagues might go on a wildcat strike. If you're an academic, join a union; if you're in one, support it.

Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)

Did they copy a tankie map by accident

>HEY THEY DON’T HAVE AN AUMF FOR THAT

This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end

I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Recently @prismreports.org has published many dispatches from Gaza, written by Palestinians surviving the genocide. All of them are heartbreaking, necessary reads. This one, written by Logain Hamdan about kids eating "ice cream" flavored with antibiotics, will stick with me for the rest of my life.

wrote about why the Potato Chip aide lady, who has been an Eric Adams staffer since 2014, is full of shit and cannot pull the culture card and is RUINING IT FOR THE REST OF US the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/the-cash-env...

So, on one side you have pro-CCP grifters like Winnie Greco & Eric Adams; on the other, you have anti-CCP hustlers like Guo Wengui & Steve Bannon. The worst Chinese fraudsters are teaming up with the worst American fraudsters amid US-China great power competition. What a world we are living in!

"I'm not perverted, I'm just Italian" < "I'm not corrupt, I'm just Chinese"

In Chinese culture this is still a crime

What this means in practice is that 14K trans people will have to quit their federal employee jobs and find jobs that cover gender affirming care. In other words, this is a purge of trans people from the civil service. Lavender scare. Everyone who participates is responsible

a country's capacity to reckon with its crimes and mistakes is one of the greatest gifts that can be given to the public

Abandoning the vision of liberal arts education is at the heart of how fascism has come knocking. Scientists speaking of abandoning humanities have not learned the core lessons of our history - and by our history I even mean THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Science is never separated from society.

Yet again conservatives are melting down about the foreseeable consequences of conservative policies. We’re in a death spiral now where they tank the economy and cut welfare, then fearmonger about the resulting increase in visible poverty and addiction.

As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.

Remember tho minority writers can’t be objective

Stanford's student paper sues Noem and Rubio, saying their policies cause non-citizen students to avoid expressing themselves freely in the Daily's pages due to fear of detention and deportation h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

Delighted and mildly terrified to have put my heart on the page for NüVoices, and to be in the company of so many brilliant writers in this series on Chinese identity!

will say these are business school guys from the looks of it, but either way no professor in any corner of the university should be doing this to students

RIP Tom Lehrer www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

anyways personally I think that the NYT should stop doing race essentialism and stop platforming race scientists but that’s probably just my tiny Chinese hands talking

That infamous NYT article about Mamdani is, among other things, a perfect example of what Barbara and Karen Fields call racecraft.