China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research www.bbc.com/news/article... Shame on SHU for caving to Chinese intimidation. Even if they backed off when they were duly warned by the UK govt. But how many such horror cases of selfcensorship by universities go undetected, out of fear?

Perhaps the last statemebt from RFA, wiped out by ill-advised Trump cuts. US blinding itself to what is happening in Asia www.rfa.org/english/abou...

Three cops on an inflatable penis

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support

Kudos to my colleagues @jimmillward.bsky.social and Chandra Manning for organizing and leading this effort. 🗃️

So disappointed with the Post these days.

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

Very stupid idea to create bs new program when threatened. Everyone knows, you only create bs new programs when someone writes you a big enough check.

the story of this administration is going to be a question of which wins out: the enthusiastic capitulation of elite American society to fascism or supercharged thermostatic backlash

Interesting (and discouraging) example of how PRC desperation to whitewash their policies in Xinjiang hurts its international relations and makes it harder for those trying to maintain engagement with China. A 🧵regarding Princeton Press' trip to Xinjiang:

LATimes.com front page right now

Trump's order to halt international student visas undermines one of the top US exports--in the top ten, generating billions of revenue annually, not just for universities. I'm not hearing much noise from politicians about this attack on the economy, though.

Piece neglects to mention that Tamara Lanier wrote a book, which is why HU finaly settled www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/h...

The reporting about Trump's stopping of interviews for new student visas misses a main point: Pretty much the whole world besides US and Israel opposes Israel's actions in Gaza. Trump makes social media silence about on-going genocide a visa condition. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza

What is Noem talk

Shame on GW. Universities should certainly be divesting. They should not be punishing their best students for calling out genocide as Israel starves thousands of children to death. These universities will be apologizing for all of this. Faculty reaction? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Incredible that NYU is disciplining its student graduate speaker for mentioning the genocide in Gaza. Middle East Studies Association thinks so too: mesana.org/advocacy/com...

What is Da Yi Tong 大一统 anyway? fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blo...

最近像摸着石头过河一样尝试写重大历史问题，没想到，我的拙文居然能和这些权威学者的著作一起登上哈佛燕京的平台! fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blo...

This is a tragedy and a needless own-goal by the U.S. , which is now blindfolding itself to events in Uyghur, Tibet and ceding the info-space to PRC propaganda. hongkongfp.com/2025/05/03/r...

We become more and more like PRC

AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

Look who likes Georgetown administration's refusal to respect an overwhelming student referendum to divest from Israel?! Students were resoundingly in favor of unwinding financial ties to Israeli government that carrying out brutal attacks on Palestinians. www.foxnews.com/us/georgetow...

The headline for stories about the Harvard reports should be "New reports show Islamophobia more serious problem than antisemitism at Harvard." That what the stats show, by a wide margin. But NYT reported differently: theintercept.com/2025/04/30/h...

Absolutely correct. Did DOGE kids who cut funding for VOA even know they were killing our best sources for news on authoritarian Asian countries at the same time? Killing RFA cedes info space to PRC, is really hurting US, not to mention Uyghurs, Tibetans www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...

Cost of people unable to pay student debt projected over $400 billion over next decade. Imagine if US invested that in state universities up front, to keep public education affordable? => More degrees, fewer people's lives hobbled by bad credit, smarter workforce. wapo.st/44PFKsW

New report from @citizenlab.ca found that Uyghur rights activists were targeted by spearphishing campaign, including advocates featured in @icij.org's #ChinaTargets investigation. www.icij.org/investigatio...

What about Radio Free Asia? about.rferl.org/article/us-d...

No China experience and a 2020 election denier, and still these pathetic dems vote for him. Booker should have spent some of those 25 hours reading up.

Save US taxpayers $650 billion annually. Provide health care to everyone at no cost without stupid complexities. Make US health outcomes like those of other wealthy countries. Medicare for All, instead of GOP cuts to all our health care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Possible US war crime in proxy war in Yemen on behalf of Israel—US bombing migrants in detention center

US is at war with Yemen. Not entirely new, but Trump has escalated. Why, exactly?

Someone please ask, “what do you mean by DEI work?” They won’t be able to respond.

They’re even going after Wikipedia now. How pathetic. Does the US attorney for the District of Columbia really have nothing better to do?

Why I violated the IHRA definition of antisemitism url:https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-i-violated-ihra-definition-antisemitism

Those universities that (wrongly) told their students the SEVIS status change meant they had to self-deport ASAP owe them an apology, a tuition remission and a plane ticket. Don’t obey in advance or even right away—Trump clowns might reverse themselves next week. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Defending academic freedom: universities whose faculty had NEH or other govt. grants clawed back, should not say “tough luck” and cancel their sabbaticals. Defending acad freedom requires active defense vs outside attack. Pony up funds to allow their leaves as if with the NEH.

Vance will love this

Number is up just today, from 180 to around 240. University leaders, time to join in. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

If I Google "why is US at war with Yemen," the top four hits are from Australian News, BBC, DW news (Germany) and Al Jazeera. Is US media is not even bothering to ask, let alone answer, this question? Houthis are just terrorists, tribes, savages--bombing them is just expected? To what end?

Remember they said they would only go after "illegal immigrant criminals"? Quickly that morphed into "entirely legal grad students and post-doc scholars working on cures for cancer." They applaud cruelty and empower every CBP agent to be li'l dictator in the fiefdom of their own entry kiosk.

Why does Hegseth even have attack plans on Houthis to share from his personal phone? B/c US is attacking Houthis. Why is US attacking Houthis? B/c Houthis are attacking ships. Why are Houthis attacking ships?

Unbelievable. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...