@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses the nature of totalitarianism as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay... kinda feels timely... www.speculativeinsight.com

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

🔥 ICYMI (including a thread of recent Ming-Qing literature-related blog posts)

“Laurie Eckman, 84, said she and her husband Richard Eckman, also 84 and a Vietnam war veteran, were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground.”

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

A wonderful companion resource site created by our research librarians Matthew Hayes and Adhitya Dhanapal, on the Immigration Act of 1965 and its legacies sites.duke.edu/aadssymposium/

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

⧉ 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗛𝗔𝗜. We'd love to publish reviews of these books in @asiancha.bsky.social in 2025/26. Together they summon Shanghai in print & plate: women’s gaze in newsprint, lantern posters, montage intoxication, camera-shadow, capitalist type.From presses to neon bloom, a city flowering in ink.

I must say, I don't think the "but the economy" types are gonna enjoy the return of the Imperial Boomerang as much as they think they will.

@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay: www.speculativeinsight.com

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

This is easily the coolest postdoc posting I've seen in a while, but it's a bit outside my wheelhouse and my dissertation timeline. The University ot Freiburg (universität-freiburg) is seeking a researcher on contemporary Chinese fantasy fiction and then some. uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook. "Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

Protip: The other way to get jstor without limits on articles is a Wikipedia Library membership. You need extended confirmed status as a Wikipedia editor to access tho.

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

He don’t miss (he does miss)

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions. Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

There were so many things I thought were great in this essay, including its discussion of "AI-and-I" essays: “What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?” Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Presented without further comment.

Need more elected officials saying this daily

Ceci n’est pas une pomme (It’s actually a baozi -sweet white flour bun with golden custard filling - figured it was apples and honey season)

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

Dropping some grad student gripes in here, just to vent. I really dig attending a webinar on how to be productive and being advised to 1) write every day (somehow), 2) find accountability partners (because we all have time for this), and 3) fork over a cool $500 for some kind of mentorship program

i want to point out that this model of policing is similar to laws like the hong kong security laws of 2021 where the broadening of terrorism, national security and treason basically makes it a field day on civil society activity. expect arrests in trade unions, academia and media to follow

Just a reminder that, despite what these freaks would have you think, antivaxx is extremely unpopular and we need to attack them relentlessly for putting insane dipshittery over our health

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

"The administration argues the measure will ensure only 'extraordinarily skilled' individuals enter the country..." Or: These extraordinarily skilled foreign workers will pick a country that doesn't charge a $100,000 entry fee for them and their highly sought-after skills. Hmm.

As was posted earlier, how to delete your account without agreeing to the ToS: Opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

has there been a single piece of political rhetoric that has inspired more mass shootings than great replacement?

pains me to think that this guy makes a living by being an 'anti-CCP activist'

1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands: apnews.com/article/chin...

We love a good sequel, right (Said no film aficionado whatsoever, but then again sequels do often sell well to general audiences. Just a little analogy I'm trying out!)

One contradiction of the current regime I find really striking is their eagerness for censorship alongside their readiness to push Americans to learn how to use VPNs. (I am hazarding a guess that once there's a US entity controlling their version of the app, the original app will be banned there.)

As it happens, international students dislike being used as bargaining chips and wondering whether their visas will be pulled out from beneath them. Among other things.

Most well written campaign donation request email I've ever received! @katmabu.bsky.social

It is inexcusable for a public university in a blue state to give a snitch list to Trump. It's time to do sanctuary jurisdictions but for education. California should forbid its universities by statute from cooperating with any federal demands for information www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I suppose this is the closest I've gone to posting APSA content.

Encountered in Vancouver: brand new (well, to me) way to describe gulab jamun.

South Korea denounces ‘shocking’ US treatment of detained workers www.ft.com/content/c71a...

China clamps down on feminists, they fight back Ten years since the arrest of five feminist activists, which marked a watershed moment in China's women's rights movement, awareness has grown, but space for feminist voices has sharply narrowed. www.dw.com/en/china-cla...

if you find yourself starting to catastrophize on main you should go play some tetris rather than posting about it and this goes triple if you have a large group of followers, exercise some judgment