Through EO on Day One, Mayor Mamdani has rejected New York’s adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism & cancelled the city’s opposition to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. This is a big win for ppl protesting for a Free Palestine—and gives them more space to organize

Goals for 2026: More strikes. More unions. More worker wins.

Not the most important of China's biopolitical interventions, but probably the funniest "the country as of January 1 began charging value-added tax on condoms and other contraceptives."

Most of Israel's metro systems, sea ports and other infrastructures are built by Chinese state-owned corporations. There are self-media(possibly state-affiliated) on Bilibili sharing these proudly as a demonstration of how well these infrastructures are holding against "the missiles"

Apparently the "new cold war" isn't going to stand in the way of Chinese companies building critical infrastructure for Israel

i.e. "Crushing inequality furnishes the surplus population necessary to make terrible business potentially profitable" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

You scratch my revanchist back I'll scratch yours

4 dead 3 missing in coal mine explosion in Yunnan. Mine safety has improved a lot in China over the last 20 years, but still lots of problems

Broken clock DeSantis share.google/8eFn2ERKLoJy...

Resistance to factory closures continues in China. These workers at a toy factory in Dongguan needed to fight for days, blockade a road, and their "victory" was getting half of what they were legally entitled to. English video:

Even if it doesn't pass, getting Newsom on record as opposing taxes on billionaires is very useful. And California will be better off if the oligarchs actually move to Florida

"He also fantasized about his American kids marrying Musk’s children in the future." Billionaires staying normal this holiday season

PROBLEM SOLVED

Whatever else may be true about Chinese owned ports, they sure aren't trying to throw any wrenches in Israeli supply chains

"He also pointed to problems in the methodology, saying there was too much reliance on quantitative data and models without sufficient grounding in language skills and fieldwork." Any thoughts on why fewer US-based researchers are doing fieldwork?

First Canon, now Sony shuttering a huge plant in Guangdong. No idea if this estimate is credible, but here they say up to 300k jobs could be lost given impact on surrounding business

Really enjoyed this selection of Zheng Xiaoqiong's writing in @equatormag.bsky.social, so evocative of migrant worker life in Guangdong during the boom years

The State of New York offers translation services in SEVEN Chinese languages. This whole poster is an achievement

I'm one paragraph into a student's final paper and so relieved to see some errors and awkward sentences, A+ work

Bad news for Taiwan's workers www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Hey look at that, our book made a list

The life of one person distilling the grotesque pathologies of two superpowers

They're just Doing It lol Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Going to need an anthropologist to explain this unique cultural pattern

The Yilisheng strike is over, police and boss repression finally broke them. One of the more impressive and important strikes in recent years. Video in English

Congrats to Beijing, mission accomplished. Now you guys also have a monopoly on blame in Hong Kong, starting with Tai Po

Almost as dumb as when Americans try to explain Taiwan politics with an analogy about the Confederacy losing the Civil War and occupying Hawaii

The PLA is preparing for this vision of future combat. Why aren't we? By the Editorial Board

Today's a good day

BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc

Lol in 2013 he was going around saying China could grow at 8 percent for another 20 years, please stop taking him seriously

Unfortunately Codepink has a standing alliance with MTG going back to 2023

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

This morning, in the largest expansion yet, hundreds of new union baristas are walking off the job in 34 cities. That means there are now: 🗣️ 3,800 baristas ☕️ across 180 stores 📍 in over 130 cities on an open-ended ULP strike! We’re 👏 only 👏 getting 👏 stronger

Massive turnout of organized higher ed workers to protest the brutal austerity measures proposed by The New School management ✊ @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

Are we getting out in the streets to protest a war with Venezuela?

Love to see China's anti-work culture getting the global recognition it deserves

Work year limit is bad for workers and honestly doesn't serve anyone's interest

For all the discussion of Xi being pro-state, the gap between private and public wealth has continued to grow under his watch

Foreign forces succeeded in getting 70% of the city to maliciously not vote

I'm sure there are Chinese scholars doing important critical work on the very real history of Japanese imperialism in the East China Sea and it just sucks that their work must be corralled into justifying Chinese imperialism in the East China Sea www.globaltimes.cn/page/202512/...

More reports of teachers' salaries going unpaid, this time in Wuhan

The true spirit of Christmas ;)

“They’re under the impression that American workers are lazy, incompetent and stupid,” Interesting how owning capital and technology endows people with a sense of cultural superiority, someone should look into that

There's a lot of justified doom and gloom about higher ed and AI but have to say I've had some incredible students this semester committed to using their own brain to research, write, debate. Such a joy, especially given the general environment

Hard hitting news

What about middle aged Jewish people who learned about Israel by reading books and traveling there and still concluded it's an apartheid state?

What a disaster

Ithaca commute

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