Screened this film about the repression of Uyghurs last night at Cornell. A powerful and tragic account of how the colonial project in northwest China continues to destroy lives www.allstaticandnoise.com

Not the first time they've tried. Here's People's Daily in 2018, and the number of foreign workers has plummeted since: “China’s door will open wider and wider. More superior human talents will settle in China, inevitably paying powerful human capital dividends for China’s future development.”

Saw a presentation with an AI-produced word cloud and the machine churned out made up characters. What are we even looking at here?

Hong Kong is the fourth best city for the wealthy elite to relocate, according to real estate firm Savills www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The @cornellaaup.bsky.social statement on Cornell's deal

Beijing offering free admission to over one thousand "scenic spots" to any Taiwanese people who have never been to China 🤔

Israeli politicians are announcing that they are going to use the election of Mamdani as a reason to try to convince a substantial number of NYC Jews to emigrate to Israel. I do not think they will be successful in substantial numbers. (www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...)

Us Jews have plenty of real things to worry about like if Larry David will ever make another show and the rise of literal Nazis in the Republican party. Let's not invent things to stress about

Being antifascist is still a badge of honor in some places

"there were at least 166 attacks affecting Chinese investments in Myanmar from January 2024 to March of this year... In response, China has pledged billions of dollars’ worth of aid to Myanmar’s junta, and Chinese state-owned companies are increasingly helping to arm the military"

I've long said I believed Ben Shapiro to be the canary in the coal mine for when the far right begins to explicitly push Jews out of the Republican party. The canary just metaphorically died.

Will never forgive the people who insisted chanting "from the river to the sea" is an existential threat to Jews while downplaying or embracing actual Nazis

Chinese companies are colluding with Myanmar's junta to repress unions. Ten worker activists have been imprisoned

Fear mongering about "debt trap diplomacy" is a distraction, but the politics of debt are very real. This one could be messy

Hard to defend academic freedom when you treat education as a commodity. "the university was 'explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,'"

North America's team tonight

Aside from infrastructure, none this happened in HK post 97 "after peaceful reunification, Taiwan will enjoy stronger economic growth, greater energy and resource security, improved infrastructure, enhanced public safety, broader international engagement, and better protection of livelihoods."

Case in point (haven't read it yet but assuming the authors' past performance guarantees future results)

I wrote a book with Quinn Slobodian called MUSKISM. It'll be published in the US in April 2026, and I hope you'll consider pre-ordering it. The elevator pitch is: if Fordism defined the capitalism of the 20th century, Muskism may well define the capitalism of the 21st.

The feds want universities to hire more right wing profs, but if you do a hire on "conservative thought" you're going to have to do heavy discrimination to weed out all the great work being done by people who are not themselves right wing ideologues

You guys. This is just getting embarrassing for you

Waiting for the hit piece on Trump's dogmatic education he received at Wharton. "The president has said his education at Wharton was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how business schools steep students in capitalist dogma."

Members of the Committee to Defend Tom Alter are asking you to sign a personalized version of one of the following letters (Links in thread 👇🏽 🧵). Tom is making a formal appeal for his unjust firing at Texas State. Please sign before the appeal's preliminary review on 11/10.

Happening now! We're joining @aaup.org to talk mobilization for our November 7 day of action. Follow along in the thread below!

Common Prosperity 🫥

Really want the Dodgers to lose but I need to admit to myself that I'm a huge Ohtani fan and there's nothing to be done about it

America's not ready for this conversation but Kristi Noem's old hair is straight up cultural appropriation of Smart 杀马特 style

I understand the 996 branding is from China but capitalists forcing workers to do long hours actually has nothing to do with Chinese culture

They don't make labor union websites like this anymore

What is even happening here with that comb over? Time to wave the white flag my guy

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

The Communists' loathing of welfarism is the Achilles heel of the economy

As long as we're doing a deep dive on dude's tattoos, it is pretty funny that he got the character for love right across the street from the Nazi tat. The yin and the yang

Last year there were about 6x more US students in Taiwan than China

Good news

Texas trying to snatch the Authoritarian U crown from Florida

Sharing my new article — "Gotta Study War Work More." 'How can we interpret the relationship between warfare and workers?' read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

The biopolitics of Taiwan's tech boom "In 2023, TSMC employees alone accounted for at least 2% of all children born in Taiwan, despite making up just 0.3% of the island's population."

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And now there are SEVEN. UofA president Suresh Garimella announced today that the school will reject Trump’s loyalty compact. “Principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding & institutional independence…must be preserved." Vanderbilt, TX: all eyes on you. 👀 #DefendHigherEd

Another one!

Didn't realize Epoch Times signed onto Hegseth's muzzle order, what a joke. Really trying to be the mirror image of People's Daily

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

Brought this sign to my local rally and got nothing but smiles from the libs. A 70 something guy from Hawaii excitedly told me how they eat shaved ice there, and we agreed shaving or crushing ice are both acceptable

Beautiful day to fight fascism in Ithaca, NY

The ADL has not yet commented at all on a Republican representative who had a swastika flag in his office. But they found time today to condemn the DSA and Jewish columnist M. Gessen.

Hoping more universities rejecting the compact will also kill other pending "deals." Who can argue now that we should strike a deal with these duplicitous thugs?

Join AAUP's National Teach-In on Trump's Loyalty Oaths! Tomorrow, Oct 17pm at 2pmET on Zoom. Be there! Register at link below👇 #AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd

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