history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
04.10.2025 23:14 — 👍 14579 🔁 3404 💬 139 📌 67
/6 If you are stuck in the McArdlian view "we can't think of the other side of evil" -- which I view as sociopathic -- I have to ask, is there ANYTHING they can do that will make you call it evil? Is there ANYTHING they can do that won't make you say "I should focus on finding common ground?"
02.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 1482 🔁 209 💬 33 📌 9
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
09.09.2025 19:15 — 👍 1727 🔁 1019 💬 119 📌 409
China Steals Language and Home Life From Tibetan Kids as Young as 4
Beijing is building a broad network of preschools across Tibetan areas, seeking to inculcate loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party early in life.
What’s the ideal age for the state to impose assimilation on minorities? In Tibet, it’s 4.
Gift link to new long read from me and Niharika Mandhana Beijing's building of government-run preschools across Tibetan areas to reverse generations of opposition to party rule:
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
29.06.2025 10:53 — 👍 65 🔁 31 💬 5 📌 6
Same racist authoritarian data collection they've been doing in Xinjiang for years. Fight it everywhere
10.06.2025 11:36 — 👍 30 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip
Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.
This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride.
If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.
05.05.2025 21:33 — 👍 6466 🔁 2600 💬 195 📌 115
Introduction to Chaghatay, Summer 2025
This is an application form for the not-for-credit summer course in introductory Chaghatay language to be held through the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in Summer ...
This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here!
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22.04.2025 20:56 — 👍 38 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 4
Radio Free Asia set to furlough most US-based staff due to government funding freeze
Financial support suspension pushes government-funded broadcaster toward “skeleton staff” operations.
Radio Free Asia was the 1st to reveal China's mass detention of Uyghurs & kept the world informed about the crimes against humanity there. 🇨🇳 tried silencing RFA by imprisoning families of Uyghur RFA journos; now 🇺🇸 poised to help 🇨🇳 finish that job. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
17.03.2025 14:39 — 👍 71 🔁 38 💬 3 📌 0
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
This is a test for Columbia and the universities in general. They must oppose this with collective loud voices and legal aid to Khalil, who is targeted for specific speech while a student.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
09.03.2025 15:08 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Author of 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙮 (2019) & 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝘼𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝘼𝙨𝙞𝙖 (@uwapress, 2025). Chinese characters, writing systems, historical phonology, etc.
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