Jim Millward

Judge halts Trump’s deployment of national guard in Washington, DC | CNN Politics President Donald Trump and the Defense Department illegally deployed the National Guard in Washington, DC, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Today, U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb ordered a halt to the president’s unlawful deployment of National Guard troops to D.C.

This ruling provides an important check on presidential power and makes it clear that when we defend D.C., we defend democracy.
https://cnn.it/483j8VW

Larry Summers blasts Harvard over antisemitism: ‘I have lost confidence’ | CNN Business Famed economist Larry Summers slammed Harvard’s top leaders on Sunday over concerns about how the Ivy League school is fighting antisemitism.

Remembering Sommers’ sanctimony over appointing a professor of Jewish history to Harvard task force on antisemitism. Sommers never stopped calling pro-Palestine protestors antisemites, and opened the door to Trump attacks on academe based on antisemitism pretext.
www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/b...

No better way to signal intent to give illegal orders than to blow up at the lawful suggestion to not follow illegal orders.

Do not follow illegal orders.

GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.

But those college students in tents!

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

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?

RFA suspends remaining editorial operations amid funding uncertainty With the delay in receiving funding, RFA suspends remaining editorial operations amid funding uncertainty.

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

Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian | Protect History Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is a “Crowd to Cloud” effort to steward and safeguard our institution by preserving the Smithsonian Institution’s contents as they exist in 2025. With our feet ...

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

So disappointed with the Post these days.

Interesting. I’ve been smelling dead things on my runs.

No one in Qing ever said “Xinjiang has been part of China since ancient times.” Though the court did reference Tang expansion to Western Regiona

To be mischievous, here and there I might say, “In the Sinocentric geographical conventions which the Qing court for some purposes adopted, former Ming China was ‘inner,’ and non-Chinese parts recently conquered by the Qing were ‘outer’”

There is always inside and outside the pass. That’s the center / periphery imperial logic that 内地 originates in.

The problem with “inland” is that it already means something else in English: it refers to distance from the sea-the exact opposite of neidi with regard to Xinjiang. Some Chinese writers (especially official sources) translate 内地 as “inland” but they are making a mistake.

For Qing and before, “China” or Sinitic parts of the Qing, vs. Inner Asia or Central Asia. Xinjiang is geographically central (Inner) Asia. Geographical China is eastern Eurasia — a term a lot of middle period historians use to avoid confusion of “China.” Today, “eastern parts of the PRC”

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

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...

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你对克里斯蒂·亨利耍了这么卑鄙的花招，等于保证短中期内不会有真正的美国学者想去新疆。我们可不想成为你这出木偶戏里的傀儡。

Now you trick Princeton into looking complicit in whitewashing your repression of Uyghurs. Do you actually WANT to cut off contacts with elite US universities?!?

中国共产党和新疆当局：你们把普林斯顿大学出版社变成了你们透明宣传的工具，正在破坏一个努力保持中美学术交流渠道畅通的机构。难道你们不想继续与普林斯顿、哈佛等大学进行交流吗？

XJ authorities and CCP, by turning PUP into a vehicle for your transparent propaganda, you are undermining the very institutions that are trying to keep channels of academic exchange open.

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ust the other day, DHS secretary Noem attacked Harvard again for a program in which XJ bingtuan officials took part.
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