Jim Millward

I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop.
It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities.
I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

This is really a sad contradiction for us who work on human rights issues in China: as governments commit to countering CCP influence within their borders (a welcome step), they are concurrently adopting measures that make life harder for those who fled the CCP’s persecution.

Here is what CBS’s Weiss censored for the Trump regime.

I direct Duke’s Asia Pacific Studies Center, so we’ve been working with Carolina Asia. Center on joint programs as much as we can this year to make up for budget shortfalls at both institutions. But this summary closure 🤬

Guan Heng’s citizen journalist reporting helped confirm remote satelite documenting of the gulag in Xinjiang. It supported reports by Congress and UN. Guan Heng is a legal asylum seeker with a work card and a scheduled hearing. ICE is out of control.

That photo? Looks like the roof of the National Gallery of Art during the No Kings rally in DC in October 2025. I guess the point is it’s not China?

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 ...

www.citizenhistorians.org

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!