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Y'all blew up an elementary girls school.

Need people to stop being weird about Alysa Liu and Eileen Gu. And also to understand what an athlete representing China can and cannot do, versus what an athlete representing US - for now - can and cannot do.

hello bsky, new person to follow! On #japan and beyond.

4/ I’ve started a second project on “An Extractivist History of the Nintendo Game Boy.” It explores the environmental costs of abstracting nature into digital worlds, linking the electronics industry in postwar Japan to intensive mining and drilling practices at home and abroad.

3/ ”Territorial Natures” argues that the fraught and urgent question of autonomous regions in the People’s Republic of China originate not only from Soviet internationalism, but also from Japanese fascism, which cultivated rural landscapes as authentic markers of ethnic identity in Inner Mongolia.

Territorial Natures A critical account of the Japanese occupation in Inner Mongolia.   Early in the twentieth century, the steppe borderlands between China and Mongolia erupted in violence. As imperial Japan expanded int...

2/ My first book, “Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question,” is coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social this August 2026.

You can find it here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Bluesky #historians! Make sure you follow my brilliant friend Sakura (and pre-order her amazing book!)

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Look what I got in the mail! @catielila.bsky.social @jimmillward.bsky.social @jagevans.bsky.social and Taomo Zhou

Btw, decolonization was an explicit part of the HK pro-democracy discourse and not a lens that a leftist scholar decided to use after the fact

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.

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You are not alone. I just sent this to the spouse and about 10 minutes later from upstairs I hear him exclaim "Antman???"

honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.

I have positively mediocre Cantonese but I am very sad that his 快d啦 probably sounds better than mine

WHAT

UT-Austin to merge race, ethnic and gender study programs More than 800 students are pursuing degrees in the affected departments, which include African, Latino and gender studies.

This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...

Domination is the only principle guiding the Trump movement, so the paradigmatic case of domination—gender violence—will inevitably arise as Trumpism’s core expression.

Called it out when it was evidence-free statements that all data went straight to the MSS. Gotta call it out when it’s equally evidence-free in another direction.

China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in Hong Kong Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city's dissent.

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city's dissent. n.pr/4rza6YL

Buried in this piece is a throwaway line about how actually her real hustle is selling online courses to aspiring AI hacks, marking an extraordinary symbiosis of my two most hated internet poisons

More than ever, we need investigative reporting on China—work that takes time and resources to produce—not commentaries from YouTubers speculating about imminent economic collapse or elite political infighting in China.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Guan Heng takes a selfie with his mother, smiling.

Breaking: Guan Heng has just been released from detention and is now reunited with his mother, a long-awaited and joyful reunion. DHS has not yet decided whether to appeal his asylum. We extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who stood by him and helped make today possible.

On Doing Small Things Towards Change – A Book Review Andréa Worden, January 31, 2026 Xu Zhiyong (许志永),  美好中国 (published in Chinese by Bouden House, NY, 2025).[1] English translations of the 24 essays comprising A Beautiful China are available on the …

Two books on civil society & how change will likely happen in China, and why advocates for human rights and democracy shouldn't lose hope. Imprisoned organizer of the Citizens Movement, Xu Zhiyong, is an eloquent writer whose book will soon be released in English. chinachange.org/2026/01/31/o...

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

Screenshot showing that r/Conservative, noted bastion of free/awful speech, is now ranked just one above us in weekly visitor numbers.

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

If this is true we're getting into some rarified air of PRC elite politics upheaval. Nothing will ever beat the Cultural Revolution, but even there Mao didn't purge the entire PLA top leadership at once.

I kinda think people are crashing out on @whstancil.bsky.social because it’s easier to yell at each other than to acknowledge that the fash have some terrifying tools at their disposal

Book Launch | The Wall Dancers by Yi-Ling Liu Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! This helps ensure that everyone who wants a book goes home with one, in case we sell out at the event.  ABOUT THE BOOK An in...

Next Tuesday (Feb 3), I will be talking to @yilingliu95.bsky.social in New York about her new book: The Wall Dancers. It is a great chronology of how individuals in China grow up with the internet and end up shaping or being engulfed in it. Come join us & RSVP here!
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