Jay Carter

Thinking about this more, perhaps you could ask Love Of Your Life the same question of freshly prepared food. Do you a) put it on its own plate, or b) on the plate you used for yesterday’s dinner?

A, unless you’re out of containers

Can barely remember getting a shloske for less than ten bucks. Good times

Headline: Why Trump’s cuts to scientific research are a big win for China Subhed: China is attracting American scientific talent, especially in STEM fields, partly due to funding cuts and immigration restrictions under President Donald Trump.

This is what every single person with any experience in China has been warning about from the start.

Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline!

Nice dawn in central jersey!

The world’s largest outdoor mocktail party?

Rian Thum will be at UCLA Nov 10 talking about his impressive new book, Islamic China: An Asian History www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/1...

Seal suffrage gets very little attention on this side of the pond!

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm

Last week, western Alaska was hit by the powerful remnants of a typhoon. Recovery is just beginning for communities an airplane away building materials & other support. PBS has a good overview of this social-climate disaster. Ways to support linked below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

It’s the Institutions, Stupid The real cause of America's dysfunctional politics lies in the mismatch between the United States’ political institutions and its political realities.

“How did American democracy become so dysfunctional, even as it became more participatory?” Read Julia Azari’s 2019 essay on the forces fueling the United States’ political crisis:

No spiritual comfort #Chicago

The arrow was purportedly from the 1813 attack, but Betsy (never one to mince words) pointed out to the guide that the arrow was on the wrong side of the wall: the rebels had not reached that side. Apparently--so the story goes--the next time she returned to that courtyard, the arrow was gone. 2/2

My favorite story about this event is connected with Betsy Bartlett, one of my thesis advisors. She made a living in the 80s guiding tours of the Forbidden City, and one day eavesdropped on a Chinese tour guide pointing out an arrow that was lodged in the wall of the Palace...1/2

This Week in China's History: Eight Trigrams Rebellion Attacks the Forbidden City October 9, 1813

It's not just the Rapture! Millenarian movements seeking to bring about the end of days: This Week in China's History: Eight Trigrams Rebellion Attacks the Forbidden City www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...

But also it was bad right? My sense was that it flopped (but I have no actual idea)

The Guardian view on gen Z protests: these movements share more than an interest in anime | Editorial Editorial: A new global wave of unrest is unfolding, driven by generational discontents and taking cues from each other

Excellent piece in @theguardian.com on the recent wave of youth protests in Asia and Africa www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... that brings in popular culture & history in thoughtful ways

I didn’t know what to expect from One Battle After Another…but i didn’t expect so burst into tears in the last scene….

No Country for a Woman | China Books Review Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression…

Two big new essays for fans of @yangyangcheng.bsky.social this week! At @chinabooksreview.com, she writes about new @bairuiwen.bsky.social translations of two novels by Fang Fang ...

I thought this was strong but I saw your point. …but I thought you meant Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas…

Pan-African Dreams, Post-Colonial Realities Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s age of independence.

The New Yorker reviews my new book, The Second Emancipation (about Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism), along with Mahmood Mamdani's Slow Poison (about Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni). www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I always stand up for Bluesky against critics who say it’s full of people who are afraid that somewhere someone is having a good time.

And then Bluesky decided to self-parody itself and ridicule folks for being excited about a new Taylor swift album.

Srsly?

That’s just silly

This Week in China's History: Wang Mang Dismembered, Remembered October 6, 23 CE

Tyrant? Revolutionary? Los dos? This Week in China’s History looks at the brief reign and gruesome end of Wang Mang, 2000 years ago

www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Opinion | ‘Hypercharged’ Is the Only Word for This Supreme Court

#ICYMI, I joined @kateshaw.bsky.social and @williambaude.bsky.social for (another) @nytopinion.nytimes.com roundtable on #SCOTUS — as the Roberts Court marks its twentieth anniversary and with a momentous new term set to begin next Monday.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Yeah. I’m sure that will work out. I’m just old.

Sticking with my earlier comment that I don’t think you should take out a pitcher when they have given up no runs and no one is on base.

So I’m still thinking I’m right about this. 🙄

I am old, but I don’t think you take pitchers out when they given up 0 runs and no one is on base