Yiping Xia 夏逸平

FIFA awarding Donald Trump a "peace prize" is an insult to every supporter/player/coach of the beautiful game who actually believes in justice and humanity.

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Tunde Adebimpe’s solo debut is awesome. Such a treat for us TV On the Radio fans.

Alabama Office of Student Media ending Alice and 1956 magazines to comply with federal regulations The University of Alabama's Office of Student Media and Division of Student Life on Monday met with staff members of student-run publications Alice Magazine and Nineteen Fifty-Six and announced their

This is outrageous.

www.wvua23.com/news/alabama...

Hear me out… Tom Huddlestone

every time administrators hand these forces a win, it emboldens them to do it again. somehow this keeps happening 🤔

a trans grad instructor is one of the more vulnerable members of a campus for this kind of bad-faith attack; everyone with more security needs to work to interrupt this playbook

Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.

i write about a lot of weird shit but the first weird shit i wrote about was DDOS as a tool of political activism! www.bloomsbury.com/us/coming-sw...

you can buy it or download it for free from my website according to the whims of your heart!

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Right, there’s a Mexican football team called Club América!

This is fucked. I had one of these to support my research in grad school, and I was on the review panel after I became a professor. (Also, there was a review happening like right now—I wonder what is happening with those proposals?)

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

I will never stop loving Richy

Deflected goals are karma for playing anti-football, no?

Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.”

“Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats.

That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

So happy for Troy Parrott. Good lad.

Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible

The goal of this, btw, is to reduce the independence conferred by tenure. Tenure is designed to prevent *exactly this kind* of political interference. I think they've decided that they can't get rid of tenure, so this is the next best thing.

This is dangerous, dumb, and racist.

A lot of the academy rn as well

I hadn’t heard of three cueing before and reading about it here blew my mind.

National AAUP Demands End to Texas A&M Censorship JOIN: Join Texas AAUP and here are several reasons to join

The AAUP condemns proposals before the Texas A&M Board of Regents that require the college president to approve “course content & materials” for courses that cover topics on “race, gender ideology, or gender identity.”

Full statement:

aaup-texas.org/blog/f/natio...

@texasaaup.bsky.social

great keeper 👍

Again:

tell all of them, Richy

Tel that to your haters and doubters, my man

my cats have entertained me more than the football match this morning

I really don’t understand the Richarlison slender. He did more than Kolo Muani in the first 45.

Really strong showing by Kudermetova/Mertens. Now back to football shenanigans…