Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸

Guys whose entire worldview rests on the idea of there being a Third Worldist anti-colonialist solidarity bloc led by China or Russia that turns out to exist only in their imagination

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

The Harvard Crimson Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name "peril" but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin's emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.

gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Something that sticks with me: Alice Wong didn’t really gain notoriety for her work until the last decade or so. How many people who use wheelchairs or who have significant medical disabilities does the world write off simply by how we visually perceive them? Farewell, Alice.

Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Messy office space, the home of the New York Review of Books

I've fully started leaning into the messy office rather than allowing the myth of "clean space, clean mind" to send me into a shame spiral. This has done wonders for my productivity. I mean just look at the New York Review's space.....

A mushroom with a long stem and slightly concave cap stands on a workbench in the museum's offsite store.

In our latest blog post University of Cambridge researchers Katherine Enright and Liana Chua explore how colonial collecting reclassified Indigenous foods (such as tiger milk mushrooms and edible bird’s nests) and rituals as charms, specimens, and commodities: www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2025/11...

AFT’s Weingarten and AAUP’s Wolfson on Texas A&M University System Board of Regents’ Vote to Censor Curriculum COLLEGE STATION, Texas—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement condemning the Texas A&M University…

““The notion that politicians or high-level administrators can dictate what can be taught, researched, discussed or debated in a college classroom is fundamentally at odds with what higher education is about."

- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

@aft.org

The Resistible Rise of Xi Jinping China’s president radically changed his country and the Communist Party through skill, determination—and a series of lucky breaks.

guys I have some news about my relationship with the subject of a piece. what can I say. I loved his eyes, black as a midnight pool. I loved the way he would be moved to tears by something as simple as comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society.

foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/19/t...

Yeah I support LGBTQ

Light rail
Going from
Brooklyn
To
Queens

😬

each of them represents one of the five elements: Fire, Metal, Air, Water, and Anti-Trust.

This totally applies to us East Asians too, and we would frequently tell feel-good stories of overcoming racism to find success in this country in a way that focus on our hard work and gloss over who did the heavy lifting to fight racism in this country and fight for civil rights for all.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

White people aren't doing well... Every Black and brown person on the PLANET reading this and thinking my mom's childhood friend's second cousin is considered our Aunt... LOSERS...

This is cultural racism. Anyone heard about the desi aunties? I mean, it's a real thing. It is legit what he would have called his dad's cousin, and that connection might be remote in many families, but that is, again, CULTURAL.

Lia Smith, a transgender athlete who was on Middlebury's swimming and diving team, was just found dead by suicide this week.
www.them.us/story/lia-sm...

i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

“On the Birth of a Son” by Su Tung-Po (1037-1101): “Families when a child is born Hope it will turn out intelligent. I, through intelligence Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope that the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he'll be happy all his days And grow into a cabinet minister.”

My favorite Song dynasty poet:

Everyone has roasted me for my #4 choice for so long and I am vindicated

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Pope Leo's first encyclical: Faith means defending migrants Leo XIV puts Vatican at odds with the White House.

Pope Leo XIV sent a separate message Thursday to Catholic Charities USA, praising its work with migrants and urging members to keep serving as "agents of hope" despite a federal funding freeze.
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/p...

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store ICEBlock reportedly has 1.1 million users.

“Apple made similar claims in 2019 when it removed HKMap, an app that allowed Hong Kong protesters to trace the movements of law enforcement … At the time, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle spoke out against ‘Apple’s censorship of apps.’”

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

zohranfornyc.com/register

ahhh thank you Matt!!!