she was possibly the last person released after being arrested in relation to the A4 movement. most of the Beijing protestors were arrested for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" and released after a few months. she was charged with "promoting extremism" for sharing a video & served 3 years.
a piece of old but good news: Kamile Wayit was released in December 2025.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
equal education advocacy groups say this is a critical window of opportunity to let "left behind children" reunite with their parents. the problem is not lack of school places but policy barriers preventing residence-based equal access to education.
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/lZaMl_QdnD...
over 5 million primary school aged children in China can't live with their migrant parents because they can't get a school place in their parents' city, a group called "left-behind children".
but now cities actually have more school places than needed bc of declining birth rates...
Something significant changed about American universities this year, and most people haven't noticed. At least 15 Florida public colleges and universities have signed 287(g) agreements with ICE, giving campus police federal immigration authority. 🧵
ad from headway_app: how to become well spoken about global politics
the least useful app/ad I've seen on the internet
who needs this product? Beijing taxi driver?
women have always worked, although not always in waged economy (which itself is very recent). and children have always been raised collectively through "non parental care": it takes a village!
this discourse is painfully pervasive these days, and it really doesn't take much effort to find out that the "breadwinner-homemaker" model was available to a small group of people in a particular historical period. for the vast majority throughout history,
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It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
lake Windermere
"Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
like there's this 1970s BBC clip where all interviewees said they are against the idea of women's liberation, and they think women's role is in the home etc. you'd be surprised to see how many are agreeing today. blaming feminism for capitalism's ills.
www.instagram.com/reel/DWr-6zF...
we should never take this for granted bc there are many people, including women, who idealize an imagined past that operated according to "biological difference". I'm seeing comments on Instagram everyday that say feminism has ruined women's life and no one should send their children to nursery.
A swan swims near the shore of a lake beside two docked boats, with hills and cloudy blue sky in the background.
morning Bluesky
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yes AI hallucination is a distraction. It's the people's lives that are being dismissed, knowledge & culture being erased, that we should never lose focus on.
There has been a lot of criticisms of that this piece had AI-hallucinated citations already. Prashad has apologized--and yet it's very telling that he feels more accountable to academic integrity than the 12 million lives whose erasure he and Chak contribute to the erasure of
![Education
Araghchi earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from the School of International Relations, affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He then obtained a master's degree in political science from Islamic Azad University in Tehran.[7] Additionally, Araghchi holds a Ph.D. in political thought from the University of Kent with a thesis entitled The Evolution of the Concept of Political Participation in Twentieth-Century Islamic Political Thought (1996).[13][14][15] Supervised by David McLellan, a scholar of Marxism, the thesis argues that modern Islamic political thought has attempted to reconcile the doctrine of divine sovereignty with the concept of popular sovereignty by incorporating aspects of Western democratic theory into Islamic principles, thereby developing democratic institutions within the framework of Islamic law.[16] He is fluent in Persian, Arabic and English.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t5kwnyqf6dqkhw6vi2quqnxz/bafkreicv2dl6xkt2re6pivllsv2rrihgpnsyr2bqw3zntf57sv72kvkxxq)
Education Araghchi earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from the School of International Relations, affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He then obtained a master's degree in political science from Islamic Azad University in Tehran.[7] Additionally, Araghchi holds a Ph.D. in political thought from the University of Kent with a thesis entitled The Evolution of the Concept of Political Participation in Twentieth-Century Islamic Political Thought (1996).[13][14][15] Supervised by David McLellan, a scholar of Marxism, the thesis argues that modern Islamic political thought has attempted to reconcile the doctrine of divine sovereignty with the concept of popular sovereignty by incorporating aspects of Western democratic theory into Islamic principles, thereby developing democratic institutions within the framework of Islamic law.[16] He is fluent in Persian, Arabic and English.
so Araghchi did a PhD in political thought supervised by a Marxist scholar, and the thesis sounds nice on paper, had he not served foreign minister for a regime that kills protestors in the thousands.
Full article: Of spectra, of inertia: quantum citizenship of migrants and spatiotemporal violence of attention www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Very proud to see our piece in @theguardian.com on Hungary's hopeful, Péter Magyar, and his prospects for restoring liberal democracy in Hungary. 🇭🇺🗞️
While expectations among international observers are high, we need to be realistic.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
this seems really interesting: comparing the imagination of "mythic frontiers" in American Western films and Hong Kong wuxia films cup.org/4ebtFmu
Happy to share this article by Xin Fan, funded by @ninedtp.bsky.social @durhameducation.bsky.social @durhamchina.bsky.social on rural Peidu mothers' intersectional experiences in #China Big Congrats! proud supervisor moment. #VikkiBoliver @bjse.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:
In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.
www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
book cover of 为了不能失去的故乡
there's a book written by Hua Xinmin who experienced this first hand: For the sake of a homeland that must not be lost: A blue-eyed Beijinger’s ten-year battle to protect the hutongs. She's a "blue eyed Beijinger" and hutong protector.
luxury brands, now one of the most well-known upscale commercial districts in Beijing. the annual rental income for her company for this street is said to be over 1 billion yuan.
she made 2100 households sign demolition contract in 28 days, which sounds more realistic. In any case, it was fast.
in this area she built Jinbao street, a cluster of high-end developments that attracted luxury hotels and international
still, using utility cutoff & other harassment tactics, she completed demolition & eviction of 2100 households in 28 days, said to be a "miracle in Beijing's real estate sector". the news article in the link above reported as such, which I find a bit implausible. I found another one that says
she was born in Beijing but became a real estate developer in Hong Kong. In 1998 she acquired development rights over a large hutong area near Wang Fujing, home to 2100 households. many of the 四合院 courtyard homes were former residence of notable figures. there were protests from heritage experts.
