There's a famous Korean film about this island just off of Nagasaki. UNESCO's decision is a travesty. Very important story. 👇

Pay attention!!!

Korea Under Ceasefire February 6, 2025 the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Lee Jae-myung spoke to the Economist and confirmed South Korea’s geopolitical dilemma. Lee had been cozying up to the US since ex-…

Excellent & insightful historical piece by Minju B ‪@haebangbae.bsky.social‬ on South Korea after the impeachment and its recent elections. "Korea Under Ceasefire: The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea."

Korea Under Ceasefire February 6, 2025 the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Lee Jae-myung spoke to the Economist and confirmed South Korea’s geopolitical dilemma. Lee had been cozying up to the US since ex-…

"What Yoon Suk-yeol's martial law decree demonstrated was South Korea's intense political culture of militarization & violence, imposed & reinforced by US military occupation, that cannot be solved with a vote," writes Minju Bae (@haebangbae.bsky.social):

thenewinquiry.com/korea-under-...

White House official: “The US-ROK Alliance remains ironclad."
Translation: we will never allow your democracy to have any say whatsoever in your full cooperation with US military strategy.
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Le sigh

The Trump White House doesn't know that South Korea exists. "Ironclad alliance"! 😂

Korea Under Ceasefire February 6, 2025 the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Lee Jae-myung spoke to the Economist and confirmed South Korea’s geopolitical dilemma. Lee had been cozying up to the US since ex-…

To those following Lee Jae-myung's election (lol), see my piece about the ongoing US occupation of Korea in @newinquiry.bsky.social thenewinquiry.com/korea-under-...

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Korea Under Ceasefire February 6, 2025 the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Lee Jae-myung spoke to the Economist and confirmed South Korea’s geopolitical dilemma. Lee had been cozying up to the US since ex-…

My piece about the ongoing US military occupation of Korea thenewinquiry.com/korea-under-... is here! @newinquiry.bsky.social

To my husband, Mahmoud Khalil: I can’t wait to tell our son of his father’s bravery | Noor Abdalla Your wrongful detention is testament to the fact that you have struck a nerve. They are trying to silence you, but they will fail

"We will persist, with even greater resolve, and we will pass that strength on to our children and our children’s children – until Palestine is free. I eagerly await the day when I can tell our son the stories of his father’s bravery..."

Or the dockworkers who have resisted the shipment of arms to Israel!

South Korea ‘at breaking point’ ahead of ruling on President Yoon’s impeachment Barricades go up in Seoul as court prepares to rule on whether to uphold Yoon’s impeachment or restore his powers

South Korea 'at breaking point' ahead of tomorrow's ruling on President Yoon's impeachment.

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The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), the second largest union in Korea with over 1 million members, says it will declare a general strike if Yoon’s impeachment is overturned.

www.chosun.com/national/lab...

Rumeysa Ozturk is apparently being held in an ICE facility in Louisiana, owned by GEO Group, a private prison company that does much of the immigration prison contracting. Here's an image of what happened to GEO's stock price, nearly doubling from Nov 4 to Nov 11.

Hate is a for profit business.

Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson

My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

People are rightly mocking the White House for accidentally inviting a journalist to a group chat about bombing Yemen but it feels like we should also probably be talking about how they're bombing Yemen.

Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Arrests of Campus Protesters The lawsuit says the detention of noncitizen students and faculty members deprives U.S. citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers.

"The suit hinges on a First Amendment principle that Americans have a right not only to express ideas but also to hear them"--this is about the suit that @knightcolumbia.org filed with @aaup.bsky.social and @mesa1966.bsky.social this morning.

BREAKING: South Korea's Constitutional Court rejects PM Han Duck-soo's impeachment

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

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My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

tweet from @hermit_hwarang american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of asians?!?!

feels like a good day to meditate on scripture,

‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana detention for first time

EXCLUSIVE: In his first public remarks since being detained by federal immigration authorities, Mahmoud Khalil criticizes the conditions in US detention and says he is being targeted by the Trump administration for his political beliefs.

Read here:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Breaking breaking breaking:

Israel attacks Gaza massively.

Gaza is under attack, being bombed heavily. Those people. What a horrible fucking world.

so they starved Palestinians through a complete blockade, cut off all remaining electricity to the water desalination plant, and is now bombing Gaza. And our leaders are disappearing and deporting people for speaking out

Battle for Higher Ed: webinar series with SSJ

The Battle for Higher Ed - a webinar series with Scholars for Social Justice / Freedom & Justice Institute
4/1 Premilla Nadasen
4/23 Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
5/6 Maura Finkelstein

*whispers* Those Democrat senators are not just capitulating to MAGA. They *are* MAGA.

A strong letter from the @columbiajournalism.bsky.social faculty journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...