Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

What the actual fuck @harvard.edu

I have no interest in policing other people's personal health choices in any way. If you're taking a GLP-1 and happy with it, then I'm happy.

But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.

I'm at that point myself tbh

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Honestly, if there's an autism "crisis" it's the lack of funding to support autistic people and caregivers

The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community.

But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz

Your regular reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics is bc there are never any actual elite consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. <Everyone> from the GWB era went on to lucrative gigs in media, business & academia.

For me, the biggest pivot point of the past three decades was the invasion of Iraq. Almost the whole of American political media sleepwalked into a compounding catastrophe--still reverberating even now--and lost the trust of the public for good. The cracks in our foundation widened there.

A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

the 12 or so hours at the start of a major snowstorm were the most magical time to be in new york city, in part because traffic almost vanished. truly shocking how quiet the city felt.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Maybe when Jake Sullivan isn't the Henry Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order I'll entertain the notion that a lack of internal accountability in a micro-sect on the far left fringe is what holds back American internationalism.

this makes me so angry

none of these people ever cared about little girls and they still don’t and if they did they would protect trans girls too

If I were a blue state governor, I’d be looking into adding a bunch of tenure lines at my state schools.

I know that seems like “kick ‘em when they’re down,” but it’s more like “let academics who can escape to where they can do real work.”

Builds up your own schools AND protect US academic output.

"Gender is often considered a matter of individual identity, but it is also an axis of governance, and male supremacism is the beating heart of fascism. The administration’s gender essentialist ideology, stated 20 minutes into Trump’s inauguration speech, is implicit across all policy areas."

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

Alt text: A man speaks into a microphone in front of bookshelves, with on-screen text reading “Stop Calling China Authoritarian!” Subtitle says "meritocracy".

if Daniel Bell were a Tiktok influencer

Imo the best analysis of the Carney speech: "Where were you when the Rules-Based International Order disappeared, tortured, starved through sanctions... Was it all worth it for you to "benefit from [U.S. hegemony's] predictability"? Was the monster only a monster when it bared its teeth at you?

The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing

It was funny and maybe a sign of the psychic damage that when the HK police started using China-made tear gas (don’t know whether they ran out or it was a cost thing) the tear gas connoisseurs were all ‘this tastes different, the old stuff was a bit better’

Missed this wonderful piece by @arthurkaufman.bsky.social over the holidays. I'm such an admirer of his work and this piece is no exception!

🤮🤮🫂🫂

my god. this baby. his little self.

there have been chapters this dark in US history before—that we moved through them makes it even more damning that we’re in this chapter now.

nothing short of accountability, meaningful justice, and full scale government reform can move us fully out of this one

Historical illiteracy is generous. The United States governs 574 Native nations that it holds in colonial subordination today.

The Constitution of American Colonialism - Harvard Law Review For my part I am not prepared for citizenship in the United States. I do not want it. . . . It takes greed of gain...

This is nonexhaustive of American colonialism, which is ongoing and the law of which is magisterially expounded here: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

The willful historical illiteracy among pundits about American imperialism is still shocking, no matter how predictable.