@BeijingPalmer: “ok, a short thread on sexual violence in Xinjiang, which is obviously going to get quite disturbing”

Academics protest as Cambridge fellow told to leave Britain 《bad no matter what, but the letter from the Home Office made it so much worse…》

The slow-roasted brouhaha broke out when a woman’s brew didn’t come out fast enough” 《poetry, read the whole thing》

Universities are not taking seriously Beijing’s efforts to stifle free speech on campus

Police in Bolivia abandon posts and join in protests

End PG&E’s Reign of Error With a Hostile Takeover - Greg Palast

Archeologist Who Observed Dig Says No Evidence of Temple Under Babri Masjid

Ayodhya verdict: Indian top court gives holy site to Hindus

“Make the Democratic Primary Safe for Billionaires Again, Vote Bloomberg”

Gabriel Winant: “For the precarious academic, the overworked nurse, or the underpaid teacher, the contradictions between official ideologies of professionalism and the material reality of existence have become so vivid as to create a chasm.”

At The Purchaser’s Option - Rhiannon Giddens

Learned about Rhiannon Giddens on WNYC’s “Dolly Parton’s America” Podcast (hosted by Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad)

Remember when Chinese toddlers plotted to dry up the Taiwan Strait with tissue paper? www.youtube.com/watch

How do you reduce the suicide rate? Increase the minimum wage

The Dried Mango Strips of National Doom

Everyone who cares about Indigenous sovereignty should be listening to the This Land podcast.

While Scorsese waxes nostalgia with ‘The Irishman’, a trio of Italian filmmakers have set out to reflect the ugly realities of Mafia life

Abolishing the police in Hong Kong: a reading guide

Online Banking, a One Act Play

Sunlight on the trail

Shrine found on a mountain trail

the correlation between individuals’ class origins and their educational attainment hasn’t budged for students in the UK.

In 1999, the United States had free and competitive markets in many industries that, in Europe, were dominated by oligopolies. Today the opposite is true.

😱😱😱😱😱 New York City Public Libraries Drop Kanopy Free Streaming Service 《Because of the film festival I haven’t logged on in a while. This sucks.》

Reserved For Whom? The Shifting Dynamics of Indigenous Voting Behaviour in Southern Taiwan