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Reposted by Hong, James A. Benn

letahongfincher.bsky.social
Read about how Xi Jinping’s autocratic rise (like that of other autocrats including Trump) has been powered by sexism.
letahongfincher.bsky.social Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social · Aug 24
The Japanese editions of BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China just arrived! My book has now been translated into Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Japanese. The New York Public Library named Betraying Big Brother one of its “essential reads on feminism”: bookshop.org/p/books/betr...
September 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM

Reposted by Hong, Michael A. Clemens, Diane Ravitch , and 8 more

carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)”

(via @yarotrof.bsky.social)
September 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM

Reposted by Hong, Ben H. Ansell, Jennifer A. Richeson , and 6 more

jamellebouie.net
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 2
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
"America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life." Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people. Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants." "We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history. "Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God." "The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.' "They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants." "America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. "It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny. "If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."
September 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM

Reposted by Hong, Lisa W. Fazio, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 3 more

tabathasouthey.bsky.social
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
September 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM

Reposted by Hong, Mark W. Westneat, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 2 more

govpritzker.illinois.gov
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops.

I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.

I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
September 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM

Reposted by Hong, Anna O. Law, Will Jennings

mobute.bsky.social
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
September 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Reposted by Hong, Anna O. Law, Brendan Nyhan , and 11 more

walterolson.bsky.social
An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
www.uscis.gov
September 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM

Reposted by Hong, Anne Applebaum, Anna O. Law , and 15 more

atrupar.com
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
September 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM

Reposted by Hong, Cas Mudde, Rita Rubin , and 9 more

atrupar.com
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
September 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM

Reposted by Hong

liyuan6.bsky.social
In Protest, He Turned the Camera on China’s Surveillance State

Before fleeing China, an activist in Chongqing staged an elaborate one-man demonstration against the Communist Party that doubled as performance art. My latest www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
In Protest, He Turned the Camera on China’s Surveillance State
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM

Reposted by Hong

rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
131 Israeli journalists sign a petition against the war and in solidarity with Palestinian journalists in Gaza - published today- in concert with dozens of media outlets around the world - messages of unity and of protest to the killing of Gazan journalists and the media blockade imposed by the govt
September 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM

Reposted by Hong

joshspero.ft.com
Eek on.ft.com/3HZBaiQ
Von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS interference
[FREE TO READ] Officials suspect jamming operation forced jet carrying EU commission president to land in Bulgaria using paper maps
on.ft.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM

Reposted by Hong, Kim L. Scheppele, Rebecca Solnit , and 13 more

luckytran.com
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE AUGUST 29, 2025 Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.
August 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM

letahongfincher.bsky.social
🙏🙏
August 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM

Reposted by Hong, Dunlap

esqueer.net
We are watching resegregation happen in real time. It's neo Jim Crow.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM

Reposted by Hong

vijayiyer.bsky.social
ushering in the new illiberal arts

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard College To Remove Designated Spaces for Women’s Center, Office for BGLTQ Student Life | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard College will close the designated spaces that previously housed the Women’s Center and the Office for BGLTQ Student Life, following a July decision to shutter those offices — along with one fo...
www.thecrimson.com
August 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM

Reposted by Hong, Mark A. Lemley, Iain Davidson , and 3 more

thetnholler.bsky.social
CHICAGO…
August 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM

Reposted by Hong, Anna O. Law, Smith , and 2 more

gregsargent.bsky.social
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.

Dem govs must step up and fill the void.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.
newrepublic.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM

letahongfincher.bsky.social
Thanks, I love the cover too!
August 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM

Reposted by Hong, Michael D. Green, Timothy D. McBride , and 1 more

maggieastor.bsky.social
Major update: As of this morning, CVS says it's decided it can offer the vax in 13 of the 16 states IF you get a prescription. Still a big new barrier for many people, but a change from its "no vaccines at all in these states" position yesterday.

The three remaining absolute-nos are MA, NV and NM.
maggieastor.bsky.social Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · Aug 29
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM

Reposted by Hong, Meredith Broussard, Suresh Venkatasubramanian , and 13 more

joshuajfriedman.com
What a cursed sentence (gift link)

“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM

Reposted by Hong, Gavin A. Schmidt, Alan Richardson , and 3 more

veenadubal.bsky.social
Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime US permanent resident, has been in ICE detention for OVER one month. The AAUP stands with the Texas AAUP state conference in demanding Mr. Kim’s release.
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-st...
AAUP Statement on Continued Detention of Tae Heung “Will” Kim
The AAUP stands with the Texas AAUP state conference in demanding the release of Tae Heung "Will" Kim from ICE detention.
www.aaup.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM

Reposted by Hong, Nancy Kanwisher

marklevinenyc.bsky.social
Tonight one of the CDC’s top public health leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has resigned from his post.

Below is his full resignation letter.

You should read every word.

This is a truly scary moment for public health in America.
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August 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM

Reposted by Hong, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Southern Africa

chowleen.bsky.social
Important corrective to how we often talk about higher education and college students in America. Some facts and figures (see NYT article at end for further elucidation):

43 percent of (19 million) undergrads attend community college

75 percent of community college students enrolled part time
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August 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM

Reposted by Hong

theferocity.bsky.social
Look, I know I’m new here. But if I’ve learned anything about Boston, it’s that Trump sending an invading army here will not go well for him.
Wu: Big city mayors must prepare for National Guard ‘coming against their will’ - The Boston Globe
The Trump administration has signaled plans to expand deployments to other Democrat-led cities.
www.bostonglobe.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM

Reposted by Hong, Steve Peers, Colombia , and 6 more

atrupar.com
Trump on Schumer: "He's become a Palestinian. We call him our great Palestinian senator."
August 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM

Reposted by Hong, Silvia Secchi, Mark Rice

sorayanadiamcdonald.com
It's important to understand that he singles out Black women because there are few negative consequences for him when he does. It's his most frictionless lane for bullying.

The broader public has shown him few, if any, will step up to defend us, and it's only ramped up since his first term.
Trump, in a Move With Little Precedent, Says He Is Firing a Fed Governor
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM

Reposted by Hong, Timnit Gebru, Shannon Vallor , and 17 more

kashhill.bsky.social
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death.

Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM

Reposted by Hong, Juan Cole, Trevon D. Logan , and 5 more

kyledcheney.bsky.social
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM

Reposted by Hong, Anne Applebaum, Anna O. Law , and 21 more

bedoyausa.bsky.social
Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM