Maxwell Leung
@disoriented.bsky.social
Associate Professor at California College of the Arts in SF. I teach American Politics, Ethnic Studies | Asian American Studies.
Srsly, I have to add this: "Maxwell Leung. Faculty at @cca_critical_studies. Thoughts and views shared are my own."
Srsly, I have to add this: "Maxwell Leung. Faculty at @cca_critical_studies. Thoughts and views shared are my own."
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Maxwell Leung
@disoriented.bsky.social
· Nov 28
Thank you new and old followers! Something about me:
* Was born and raised in San Francisco. Go Giants!
* Taught at a number of institutions from LMU, GMU, and Grinnell College.
* My resarch is on anti-Asian violence, federal responses, and AAPI community engagement.
* And, "hella" is a word.
* Was born and raised in San Francisco. Go Giants!
* Taught at a number of institutions from LMU, GMU, and Grinnell College.
* My resarch is on anti-Asian violence, federal responses, and AAPI community engagement.
* And, "hella" is a word.
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Notes for my next lecture: the American experiment basically sucks.
Where we stand, in long arc of history:
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
October 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Notes for my next lecture: the American experiment basically sucks.
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And we're four months into the "Harvard is about to cave" narrative in MSM/NYT.
GOOD FOR PENN, BROWN, and MIT.
GOOD FOR PENN, BROWN, and MIT.
PENN IS OUT! That means both institutions that signed prior agreements with the administration have said no. We're at 3 rejections.
I told y'all once the second one hit yesterday, the clock started for the rest.
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
I told y'all once the second one hit yesterday, the clock started for the rest.
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
www.thedp.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
And we're four months into the "Harvard is about to cave" narrative in MSM/NYT.
GOOD FOR PENN, BROWN, and MIT.
GOOD FOR PENN, BROWN, and MIT.
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Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
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California’s public universities are the best in the nation and a pipeline for research, talent, and tech that fuels the global economy.
September 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
California’s public universities are the best in the nation and a pipeline for research, talent, and tech that fuels the global economy.
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California is home to 4.2 million small businesses, the most startups in the country, a tech sector worth over $1 trillion, and home to the most Fortune 500 companies in the world.
From Silicon Valley to Silicon Beach, this is where ideas take flight.
From Silicon Valley to Silicon Beach, this is where ideas take flight.
September 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
California is home to 4.2 million small businesses, the most startups in the country, a tech sector worth over $1 trillion, and home to the most Fortune 500 companies in the world.
From Silicon Valley to Silicon Beach, this is where ideas take flight.
From Silicon Valley to Silicon Beach, this is where ideas take flight.
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Happy Birthday, California! 🥳
Today, we proudly celebrate 175 years of statehood.
As we continue to define the future of this state, today serves as a testament to the spirit of Californians, driven by grit, determination, and a relentless belief in what’s possible.
Today, we proudly celebrate 175 years of statehood.
As we continue to define the future of this state, today serves as a testament to the spirit of Californians, driven by grit, determination, and a relentless belief in what’s possible.
September 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Happy Birthday, California! 🥳
Today, we proudly celebrate 175 years of statehood.
As we continue to define the future of this state, today serves as a testament to the spirit of Californians, driven by grit, determination, and a relentless belief in what’s possible.
Today, we proudly celebrate 175 years of statehood.
As we continue to define the future of this state, today serves as a testament to the spirit of Californians, driven by grit, determination, and a relentless belief in what’s possible.
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California is where bold ideas become world-changing breakthroughs.
One in four U.S. Nobel Prizes in science has gone to a California institution, and California is home to more Nobel Prize winners than any country in the world.
One in four U.S. Nobel Prizes in science has gone to a California institution, and California is home to more Nobel Prize winners than any country in the world.
September 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
California is where bold ideas become world-changing breakthroughs.
One in four U.S. Nobel Prizes in science has gone to a California institution, and California is home to more Nobel Prize winners than any country in the world.
One in four U.S. Nobel Prizes in science has gone to a California institution, and California is home to more Nobel Prize winners than any country in the world.
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An incredible night at Brooklyn College with Bernie Sanders. Thank you to everyone who packed the house and watched from home.
The fight against oligarchy is on the ballot this November - and together, we will win.
The fight against oligarchy is on the ballot this November - and together, we will win.
September 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
An incredible night at Brooklyn College with Bernie Sanders. Thank you to everyone who packed the house and watched from home.
The fight against oligarchy is on the ballot this November - and together, we will win.
The fight against oligarchy is on the ballot this November - and together, we will win.
Yes. She and her and her ilk can go back to the cesspool from where they came from. Good bye and good riddance to her!
Did Joni Ernst see the writing on the wall for her prospects in an off year after the Iowa special election? Or did she just not want to hear "We're all going to die" quoted at her forever?
@jvl.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social talk Iowa and Joni Ernst's shock retirement:
@jvl.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social talk Iowa and Joni Ernst's shock retirement:
August 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yes. She and her and her ilk can go back to the cesspool from where they came from. Good bye and good riddance to her!
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Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.
July 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.
How and where we won.
What we won on Election Day
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
youtu.be
July 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I can’t imagine what it’s like to be in New York. Mamdani is what New Yorkers need, and what we need to supercharge the nation.
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I can’t imagine what it’s like to be in New York. Mamdani is what New Yorkers need, and what we need to supercharge the nation.
Vibes, not intel, evidence, or anything based on reality. It’s just Trump and Netanyahu on a personal agenda. So frightening.
Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”
'There Is No Intel': Trump's Attacks on Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say
Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities was not based on new intelligence, administration officials say.
www.rollingstone.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Vibes, not intel, evidence, or anything based on reality. It’s just Trump and Netanyahu on a personal agenda. So frightening.
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Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate and pro-Palestinian activist, was released on bail after more than 100 days of detention on Friday. He said if President Trump’s goal had been to suppress pro-Palestinian speech, he had “absolutely failed.” nyti.ms/3ZJ6ZCb
June 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate and pro-Palestinian activist, was released on bail after more than 100 days of detention on Friday. He said if President Trump’s goal had been to suppress pro-Palestinian speech, he had “absolutely failed.” nyti.ms/3ZJ6ZCb
What a moron.
This isn’t just random anti-Latin racism by Vance.
As a refresher, Jose Padilla was the Brooklyn-born Al Qaeda recruit of Puerto Rican descent who was arrested on charges of trying to build a “dirty bomb,” subjected to torture, and sentenced to 21 years for conspiracy to materially aid terrorists.
As a refresher, Jose Padilla was the Brooklyn-born Al Qaeda recruit of Puerto Rican descent who was arrested on charges of trying to build a “dirty bomb,” subjected to torture, and sentenced to 21 years for conspiracy to materially aid terrorists.
JD Vance refers to Senator Alex Padilla as “Jose Padilla”
June 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
What a moron.
$1 million is a start. The organization can do A LOT more.
Dodgers pledge $1 million to families of immigrants after hearing backlash from the community.
June 21, 2025 at 1:02 AM
$1 million is a start. The organization can do A LOT more.
Finally! 🙏🏼
Mahmoud Khalil is free. May his release lead to the release of all who are detained and incarcerated from the US to Palestine, in ICE facilities and in prisons. And may his courage inspire us to remain steadfast in fighting for Palestinian liberation.
June 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Finally! 🙏🏼
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Today’s No Kings protest will likely be one of the largest in the nation’s history — and potentially the largest — according to one expert.
📹️: Sarah McGrew
📹️: Sarah McGrew
June 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today’s No Kings protest will likely be one of the largest in the nation’s history — and potentially the largest — according to one expert.
📹️: Sarah McGrew
📹️: Sarah McGrew
I was right … ooops you just missed me! 😮
For real, it was the largest protest I’ve seen in a long time. ✊🏼
For real, it was the largest protest I’ve seen in a long time. ✊🏼
This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
June 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I was right … ooops you just missed me! 😮
For real, it was the largest protest I’ve seen in a long time. ✊🏼
For real, it was the largest protest I’ve seen in a long time. ✊🏼
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Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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Cannot stress enough that the protest in DTLA was completely nonviolent until the local police departments showed up
Been in contact with multiple indies currently on the ground who confirmed this. Cops pushed, then started firing riot munitions indiscriminately
Been in contact with multiple indies currently on the ground who confirmed this. Cops pushed, then started firing riot munitions indiscriminately
@melbuer.bsky.social posting for Sean as the situation has deteriorated rapidly. Lines of mounted police surged the crowd and began firing riot munitions directly into people. One person appeared to be trampled by the horses, another detained. Multiple videos incoming
June 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Cannot stress enough that the protest in DTLA was completely nonviolent until the local police departments showed up
Been in contact with multiple indies currently on the ground who confirmed this. Cops pushed, then started firing riot munitions indiscriminately
Been in contact with multiple indies currently on the ground who confirmed this. Cops pushed, then started firing riot munitions indiscriminately
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Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
June 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
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WATCH: A combat veteran congressman ISN’T STAYING SILENT after Alex Padilla’s arrest by Kristi Noem. He TOOK THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE and forced everyone to confront the reality: a sitting Senator was removed in cuffs — and something must be done.
June 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
WATCH: A combat veteran congressman ISN’T STAYING SILENT after Alex Padilla’s arrest by Kristi Noem. He TOOK THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE and forced everyone to confront the reality: a sitting Senator was removed in cuffs — and something must be done.