Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸
@franceshisgen.bsky.social
🇺🇸🇨🇳🇭🇰 foreign policy & s+t policy researcher @ Stanford. Out in National Security New Voice + Foreign Policy for America NextGen.📍old gold mountain; past lives in Beijing, Hong Kong, Cambridge, New York. 混血, 🏳️🌈 menace.
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Guys whose entire worldview rests on the idea of there being a Third Worldist anti-colonialist solidarity bloc led by China or Russia that turns out to exist only in their imagination
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Guys whose entire worldview rests on the idea of there being a Third Worldist anti-colonialist solidarity bloc led by China or Russia that turns out to exist only in their imagination
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Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
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gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Something that sticks with me: Alice Wong didn’t really gain notoriety for her work until the last decade or so. How many people who use wheelchairs or who have significant medical disabilities does the world write off simply by how we visually perceive them? Farewell, Alice.
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Something that sticks with me: Alice Wong didn’t really gain notoriety for her work until the last decade or so. How many people who use wheelchairs or who have significant medical disabilities does the world write off simply by how we visually perceive them? Farewell, Alice.
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Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
www.thenation.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I've fully started leaning into the messy office rather than allowing the myth of "clean space, clean mind" to send me into a shame spiral. This has done wonders for my productivity. I mean just look at the New York Review's space.....
November 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I've fully started leaning into the messy office rather than allowing the myth of "clean space, clean mind" to send me into a shame spiral. This has done wonders for my productivity. I mean just look at the New York Review's space.....
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In our latest blog post University of Cambridge researchers Katherine Enright and Liana Chua explore how colonial collecting reclassified Indigenous foods (such as tiger milk mushrooms and edible bird’s nests) and rituals as charms, specimens, and commodities: www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2025/11...
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
In our latest blog post University of Cambridge researchers Katherine Enright and Liana Chua explore how colonial collecting reclassified Indigenous foods (such as tiger milk mushrooms and edible bird’s nests) and rituals as charms, specimens, and commodities: www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2025/11...
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““The notion that politicians or high-level administrators can dictate what can be taught, researched, discussed or debated in a college classroom is fundamentally at odds with what higher education is about."
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@aft.org
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@aft.org
AFT’s Weingarten and AAUP’s Wolfson on Texas A&M University System Board of Regents’ Vote to Censor Curriculum
COLLEGE STATION, Texas—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement condemning the Texas A&M University…
www.aft.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
““The notion that politicians or high-level administrators can dictate what can be taught, researched, discussed or debated in a college classroom is fundamentally at odds with what higher education is about."
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@aft.org
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@aft.org
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guys I have some news about my relationship with the subject of a piece. what can I say. I loved his eyes, black as a midnight pool. I loved the way he would be moved to tears by something as simple as comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society.
foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/19/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/19/t...
The Resistible Rise of Xi Jinping
China’s president radically changed his country and the Communist Party through skill, determination—and a series of lucky breaks.
foreignpolicy.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
guys I have some news about my relationship with the subject of a piece. what can I say. I loved his eyes, black as a midnight pool. I loved the way he would be moved to tears by something as simple as comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society.
foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/19/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/19/t...
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Yeah I support LGBTQ
Light rail
Going from
Brooklyn
To
Queens
Light rail
Going from
Brooklyn
To
Queens
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Yeah I support LGBTQ
Light rail
Going from
Brooklyn
To
Queens
Light rail
Going from
Brooklyn
To
Queens
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each of them represents one of the five elements: Fire, Metal, Air, Water, and Anti-Trust.
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nHdyOP
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
each of them represents one of the five elements: Fire, Metal, Air, Water, and Anti-Trust.
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This totally applies to us East Asians too, and we would frequently tell feel-good stories of overcoming racism to find success in this country in a way that focus on our hard work and gloss over who did the heavy lifting to fight racism in this country and fight for civil rights for all.
- shit on other minorities (this one is important)
- accept a constant stream of tiny humiliations
- perform diversity in a few small acceptable ways like making specific appropriate Indian dishes (with the spices toned down of course)
- and of course, most importantly, always defer to white people
- accept a constant stream of tiny humiliations
- perform diversity in a few small acceptable ways like making specific appropriate Indian dishes (with the spices toned down of course)
- and of course, most importantly, always defer to white people
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This totally applies to us East Asians too, and we would frequently tell feel-good stories of overcoming racism to find success in this country in a way that focus on our hard work and gloss over who did the heavy lifting to fight racism in this country and fight for civil rights for all.
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
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White people aren't doing well... Every Black and brown person on the PLANET reading this and thinking my mom's childhood friend's second cousin is considered our Aunt... LOSERS...
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
White people aren't doing well... Every Black and brown person on the PLANET reading this and thinking my mom's childhood friend's second cousin is considered our Aunt... LOSERS...
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This is cultural racism. Anyone heard about the desi aunties? I mean, it's a real thing. It is legit what he would have called his dad's cousin, and that connection might be remote in many families, but that is, again, CULTURAL.
October 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is cultural racism. Anyone heard about the desi aunties? I mean, it's a real thing. It is legit what he would have called his dad's cousin, and that connection might be remote in many families, but that is, again, CULTURAL.
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Lia Smith, a transgender athlete who was on Middlebury's swimming and diving team, was just found dead by suicide this week.
www.them.us/story/lia-sm...
www.them.us/story/lia-sm...
October 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Lia Smith, a transgender athlete who was on Middlebury's swimming and diving team, was just found dead by suicide this week.
www.them.us/story/lia-sm...
www.them.us/story/lia-sm...
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i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days
October 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days
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My favorite Song dynasty poet:
October 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
My favorite Song dynasty poet:
Everyone has roasted me for my #4 choice for so long and I am vindicated
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Everyone has roasted me for my #4 choice for so long and I am vindicated
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NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
www.thewrap.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
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I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
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Pope Leo XIV sent a separate message Thursday to Catholic Charities USA, praising its work with migrants and urging members to keep serving as "agents of hope" despite a federal funding freeze.
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/p...
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/p...
Pope Leo's first encyclical: Faith means defending migrants
Leo XIV puts Vatican at odds with the White House.
www.axios.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Pope Leo XIV sent a separate message Thursday to Catholic Charities USA, praising its work with migrants and urging members to keep serving as "agents of hope" despite a federal funding freeze.
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/p...
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/p...
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I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.
Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.
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Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.
As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.
Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.
As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.
Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.
As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.
Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.
As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.
Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.