Xuesong
@xuesongg.bsky.social
Not my work account. Supporter of democracy, freedom of speech, human rights, and the Constitution. 🇺🇸 I hate Nazis, racists, and white supremacists. I believe in science. I guess that makes me radical these days? She/her. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
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Holiday carolers are protesting Home Depot’s association with ICE
🎶 We don't want no more deportations 🎶
🎶 We don't want no more deportations 🎶
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Holiday carolers are protesting Home Depot’s association with ICE
🎶 We don't want no more deportations 🎶
🎶 We don't want no more deportations 🎶
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this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Feeling this tonight.
Ok I'm gonna step away from here for the rest of the night because I'm doing a live reenactment of this which isn't healthy given my level of power in our political world
Flames Pissed GIF
Alt: Gif from the movie clue where mrs white says "flames...on the side of my face" to explain how angry she is
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Feeling this tonight.
Tell me again how immigrants are the ones making us unsafe?
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Tell me again how immigrants are the ones making us unsafe?
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
I really don’t need to read a debate over whether or not women “ruined” the workplace, NYT.
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I really don’t need to read a debate over whether or not women “ruined” the workplace, NYT.
LAPD knows who the journalists are. That’s why they’re shooting them! How about cops just stop shooting journalists (and everyone else, too, for that matter)?
The problem is not press unable to identify themselves properly. The problem is LAPD shooting us with kinetic munitions and interfering with our work. Ysabel Jurado and Eunisses Hernandez would have us meet LAPD on LAPD’s terms when LAPD is the one breaking the law and shooting people.
Councilmember Ysabel Jurado has introduced a motion to protect journalists covering protests. The motion: LAPD will create a public campaign on how to obtain LAPD-issued press passes along w/ signing MoUs between press groups and the city to create an agreement on conduct at protests.
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
LAPD knows who the journalists are. That’s why they’re shooting them! How about cops just stop shooting journalists (and everyone else, too, for that matter)?
This, 💯
Schumer had a chance to repudiate the gutter racism and Islamophobia of Cuomo's campaign and he just fucking didn't. And that is disqualifying. He should be ashamed and we the voters should make sure he feels that shame.
Reporter: Today is election day in New York City. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: Look, I voted. And I look forward to working with the next mayor to help New York City.
Schumer: Look, I voted. And I look forward to working with the next mayor to help New York City.
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This, 💯
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APS is launching an evening hot meal program to support students and families during the federal government shutdown. Starting Thu, Nov. 6, free hot dinners will be served Mon-Fri from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Wakefield, Washington-Liberty and Yorktown.
Learn More: www.apsva.us/community-meals
Learn More: www.apsva.us/community-meals
October 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
APS is launching an evening hot meal program to support students and families during the federal government shutdown. Starting Thu, Nov. 6, free hot dinners will be served Mon-Fri from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Wakefield, Washington-Liberty and Yorktown.
Learn More: www.apsva.us/community-meals
Learn More: www.apsva.us/community-meals
Count me in as someone with a strong pivot towards the Arctic, although more on the geopolitical side (albeit with an eclectic professional and academic background). I’m excited by the expanding interdisciplinary connections being forged and new approaches and discussions underway.
Excited that “New Research in Arctic Pasts,” the series I’m co-editing with @issygapp.bsky.social, has just launched on @nichecanada.bsky.social, showcasing the work of 10 Arctic researchers across disciplines over the next 6 weeks niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
New Research in Arctic Pasts - Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V
Arctic visual studies have rapidly expanded through interdisciplinary collaboration, climate urgency, Indigenous engagement, and community-building among artists, historians, and scholars across disci...
niche-canada.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Count me in as someone with a strong pivot towards the Arctic, although more on the geopolitical side (albeit with an eclectic professional and academic background). I’m excited by the expanding interdisciplinary connections being forged and new approaches and discussions underway.
Are these new USG talking points? That’s going to make 250 birthday messaging a bit complicated…
Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Are these new USG talking points? That’s going to make 250 birthday messaging a bit complicated…
I just poured Diet Coke into a mug of cold coffee and took a swig, if you’re wondering how my evening is going.
October 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I just poured Diet Coke into a mug of cold coffee and took a swig, if you’re wondering how my evening is going.
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Lena Leimgruber at Umeå University thinks literature and the arts put the human into focus and provide an important perspective in Arctic discourse. "Literature can change you if you allow yourself to be part of it," she says to High North News.
www.highnorthnews.com/en/lena-leim...
www.highnorthnews.com/en/lena-leim...
Lena Leimgruber Studies Arctic Literature and Believes the Arts Is Needed in Arctic Discourse
Doctoral student Lena Leimgruber at Umeå University thinks literature and the arts put the human into focus and provide an important perspective in Arctic discourse. "Literature can change you if you ...
www.highnorthnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Lena Leimgruber at Umeå University thinks literature and the arts put the human into focus and provide an important perspective in Arctic discourse. "Literature can change you if you allow yourself to be part of it," she says to High North News.
www.highnorthnews.com/en/lena-leim...
www.highnorthnews.com/en/lena-leim...
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My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
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A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.
Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
October 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.
Really happy with this little cookbook I found in a zine box at a small-town indie bookstore. Good food, shop local, distract from the news? Sign me up! Next up: party in your mouth cake and mint julep sorbet.
October 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Really happy with this little cookbook I found in a zine box at a small-town indie bookstore. Good food, shop local, distract from the news? Sign me up! Next up: party in your mouth cake and mint julep sorbet.
Is it really only TUESDAY?!?
September 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Is it really only TUESDAY?!?
Grateful for museums that refuse to whitewash slavery, and that continue to highlight the stories of all Americans - including those whose historical experiences are under attack by revisionist forces.
The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War.
"Portrait of Frederick" joins "Portrait of Delia," both hanging in the same museum together for the first time in history.
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"Portrait of Frederick" joins "Portrait of Delia," both hanging in the same museum together for the first time in history.
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Rare Portraits of Enslaved Mississippians Displayed at Art Museum
The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Grateful for museums that refuse to whitewash slavery, and that continue to highlight the stories of all Americans - including those whose historical experiences are under attack by revisionist forces.
Made me laugh after a loooong week
😆
Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.
September 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Made me laugh after a loooong week
Really, Berkeley?!
UC Berkeley gives the Trump admin the names of 160 faculty + students for a federal investigation into “alleged antisemitic incidents.”
Judith Butler, one of the targeted scholars, tells me: "It is an enormous breach of trust... It's shocking. Did you consider not complying with this request?”
Judith Butler, one of the targeted scholars, tells me: "It is an enormous breach of trust... It's shocking. Did you consider not complying with this request?”
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Really, Berkeley?!
OMG. So good.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
OMG. So good.
MAJOR grocery sticker shock after being gone for awhile…also, surprisingly hard to find basics. No, I don’t want to buy everything in prepackaged mixes. On the plus side, happy to be reacquainted with string cheese, bagels, and Mexican spices! Oh, and apple cider. Bring on fall 🍁🍎🎃
September 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
MAJOR grocery sticker shock after being gone for awhile…also, surprisingly hard to find basics. No, I don’t want to buy everything in prepackaged mixes. On the plus side, happy to be reacquainted with string cheese, bagels, and Mexican spices! Oh, and apple cider. Bring on fall 🍁🍎🎃