It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

China has begun building the Guangdong section of the Tibet-Guangdong ultra high-voltage ‘green power’ line, moving #Tibet hydropower, solar, & wind to Guangzhou/Shenzhen.

Due 2029: 43bn kWh/yr, cutting approx 12m tonnes of coal, & feeding AI-driven demand.

www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

🔔 New #OpenAccess Research Article in #JCCA Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

@giga-hamburg.de @sagepub.com

Polakiewicz & @evaseiwert.bsky.social analyzed the triggers that have led to #GermanUniversities reconsidering their relationships with #ConfuciusInstitutes

doi.org/10.1177/1868...

With help from @rhg.com, I mapped 68 factories in the world that are either set up by a Chinese company, by a joint venture with Chinese stakes, or by licensing the crucial manufacturing technologies from a Chinese battery maker.

If "Made in China" still means cheap gadgets from a Shenzhen factory, what should we call the cutting-edge battery manufacturing facilities that are being built by Chinese companies across the world?

You can read more about the trend and interact with our data here. www.wired.com/story/chines...

Fascinating stories of Chinese workers who migrated from rural areas to Guangdong in 2006-15: skillfully collected by the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, translated by Eleanor Goodman, insightfully introduced by @kaiserkuo.bsky.social—and, thankfully, published by @equatormag.bsky.social.

I wrote about reporters’ refusal to use “act of war,” “invasion” or “coup” when covering Trump’s brazen attacks on Venezuela, instead echoing WH-approved euphemisms, and the broader trend of our press dutifully giving Trump’s lawlessness the vague whiff of international legitimacy when it has none.

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

No one should be rounded up. Not a single person. No one. Abolition is the only way forward.