目前的涂鸦墙：

Seen on Chinese social media today: claiming to be the victim of racism while calling other people by the N-word. Classic / 典.

disappointing and shameful to use 'underrepresented scholars' and 'would harm labor forces in the surrounding community' as excuses, when you're crossing picket lines of such labour force

Hotel cleaners, mostly Latina immigrants, have 10-12 mins to do each room. They face high rates of wage theft, sexual harrassment, and work injury

In LA today they must commute LONG distances bc housing in city is unaffordable

Their rights trump our 'discipline'

And they use “underrepresented scholars” as an excuse. This is outrageous. Count me out.

UNITE HERE Local 11 There’s lots of problems with this statement, but to emphasize the vulnerability of scholars while there are workers quite literally fighting for their dignity and to afford life in Los Ángeles …

I am NOT going to APSA this year. I do not cross picket lines.

IKEA’s delivery service really sucks ass.

APSA is not very friendly to grad students. The smaller and more area-focused the conference is, the more friendly the atmosphere is. APSA has symbolic meaning to grad students, but this symbolic meaning is why canceling is important: the entire Polisci must stand with the weak.

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Good night fellow PoliSci nerds

Imma' be honest: there's no world where our pockets (the members' and the org's) come out unscathed

That's the point of solidarity and disruption. And believe me, y'all, it's worth it

THIS

Fascinating picture of bureaucrats terrified of anything going wrong and their getting blamed for it -- leaving an opening for the subordinate just below them, who has been gunning for their position all along, to take advantage of the slip and seize their position.

说得好

Im confused over the use of she/her when talking about autocrats/dictators. I agree with using feminine pronouns when referring to both genders. But authoritarian politicians are in reality overwhelmingly male and we need to keep that in mind when studying them. Thoughts on that?

Tomorrow we learn something about Qin Gang, China's missing foreign minister

The National People's Congress Standing Committee will meet on 25 July

This body formally removes and appoints State Council members like ministers when full NPC not in session

What could happen..1/5

Greta Gerwig’s “I’m doing the thing and subverting the thing” re Barbie seems like a variation on what Zizek identified as the dominant structure of consumption a good while ago: the product that incorporates a critique of itself into the act of consuming it…/1

Unite Here Local 11 (UNITE HERE Local 11), which represents 15,000 hotel workers in LA formally requested yesterday that APSA cancel, relocate, or move the Annual Meeting to an online format.

The open letter to the APSA council can be found here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

CNN's Nectar Gan: #China top diplomat Wang Yi has urged #Japan & #SouthKorea to foster “strategic autonomy” from the West & cooperate with Beijing to “revitalize Asia,” amid rising tensions between China & the two neighboring American allies.
cnn.com/2023/07/04/chi…

summary here! *verified