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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · Nov 15

Reposting for the newbies here. (Paywalled but also you all should subscribe to @mekongreview.bsky.social)

Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · Aug 12

I’m delighted that the first freelance article I’ve written in a little while was published by @mekongreview.bsky.social, a magazine I’ve long read and admired. mekongreview.com/memory-as-re... Thanks to @kixes.bsky.social!

Memory as resistance - Mekong Review

The Uyghurs: Kashgar Before the Catastrophe and Under the Mulberry Tree: A Contemporary Uyghur Anthology are testament to the power of memory as resistance against crackdown and erasure.

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 18h

Yo-Yo Ma: “Earth Hymn” (Live from Snæfellsnes)

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Yo-Yo Ma: "Earth Hymn" (Live from Snæfellsnes)

Viktor Orri Árnason’s “Earth Hymn,” filmed live in the shadow of the Snæfellsnes glacier, is a plea to the world from the edge of a changing planet. “Earth Hymn” is from RITUAL, a large-scale performa...

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Luís M. Rocha @lmrocha.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Diane Keaton. Always to see her in anything she has ever done. A Ray of sunshine.
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Kevin Bacon Always Wanted To Kiss Diane Keaton - The Graham Norton Show

YouTube video by BBC America

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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 11d

Jerome Cohen, the "Evergreen Pine of Rule of Law in China," Remembered

The death of Jerome Cohen last week at the age of 95 prompted a wave of tributes to the legendary professor of Chinese law. Outside legal circles, Cohen may have been best known for his involvement in...

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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 5d

Translations: As CAC Tackles “Malicious” Negativity Online, Popular Influencers Hit With Bans

"Hu and Zhang often danced on the red line, but they had a firm grasp of where the boundaries were. Now both have crashed and burned, because the line has begun moving higher. Whose turn will be next?"

Translations: As CAC Tackles “Malicious” Negativity Online, Popular Influencers Zhang Xuefeng, Hu Chenfeng, Lan Zhanfei Hit With Bans

Amid a new two-month “Clear and Bright” campaign by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to clean up internet content that “maliciously incites” polarization, pessimism, anxiety, and other neg...

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 5d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 10d

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken money directly from Chinese investors, according to previously sealed testimony, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 12d

"Here’s where Coates’ clarity comes in handy. You treat people humanely—everyone.

People can come in the tent without agreeing on every policy. But you have to make the demand that all people will be treated humanely. That belief guides what you yourself will do."

kottke.org @kottke.org · 12d

I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]

You don’t have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 17d

Strolling along Dongsi 8 Tiao hutong 东四八条 in Beijing this pm I saw this gate, with a little Buddha statue inside. Then I read the plaque. *Everything* happened in this house. (Manchus to Martial arts to Mara Hari).

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The Wire China @thewirechina.bsky.social · 17d

The Wire China is currently seeking applications for a staff writer.

Follow the link below to learn more about the position and how to apply.

Open Postions - The Wire China

The Wire China is Seeking Applications for a Staff Writer.

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 20d

As a proud East Bay resident I especially appreciate the punchline of this story about John Fairbank youtu.be/n5dNVEl2Wfw?...

Law, Life and Asia: Conversations with Jerome Alan Cohen (Part 1)

YouTube video by NYU School of Law

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 20d

Worth a watch to get a sense of the breadth and depth of his knowledge and experience - a rare, clear-eyed voice on China who has seen it all www.jeromecohen.net/video-memoirs

Video Memoirs — Jerome A. Cohen | 孔傑榮（柯恩）

In 1960, Jerome A. Cohen, a young law teacher at Berkeley who had clerked for two U.S. Supreme Court justices, accepted an offer to study a subject that was virtually unknown — the legal system of the...

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 20d

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Jerome Cohen, the First American to Practice Law in China, Dies at 95

An expert on China—and a sometime critic—Cohen defended companies and dissidents.

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 20d

Not now, Hayward Fault.

Earthquake Live Alert @earthquake.skybot.party · 20d

New earthquake reported: M 3.0 - 3 km SE of Berkeley, CA - 2025-09-23T01:30:53.763Z

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Kristin Shi-Kupfer @gusiting.bsky.social · 21d

First #UNESCO International Institute for STEM #Education (IISTEM) established in Shanghai...hmm....#China's ambition for setting agendas, getting talents and recognition. No competing initiatives due to lack of money or low prioritization?
www.gov.cn/lianbo/bumen...

联合国教科文组织国际STEM教育研究所在上海成立_部门动态_中国政府网

教育部部长怀进鹏代表中国政府与联合国教科文组织总干事阿祖莱签署国际STEM教育研究所《所址协定》和《运行协定》。

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 26d

"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got outta hand." youtu.be/vETxuL7Ij3Q?...

Follow the Money - All the President's Men (4/9) Movie CLIP (1976) HD

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 26d

Read more about colonial boarding schools in my interview with Dr. Gyal Lo: chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/08/inte...

Interview with Dr. Gyal Lo: Tibetan Children Are Becoming "Strangers in Their Own Homes"

In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use of colonial boarding schools to indoctrinate and forcibly assimilate Tibetan children into Han Chines...

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 26d

"Pema Tashi, a Tibetan military instructor stationed at Kindergarten No. 5, said that the soldiers’ emphasis on ‘red’ education was 'taking root in young minds…like seeds sown quietly.'”

Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 28d

#China has launched a pilot program deploying #PLA soldiers in state-run boarding schools in Nagchu, #Tibet. The programme targets children as young as 4, with 13 veterans across 7 schools teaching military training + political education - our report: tibetwatch.org/china-deploy...

China Deploys Military Veterans at Schools in Tibet

China has launched a new pilot programme deploying Chinese military veterans in state-run boarding schools to indoctrinate Tibetan children as young as four with military training and political educat...

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 27d

This is where we are as a society I guess.

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · Sep 11

I spoke with @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social and @chinafile.bsky.social's Jessica Batke about their recent Locknet report, which provides a brilliant, concise, detailed but accessible overview of China's online censorship system.

China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · Sep 11

Interview: Jessica Batke and Laura Edelson on China’s “Locknet”

"Just because there are gaps, that doesn't mean the system as a whole is not effective. The human psychological component to this is that for most people, most of the time, as long as it's inconvenient, that's enough."

Interview: Jessica Batke and Laura Edelson on China’s “Locknet”

In June, ChinaFile published a new report, "The Locknet: How China Controls Its Internet and Why It Matters"—the product of 18 months’ work by Jessica Batke, ChinaFile’s senior editor for investigatio...

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · Sep 13

This guy who was found abandoned on the side of the highway at 7 weeks old weighing 4 pounds has now outgrown one chair and needs to sleep on two.

Large brown and gray cat sleeps sprawled across two kitchen chairs

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Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · Sep 11

University of Montreal seeks China specialist in political science. No French language skill is needed to be eligible, although you will need to learn with what a colleague who's there calls "their amazing support" once on the job.
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Carrières

Devenez professeure ou professeur au rang d’adjoint ou agrégé en politique ou en relations internationales de la Chine dans le monde contemporain

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Try to Praise the Mutilated World
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BY ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI
TRANSLATED BY CLARE CAVANAGH

Try to praise the mutilated world.
Remember June's long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You must praise the mutilated world.
You watched the stylish yachts and ships;
one of them had a long trip ahead of it,
while salty oblivion awaited others.
You've seen the refugees going nowhere,
you've heard the executioners sing joyfully.
You should praise the mutilated world.
Remember the moments when we were together
in a white room and the curtain fluttered.
Return in thought to the concert where music flared.
You gathered acorns in the park in autumn
and leaves eddied over the earth's scars.
Praise the mutilated world
and the gray feather a thrush lost,
and the gentle light that strays and vanishes
and returns.

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · Sep 10

Sara Jacobs: "Filler is gender affirming care. Boob jobs is gender affirming care. Botox is gender affirming care. Lots of my colleagues have received gender affirming care and let me be clear, I think everyone should have access to the gender affirming care they need."

Nancy Mace: *screams*

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · Sep 9

This covers well the damage of what’s happening, and I’ll add: people outside this ecosystem underestimate how much information it produces that others rely on for their knowledge of world affairs

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 9

"On August 29, the State Department leadership notified staff that it was terminating more than two dozen agreements...designed to create common language and tactics to push back against Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and terrorist influence campaigns overseas..."

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America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars

The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · Sep 9

Where others overlook, we listen.
Where others erase, we translate.
Support Global Voices’ mission to center the Global South.
#KeepGVStrong
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · Sep 9

coverage from Nepal on @globalvoices.org

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