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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nothing beats using ChatGPT to check whether someone’s words are offensive. Come on people! Trust your own feelings.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In NYC for the week (the HEAT)! Two presentations at CUNY graduate center.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/06/2026

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)

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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation

Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Ppl knowing my research can probably guess my take on the Arcadia mayor charge. The overwhelming presence of local Chinese businesses means these politicians are bound to make appealing comments to their influential constituents.

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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 07/05/2026

In a widely publicized spy case, two men linked to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London have been found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service www.bbc.com/news/article...

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UK immigration officer among two men guilty of working for Chinese intelligence

Chi Leung "Peter" Wai used the main immigration database to track Hong Kong dissidents in the UK.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Apparently many ppl applying for U.S. visas in China the past couple days are asked “have you been persecuted before? Are you concerned about persecution in the future?”

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I have 0 idea what’s the situation with Chinese EVs in abroad markets… but there’s more and more comments (跟小红书天天看到一样…）praising Chinese EVs on TikTok.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In London for the next week (BJS conference)... Why is it so cold?!

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It is absolute demagoguery to say that a foreign student took anyone's spot. Foreign students have enriched and, bluntly, funded U.S. universities. Those universities will be less successful and less desirable as a result of this rank protectionism.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Hong Kong’s latest tobacco ban has led to Chinese netizens asking for Hong Kong to take over part of China they live in…

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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Finally. Leqaa is freed after a year of ICE detention. We do not forget the complicity of our academic institutions in repressing pro Palestine voices, setting the stage for her detention & those of other students across the country. No one is free until Palestine is free.

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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Here. Read this report and think about it. Maybe think about how many times since, I don't know, Pocahontas, children were used as bait and hostages by colonial powers. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

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Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’

Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Student messaged me 5mins past final exam time “when is the final exam?” I don’t blame them… the world is on fire for a while now

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say

Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/02/2026

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Submitted two papers to ASA. One of them is my future book project and the other one is also very interesting to me and my friends. Hopefully I get to present one of them…

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

TIL without notes it’s hard to keep track of time when presenting… 10mins talk and I spent 8 mins set up the background context 🤣

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

China’s New Year Gala wasn’t just entertainment… It was a carefully staged showcase of advanced robots, big data systems, and polished AI narratives designed to normalize a rapidly automated future. Beneath the spectacle of humanoid machines and seamless digital choreography lies a deeper message:

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Every year when the lunar new year approaches, social media algorithm would saturate my page with CNY vs. LNY posts… ☠️☠️

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

What’s there to backfire if their aim might be something else? Like distracting domestic audience from tanking economy? That’s pretty successful. To me it’s about the legitimacy crisis and only ordinary Chinese ppl are paying the “backfire” price…

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Students are feeling burnt out 3 weeks into this quarter and I don’t blame them.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

0 accountability for public execution

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Only saw this after not checking the internet for the day. Holy fking shit the panelist from recent seminar was right about considering alternatives.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Doing political education on Chinese social media through long postings is back and forth fight with censorship algorithms and human censors. Posts that make up for one coherent message is often missing random parts because they decided to censor a random word… it’s not even China-adjacent topic.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Sorry, but this stuff drives me absolutely crazy. I’m sorry economists & journalists are just discovering the field of international political economy. But we’ve been studying & publishing about this stuff for 50 years now. There’s no new age of anything & “geoeconomics” has been around forever.

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404 Media @404media.co · 07/01/2026

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 08/01/2026

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/01/2026

The Minnesota Star Tribune identified the victim of the ICE shooting in Minnesota as Renee Nicole Good. Her father, Tim Ganger, told The Post that he and his wife were still processing the news. “She was a wonderful person,” he said.

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Live updates: Parents identify woman fatally shot by ICE officer in Minneapolis

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman during an operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, federal authorities said.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

No one can convince me the legal public gambling of political events is NOT relevant to how current regime pulls stunt like this. Insider-trading becomes accessible to everyone who knows about these planning and logistics ahead of the public.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The numerous pardons of convicted drug lords… Also this is a fun fact to tell ppl who fully believes the anti-drug campaigns of China when talking about ideal versus reality. Elites’ interests are compounding and transnational.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I didn’t go to sleep expecting all these fever dreams coming to life.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The “Minnesota Daycare fraud” story is making waves on Chinese social media because it echoes the ethnic-nationalism sentiment… meanwhile people can’t even post a factcheck link in the comment sections.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

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Ana Ley @la-ley.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

NEW: Yuanxin Zheng, the 6-year-old boy from Queens whose separation from his father drew outrage in New York City, has been deported to China with his dad. With @haleaziz.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

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Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

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Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga

The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

A random golf ball stamp vendor on Taobao has 4 pre-made Trump stamps 🫥🫥🫥

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I can’t fathom studying ultra wealthy without the transnational aspect in 2025….

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My daily 指桑骂槐 consciousness raising posts are frequently getting shadow banned on Chinese social media… They are definitely training the censorship model

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The divide between Hong Kong ppl helping each other and many Chinese netizens showing their social Darwinism/nationalism discussing this tragedy… even a firefighter rescuing someone’s pets (which must be their very important family members) is controversial?!!!

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Maybe daily wake up calls aren’t enough to wake up people

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Of course, with the recent nationalist claims about Taiwan and Japan, China’s astroturfing operations continue on TikTok. Although the censorship won’t allow a genuine discussion on Chinese social media, netizens are still mocking the travel warning issued by Chinese government about Japan.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Whenever my family asks me whether I’m planning to find an academic job in China, I just want to show them the already famous “professor to gate security person” sharing her experience on xiaohongshu… IYKYK it’s a true ongoing story.

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

There are significantly more discourse on xiaohongshu that’s anti-Trump than before… I wonder why the algorithm is adjusted again

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Widespread nationalism leads to (the promise of) war when governing party’s legitimacy is seriously undermined?

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Is this year’s Ryder Cup foreshadowing Europe and USA future😳

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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The escalation of PP10043 and new H1B rules are just constructed disasters….

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