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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Behind ICE’s seemingly chaotic street-level violence lies a highly precise, mutually coordinated, and nested surveillance system—a form of slow violence. The population it governs is likely far broader than most people imagine.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Third, less than five minutes passed between submitting the materials and receiving the phone call.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

What made the whole episode chilling was this: first, my home and my friend’s residence are less than five miles apart in a straight line. Second, it was a Sunday evening—the ICE sub-office he was supposed to report to was closed, and the call did not come from that office.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

After I explained my identity, the officer remained fairly polite and told us that my friend had to be physically present at his own registered residence in order for the check-in to be considered valid.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

He said he could see from the backend system that my friend was not at his registered home address and asked who I was and why my friend was at this location.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Unbeknownst to us, only a few minutes after he uploaded his selfie, he received a call from an unfamiliar number. The caller identified himself as an ICE regional officer.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The app’s design looked extremely rudimentary; after fumbling around for quite a while, we still couldn’t find clear reporting instructions, so we figured he would submit another online check-in first, just to be safe.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Recently, the app suddenly prompted him to report in—an unscheduled check-in. Because his English is limited, he came to my place for help.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A friend crossed the border into California in 2023. He attended every required check-in. During a routine reporting appointment late last year, he was required to download a mobile app. Each month, he has to input his address, vehicle registration, employer information, and finally upload a selfie.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Sharing an anonymous account (not my own) about how ICE is currently monitoring immigrants with asylum cases:

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Ariel Tang @ariel-tang.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Delighted to review Hannah Arendt's collected poems (bilingual version, trans.& eds. by @samantharhill.bsky.social and @genesegrill.bsky.social ) for Contemporary Political Theory! Is it possible to find home in a language when one's homeland has been laid to ruins? Arendt responds: rdcu.be/etFcC

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cover of What Remains: the collected poems by Hannah Arendt

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Clyde Yicheng Wang @clydewang.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I know authoritarianism in the US is the new thing, but well, I also continue to study authoritarianism in China. Here's my newest piece, just published in @TheChinaJournal This article traces changes in the intellectual school of New Leftism in China: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/

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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

New(ish) article: Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire," History of Political Thought go.shr.lc/3EFfrLf

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John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire: Ingenta Connect

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Why do we have scam accounts now even on academia.edu?

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Yan Long @yanlong-soc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My new book (Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China) drops! Wanna know how China gained capacities dealing with COVID-19? Why gay rights can be illiberal? Etc. check it out! www.amazon.com/Authoritaria...

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Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China

Amazon.com: Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China: 9780190900199: Long, Yan: Books

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We are about to coauthor this piece, aren’t we

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

偷国 as global political theory

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Lev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Big news! My book "Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation" is officially available for pre-order through University of Washington Press! Here's a brief summary of the book, contested politics, and why Taiwan matters for political science:

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Victims of Luo's misconducts are working on English version of their testimonies, but you can use google translation to read this article if you are using Chrome.

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 25/11/2024

latest 故事FM episode is on allegations against a Stanford PhD in polisci. wild and outrageous details. undergrad student Chris was sexually assaulted and defamed by this guy and *she* ended up serving 2 months in prison. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/UhSHwMPziz...

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斯坦福罗博士风波：双方当事人对「性骚扰」的指控、回应与争议| 故事FM

双方当事人上节目自述

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

An important new article

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Association for Global Political Thought @gpolthought.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The AGPT is now on Bluesky! We are an intercollegiate network for scholarship on political ideas within international society and global contexts, based at Harvard University & partner institutions. For more about us and our seminars and conferences see: globalpoliticalthought.hsites.harvard.edu

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Association for Global Political Thought | Association for Global Political Thought

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Chairman Mao on the necessity of discussing the anti-lockdown White Paper Protests in late 2022

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This piece by @shoufuyin.bsky.social is the most revolutionizing article in intellectual history I’ve read in years. It seriously changes how one thinks about liberty and the dissemination of political ideas. Finally out at APSR!

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The November issue of the APSR is now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The image shows the cover of the new American Political Science Review issue, volume 188, no. 4. The cover image shows a satellite image of a hurricane.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Special thanks to Yin Shoufu, whose help was essential in revising this article. I dedicate this article to Xiaohong Xu. His work on the meaning of time in the Chinese Revolution continues to illuminate me.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

As rich as the literature on party decline is, it has mostly been predicated on party politics in Western Europe and the US. By engaging Wang Hui's theory and his critics, I try to demonstrate the merits and limits of addressing the crisis of parties with a Maoist answer.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

I wrote about how Wang Hui's theory of depoliticization and debates about this idea help theorists of the political party understand the relationship between the charismatic leader, mass movements, and possibilities of party renewal. Now Online First and Open Access at APSR.

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Reawakening a Revolutionary Party: The Ancient and Modern Princes in Wang Hui’s Political Theory | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Reawakening a Revolutionary Party: The Ancient and Modern Princes in Wang Hui’s Political Theory

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Petition letter for all students, alumni, staff, and others affiliated with IU in support of Professor Abdulkader Sinno, who was suspended because of his involvement with the Palestine Solidarity Committee at IU (PSC).

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Student/Alumni Petition In Support of Prof. Abdulkader Sinno

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Donald J. joining the conversation about harsh book reviews

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

The grassroots radicalism during the Cultural Revolution session in my China course is always a lot of fun to teach.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

3/3 Till today I think of it as an urgently needed course for any grad student in polisci, across subfields. It also made it very clear to me that teaching history can powerfully demonstrate the limits of the present, something that deeply shaped my own way of teaching.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

2/3 It covered topics such as the rise of behavioralism, the changing contexts of social science research in the postwar context, the biases and contradictions emerging out of competing methods, the possible futures of polisci, etc.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

1/3 Someone's complaints about Intro to PoliSci being taught in a hard "scientific" way reminded me of my Intro in grad school, which is still among the best courses I've ever taken. It was taught by Bill Scheuerman and, notably, involved a section of disciplinary history.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

I do think it leading to folks sharing harsh reviews is a pleasant outcome.

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Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Did not expect to see my political theory friends discussing the Qing history book review

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