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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Not sure if it’s a testament or condemnation of my culinary skills that my six-year-old’s favorite dish that I make is uotmil (oatmeal) 😂

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I recently became acquainted with "Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi" 童絵解万国噺, a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861. The retelling of the revolutionary era is quite something. Here, for instance, is John Adams wielding a sword in mortal combat with a gigantic serpent.

An illustration of a figure in Western dress fighting a giant snake with a sword

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

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The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump

The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I’m delighted to be featured in the SSRC’s latest issue of Frontiers in Social and Behavioral Science. Working on my article made me rethink of opium not as a social “vice” but as a resource for managing epidemic risk, explaining its prevalence on the high seas and the Chinese coolie trade.

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Historians don’t always get to visit the places they write about, but I’m so glad I did!

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 07/07/2025

The academic’s mid-summer crisis is a mid-life crisis in miniature: You realize summer is half gone, & not only that: you see that the longest & least burdened days came early, & they are well past. You compare all you thought you’d do against the days remaining & grieve for what never will be

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

RIP Diogo 🥺 You were always one of my favorites.

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 13/06/2025

In “The Opiated Ocean,” @suyh.bsky.social analyzes the regulation of opium in 19th century Chinese trade, arguing its widespread provision among the indentured workers was a means to stave off seaborne epidemics to preserve profitability of contract labor. #AHR 🗃️

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The Opiated Ocean: Drugs, Addiction, and Disease in La Trata Amarilla

Abstract. In December 1853, British officials at Hong Kong amended the Passenger Acts to allow the substitution of “opium for tobacco” on voyages taking in

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I’m delighted to share that my article, “The Opiated Ocean” is out today in the #AHR: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/.... For those curious, here’s how the article came about🧵 (1/5)

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

My firstborn daughter graduated kindergarten today. Where has all the time gone 😭

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P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

BREAKING - A 3-judge panel of the US Court of International Trade has just INVALIDATED Trump's tariffs. Says Trump CANNOT use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to unilaterally impose tariffs; that power belongs to Congress. MORE TK storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Per Curiam: The Constitution assigns Congress the exclusive powers to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,” and to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.” U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cls. 1, 3. The question in the two cases before the court is whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (“IEEPA”) delegates these powers to the President in the form of authority to impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world. The court does not read IEEPA to confer such unbounded authority and sets aside the challenged tariffs imposed thereunder.

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I’m pleased to share that “The Opiated Ocean” will appear in this June’s #AHR issue as the opening article. For those interested in drug, labor and commodity history—stay tuned!

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 27/05/2025

In #AHAPerspectives, get a sneak peek of the June issue of the American Historical Review, including articles on opium, terminology for slavery, and counterrevolution, a forum on the concept of "Big Asia," and contributions on searchability and using archival databases in the classroom. 🗃️

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Rethinking a Continent – AHA

Get a sneak peek of the June 2025 issue of the American Historical Review.

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

ELF final: stoppable force meets moveable object

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 09/05/2025

Today's front page.

The front page of the Chicago Sun-Times, featuring the pope waving under the words "DA POPE!" Subheadline says, "Chicagoan Robert Prevost, known to many on the South Side as 'Father Bob' and now to millions as Pope Leo XIV, becomes first American pontiff. The best coverage of Chicago's pope, pages 2-10."

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

An alarmist take, but mostly correct. Over the last two years, I have seen how robots have not only eaten my students’ homework, but the concept of homework itself. The only check left is convincing my students that outsourcing one’s thinking is a bad idea. Some will agree; most will not.

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

So many final papers missing this semester. But my students can’t help it if Biden keeps eating their homework!!!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

You will never get a new, revolutionary, truly good sentence or work of art by seeking out the perfect middle of all known beliefs. It's why AI is flawed as a creative machine, and why governing to polls is futile. We want new, beautiful, surprising things, politically, artistically, and otherwise.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/04/2025

Nothing is more emblematic of the Trump Administration's approach to trade policy than this. Two weeks after "Liberation Day", with a trade war on China raging, they are only now ordering an investigation of what rare earths the US imports, from whom, and why. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Ensuring National Security and Economic Resilience Through Section 232 Actions on Processed Critical Minerals and Derivative Products

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

feminism in 2025: literally blasting women into space

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This is also what destroyed the Embargo of 1807. Jefferson had also campaigned against a strong federal government (aka “deep state”), but without a strong government, who is there to enforce customs?

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Um, It Turns Out No One at the Ports Is Collecting Trump’s Tariffs

A technical “glitch” has created the biggest hiccup in Trump’s tariffs rollout.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.” -Ronald Reagan, radical leftist

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Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

New @budgetlab.bsky.social report about today's tariff announcement: • The April 2nd policy alone is the equivalent of an 11.5pp increase in the effective tariff rate. When combined with other US tariffs in 2025, we're at 22 1/2%, the highest rate since 1909. 1/7

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

So who’s ready for Black Thursday tomorrow

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I used to wonder how Jack Bauer pulled a 24 hour shift without taking a piss even once. Then I met Cory Booker.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

starting every lecture now with the Ballad of Ambrose and Gunnel.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

1/🧵 Following up on our study featured in NYT today, this figure provides a macro-level view: Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.

Two-panel graph analyzing U.S. House Elections from 2006-2024. Left panel shows Democratic vote share increases as turnout gap with Republicans narrows, with a positive trend line (46-56% on y-axis). Right panel shows Democratic vote share decreases as party positioning moves from liberal to conservative, with a negative trend line. Election years are plotted as dots, with blue dots (2006, 2008, 2018) indicating Democratic House majorities and red dots indicating Republican majorities. Both graphs demonstrate that Democrats perform better with higher turnout and more liberal positioning.

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cathode ray tubetop @nightelectricity.com · 07/03/2025

new saddest six word story just dropped

Facebook marketplace listing for "Full Podcasting set up (Hardly used)

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

recessions and their causes, a history: 1929: Black Thursday 1973: OPEC oil embargo 2008: subprime CDOs 2020: COVID-19 2025: let’s go Brandon

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

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Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪） @suyh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025