@pengfeiliusoc
Sociology PhD student at UC Davis. Geopolitics, immigration, and elite study. Appropriately being political about everything. One day I’ll write a methodology paper about studying elites through golf. Self-censoring unless I can’t take it anymore.
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."
Will be in DC next weekend for ESS and late April in London for BJS conference.
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.
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…
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 🤣
technological dominance framed as cultural celebration. The event highlighted innovation as progress and prosperity, yet sidestepped harder questions about workforce displacement, state surveillance, and the dual-use nature of these technologies.
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:
Every year when the lunar new year approaches, social media algorithm would saturate my page with CNY vs. LNY posts… ☠️☠️
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…
This has to be a bot of sorts…
Students are feeling burnt out 3 weeks into this quarter and I don’t blame them.
0 accountability for public execution
Only saw this after not checking the internet for the day. Holy fking shit the panelist from recent seminar was right about considering alternatives.
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.
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.
I have a name for it in my forthcoming paper 🫠
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
I didn’t go to sleep expecting all these fever dreams coming to life.
President Donald Trump said the US carried out a large-scale strike against Venezuela, and has captured its leader, Nicolas Maduro.
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.
EOY paper submission ✅
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.
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...
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...
A random golf ball stamp vendor on Taobao has 4 pre-made Trump stamps 🫥🫥🫥
