Law professor at UMass Law; host of Plead the Fifth, a Podcast about the jurisprudence of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Joined November 2021
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24 Sep 2023
I used to be scared and even discouraged by this reality. My parents didn’t even go to high school. But now, I allow myself to be proud. It is perhaps extra hard for me to enter the law academy, but my life experience gives me a unique scholarly voice, and I am ready to be heard.
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Jun 12
Most Chinese view the CPC solely as a governance body—oppressive, even corrupt, but competent. There is no romantic expectation beyond that. For many westerners, this mentality means salvage, unfit for democracy. Only dissenters deserve their attention, hence the new orientalism.
Jun 11
In the superficial view of “China” held by Chinamaxxers, there are no social movements, no debates, no counterparts for the politically active American to engage. This is not meaningful "solidarity." It doesn't view Chinese as genuine people. trib.al/1YqrbWV
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Jun 9
He prefers Hilton on the ballot because for democrats, they rather risk losing to a Republican than a progressive. Primary him immediately please.
I endorsed Xavier Becerra. That’s why I hope Republican Steve Hilton remains in the top two. The latest vote updates show Hilton will likely beat Steyer.
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Jun 7
Let’s go Bu!!!
A career FIRST grass title for Yunchaokete Bu 💥🏆
China’s Yunchaokete Bu completes the comeback to defeat Otto Virtanen 2-6, 7-6, 6-3 in the Lexus Birmingham Open Men’s Singles final!
#LexusBirminghamOpen
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Jun 7
What a long journey for him. He came up as a prodigy when the big 3 were still at peak. Then got injured big time and when he came back, he got the Carlos/Jannic duel. Finally, he got it.
Jun 7
29 year old Alexander Zverev is FINALLY a Grand Slam champion after defeating Flavio Cobolli in the final 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-1 to win #RolandGarros.
First German to win RG in Men's Singles
First German man to win a Slam since Becker in 1996
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When I was on the tenure track job market, I was asked many times why I didn’t include China/US comparative studies in my research agenda. This is why. Only white people get to talk about China without being questioned. And they will send this kind of shades jsut to screw you.
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Jun 5
The strategy is to have Mills crawl back and dilute the votes so that they can lose. The goal is to lose so that the left movement can die. That’s what’s going on.
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May 26
American liberals would one day cry over Trump DOJ’s heinous behavior and another day cheer over its persecution over a lefty YouTuber. And you wonder why they lose all the god damn time.
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May 26
Pay attention to democrats’ collective silence- sometimes cheers -regarding DOJ’s bogus investigation of @hasanthehun. Democrats treat the left as their enemy, worse than Trump. Trump justifies democrats’ existence; the lefts, on the other hand, challenge their legitimacy.
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May 24
Love tennis but tennis fans are the worst. Just take a look at the comment section.
May 24
🚨Breaking: Half-Black, half-Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka co-hosted an exclusive "Black Party" (Roland Garros edition) dinner in Paris for Black tennis players only, just ahead of the French Open.
Attendees included Coco Gauff, Gaël Monfils, and others. Osaka defended the race-exclusive event by claiming she's seen segregated white-only parties in the past — without providing any specific examples or proof.
The event was held at Soho House Paris.
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May 17
I think the problem in America is that we don’t have any coherent strategy about anything. We just have election talking points.
Trump’s Beijing visit underscores an East Asia specialist’s warning: Washington lacks a coherent long-term strategy on China. bloomberg.com/features/2026-…
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May 16
This is hilarious.
May 15
This week, we mark and remember the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party, including its indescribably evil program of state-sponsored organ harvesting.
I've introduced the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act, and I'm working with my colleagues to advance it. The U.S. should remain committed to countering these human rights violations and ensuring the CCP is held accountable.
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May 15
Is this the depth of this line of studies? I feel like it’s all reading tea leaves and rage baits.
May 15
Xi’s obsession over Thucydides’s Trap tells me he isn’t anywhere near strong enough to take over from the US.
Rising East and Failing West no longer matters
Now Xi chases “constructive strategic stability” as a set back phrase.
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May 15
Hmm so now it’s no longer a “genocide.” It’s “ruthless treatment.”
May 14
If Xi Jinping has nothing to hide about his (ruthless) treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, why does the Chinese government still prohibit independent journalists from traveling freely to Xinjiang? trib.al/oTGzbEk
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May 8
Typical western liberal mentality: let’s maintain an alliance, in the name of human rights, and gun for another long hot war another power. We need more people to die so that we can have rights.
May 8
Trump's Iran war, by burning through munitions faster than US manufacturers can replace them, shows the limits of the US ability to fight a long war with China, which has manufacturing depth. Trump has alienated allies who could make up the difference. trib.al/T813bn7
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May 4
The most miserable social science discipline in the United States got to be China Studies. A cohort of “experts” with no ability to read or speak Chinese or even been there trying occupy the place and spread racism rhetorics everywhere, while funded by the CIA.
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Apr 21
The whole “OMG the Supreme Court is so unethical” outcries over the NYT piece on the shadow docket is just so exhausting. Can we stop glorifying the whole “rule of law” idealism for just a moment and try to embrace the idea that law is just another set of man-made rules?
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Apr 1
What a mess from the government. I don’t think the Supreme Court is interested in entertaining abolishing birthright citizenship at all. It’s likely going to be a 7-2, but maybe with some odd concurrence from Barrett about … Indian tribes …
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5 Sep 2025
Prominent Palestinian academic Omar Harb has starved to death amid Israel’s blockade of food and medicine. He died on Thursday, reportedly weighing less than 40 kilograms, or 88 pounds.
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13 Aug 2025
“… the dispute was only the beginning. A committed conservative, Wasserman believed that selection policies that took race and gender into account were discriminatory.” It’s not just about Israel or Palestine. It’s about subordinating POCs and women at every level of the society
13 Aug 2025
A string of leaks this spring made the Harvard Law Review a target for the White House. But the same fights — over the Israel-Palestine conflict, race, and meritocracy — have a longer history inside its own walls.
@MeganBlonigen and @cghennigan report.
thecrimson.com/article/2025/…
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