Lauren Hilgers

PATRIOT NUMBER ONE (Crown) // Occasional words in @nytmag @newyorker and elsewhere // Texas, Shanghai, New York //

[Gustavo Ajche @AjcheGustavo]

All Deliveristas deserve a minimum pay. The best way for New York to honor us as essential workers is by delivering a minimum pay now. We can’t wait any more.

Today @doordash deactivates many of my colleagues and close their accounts without a pay. While the apps make billions, we keep relying on tip as the only form of pay for our essential work.

[Lauren Hilgers @lehilgers]

@rob_schmitz And a $53,000 fireplace log cradle

[Rob Liguori @robxlii]

Re-sharing this crazy story I worked on from 2018 in light of the arrest of "Miles Kwok" a/k/a Guo Wengui. Free to read. Quite a ride from @LEHilgers. https://t.co/6W0rXqfKmt

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Children stitch “Made in America” tags into shirts for J. Crew. They bake dinner rolls sold at Walmart and Target, process milk used in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and help debone chicken sold at Whole Foods.

In the U.S., migrant child labor is everywhere. https://t.co/ZQzCpdcVX0

[Vivian Wu @vivianwubeijing]

Video showed Wuhan University students chanted to plea "We need transparent information, open procedures". This is the latest video circulated today on #Chinese social media amid intensive check on ppl's use of VPNs and route of sharing info.

[Franka Lu @FrankaLu]

Cao Guozheng, the President of Communication University of China, Nanjing, threatened the protesting students: “One day you will all pay a price for what you are doing!”

Students shouted back: “One day this country will pay a price (for what is has done to the people)!”

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Photo of two university teachers in a stand off with Shanghai police to protect their protesting students. Amazing scenes

[Inty News @__Inty__]

Chinese communist authority in Nanjing takes the blank paper away from the
Student protester

[Nathan Law 羅冠聰 @nathanlawkc]

Students from the elite school Tsinghua University protested with Friedmann equation. I have no idea what this equation means, but it does not matter.
It's the pronunciation: it's similar to "free的man" (free man)—a spectacular and creative way to express, with intelligence.

[promise li @promise__li]

Gonna need Twitter to keep prolonging its death a bit more since potentially the largest nation-wide mass mobilization in China since Tiananmen is currently developing right now

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

上海，乌鲁木齐路与安福路路口
一男子举着花演讲，随后被警察逮捕
几个居民上前阻止

[Vivian Wu @vivianwubeijing]

An incomplete list of schools collected by netizens showed that, by this morning more than 50 universities nationwide including some top ones, have seen protests or actions participated by students. They expressed anger against lockdown,control over freedom, mourned for victims.

[Abduweli Ayup @AbduwelA]

They are all died in the fire,What happened to their father? Where is he? He is in the camp since 2017. He is a prominent entrepreneur. His name is Eli Metniyaz, he and his oldest son got sentenced in Hotan where Uyghurs were heavily targeted during the mass arrests

[William Yang @WilliamYang120]

Thanks to the bravery of some Chinese citizens who participated in the protest calling for an end to the lockdown in #China's #Shanghai just a few hours ago, here are some of their reflections on the protest:

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

Tsinghua university right now👇🏼 city after city seeing protests small and large against Zero Covid policies and against excesses of Communist Party rule - every hour there seems to be a new one

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

Nanjing Chuanmei Academy, students apparently out protesting, the University Head comes out and says he'll accompany them, "otherwise . . . you'll all pay the price for what you are doing today."

[Dionne Ford @DionneFord]

My first ever @goodreads giveaway!! Ends Nov. 14.
Enter for a chance to get a galley of my debut GO BACK AND GET IT out 4/23 from @BoldTypeBooks !
An exploration of the enslaved women in my family, sexual trauma, and healing. #23debuts
https://t.co/zJ1tvOkOzI

[Lauren Hilgers @lehilgers]

@lancerichardson I love to see the Matthiessen love, but pitch that trek somewhere else please so I can read it!