Polka dot dress lady was out here fighting ICE in Commes des Garçons. And now she’s donated her dress to raise funds for immigrants @thenyic.bsky.social. Bidding closes Nov 10.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani!

I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.

Whoever helped him pick out his Chinese name did a great job

My early polling place was bustling! New Yorkers, polls are open til 5 today. Tomorrow is the last day of early voting (9-5). Also, I appreciate how proactive the interpreters were. Auntie was: she looks Chinese, & came right up to me to ask if I needed interpretation.

Hey we don't say this enough... Mamdani is Asian American. If elected, he'll be the first Asian American mayor of New York City... ...and NYC will be the biggest city in the US to ever have had an Asian American mayor. Representation isn't liberation. But sure is something, in this case!

🎙️Before We Go @podcastnation.bsky.social Mark Cuban and Dr. Fumiko Chino Try to F-Up Healthcare   Dr Shoshana hosts an incredible convo w @mcuban.bsky.social ("He had a good life & he f-up’d healthcare") & myself about how to fix our broken system from w/in or burn it down from the outside. 🔥

more like degenerative AI !

“Instead of asking, ‘What can I do?’, make a specific offer.” Speaking from experience, Yes, yes, yes.

I just wanna point out that this online No Kings protest organized by disabled folks is offering more opportunities for follow-up and additional action than I’ve seen for any of the in-person events. Not hatin’- just sayin’ 💁🏽‍♀️

Wow, even The Woodlands. This is a suburb of Houston in a county that overwhelmingly went for Trump & Ted Cruz.

Abolishing the death penalty is an urgent moral need. Revolting to be in the shrinking minority of nations that still sentence people to death.

A #BitOfJoy from last month. Ate at my friend’s new restaurant in Houston, Agnes & Sherman. I thoroughly enjoyed this playful Asian American take on diner food. Some things eaten: Savory scallion waffle with sambal honey butter & shrimp toast (like walnut honey prawns but on toast w/ candied pecans)

"Gonzalez-Garcia is 15 but has the cognitive ability of a 5-year-old child."

I appreciate how much New Yorkers do not care for this sketchy AI necklace.

This was my favorite place for roast duck in San Francisco, and I'm glad to see they found a new spot not too far away.

Someone came and rescued my parents as their neighborhood was flooding during Hurricane Harvey.

Did you know that we publish 100-word CNF? We call them “short-shorts”! And today’s feature is @melissahung.bsky.social’s “Border Crossings, Macau to Hong Kong, 1957.” We love its long, breathless sentence with an ending that cuts like a 🔪 inshortjournal.com/melissa-hung/

"If you are a billionaire buying a media organization to consolidate your power, you could not find a more eager servant than Weiss, someone blissfully captured by the richest people alive, and invested in smashing the last vestiges of liberal power in this country" defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Rude of this wave of grief to hit me just now. I’m just trying to eat my lunch.

“With plenty of historical analogs to choose from, privacy advocates warn that any surveillance that starts as a method of capturing immigrants could soon be deployed for ulterior purposes.”

“With plenty of historical analogs to choose from, privacy advocates warn that any surveillance that starts as a method of capturing immigrants could soon be deployed for ulterior purposes.”

NEW — Freedom Flotilla Coalition says there may soon be an attempt by Israel to intercept the Global Sumud Flotilla. Say radars show roughly 12 unidentified vessels, just 5-15 miles away. Some flotilla boats seem to be losing connection, possibly experiencing signal jamming.

First-day-of-fall greetings to everyone except the woman at the literary reading in the 1,500-seat theater last night who was scrolling on her phone during most of it.

Journalism is an optimistic endeavor. By surfacing truths the powerful prefer to keep hidden, we provoke discussion and unlock change. This happened hours after we published an investigation exposing the Trump admin's sweeping retreat on human trafficking www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Trump administration has aggressively rolled back efforts to combat human trafficking, leaving traffickers to operate with increased impunity, experts say. Guardian investigation by @aglantz.bsky.social, Bernice Yeung, & Noy Thrupkaew.

Tomorrow Wed Sept 10 at 7pm, join @motherjones.com, @capitalb.bsky.social, @texasobserver.org at the Julia Ideson Building in downtown Houston for an evening of stories, action & resilience in the 20 years after Hurricane Katrina.

Looking forward to this collection of poems by @asaldrake.bsky.social. Explorations of “lineage and future lineage of a body shaped by economic, ecological, and political dissonance” are my jam. Coming February 2026!

Time to submit to this literary journal that keeps rejecting me so they can reject me again in 6 months. Can't wait.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Got my COVID & flu shots today at a local Brooklyn pharmacy. But there's confusion out there. First they said I needed an RX, then they said I didn't, but made me write down my health condition. (I am immunocompromised.)

Helpful reporting by @sabs.bsky.social on WTF is happening with covid vaccines

Helpful reporting by @sabs.bsky.social on WTF is happening with covid vaccines

Recently, in #BitOfJoy: Transported heirloom tomatoes from the SF Bay Area back to NYC in my luggage, then made Eric Kim’s furikake tomato sandwich. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024...

One thing about Chinese immigrants is that they will just walk up to another Chinese person in hopes that they speak the same kind of Chinese. Happened to me twice in one day. In the first instance, I knew enough Cantonese to help an auntie at the oncologist’s office reschedule her follow-up.

This racist government will literally burn this country down in the name of racism.

I’ve been in the SF Bay Area for the last few weeks & among my friends I know 9 people (5 households) who have had Covid recently.

From @josephinelee.bsky.social and @michellepitcher.bsky.social in 2024: 24 Texas prison units still have agribusiness operations. Nine are located on former plantations. Incarcerated workers harvest many of the same crops that slaves and later convict laborers did from 1871 to 1910.

Today, the fact that the airstrike that killed an Al Jazeera journalist and his crew whom Israel had smeared as a terrorist in advance hit next to a hospital is just the fourth or fifth most horrific detail, and yet the international response will be… what? More nothing.

Less than two years ago, an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza city merited a multi-day news cycle, with international outrage forcing Israel to issue denials and launch an absurd but ultimately successful attempt to muddy the waters with dubious theories about Gazans bombing themselves.

Peak Asian American headline sports.yahoo.com/olympics/bre...

Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much

This vintage toy museum in Mexico City, which was founded by a Japanese immigrant, Roberto Y. Shimizu. The museum is in a former apartment building & it's like visiting an eccentric uncle's house. There's stuff everywhere. www.museodeljuguete.com.mx

We discussed exactly this when I was on the Book Friends Forever podcast with @alvinaling.bsky.social @authorgracelin.bsky.social. I said a museum about food in transit (such as airplane meals). But I forgot to say that it's interesting to me b/c that's also the history of humans.

Oh, it's the last day of Disability Pride Month, which takes place in July because that's when the ADA was signed. I don't feel pride about my disability since it gives me chronic pain. But I am proud of contributing an essay to this anthology edited by @sfdirewolf.bsky.social

65. The fastest growing disability population has to be Palestinians in Gaza.

I'm sharing a series of slides from @elgendy95.bsky.social's instagram account about how mutual aid works in Gaza. There are 5 slides (I will thread them) & you can see the original post here: www.instagram.com/p/DMaj16Ostyh/