The reality is a lot of Asian American and non-Asian American progressives and leftists don't pay attention to progressive or leftist organizing in Asian American communities.

This is a big reminder to me to read Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting by Prashad, which I always had my eye on in college but didn’t get around to 🫣

Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting by Vijay Prashad: 9780807050118 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Selected as One of the Village Voice's Favorite 25 Books of 2001 In this landmark work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to engage the typical racial discussion that matches people of color against ea...

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tamara nopper@tamaranopper.bsky.social · 15h ago

I often think of how Vijay Prashad's The Karma of Brown Folk, which addressed this issue and was a big deal in Asian American circles when published, has largely been ignored by today's leftists, including those who keep up with his anti-imperialist work, as well as today's Asian American activists.

All that middle-aged moms want is a quiet morning to eat breakfast, drink iced coffee and watch GBBO (it’s me and I’m taking a 3 day weekend away! The away part is after I eat breakfast)

A personal work in progress: getting comfortable w saying out loud that the issue is racism when the issue is… racism

How I know that my mind is less nimble w technology as I’ve aged: it took me forever (a few minutes more than I’d like) to find how to get a text only version of directions to where I’m going this weekend. The destination doesn’t have v good cell service so I’m preparing by printing directions out

I keep thinking about this and Nikole Hannah-Jones' pieces and how all the pain and devil's bargains with modern K-12 schooling is all in service of sending kids to places like this. At every "elite" high school, this is the goal. For fucking what?

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3d ago

Jesus Christ Cornell

CAT or BIRD???? 😁

I’m back on my bullshit: watching episodes of Physical: Asia

MoCo and PG locals: water advisory, I’d guess not too long due to it’s actually a power issue (but Pepco who knows) anyway fyi, limit use to avoid a boil advisory www.wsscwater.com/news/2026/se...

Today in the old neighborhood listserv: arguing over the Harford Rd overlay bill

Guess what! Your girl got the ok and rx to try HRT to ease the perimenopause symptoms! Feel free to DM me if you want a gyn rec 😅

Pisces: We should always try our best. So if you’re going to be a failure, be the biggest and best failure the world has ever seen.

Airhead Pete Hegseth tried to force women out of the military by revamping the fitness test to favor male bodies even more and… female and male Marines passed at pretty much the same rate thewarhorse.org/hegseth-mari...

Hegseth Made the Fitness Test Harder for Women in Combat Roles. Most Female Marines Are Passing

Data shows almost all Marine females serving in combat roles have met or exceeded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new physical fitness standard.

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Trying to do uncomfortable things at work by telling myself “you can be brave for a few moments,” just like with a scary move while climbing

Wait you guys are getting job interviews?

its funny because on a thematic level remmick represents the exact kind of appropriative sanitized-for-white-consumption irishness that sheeran thrives on but on a character level this is terrible remmick slander and he would fucking *never*

the most typical@jazzpomegranate.com · last wk.

friend just sent me this

ed sheeran gets called a plastic paddie in boston massachussets

I love little known pieces of Asian diasporas in the Americas, like this:

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · last wk.

There's also a legacy of Korean history in Mérida on the Yucatan Peninsula - I spent some time there in 2023 and it's a really fascinating place. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans...

The One Piece live action adaptation is leaking into reality again

James Asmus@jamesasmus.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey comics artists: a new all-timer character design just dropped.

These skelefrogs are done, and more versions are on the way! I’m planning a Halloween shop update soon so stay tuned.

Me, a person who just spent a long day at my public engagement job and then attended a PTA meeting: I do not want to hear the word “engagement” at all for the rest of the day

Gothamist@gothamist.com · last wk.

Manhole mystery continues as 3 more people seen climbing out of sewer, NYPD says gothamist.com/news/manhole...

this begs the question "how did they sleep while their breads were burning?"

They’re lucky a lot of people accepted DEI instead of revenge

I just learned that Nancy Grace Roman (the first NASA chief astronomer, also has a new telescope named after her) was a Western HS grad! That’s so cool

The Only Limit for City Schools Students Is the Stars: How Baltimore City Public Schools Alumni Are Shaping the Universe

Baltimore City Public Schools alumni carry a universe-sized impact. Decades before contemporary eng...

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*Frothing at the mouth with excitement* HEY GUESS WHAT, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE BRAIN, YOU HAVE TWO! med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

"It will be easy to poke holes in NHJ’s strategy and my points above, but the question that remains is where can our kids grow and flourish safely?" wordsbydumi.substack.com/p/five-thoug...

Five Thoughts on NHJ’s “...Did I betray my own?”

Nikole Hannah Jones has written an insightful and vulnerable reflection, but what are we to take from it?

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