I have an op-ed today in the Seattle Times about "Rosemead" and the operation of shame in AAPi communities, how it's is not just our statistics but our history. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
I said this to a friend yesterday and will repeat it here. A lot of people are going to be hyper-focused on elections this year but if that's not your ministry, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HYPER-FOCUS there. There's so much other organizing work to do. You can focus your energies and attention there.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
There is only New York, and there are only New Yorkers.
Y'all — As a journalist covering global health and environmental disparities, I've lived in Atlanta car-free since 2018 because that is the easiest way to put my money where my mouth is!
I am organizing a half-marathon length bike ride to support my newsroom, and I'd love for you to be my sponsor:
“Yes, aunties.”
It’s pronounced cyclist.
“A populace that has a better understanding of the world around it is a populace that is much harder to rule by fear.”
“The problem with soft executive landings designed to allow good people to depart the stage with grace is that the public sees through them and distrusts the people left to take the organization forward.” @ajc.com www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
Quoc Huong and bring cash!
stay safe today, stay hydrated, and melt ice
So happy and proud to have attended @rohitforatlanta.bsky.social’s campaign launch in his childhood home.
I believe in Rohit bc he’s fought for and with so many of us for positive, systemic change. Atlanta needs will and integrity, joined to a different vision. Join me; support rohitforatlanta.com
On the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first of a series of increasingly stringent exclusion laws that not only banned the Chinese but also became a blueprint for racially-charged US immigration policy that persists to this day - sharing a poem from Angel Island.
Funny how "pragmatism" only ever involves moving right though. Like progressive politics are a luxury to be cut from the budget when times are tough, rather than an actual winning strategy to earn support.
Paul Ong of @knowledgeluskin.bsky.social discusses the history of Asian enclaves in Stockton and the effects of the Crosstown Freeway bisecting them on the California Highways: Route by Route podcast: caroutebyroute.org/2024/11/09/c... @cahwyguy.bsky.social
“Ultimately, it seems, Hester Street’s financial model was sustainable only as long as the organization could find an executive director who would throw themself into the role in an unsustainable way.” 🎯 @oscarthinks.bsky.social
“Rights only have power in so far as people know about them & enforce them. It really is where the rubber meets the road.”
Kathy Ou reports on a new CA bill that could offer a lifeline to immigrant entrepreneurs resisting gentrification in LA's Chinatown:
prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...
Rickey Henderson, Hall of Famer and MLB’s all-time stolen bases leader, dead at 65
RIP to the GOAT
I think this is my underrated pet issue, that american transportation and roads and city planning is making us sick and unhealthy with aggregate more expensive healthcare outcomes
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This tells a little *too much* truth. Atlanta has a powerful creative, progressive culture that is stifled at almost every single turn.
Atlanta was the future once.
Now it's on the precipice of being just another city - with a Shake Shack and Sweetgreen for all.
Quote: “We have set up a system of interlocking ninth circles of hell for all of our basic needs. Housing is a noose of landlord interests, developer exploitation and rising costs. Transportation is a Gordian knot of failing infrastructure and limited vision that traps us in neighborhoods and lifestyles that make us sicker and meaner. Our moral economy is trash.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom on “the perverse nature of our moral economy,” including housing and transportation: “We have set up a system of interlocking ninth circles of hell for all of our basic needs.”
We in the NPIC working on these issues should have this clarity. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...
all the urbanists feverishly reposting the menswear guy on walkability and zoning, let’s see that same energy when it comes to his posts about immigrants and refugees in cities 💛
@corrigansalerno.bsky.social
For Dwell I got to talk to a bunch of amazing researchers about why we continue to build in high climate-risk areas, and the ways we might consider some type of ethical built future under threat. www.dwell.com/article/why-...
