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It would only take a couple of minor changes in the lyrics, and a slightly different tempo and tone, to turn "Little Boxes" into a song about racial integration and upward mobility.

As a side note, the song "Little Boxes" comes across very different from an Asian American point of view - it's from a time when mainstream culture was starting to realize the downsides of suburban living, while Asian American families were still fighting to have that choice.

As Grace mentions, these houses were in areas where Asian Americans were first able to buy houses, during a time when not all neighborhoods were desegregated yet.

Today they are mostly an Asian American housing type. bsky.app/profile/gspe...

Little Boxes - they're the same style as the ones in Daly City made famous by that mid-20th century song.

It's a housing type that is unique to Daly City and the west & south side of San Francisco - a 25-foot wide, 2-story townhouse with garage.

Other suburbs have detached houses on wider lots.

watercolor sketch of a couple of critters, one looks like a small pink shark but with rabbit-like ears and front legs, with a grin showing teeth. The other is a blue critter that looks like a shark but with two fins on its head, two side fins like a normal shark, and hind legs that it is standing upright on. It has forward-facing eyes and an open mouth showing teeth.

this was the drawing prompt I didn't know I needed 😂

With how popular both labubu and blahaj are in Chinese-speaking countries, it wouldn't surprise me if an unofficial combo critter already exists!

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Yes! Concord yard was my favorite

It reminds me of the 1990s dotcom bubble 🫠

We often think of the birds eye view from the sky, the birds eye view from the ground can be just as beautiful

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Good thread on a California labor victory: winning a 30% raise over five years for adjunct professors at private colleges, who are notoriously underpaid and often have to work additional jobs to make enough money to live.

And eventually...
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A blahaj riding a bus

A blahaj holding a strap on BART

Soon...

And finally, there's a sewing machine big enough to make clothes for the dragon!

I've always wondered what's behind those little square windows just under the roof of Victorian houses in San Francisco, from now on I'll think, "giant capybara plushies"

Agree, though that type of voter is probably already voting - we need more of them, it would help to get more people to take that view

Mobilizing progressive, immigrant, & renter voters will be how Democrats win back Congress and the White House.

The current president won by turning out a lot of infrequent conservative voters in addition to the Republicans that vote all the time.

We got to do the same on our side.

The details of this strategy will vary from city to city, but the Zohran coalition would probably work well in the Bay Area also, like New York City, we have a lot of progressives, Muslims and South Asians (far more in the Bay vs NYC), and renters.

Changing the party's voter base makes sense - if you're an outsider candidate challenging the establishment, you win by getting people who feel they've also been left out to actually vote.

Excellent thread on how Zohran won, first by turning out new voters:
- Neighborhoods that vote progressive
- Voters that share candidate's background (Muslim, South Asian)
- Large apartment complexes

And then contesting the rest of the city also, winning many new voters (immigrants, young voters)

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This is a major reason why we are facing the Silver Tsunami in my city without any stair-free new homes built after early 1970s

Great article. Conference realignment happened at just the right time, creating nationwide conferences out of what had previously been regional.

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Data Source ACS 5-year (IPUMS data) Chart Type Bar Chart Year 2023 Select disaggregation type Total Population Select disaggregation group Total Population Multigenerational households in the United states One generation / two / three Asian Alone or in Combo / 28/58/13 NHPI alone or in combo 22/61/16 Asian Indian 25/62/13 Chinese 37/50/13 Filipino 29/53/18 Japanese 49/45/6 Korean 40/54/6 Vietnamese 25/57/17

There's a lot of housing related data in the new AAPI Data portal. Here's one useful chart for housing policy - while multigenerational households are often associated with Asian Americans, significant numbers live on their own or with others of the same generation, and 3-gen households are rare.

AANHPI Community Data Explorer AANHPI Community Data Explorer compiles demographic insights on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.

Learn more about the details of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities - @aapidata.bsky.social has just added new features to their data portal, including statistics on jobs and other disaggregated data!
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Executive Board - California Democratic Party 2025 Virtual Executive Board MeetingWeek of August 18-23, 2025 Credentialing/Registration for Executive Board Attendees – Closes August 12 @ 5PM Fully registered EBoard attendees will click the EBoard...

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We'll be hearing from candidates and also taking positions on legislation and resolutions. cadem.org/executive-bo...

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