Mina Li (she/her)

Nao-san enjoys matcha beneath her own blooming ume tree.

A maiko greets guests for the plum blossom celebrations at Kitano Tenmangu.

A plump black cat snoozes at Umenomiya Taisha.

Beautiful weeping ume tree at Jonan-gu.

🔍👀IN SEARCH OF BLOSSOMS🗺️🌸

Plum blossoms (梅 'ume'/aka the 'Japanese apricot') herald springtime in Japan, arriving a few weeks before the first cherry blossoms (桜)🙌

Here is a handy thread about some of the best places to catch ume in Kyōto...

#Kyoto #京都 #梅 #plumblossoms #ume #梅の花 #Japan

A postcard art depicting a prancing horse of yellow peach and red color in a frame of stylized flowers and ornaments and saying in korean "receive a lot of happiness in the new year"

Happy New Lunar Year 🐴✨

YouTube video by PUPPET SUNSUN / パペットスンスン HOW TO SAY”WA”

youtu.be/bb5Sm-89iLs?...

I keep thinking about how a lot of folks in my gen and older have some aunts/uncles who died as infants or very small children, and how lucky we are to have these medical advances.

Yes.

Staph infections were fatal so often that we distinguished them by what part of the body they attacked first. "Childbed fever" is a term for a variety of post-birth complications that killed a lot of women. There are reasons wet nurses used to be so common. (And they're not all class-based.)

Asking you to treat fat people with respect is not opposing GLP-1s. I sincerely hope that you are never in a position to know what it’s like to live in a body considered less than, but realistically speaking you will, and I hope it makes you rethink the empathy you never needed to develop

You need to open your eyes to this. If your first instinct is to deny that what she says is accurate, you need to really sit with yourself, because this _is_ happening.

And we cannot let it.

I dealt with my three week old being hospitalized with an infection. The idea of being jailed and deported during that horrible experience, when you’re already terrified for your vulnerable baby…I feel like I can’t breathe when I think about it

also Ramadan Mubarak for those who celebrate!

a gray plate with Mardi Gras paczki (lemon cream) and some leftover nian gao

Happy Mardi New Year:

the fail in these photos is gobsmacking yet hilarious

After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.

To unnecessarily deport a sick baby and his entire family is heinous. My staff and I are in contact with Juan’s family.

Please read this thread!!!

And if you are concerned about ICE being deployed for voter intimidation, find a local voting rights org who is already doing the work.

Start with Vote Riders. States having weird/changing Voter ID laws is less flashy for scaring folks but it works real well.

The front of the incomplete book

An inside page

A damaged book

The back

Does any friends in Taipei know of a book restoration expert who can work with antique Chinese books 古籍? I am coming through in a few days and hoping to find someone to add a cover to this damaged book from 1912. It's been assessed already by experts who advised me on the work needed.

The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.

They won't only be for brown and Black people.

The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.

The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.

to any Dem candidates for US Congress/Senate: my support goes to those who promise harsh lasting consequences for this cruelty

no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness.

Castro says 2-month-old in Dilley ICE custody deported with mother after hospital visit UPDATE AT 9:10 AM - A two-month-old boy, who was in custody at Dilley Detention Center, was taken to the hospital Monday night.Sources say the child was treate

This is beyond infuriating and heartbreaking: news4sanantonio.com/news/local/c...

good morning!

oh God yes. I've lost count of the amount of near misses I've had because SOME ASSHOLE DRIVER WAS ON THEIR FUCKING PHONE.

It makes you hold back, it makes you write from a place of paranoia. And yes, the terror of bad reviews is real — but at the end of the day, you’ll never be able to cover all the bases.

Someone will always find *something* to be upset about.

If you want to write anything good, you cannot afford to be afraid of your reader.

one of the best kitchen devices from family

it will be interesting to see how this affects the TX primary in 2 weeks.

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clearly nobody learned from the suppressed 60 Minutes CECOT report and removing Kimmel from the air

mine is really simple: glutinous rice flour, Taiwanese brown sugar, and water. Dissolve sugar in the water over the stove, add to flour until you've got a relatively runny batter, and then steam in the Tatung. I need to remember to use at least 2 cups of water in the the outer pot, though.

👇🏾 they don't need to wait til they're in the White House to build the case for court reform. Hell, the case damn near makes itself every day; Dems just need to communicate that to the public and get the ground ready for immediate action

When I said months ago that I would never work for the Ellisons or their motley crew of editorial incompetents if they got control of CNN and that I would quit immediately, this is why.

Major corporations bankroll political ad featuring white supremacist slogan Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), who is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, released his first television ad earlier this month.

Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan

AP: Zero
NYT: Zero
WashPost: Zero
Reuters: Zero
Politico: Zero
Axios: Zero