Melissa Hung

The dress that stood up to ICE. When ICE showed up on Canal Street, one woman in a polka dot dress didn’t flinch. She spoke her mind and stood her ground. She didn’t plan to go viral. She planned to resist.Now, she’s turning that mo...

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A navy polka dot dress shift dress with gray short sleeves displayed on a wire hanger.

A woman wearing a knee-length navy polka dot dress and blazer with a leather bag on her shoulder, standing in the street in front of an armored police vehicle giving it two middle fingers.

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

A hand holding up a “Brooklyn voted early” circular sticker with an illustration of the Brooklyn bridge. In the background are signs for NYC Votes in different languages .

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!

DR. SHOSHANA UNGERLEIDER BEFORE WE GO 8H AGO - S2, E6 - 40 MIN - E Mark Cuban and Dr. Fumiko Chino Try to F-Up Healthcare Before We Go A PODCAST NYTION ORIGINAL • Play Today's episode features two people who are shaking up the U.S. Mark Cuban, best known as one of the "sharks" on Shark Tank, is healthcare system in very different but deeply humane ways. Dr. tackling the same problem from another angle. Through his Cost Plus Fumiko Chino knows firsthand how devastating medical debt can be. Drug Company, he's disrupting the industry with a transparent, After losing her husband to cancer and being left with overwhelming direct-to-consumer model that's already changing - and saving - bills, she went to medical school to become a radiation oncologist lives. and made it her mission to make care more affordable.

🎙️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.

He Was Convicted Entirely On Clashing Eyewitness Testimony. Alabama Plans to Execute Him Next Week. - Bolts No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.

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

View from above of some dishes on a table, including a scallion waffle, a bowl of spicy cucumbers, and shrimp toast. There is also a pink drink.

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."

Vandals deface ads for AI necklaces that listen to all your conversations Critics attacked subway ads to defend human friends and broadly criticize AI.

Pretty much every station I've been in, someone has vandalized these ads.

An ad in a subway station for a round pendant necklace called “Friend.” Someone has used a black sharpie to x it out and write “dangerous & wrong” and add the words “not your” in front of “friend.com”

An ad in a subway station for a round pendant necklace called “Friend.” Someone has used a black sharpie to scribble over the text in the ad and write “AI slop” above the image of the necklace

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.

Melissa Hung

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/

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

"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.

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

“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.”

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

“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.

House panel pushes Trump administration on combating human trafficking Committee’s action comes after Guardian investigation revealed rollbacks of anti-trafficking efforts; Trump administration says it is committed to fighting trafficking

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...

Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation Experts say decades of progress are under threat; Trump officials say administration remains committed to fighting trafficking and sex abuse

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.

It’s soooo good