Gary Chun

Gary Chun

@garychun.bsky.social

Retired journalist. Home in the islands, in the middle of the sea. You fascinate me. Avatar portrait by R. Kikuo Johnson.

3,364 Followers 1,171 Following 2,919 Posts Joined Jul 2023
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The best Best Picture winners Out of the more than a 100 Best Picture nominees since Herbert Hoover promised a chicken for every pot, only twenty-one I’ll deem good to great. Here they are in order of which I would watch …

I found 21 worthwhile Best Picture winners. Here they are (and How Green Was My Valley among them). humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/t...

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The Heritage Foundation's New Policy Guidebook Wants to Push Women Out of Public Life Heritage Foundation ties declining birthrates to women’s independence, proposes policies to steer them back toward early marriage and motherhood.

The conservative blueprint ties declining birthrates to women’s independence, and proposes policies to steer them back toward early marriage and motherhood.

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a scene from today’s dust storm in Gaza City. the visibility is poor from the thick orange cloud of dust. a few cars are on a wet dirt road lined with tents and lots of people milling about, a building silhouette in the distance the view from the exposed opening after the storm destroyed Samaa’s apartment wall, looking out onto a collapsed building and rows of tents in the distance upper floor view of the ruins of gaza city, everything has an orange hue from the dust storm Post image

A powerful storm hit Gaza tonight… the strong winds broke the wooden walls of the place where we live. We no longer have a safe shelter to protect us.

I only need $200 to repair the walls and protect my girls from the cold and the wind.

- Sama’a 🤍
@mommunism.bsky.social

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President Zelensky says Ukrainian intelligence shows Russia is helping Iran target U.S. assets in the Middle East. #cdnpoli

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For the first time in 10 years, the University of Hawaii at Manoa Men’s basketball team has won the Big West Championship.

Our Cienna Pilotin has the full story ➡ https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/03/15/bows-mens-basketball-wins-big-west-heads-march-madness/ 

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GOING DANCING! Rainbow Warriors Capture Big West Basketball Title - University of Hawai'i at Manoa Athletics HENDERSON, Nev.   – The University of Hawai'i men's basketball team captured the program's first conference crown in a decade with a 71-64 victory over top-seeded

It took a decade, but the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors return to the NCAA tournament! hawaiiathletics.com/news/2026/3/...

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Sama’a stands with her two daughters in front of the market on a dirt road. Sam is wearing a black hijab, a white sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, black pants, and is holding baby Talia in her arms who is swaddled in a white blanket, and wearing a headband at her hip is three year-old Julia, who is wearing a blue and green plaid dress with a white collar and white shoes with big gold flowers on them. Her dark hair is pulled back into two pigtails. Julia and baby Talia lying next to each other inside of a tent. Julia is wearing a beige t shirt, and she is turned over looking at her sister with love. Talia is wearing a lavender sweater and covered in a white muslin cloth with purple flowers. Baha’a and his three year old daughter Julia pictured in a tent. He is has light brown skin, dark hair and a mustache and beard, wearing an all black puma tracksuit. He kneeling on a mattress pad and Julia sits on his knee, wearing a matching pink sweatsuit, her dark hair in pigtails. Baby Talia, five months old, sleeping on her back in a black wrought iron bassinet with a white cushion. She is wearing a brown sweater, has curly dark hair, and her tiny hands are balled into fists.

Children fall asleep to the sound of bombs, empty tables fill homes destroyed by war and siege.

We are not numbers — we are real families trying to survive.
If you can help, even a small donation makes a real difference for my children.

- Sama’a 🤍
@mommunism.bsky.social

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Using ICE detention as an anti-abortion tactic YouTube video by Reproductive Freedom for All

Texas Public Radio reveals that the Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls — some as young as 13, many survivors of sexual assault — to a single detention facility in San Benito, Texas, already flagged as medically inadequate. Why? https://youtube.com/shorts/XhhyF8nQ-C0

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“Now it’s probably the case that Trump stumbled into the term ‘excursion.‘ It surely wasn’t the word that Trump was meant to use. As part of their effort to avoid the word “war,” his aides must have advised Trump to call it an ‘incursion.’”

This has been reported elsewhere—EXcursion was INcursion.

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NIH Funds Still Not Getting to Researchers Congress approved a budget more than a month ago, but awards are lagging

NIH Funds Still Not Getting to Researchers www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

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Thousands queue as doors open at revamped Wellington Library after seven years Two central Wellington landmarks have drawn significant crowds after years-long closures.

Thousands queue as doors open at revamped Wellington Library after seven years www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... #Libraries #Hauora #Kikorangi

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"Like and subscribe for bonus content" but as a presidency

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The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.

The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, miss.

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Thread. cc: @violetblue.bsky.social

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The Detroit News reported, citing two anonymous sources, that the shooter had relatives killed days earlier in an Israeli strike in Lebanon.
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CNN at the site of an Israeli strike in Lebanon that killed 9 people, including 5 children:

"We're told it was a yogurt factory by the neighbors here."

"The children's bodies, we're told, are in pieces and are going to take a while to identify the DNA so that they can actually do a burial."

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This is as sick and twisted as it gets: Profiting off the deaths of America's military service members, in a fundraising email, Trump raked in cash off a photo from the dignified transfer. 😡😡😡

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A woman in a light purple wig sits in passenger seat of zamboni, holding a banner which states "no ICE, no more, no kings, no fear" in same font and colors as Minnesota Frost team iconography.

Absolute Queen behavior from the Zamboni Rider today at the Minnesota Frost game.
No ICE
No War
No Kings

No Fear.

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I dunno… maybe if you’ve directly contributed to the deaths of thousands you should fear for your own life?

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Alumni: Tell University Presidents to Reject ICE Agreements As Americans reel from the shocking news out of Minneapolis, college and university presidents are deciding whether and how their institutions will collaborate with ICE. For alumni, it is a stark remi...

Tell university and college presidents to reject ICE cooperation agreements and defend campus freedom. In this crucial moment, university leaders must make clear that their institutions will not serve as extensions of federal immigration enforcement.

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Sorry to hear that. Wishing you healing relaxation and rest.

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Dropkick Murphys - Citizen I.C.E. (feat. Haywire) (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Dropkick Murphys

@dropkickmurphys.com (feat. Haywire 617):

"They've poorly trained an army for our kids to fear today

Take your masks and weapons and then be on your way

They're knee-deep in Proud Boys, the party never stops

Too scared to join the military, too dumb to be a cop"

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Donald Trump is notorious for filing lawsuits at the drop of a hat. He's filed over 4,000 of them. Many for defamation.

But Donald *will not* sue Ted Lieu for defamation. Why? He's been told by lawyers that in defamation actions, truth is an absolute defense.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Center’s President Leaving After Tumultuous Year

A catastrophically boorish sycophant who used his short tenure to destroy a great institution. Good riddance to Ric Grenell and may this mark the second-to-last time we ever hear his name. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

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IT'S DOROTHY! Movie Review | The Wizard of Oz | Documentary | Peacock YouTube video by Breakfast All Day movie reviews

Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social aren’t in Kansas anymore as they discuss It’s Dorothy!, dropping today on Peacock #filmsky 📽

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Trump: "You're gonna see a big decrease in the price of gasoline, gas, anything having to do with energy as soon as this is ended"

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You mean, “when the pointless war that hikes prices to ridiculous levels is over, the prices will go back to where they were?” Masterful strategy, Maestro!

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Congratulations to Richard Grenell for stepping down from the Kennedy Center after a year marked by a mass staff exodus, artists refusing to perform, and ticket sales so low they’re practically underground. Fascism thanks you for your service to the destruction of the arts

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