Shirley Huey

Am I the anti Mindy Kaling? Just followed a link excitedly to a food history story only to get to an LATimes recipe. No! I want the story, dammit!

Grateful for small things: mom is well enough to enjoy ice cream and watch the NBA playoffs tonight…

Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights

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YouTube video by AJ+ The Untold Story Of America's Southern Chinese [Chinese Food: An All-American Cuisine, Pt. 2] | AJ+

For those who have seen the phenomenal Ryan Coogler film #SINNERS and are interested in the history of Chinese immigrants and families in the Mississippi Delta, from #AJ+
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Thinking about the woman who I met on BART a wk after mom first went into the hospital in Feb. She was so kind to an utter stranger, offering an ear and then giving me these flowers. Grateful to folks who show kindness to all in need. She said she worked in hospice… let good karma come back to her.

Here’s a preview of the coming clash with SCOTUS which has already confirmed noncitizens are entitled to due process. “Sudden deportation” violates the Constitution.

You MUST watch this exchange from today’s Tx House debate on anti-library HB3225.

“This is about your desire to make sure that children have access to sexually explicit materials,” says the bill’s author.

“Rep Alders, do you know what I have done for a living?” Says @voteannjohnson.bsky.social

No, definitely not. They were quite clear in their press conference that they were there to do a review of the premises, which is absolutely in their right to do. Also, I believe they said Mayor Baraka was arrested *after* he'd left the building.

From earlier this week, reporting on what led up to this arrest at @documentedny.bsky.social:

COVID-19 tests, other health supplies provided free at 51 kiosks across L.A. County. What you need to know Free public health supplies are being provided at 51 kiosks throughout Los Angeles County. The supplies include COVID-19 rapid tests, Naloxone, condoms and fentanyl test strips.

COVID-19 tests, other health supplies provided free at 51 kiosks across L.A. County. What you need to know

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I’ve entered an “every meal is comfort food” phase again. lunch today: coffee and a slice of apple pie. #sorrynotsorry

Sure is a good thing to be familiar with Muni, BART, AC Transit, and the ferry.

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Ok well, this alternative isn’t so bad…

Since when? I asked. Guys at the Embarcadero booth this morning said, “it just wouldn’t turn on this morning [the Transbay tube].” What?

WTAF- the BART is not running at all?!!!

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The dahlias are out

Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share!
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BREAKING—Fabian Schmidt, the German man with legal permanent residency who was detained for no apparent reason and violently interrogated at Boston’s Logan Airport in March, was RELEASED from prison yesterday and the case against him has been DISMISSED, a source familiar with the situation tells me.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

May 8, 2025, 6:37 PM EDT By Kimmy Yam and Laura Strickler A Filipino immigrant detained in Texas described being woken up at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday by armed guards in tactical gear, being told he was being sent to Libya, and then waiting for hours on a bus at a military base outside a military plane, his lawyer said. The flight never took off and he was sent back to solitary confinement in the Texas facility along with the other 12 detainees, mostly from Asian countries, the immigrant's lawyer, Johnny Sinodis, told NBC News. The immigrant requested anonymity due to fear of retaliation. The immigrants, including people from the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Mexico, would later learn that their attorneys filed an emergency motion after reports that the Trump administration had planned to send a group of immigrants to Libya.

NEW: @nbcnews.com confirmed last night that the Trump admin almost sent a dozen men from Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Mexico to Libya, a country described as a “hellscape” for migrants where some have been SOLD INTO SLAVERY and many have been subjected to extraordinary horrors.

Ten Poems about Weeds A weed is just a plant in the wrong place – many gardeners will have said these words to themselves with a wry smile when contemplating an afternoon of pulling up nettles or digging out ground el...

I'm happy to share that I have a poem in this wee collection, available for purchase now:

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Following up on my last post, here’s my first podcast interview about my forthcoming memoir, A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE—and bringing a book so painfully relevant for current events to readers. Thanks, @movetotacoma.bsky.social. movetotacoma.com/podcasts/his...

Susan Kiyo Ito: Adoption, Birth Mothers, & Reproductive Justice Amanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker speak with Susan Kiyo Ito, author of I Would Meet You Anywhere, about adoption, the complexities of meeting one's birth mother, and reproductive freedom.

"when I actually met my birth mother, I knew I was like, this might be the only time I ever have with her. And so I went back to where I was staying and I just wrote every single detail that I could"

Give a listen to @thesusanito.bsky.social before our new episode comes out tomorrow!

image of a breeching whale, with a quote: “For all the differences in our material vessels, we are the same spirit-stuff, the spark of life, the blaze of consciousness. We have a duty to it, don’t we? How much more can we heal those world? How mich more beauty can we make? How much more gratitudd can we poir out into the sea of our existence, the roiling in and out tidal cycles of our lives?” quote from the novel DOWN IN THE SEA OF ANGELS by Khan Wong at bottom: cover art for Down in the Sea of Angels, logos for Dreamscape, Angry Robot, and url for khanwong.com

I made a series of graphics to promote Down in the Sea of Angels on Instagram. This is my favorite one. I hope you buy the book (anywhere books are sold) or get it from your library 💚🍵

#sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky 🌈🚀💫

For tonight’s #everynightapoem, one of the Angel Island wall inscriptions.

All we know of its author - aside from surmising that he was Cantonese, male, and working-class - are through his words. Grateful to librarians, park rangers, and all who work to preserve our shared past.

Between 1910-1940, some 175,000 mostly Chinese arrivals were detained on Angel Island. In 1970, when the detention center’s buildings were due to be torn down, a park ranger noticed that the walls were inscribed with layers upon layers of poetry. Some 200 poems survive.
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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.