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Tamiko Nimura

@tamikonimura.bsky.social

Writer, community journalist, public historian. Memoir A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE coming 4/26. Words in SF Chronicle, Zocalo Public Square, Smithsonian, Discover Nikkei, The Rumpus. 4ever English major. <3: @joshpar.bsky.social Rep: Transatlantic Agency

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Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

05.03.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2454    πŸ” 553    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 23
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Publishing Pros Band Together to Root Out Censorship Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans, a new resource-sharing community affiliated with Authors Against Book Bans and geared toward industry insiders, will host its first virtual town hall on Oct...

Thanks to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for featuring @pubprosabb.bsky.social β€” I hope you'll join us in the fight! πŸ“šβ€οΈβ€πŸ”₯

02.10.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"So much of the work of oppression is about policing the imagination."
- Saidiya Hartman

05.03.2026 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

04.03.2026 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3418    πŸ” 575    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 106

I had a daydream that Mackenzie Scott started a media company and opened 30 local newspapers in midsized cities and 10,000 people got jobs and it cost exactly the amount Bezos should have paid in taxes on purpose.

04.03.2026 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

04.03.2026 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9915    πŸ” 1944    πŸ’¬ 274    πŸ“Œ 201

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval β€” which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump

Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

03.03.2026 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2624    πŸ” 833    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 14
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12 upcoming books we're excited to read Winter is still here, and for some of us that means extra time for catching up on reading.

Thanks to The Spokesman-Review for including A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE (@uwapress.uw.edu) on their spring list of β€œUpcoming books we’re excited to read”! www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

02.03.2026 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another American War of Choice The US launched another war of choice in the Middle East and everyday people are paying the cost

This weekend drones and missiles were launched at my city.

This is another American war of choice.

buttondown.com/natebowling/...

01.03.2026 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Seattle, come celebrate the release of Adrian De Leon's new book, BALIKBAYAN: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland. Joined by Moon-Ho Jung, De Leon will discuss what it means to go back home when β€œhome” is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing.

πŸ“…Saturday, March 7 at 12 pm
πŸ“Mam's Books

26.02.2026 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much!

27.02.2026 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover of A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE and excerpt from the Publishers Weekly starred review.

Book cover of A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE and excerpt from the Publishers Weekly starred review.

Grateful for a starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE!

26.02.2026 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump administration tries to deprive poor Minnesotans of health care because brave Minnesotans stood up to them.

26.02.2026 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2121    πŸ” 511    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 20

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

26.02.2026 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 10823    πŸ” 5236    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 338

Thank you!

25.02.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of taiko performers next to a sign that reads "Not OK in 1942, not OK now"

Photo of taiko performers next to a sign that reads "Not OK in 1942, not OK now"

Photo of a Japanese American elder speaking into a microphone

Photo of a Japanese American elder speaking into a microphone

Another DOR event at the NW ICE Processing Center today. Big turnout despite freezing rain.

22.02.2026 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The absolute refusal to connect American history to American current events is one of the weirdest expressions of modern racism.

21.02.2026 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2089    πŸ” 602    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 15
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Tamiko Nimura reflects on her family’s history of incarceration in the U.S. during WWII The incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II forever altered life for Japanese Americans and their families.

Thanks to the NW Asian Weekly for this conversation: nwasianweekly.com/2026/02/tami...

19.02.2026 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Message for today's commemoration of Day of Remembrance from our compas at Tsuru for Solidarity network

19.02.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Libraries Are for Everyone: Invest in Libraries New York City's public libraries offer vital support to all, regardless of background, income, birthplace, or beliefs.

This funding increase to 0.5% is a core demand of NYC PLAN - one which has been amplified by our library systems to help ensure that every branch has the staffing and resources to provide robust services to their communities.

Help us get NYC libraries the raise they deserve

investinlibraries.org

18.02.2026 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Yes, can we please change the clichΓ©d language we use to describe books and authors?

18.02.2026 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

The denial of tenure was never about scholarship. It was a retaliatory move from @texastechlib.bsky.social to send a chilling message: dissent that threatens institutional power will be punished. Shame on Ron Hendrick, Brendon Creighton, Lawrence Schovanec turned tenure into a political tool!

17.02.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

solidarity with Jairo and all colleagues who use their voice to challenge colonial logics and legacies in the very universities that we work and teach in. Jairo's case reminds us that job offers and tenure decisions are not objective assessments but political decisions.

17.02.2026 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's at over a million in the 2 hours since I skeeted this.

17.02.2026 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 184    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

CBS again bent the knee to Trump and blocked Stephen Colbert from hosting Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico.

17.02.2026 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1917    πŸ” 509    πŸ’¬ 163    πŸ“Œ 37

*rushes to read*

10.02.2026 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today at 5PM, community members will gather to express our outrage at the Trump National Parks Department's erasure of OUR history and OUR flag from OUR park!

10.02.2026 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 128    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wear a mask! Ideally a well fitted respirator like an N95.

Covid is not over. The government pushed a β€œback to normal” agenda for the economy, not because it was safe.

They told us β€œonly the vulnerable” needed to worry, but covid is a multi system vascular virus that is dangerous to everyone.

10.02.2026 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 492    πŸ” 243    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 2
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Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News

They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn.

Erasure. Just like the Nazis.

gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...

10.02.2026 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3164    πŸ” 1464    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 126
Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.

Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.

What a moment.

09.02.2026 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 8584    πŸ” 1810    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 96