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Door sign showing the Virgin of Guadalupe and “Este hogar no le abre la puerta a ICE”

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?

therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

No Kings and Free Palestine

A container of veggie juk and a container of beef jeon.

Made it to my husband’s hometown for our second wedding ceremony this weekend! I’m feeling a little under the weather, so my mother-in-law made some juk and jeon for me. 🥹💕

REVOLUTION BEGINS WITH CHANGES IN THE INDIVIDUAL

Finally on the train home and uhhhh what an insane long weekend to celebrate my wedding anniversary amidst Everything happening.

Congress passed a bipartisan law long ago mandating that a plaque honoring the officers who defended Capitol on J6 be displayed in the building. Mike Johnson has ignored that law and refuses to do it.

Reeling from the fact that he not only said this OUT LOUD but also while standing next to an FBI director whose parents were “from another country.” Hello???

I couldn’t find a photo that was high-quality and included all the details. Apologies. 🥲

A photo of a large vertical poster depicting an ICE agent wearing Trump mask. The agent has a rifle slung across their chest, chains hanging over their shoulder, and is holding a bag full of money embossed with an American flag and the words “I <3 Korea.” Text at the top of the poster reads “We’re friends! Aren’t we?”

I can’t stop thinking about this poster a protester brought to Incheon Airport for the arrival of the Hyundai workers.

UC-Berkeley giving Judth Butler's name to the Trump administration? How.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................performative

The evil that men do lives after them

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

Turned on the news for a few minutes to practice Korean and saw that video of Trump cheating at golf. Lol.

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":

「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」

-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem

Dewey from Malcolm in the middle saying: The future is now, old man

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York

I’m obsessed with this entire clip.

cuomo conceding overlayed with the drewjanda tweet: "The haters said I couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"

Lord, I've seen what you've done for other cities

He has such a talent for connecting with people on their level and making them feel seen. I feel like he’ll go far in his political career.

Unapologetically libbing this morning out because Zohran won the primary!!!!!

As he wrapped up his speech, Brad Lander again congratulated Mamdani, whom he cross-endorsed. And Lander, who is Jewish, declared, “We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New Yorkers.”

I am weeping

I’ve been enjoying spending time with my husband, cooking new dishes, and setting up our apartment so much that I haven’t had time to be online regularly. Whoops. 🤭

I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty.

My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

Friday's NY Post cover doesn't disappoint: