Amy Z. Chan

First Colbert, now Kimmel.

Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval.

Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

ALA response to White House assault on IMLS To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities.  As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.

Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

The fact that men cry is considered a feature, not a bug of romance Kdramas. Just go to any kdrama fan board and you’ll see tons of postings of fans asking for recs where men cry and show emotion.

Mazie Hirono brings out a copy of Project 2025 on the Senate floor: Trump and Vought will gut programs like nutrition assistance, education funding, and Medicare and Medicaid. This is Project 2025, which Russell Vought helped mastermind

This book sounds so cool!

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Torn between adulting and binging new episodes of #singlesinferno

Gofundme should not be our national safety net

Ahh I love Kino and Pentagon! Thanks so much for this interview!#pentagonuniverse

hiya agent-sis! Congrats!

How to figure out if you are talking to a bot on socials 😆

Take Episode 1 of Project 7 for instance: I kept thinking of the latter part of the episode because when members of BAE173 appeared, the producer/judge had tears. He had judged them on a previous show and expected them to do better. But BAE173 is still struggling and now on their sequel show. 2/2

I just started watching Project7 and I'm beginning to think that Kpop reality shows are their own genre unto themselves, with recurring tropes, characters, themes and Easter Eggs. Not only that but so many of the same judges and contestants appear on multiple shows. #kpop 1/2

The Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic was a liberal democratic republic founded in Germany in the aftermath of WWI. Learn about the era’s political and economic crises and social trends.

For more reading on how a dictator took advantage of democracy to take power, this article from the US Holocause Museum has a good summary. 21/ 21 encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a....

you should know that this wasn’t just the prologue
It was also the how it all went down
The dying days of the Weimar Republic
And the beginnings of Hitler’s rise to power. 20/21

you know how this story ends
Or at least,
you should have been told
maybe you don’t remember 19/21

So he did, creating detention areas (listen, he said they were humane ones of course, everyone knows democracies don’t just kill people); for the enemies of the nation, insider betrayers and outsiders alike (they were asking for equality after all). 18/21

In these extraodinary times of extraordinary crimes, it was time to take extraordinary measures.
After expelling the enemy from the sacred halls of the assembly, the legislature voted, with the will of the people, to give this curiously charismatic man, the power to punish.
17/21

Extraordinary crimes demand extraordinary punishment.
Extraordinary punishment demanded extraordinary powers.
Powers that would not be restrained by judges nor bureaucrats.
(Temporarily of course, just until the evildoers were rounded up. This was a democracy after all). 16/21

Inside the government, where the villains thought they could mask their vile intentions behind paper and confusing bureacracy that only they puported to understand.
Those betrayers were not prepared for the lengths that justice was willing to go. 15/21

This attack that had come, could not be condoned.
But this attack had been so extraordinary, that it was clear that the planning had to have come from the inside. 14/21

Justice rewarded the righteous. Never had it been so clear what the people wanted (yay democracy!), a great nation where crimes would be punished, morality with law and order restored. 13/21

(Ahh you say you know where I’m going don’t you? Well don’t spoil it for everyone else!)

But the people were strong, and would not be stopped. 12/21

Until one day, enemy attacked; an invasion/explosion/destruction/murder/death in hallowed halls.
It was an extraordinary crime, without precedent, without prohibition.

Clearly, nothing was sacred to the enemy.

Because this extraordinary crime came just days before an election. 11/21

Gradually, more and more people flocked to his side, election after election.

The enemy hated him, they were jealous, and they tried to attack him again and again, but good people saw the truth; the enemy just wanted to tear him down. 10/21

The enemy was why we were weak, why we were failing.
The enemy had to be stopped
(but within the rule of law, we are a democracy after all).

The people loved this curious man, and his willingness to break social norms (in the right way, targeting the ones who deserved it). 9/21

Sure, they cloaked themselves in talk of “democratic processes” and “rule of law,” but really they were not to be trusted; they were the enemy. The enemy that wanted to shove their immoral ways (like all the gays!) down the throats of hardworking people. 8/21

The non-believers; they were worse than outsiders because though they were our sons and daughters “just like us,” they had betrayed the ideals that good people like you and I hold. 7/21

Outsiders of course, the ones who didn’t belong. Immigrants and other lazy leeches sucking the life from our society.
But it wasn’t just outsiders.
The problem was also within. 6/21

It was about becoming a part of his righteous community. A community that clarified that things weren’t as complicated as what the so-called “Experts” (who were probably all socialists anyway) said. Common sense said we were already great, so who was to blame for our ungreatness? 5/21