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Renee Tajima-Peña

@rtajimapena.bsky.social

Filmmaker PBS Asian Americans, Who Killed Vincent Chin?, May 19th Project, No Más Bebés, Calavera Highway & more Professor at UCLA

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Zohran with his hand on his chest leaning into the passenger side window of a taxi, talking with the driver.

Zohran with his hand on his chest leaning into the passenger side window of a taxi, talking with the driver.

Zohran extending his hand to shake hands with a taxi driver through the window.

Zohran extending his hand to shake hands with a taxi driver through the window.

An airport worker showing Zohran something on his phone, both are smiling.

An airport worker showing Zohran something on his phone, both are smiling.

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.

So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

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🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

29.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 32588    🔁 14551    💬 1329    📌 1053
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Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives.

All on the taxpayer’s dime.
trib.al/TBvPo7A

29.10.2025 22:16 — 👍 2818    🔁 1380    💬 210    📌 269
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Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

28.10.2025 02:33 — 👍 17829    🔁 10050    💬 637    📌 568

What does it say about a society when this level of state brutality is forgotten and normalized

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Priorities.

24.10.2025 11:57 — 👍 12769    🔁 6214    💬 416    📌 245

In LA ICE focused on terrorizing and ruining the economies of lower income and immigrant neighborhoods. But like other cities all diverse people came out to join rapid response, buyout vendors so they could stay at home, making all kinds of good trouble.

24.10.2025 23:41 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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That's great!

Here's the link to Senator Merkley's YouTube channel and the live feed happening now:
www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

22.10.2025 01:43 — 👍 4348    🔁 1566    💬 134    📌 62

It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets

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In a year of fires and ICE - LA still has joy and each other

19.10.2025 03:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tagging the press. Sometimes they miss a few million 👀 @nbcnews @abcnews @cbsnews @cnn @cnnpolitics @newshour @nytimes @wsj @washingtonpost @apnews @latimes @dallasnews @houstonchron @chicagotribune @sltrib @bostonglobe @miamiherald @ajcnews @newsweek @time @people

19.10.2025 01:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Poster with Elvis face that says No King but the King

Poster with Elvis face that says No King but the King

How you know you’re at a No Kings rally in Mississippi

18.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 1583    🔁 242    💬 18    📌 10
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Tag the press if u post images of the millions who marched. Sometimes they need help 👀
@nbcnews @abcnews @cbsnews @cnn @cnnpolitics @newshour @nytimes @wsj @washingtonpost @apnews @latimes @dallasnews @houstonchron @chicagotribune @sltrib @bostonglobe @miamiherald @ajcnews @newsweek @time @people

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Shows downtown St. Louis, Missouri "Old Courthouse" with Arch behind it. #NoKings protesters in the foreground.

Shows downtown St. Louis, Missouri "Old Courthouse" with Arch behind it. #NoKings protesters in the foreground.

One of my better shots today (downtown St. Louis, Missouri).
#NoKings

18.10.2025 21:46 — 👍 1355    🔁 222    💬 16    📌 8
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#GVerse #NoKings #USNavy #Hooyah 🇺🇸⚓
This is Antifa!

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About 300 attended a No Kings rally in Fremont, Nebraska.

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Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

17.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 2099    🔁 1408    💬 27    📌 49
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

“Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.“

16.10.2025 21:49 — 👍 1106    🔁 629    💬 54    📌 24
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Thinking 🤔 about the meaning of life…..

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One struggle many fronts

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Anyone saying they’re not racially profiling is unserious

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They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up. Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

13.10.2025 01:20 — 👍 3771    🔁 1409    💬 35    📌 60
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I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

09.10.2025 19:26 — 👍 22061    🔁 8684    💬 1293    📌 446
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Spot on.

04.10.2025 12:08 — 👍 23628    🔁 10780    💬 724    📌 489
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THEY CALL US BRUCE, the podcast @angryasianman.bsky.social
and I have hosted since 2017, is celebrating our 300th—and what better way than a LIVE convo with longtime pal Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social on his fantastic new book WATER MIRROR ECHO, about our shared inspiration—the great Bruce Lee!

04.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2
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The takeaway: Why bother flying them in when he could just call them all on Signal? 🤣📲 #PeteHegseth #SignalGate

03.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Of course there's no shortage of suppressed speech in this country, but one particular form that I learned about from @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social was just how much abolitionist speech was kept from poor white people in the antebellum South. In many ways they lived under a police state.

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