I’ve often wondered what it was like to live under McCarthyism. Now I know. But today the power of suppression is wielded by billionaire$. Read: artforum editor #DavidVelasco fired, artists cancelled, after open letter calling for ceasefire. theintercept.com/2023/10/26/art…

This toolkit would also be really helpful for academics writing solidarity statements.

My uncles Tsuneo and Ted served in U.S. military intelligence. Even tho Grandpa was unjustly incarcerated he translated for the U.S. Army from behind barbed wire. They fought against our family homeland, Japan, because of its violent colonial occupation in Asia & the Pacific.

"Memory remains though..." My grandma always talked about her deep shame in Japan's colonial brutality. She was a Japanese immigrant, a picture bride raised during Japan's rise as an imperial power. But she knew right from wrong, truth from lies. And she never forgot.

All that time, research, theorizing and raising alarms to expose the hypocrisy, corruption and outsize influence of the billionaire oligarchy... And all we really had to do is let them tweet.

A year and a day ago a gunman shot up the Star Ballroom in Monterey Park. LA Times reporters who truly know SGV made a huge difference to the community. Some of those reporters have been laid off and it feels like we've lost part of the heart and soul of this city.

Trump's lawyers managing to make us love the #DAWillis family. And give showrunners ideas for a primetime series. Tough-as-nails daughter and the home-spun father. Two generations of lawyering, both landing highly effective blows on the stand. bit.ly/3SEgGgZ

Dear Florida, if you're counting on the federal weather services and NOAA hurricane data it's a good day to remember that #Project2025IsTrumpAndVance wants to get rid of it. bit.ly/3zvyhlH

Years from now we'll watch Ta-Nehisi Coates' elegant take down of Tony Dokoupil's hostile and biased CBS Mornings interview... ...much like watching the Cavett Show clips of James Baldwin scorching the oafish Prof Paul Weiss on racism in America.