Mike Jung

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OH FFS, do I have to
Okay fine, FINE, I'm a children's writer and artistttnnnggghhhh that still feels so weird to say, I'm also Korean American and autistic and a messy emotional glob who constantly gets sentimental on main, you've been warned

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Fatalism is helpful for fascists. Let's not help them

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Reforming this court is imperative. Ethics rules and term limits alone cannot fully restore balance and independence to #SCOTUS. But today’s announcement is a watershed moment in the fight to take back the court. Our stmt from @liptonlubet.bsky.social:

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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So, it seems I'm a Little, Brown author now. It's not my first time having a book abruptly move from one imprint to another, but last time it was my choice. It's, uh, more unsettling this way

*sniff* I love my agent, she's the best

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To everyone asking me “how do you know Stewart insisted and it wasn’t the director’s idea" Here, I looked it up for you. This is from the 1997 Baltimore Sun review of the show and the Hollywood Reporter interview with Stewart in 2017

Oh my fucking god, while researching racebending I learned that Sir Patrick Stewart insisted on playing Othello in 1997 and did so with along with a full Black cast. What the actual fuck.

Othello 97-98 - STC_quixote2shakespearetheatre.org

Yesterday I was passed on the street by a a young dude riding a bike spray-painted sparkly gold, wearing a backpack with a boombox sticking out of it (both also sparkly gold), and gleefully singing along to Terence Trent D'Arby, and now all I want to do is listen to Terence Trent D'Arby

Not even a little bit surprising. It's been obvious for years that the tech industry is full of right-wing hatemongers

News that should shock no one: After assassination attempt, Elon Musk claims he'll donate $45 million a month to super PAC that backs Trump; Bill Ackman officially endorses; other Silicon Valley players and venture capitalists decree the "taboo" of supporting MAGA movement is gone.

More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

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The US Publishing industry needs to reckon with the number of white supremacists it has platformed entirely by allowing certain people to pre-purchase a spot on the bestseller list. Publishers will publicly deny culpability for what they print/promote while pursuing proximity to power at any cost.

Major League Baseball synonym: The Show Publishing industry synonym: The Shit Show

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Really struggling to understand why both the mainstream media and Democratic leadership are finding it so hard right now to express what I think is a fairly basic point. Political violence is bad and a second Trump presidency means more of it. www.garbageday.email/p/yet-anothe...

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Do not obey in advance.

One of the small but real pleasures in life is when Tadej Pogačar is wearing the yellow jersey at the Tour de France and Cycling News insists on describing him as "the banana-suited Slovenian" #tourdefrance2024

It's possible, INFINITESMALLY POSSIBLE, that I have bitten off a tiny bit more than I can chew, which is less than ideal because that just makes it harder to chew #chewing

I'm writing a new character who's very loosely based on a friend and it's INCREDIBLY FUN, YAY #TheKidsInMrsZsClass

I'm writing, damn it, people should applaud #AmWriting

Tadej Pogačar kicking everyone to the curb while winning the queen stage by over a minute is a fantastic antidote to some of the other news of the day #TourdeFrance

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Does nobody in the world remember that a Gabby Giffords, a sitting American member of congress, was shot in the head just over a decade ago? And that Steve Scalise was shot in 2017? I get that we're all scared but calling this unprecedented is just irresponsible and wrong.

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Project 2025 calls for defunding the FBI. (Note that Heritage called the FBI to start an investigation of the hacking incident the other day. Yes they called the agency they plan to shutter if Trump wins 🤷🏼‍♂️)

from now until Election Day, we connect every story back to Project 2025 Eg: The FBI is currently investigating the Trump shooter. But did you know that Project 2025 will place the FBI under Trump’s direct control, so he can decide which acts of political violence get investigated, and which don’t?

My Uber is here

my Uber is here

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Panic is not useful. There is space here for either a lowering of the temperature or a rhetorical trap for Republicans, but if everyone defaults to depression then there’s no room to imagine how to get closer to our goals.

“We would love Mr. Trump to join us in condemning political violence once and for all after the terrible incident on Saturday. This is a moment for him to help us unite the American people behind our true principle: We always solve problems through ballots, not bullets.”

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BBC just said that the Trump Rally shooter was using a Second Amendment protected AR-style rifle, just like Kyle Rittenhouse

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There is absolutely no reason to believe that undecided voters would swing towards Trump because of this. No electoral theory at all would imply that.

Anyone who didn't grow up eating Japanese sweet potatoes should run to the nearest supermarket, buy a sack of them, bake one, and eat it right this very second #PotatoSky

Potatoes. Let’s talk potatoes. We roasted some and there’s a garlic dill sauce.

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It’s definitely a pattern, and one everyone on this app needs to think long and hard about before it’s too late.

Wait, the same people who bullied Tressie off of this site have now set their sights on Jamelle Bouie?? As ever, they are so much closer to MAGA than they realize.

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People should be reading that People magazine article about Trump's Project 2025 slowly, out loud, and at the dinner table.

People magazine, of all places, superbly breaks down Project 2025 tinyurl.com/mshn5eps

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationtinyurl.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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Honest to God: this is an accessible, reasonably thorough overview you can share with your mom that also does a solid job shooting down the campaign’s attempts to distance themselves from the plan

PEOPLE Magazine! What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Education people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

Screenshot of the obscenely homophobic and transphobic language in the Project 2025 policy document "Mandate for Leadership" (shown as p.5 at the bottom, but is the 38th page in the full PDF file)