A. J. Lee
@byajlee.myatproto.social
Korean American, near Chicago
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November 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
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Hopefully people can remember that this is all especially hard for sexual assault survivors
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Hopefully people can remember that this is all especially hard for sexual assault survivors
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Stop lying to people.
A letter from the Teen Vogue team regarding the recent changes at our publication.
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Stop lying to people.
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Don’t cross the line buds! Solidarity with the workers!
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Don’t cross the line buds! Solidarity with the workers!
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This is a story of a massive Trump cover up but it’s also a story about total elite impunity, how the wealthy and powerful operate with a set of rules totally unrecognizable to the rest of us
The Jeffrey Epstein emails are astonishing not so much for the chumminess he enjoyed with elites even after he’d served time for soliciting prostitution with a minor but for their flagrantness, their casual disregard, and their indifference to consequence.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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The Corrupt Roots of America’s Elite Run Deep
It’s the Impunity, Stupid In reviewing a portion of the 20,000-plus Jeffrey...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is a story of a massive Trump cover up but it’s also a story about total elite impunity, how the wealthy and powerful operate with a set of rules totally unrecognizable to the rest of us
I am waiting to see the aurora borealis, but why are there about eight helicopters over the lake? They are far, but look like they might be helicopters just hovering. IDK...
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I am waiting to see the aurora borealis, but why are there about eight helicopters over the lake? They are far, but look like they might be helicopters just hovering. IDK...
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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Also, the older I get, the more I realize it's *SO* important as adults to have space just to play.
This is how children learn, and how adult animals stay healthy. Humans seem to reject it
Play is how we stay curious, practice resilience, and reject performance, perfection, and expectation.
This is how children learn, and how adult animals stay healthy. Humans seem to reject it
Play is how we stay curious, practice resilience, and reject performance, perfection, and expectation.
Having to focus on how movement looks, sounds, and feels is why enjoy martial arts. I could exercise on a treadmill, but I would 100% stay stuck in the anxiety in my head. With MA, I have to climb out of my head and focus on my body.
That's mindfulness.
Plus, it's practice punching Nazis.
That's mindfulness.
Plus, it's practice punching Nazis.
This morning’s swordplay.
The joy of learning something new (and on your own) is permission to just focus on how something sounds and feels.
I’m a sensory person. I find the sound of wind, metal quite satisfying, and meditative in the morning. #jian #straightsword
The joy of learning something new (and on your own) is permission to just focus on how something sounds and feels.
I’m a sensory person. I find the sound of wind, metal quite satisfying, and meditative in the morning. #jian #straightsword
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Also, the older I get, the more I realize it's *SO* important as adults to have space just to play.
This is how children learn, and how adult animals stay healthy. Humans seem to reject it
Play is how we stay curious, practice resilience, and reject performance, perfection, and expectation.
This is how children learn, and how adult animals stay healthy. Humans seem to reject it
Play is how we stay curious, practice resilience, and reject performance, perfection, and expectation.
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Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
I got this book for a friend who calls Lucille Clifton a "heart poet."
I saw that the 1st poem lists different ways to refer to light. I think my friend needs this right about now. I do too. I know another friend who does too. I just bought 3 copies.
Sharing this just in case you need this too.
I saw that the 1st poem lists different ways to refer to light. I think my friend needs this right about now. I do too. I know another friend who does too. I just bought 3 copies.
Sharing this just in case you need this too.
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I got this book for a friend who calls Lucille Clifton a "heart poet."
I saw that the 1st poem lists different ways to refer to light. I think my friend needs this right about now. I do too. I know another friend who does too. I just bought 3 copies.
Sharing this just in case you need this too.
I saw that the 1st poem lists different ways to refer to light. I think my friend needs this right about now. I do too. I know another friend who does too. I just bought 3 copies.
Sharing this just in case you need this too.
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Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
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Not "we". 😉
But this is an important point that many have known. Might be generational (people who remember before keyboards), but many never really gave up on handwriting. Many write in order to think.
Draft page of Toni Morrison's "Paradise"
Draft of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Cage Bird…"
But this is an important point that many have known. Might be generational (people who remember before keyboards), but many never really gave up on handwriting. Many write in order to think.
Draft page of Toni Morrison's "Paradise"
Draft of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Cage Bird…"
January 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Not "we". 😉
But this is an important point that many have known. Might be generational (people who remember before keyboards), but many never really gave up on handwriting. Many write in order to think.
Draft page of Toni Morrison's "Paradise"
Draft of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Cage Bird…"
But this is an important point that many have known. Might be generational (people who remember before keyboards), but many never really gave up on handwriting. Many write in order to think.
Draft page of Toni Morrison's "Paradise"
Draft of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Cage Bird…"
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If this is true, I expect this will be an ugly week. These fascists will want to generate more splashy fascist propaganda for their IG reels before Bovino moves on.
Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge.
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
trib.al
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
If this is true, I expect this will be an ugly week. These fascists will want to generate more splashy fascist propaganda for their IG reels before Bovino moves on.
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You can send an email. I just did.
Contact | U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois
The Official U.S. Senate website of Dick Durbin
www.durbin.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
You can send an email. I just did.
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Durbin‘s office offers only a recording that says it’s not fielding calls or taking messages outside of “business hours.” What a waste of a Senate seat he’s been during this fascist assault on our country.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Durbin‘s office offers only a recording that says it’s not fielding calls or taking messages outside of “business hours.” What a waste of a Senate seat he’s been during this fascist assault on our country.
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“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...
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Just want to gently throw it out there that if you are feeling overwhelmed right now it’s ok to log off. Everyone is emoting deeply onto the timeline and you’re not obligated to witness it in an endless scroll. Take a break if you need to. Protect your heart. ❤️
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Just want to gently throw it out there that if you are feeling overwhelmed right now it’s ok to log off. Everyone is emoting deeply onto the timeline and you’re not obligated to witness it in an endless scroll. Take a break if you need to. Protect your heart. ❤️
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Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare.
I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare.
I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
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If you don't want the #Dems to cave & allow ACA health insurance costs to explode you can contact your US Senator here: senate.gov/senators/sen...
& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...
Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.
& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...
Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.
U.S. Senate
senate.gov
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If you don't want the #Dems to cave & allow ACA health insurance costs to explode you can contact your US Senator here: senate.gov/senators/sen...
& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...
Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.
& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...
Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.
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i think we have to come to terms with the fact that in the kicking-the-football meme, schumer is not charlie brown
he and the other loser Ds in the senate are lucy
he and the other loser Ds in the senate are lucy
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
i think we have to come to terms with the fact that in the kicking-the-football meme, schumer is not charlie brown
he and the other loser Ds in the senate are lucy
he and the other loser Ds in the senate are lucy
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Every Democratic senator who votes for this should be primaried.
Deal has been reached, I’m told by multiple sources, and Kaine has announced his support
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Every Democratic senator who votes for this should be primaried.