Jean Chen Ho
@jeanho66.bsky.social
Reader/writer; author of FIONA AND JANE (2022)
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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
June 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
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ICE fled the scene after ramming a car in Boyle Heights!
ABC-7 in L.A. reporting what police said. They're saying there was an incident involving "a federal agent."
"They fled the scene." "Hollenbeck Division is even saying they're investigating this, possibly as an assault with a deadly weapon."
ABC-7 in L.A. reporting what police said. They're saying there was an incident involving "a federal agent."
"They fled the scene." "Hollenbeck Division is even saying they're investigating this, possibly as an assault with a deadly weapon."
June 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
ICE fled the scene after ramming a car in Boyle Heights!
ABC-7 in L.A. reporting what police said. They're saying there was an incident involving "a federal agent."
"They fled the scene." "Hollenbeck Division is even saying they're investigating this, possibly as an assault with a deadly weapon."
ABC-7 in L.A. reporting what police said. They're saying there was an incident involving "a federal agent."
"They fled the scene." "Hollenbeck Division is even saying they're investigating this, possibly as an assault with a deadly weapon."
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Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
June 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
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Please share this far and wide ‼️
June 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Please share this far and wide ‼️
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what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
Wow. New CBS poll finds majority (55%) supports the *general goal* of deportations, but a bigger majority (56%) dislikes how Trump is carrying them out. And 63% want due process.
Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
June 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
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How much is Trump’s military parade costing
June 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
How much is Trump’s military parade costing
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This is still one of the best ways to limit deportations. Stop collaborations between ICE, local police departments, sheriffs, and county jails.
Glendale ends ICE contract, will no longer hold detainees
Glendale ends ICE contract, will no longer hold detainees
Glendale announced it would end its agreement to hold federal immigration detainees.
www.latimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is still one of the best ways to limit deportations. Stop collaborations between ICE, local police departments, sheriffs, and county jails.
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Read this horrifying testimony from Israel's massacre of people just trying to get food:
June 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Read this horrifying testimony from Israel's massacre of people just trying to get food:
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BREAKING: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.
NPR and Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House
NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.
www.npr.org
May 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
BREAKING: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.
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"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza."
My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
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My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
zeteo.com/subscribe
May 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza."
My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
zeteo.com/subscribe
My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
zeteo.com/subscribe
"For all of its PSA-style self-seriousness, then, The Pitt’s unabashedly 'woke' vignettes constitute a powerful rebuke to a regime that is determined to usher in a new era of Jim Crow. . . . Maybe cringe really will set us free."
"The show’s portrayal of improbably empathetic, politically conscious medical professionals is not only a welcome balm but also a genuine piece of left-leaning counterprogramming." @charlotteerosen.bsky.social on the unabashed wokeness of "The Pitt." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
The Radical Cringe of “The Pitt” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Charlotte E. Rosen breaks down the political ramifications of Max’s “The Pitt” for subjects of an anti-expertise, anti-empathy fascist regime.
lareviewofbooks.org
May 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"For all of its PSA-style self-seriousness, then, The Pitt’s unabashedly 'woke' vignettes constitute a powerful rebuke to a regime that is determined to usher in a new era of Jim Crow. . . . Maybe cringe really will set us free."
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The AI book list and general enshittification reminded me that I've been credited as blurbing hundreds of books I never have, including books by Patti Smith, Amy Tan, Sidney Sheldon, Joyce Maynard, and Elmore Leonard? And I can't get these fake blurbs taken off publisher and bookstore websites?
May 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The AI book list and general enshittification reminded me that I've been credited as blurbing hundreds of books I never have, including books by Patti Smith, Amy Tan, Sidney Sheldon, Joyce Maynard, and Elmore Leonard? And I can't get these fake blurbs taken off publisher and bookstore websites?
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I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes.
www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
February 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes.
www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
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(Awkwardly, because I've never posted on here before) I wrote a piece about @cathylinhche.bsky.social's stunning new collection of poems, Becoming Ghost, for Poetry Northwest. Check it out here: www.poetrynw.org/we-give-it-t...
We Give it to Ourselves: On Cathy Linh Che's Becoming Ghost | Poetry Northwest
"For Che, the erasure of her parents and the other Vietnamese refugees . . . speaks to the larger silencing of Vietnamese people from histories of American imperialism and immigration."
www.poetrynw.org
May 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
(Awkwardly, because I've never posted on here before) I wrote a piece about @cathylinhche.bsky.social's stunning new collection of poems, Becoming Ghost, for Poetry Northwest. Check it out here: www.poetrynw.org/we-give-it-t...
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so back
.@ajagabel.bsky.social returns with a new novel, LIGHTBREAKERS, this fall 🧡✨
@electricliterature.com exclusively revealed the cover for this heart-achingly moving novel today: electricliterature.com/exclusive-co...
@electricliterature.com exclusively revealed the cover for this heart-achingly moving novel today: electricliterature.com/exclusive-co...
Exclusive Cover Reveal of “Lightbreakers” by Aja Gabel - Electric Literature
The design weaves together ideas about past, future, and the squished simultaneity of human timelines
electricliterature.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
so back
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This is the email just received by IMLS staffers placing them on paid administrative leave for up to 90 days.
“Please understand that this action is not punitive but rather is taken to facilitate the work and operations of the agency.”
“Please understand that this action is not punitive but rather is taken to facilitate the work and operations of the agency.”
March 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is the email just received by IMLS staffers placing them on paid administrative leave for up to 90 days.
“Please understand that this action is not punitive but rather is taken to facilitate the work and operations of the agency.”
“Please understand that this action is not punitive but rather is taken to facilitate the work and operations of the agency.”
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SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
March 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).