Chris Lapinig
@lapinig.bsky.social
Voting rights attorney based in Los Angeles. Born and raised in Queens. Proud Stuy and Yale graduate. Queer and Filipino.
I think I’m making progress!
November 25, 2023 at 9:27 PM
I think I’m making progress!
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Well done, Biden Administration. Restoring a cooperative security relationship with the Philippines is a huge achievement.
www.ft.com/content/909f...
www.ft.com/content/909f...
US and Philippines launch joint air and sea patrols to counter China
Closer military co-operation by Washington and Manila comes amid growing tensions with Beijing
www.ft.com
November 21, 2023 at 11:41 PM
Well done, Biden Administration. Restoring a cooperative security relationship with the Philippines is a huge achievement.
www.ft.com/content/909f...
www.ft.com/content/909f...
I have a feeling that pottery is not my calling.
November 20, 2023 at 3:59 AM
I have a feeling that pottery is not my calling.
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Holy shit.
I, and everyone else working full time in Chicago, have guaranteed paid sick leave and paid days off starting next year. This is incredible.
I, and everyone else working full time in Chicago, have guaranteed paid sick leave and paid days off starting next year. This is incredible.
City Council approves ordinance that guarantees 10-day paid leave
CHICAGO — Another victory for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s progressive agenda with an ordinance that gives workers in Chicago a totally of 10 days off. The vote came just after 6 p.m. Thursday, th…
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November 11, 2023 at 5:04 AM
Holy shit.
I, and everyone else working full time in Chicago, have guaranteed paid sick leave and paid days off starting next year. This is incredible.
I, and everyone else working full time in Chicago, have guaranteed paid sick leave and paid days off starting next year. This is incredible.
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Wow! Congrats Josie Huang on getting some justice (and winning an important victory for journalists!)
deadline.com/2023/11/lais...
deadline.com/2023/11/lais...
LAist 89.3 Reporter Josie Huang To Receive $700,000 In Settlement With Los Angeles County Over Arres...
Huang had been shoved to the ground as she covered a 2020 arrest of a protester.
deadline.com
November 9, 2023 at 12:33 AM
Wow! Congrats Josie Huang on getting some justice (and winning an important victory for journalists!)
deadline.com/2023/11/lais...
deadline.com/2023/11/lais...
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I'm very sorry to hear that Ady Barkan has died. He was a truly extraordinary human being. I have the greatest admiration for the way that he lived his life, and for all that he accomplished. My 2019 appreciation:
Opinion | Dying Is No Reason to Stop Fighting (Published 2019)
The liberal activist Ady Barkan, diagnosed with A.L.S. in 2016, is using every last minute to campaign for universal health insurance.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2023 at 2:22 AM
I'm very sorry to hear that Ady Barkan has died. He was a truly extraordinary human being. I have the greatest admiration for the way that he lived his life, and for all that he accomplished. My 2019 appreciation:
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I somehow think the best obituary for Matthew Perry has to be when my daughter was bingeing "Friends" ten years ago, came to the dinner table, and said "I think I want to marry Chandler. Not Matthew Perry. Chandler."
October 29, 2023 at 2:06 AM
I somehow think the best obituary for Matthew Perry has to be when my daughter was bingeing "Friends" ten years ago, came to the dinner table, and said "I think I want to marry Chandler. Not Matthew Perry. Chandler."
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for Halloween i went as something feared by every Angeleno
October 28, 2023 at 8:47 PM
for Halloween i went as something feared by every Angeleno
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in 1890, white supremacists met to design Mississippi’s constitution, with stated goal of excluding Black people.
so they set up a list of specific felonies for which you’d lost right to vote for life: only felonies they thought Black people would be likelier to be convicted of.
brief thread:
so they set up a list of specific felonies for which you’d lost right to vote for life: only felonies they thought Black people would be likelier to be convicted of.
brief thread:
October 28, 2023 at 3:44 PM
in 1890, white supremacists met to design Mississippi’s constitution, with stated goal of excluding Black people.
so they set up a list of specific felonies for which you’d lost right to vote for life: only felonies they thought Black people would be likelier to be convicted of.
brief thread:
so they set up a list of specific felonies for which you’d lost right to vote for life: only felonies they thought Black people would be likelier to be convicted of.
brief thread:
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Reminder that the new COVID shot isn’t just a booster, it’s a new vaccine more effective against more variants. Important to get it and remind friends & family.
Few Americans have opted to be immunized against the coronavirus so far this fall: Just over 7 percent of adults and 2 percent of children had received a Covid-19 vaccine as of Oct. 14
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/h...
Few Americans Have Gotten the New Covid Shots, C.D.C. Finds
About 7 percent of adults have rolled up their sleeves for the new vaccines, according to new agency data.
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2023 at 8:57 PM
Reminder that the new COVID shot isn’t just a booster, it’s a new vaccine more effective against more variants. Important to get it and remind friends & family.
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why do we have to keep learning this
October 28, 2023 at 3:11 PM
why do we have to keep learning this
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tag yourselves (I'm the abortion pantry)
September 17, 2023 at 10:59 PM
tag yourselves (I'm the abortion pantry)