Ming Lauren Holden, PhD
@minglishmuffin.bsky.social
Author of REFUGE, chosen by Lidia Yuknavitch as the winner of the inaugural Kore Press Memoir Award. I’m also an actor, director, visual artist, editor, & teacher. 20+ years of experience in 20+ countries, primarily in refugee advocacy & international aid
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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Every US military officer swears an oath when commissioned.
That oath is to NOT to obey all orders.
It is to preserve, protect & defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign & domestic.
Their 1st obligation is to obey the law & the law prohibits the deliberate killing of unarmed citizens.
That oath is to NOT to obey all orders.
It is to preserve, protect & defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign & domestic.
Their 1st obligation is to obey the law & the law prohibits the deliberate killing of unarmed citizens.
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Every US military officer swears an oath when commissioned.
That oath is to NOT to obey all orders.
It is to preserve, protect & defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign & domestic.
Their 1st obligation is to obey the law & the law prohibits the deliberate killing of unarmed citizens.
That oath is to NOT to obey all orders.
It is to preserve, protect & defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign & domestic.
Their 1st obligation is to obey the law & the law prohibits the deliberate killing of unarmed citizens.
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Important to teach kids that you can admire the artistry and creativity of something while also deeply disagreeing with some of those artistic decisions. Considered critique is good, and stan culture has diluted so much of our cultural commentary
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Important to teach kids that you can admire the artistry and creativity of something while also deeply disagreeing with some of those artistic decisions. Considered critique is good, and stan culture has diluted so much of our cultural commentary
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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He can't stay awake. Or walk. Or speak. I'm so sick of the GOP denial. The embarrassing flattery parades. The complicit press standing silent while he drones on incomprehensibly or insults colleagues who dare to question his lies. Or laughing obligatorily at his non-jokes. I'm just so tired of it.
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
He can't stay awake. Or walk. Or speak. I'm so sick of the GOP denial. The embarrassing flattery parades. The complicit press standing silent while he drones on incomprehensibly or insults colleagues who dare to question his lies. Or laughing obligatorily at his non-jokes. I'm just so tired of it.
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No, MRI imaging of the chest and abdomen for *no* apparent reason is not routine.
And definitely *not* part of routine health screening.
And definitely *not* part of routine health screening.
December 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
No, MRI imaging of the chest and abdomen for *no* apparent reason is not routine.
And definitely *not* part of routine health screening.
And definitely *not* part of routine health screening.
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I know someone who seems very sick but refuses to go to the hospital until her Medi-Cal approval comes thru. She cannot afford insurance. I told her they cannot turn her away, but she's too frightened of the bill if she's admitted, which she most certainly would be. Our country is so fucked up.
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I know someone who seems very sick but refuses to go to the hospital until her Medi-Cal approval comes thru. She cannot afford insurance. I told her they cannot turn her away, but she's too frightened of the bill if she's admitted, which she most certainly would be. Our country is so fucked up.
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Joe Biden was old but he wasn’t a fucking xenophobic racist dictator wannabe.
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Joe Biden was old but he wasn’t a fucking xenophobic racist dictator wannabe.
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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Congress, damn it get off your asses... fuck the Thanksgiving weekend get back to work and impeach this bastard
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Congress, damn it get off your asses... fuck the Thanksgiving weekend get back to work and impeach this bastard
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So funny* that we live in a society that doesn’t consider women, trans ppl, disabled ppl, Palestinians, unhoused ppl, kids and many more to be ppl but we’re still having this conversation
*not fucking funny at all
*not fucking funny at all
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
So funny* that we live in a society that doesn’t consider women, trans ppl, disabled ppl, Palestinians, unhoused ppl, kids and many more to be ppl but we’re still having this conversation
*not fucking funny at all
*not fucking funny at all
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
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If you’re lonely on Thanksgiving, mourning a loved one, or don’t have the kind of support you hoped for whatever reason, I wrote this for you. It’s also included in my book The Translator’s Daughter theoffingmag.com/insight/the-...
The Orca and the Spider: On Motherhood, Loss, and Community - The Offing
Insight - The Offing Magazine
theoffingmag.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
If you’re lonely on Thanksgiving, mourning a loved one, or don’t have the kind of support you hoped for whatever reason, I wrote this for you. It’s also included in my book The Translator’s Daughter theoffingmag.com/insight/the-...
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
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Since another holiday is upon us: you don’t have to spend your holidays with abusive people who treat you like shit.
This country is already abusive enough. Please take care of yourselves. Get the divorce. Estrange from family if it helps you heal.
Keeping the peace is bullshit
This country is already abusive enough. Please take care of yourselves. Get the divorce. Estrange from family if it helps you heal.
Keeping the peace is bullshit
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Since another holiday is upon us: you don’t have to spend your holidays with abusive people who treat you like shit.
This country is already abusive enough. Please take care of yourselves. Get the divorce. Estrange from family if it helps you heal.
Keeping the peace is bullshit
This country is already abusive enough. Please take care of yourselves. Get the divorce. Estrange from family if it helps you heal.
Keeping the peace is bullshit
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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McConnell is arguably solely responsible for Trumps' return to power, refusing to impeach when he could have
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
McConnell is arguably solely responsible for Trumps' return to power, refusing to impeach when he could have
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
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DOGE is dead- and - thanks to cutting USAID so are some 600,000 of the world’s poorest people- mostly children. Also about a thousand Americans have lost their jobs
DOGE has dismantled most of our government departments- and stolen all our personal information
DOGE has dismantled most of our government departments- and stolen all our personal information
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
DOGE is dead- and - thanks to cutting USAID so are some 600,000 of the world’s poorest people- mostly children. Also about a thousand Americans have lost their jobs
DOGE has dismantled most of our government departments- and stolen all our personal information
DOGE has dismantled most of our government departments- and stolen all our personal information
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My essay is up at @literaryhub.bsky.social about the late, great Lana Clarkson and other promising young women whose lives have been derailed or destroyed by men. It’s also about my childhood sexual abuse and how I have tried, and failed, to reckon with it.
lithub.com/on-promising...
lithub.com/on-promising...
On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)
“The woman is a footnote in the man’s history.” –Rebecca Hazelton * There’s this photo of Lana Clarkson that I think about often. She’s outside, backed by a blue sky, the green and brown spotted hi…
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July 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My essay is up at @literaryhub.bsky.social about the late, great Lana Clarkson and other promising young women whose lives have been derailed or destroyed by men. It’s also about my childhood sexual abuse and how I have tried, and failed, to reckon with it.
lithub.com/on-promising...
lithub.com/on-promising...
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Make America poor again. Make America hungry again. Make America sick again. Make America choose between heat and insulin again. Make America work three jobs again. Is this what anyone voted for?
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Make America poor again. Make America hungry again. Make America sick again. Make America choose between heat and insulin again. Make America work three jobs again. Is this what anyone voted for?
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All this talk about “reclassifying” what counts as a profession is a distraction from the real trend..women-dominated fields like nursing, teaching, social work, counseling, PA programs, physical therapy, are losing funding, while male-dominated sectors keep the capital flowing. This is Project 2025
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
All this talk about “reclassifying” what counts as a profession is a distraction from the real trend..women-dominated fields like nursing, teaching, social work, counseling, PA programs, physical therapy, are losing funding, while male-dominated sectors keep the capital flowing. This is Project 2025
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A Chinese immigrant detained by ICE was found hanged to death with his hands and feet tied and Newsweek runs the article with a trigger warning about “descriptions of suicide”?
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A Chinese immigrant detained by ICE was found hanged to death with his hands and feet tied and Newsweek runs the article with a trigger warning about “descriptions of suicide”?
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...