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Nicole Chung
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author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, The Washington Post &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung • loyaltybookstores.com/nicolechung
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · Oct 2
If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.
When Adoption Promises Are Broken
Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.
www.theatlantic.com
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petersagal.bsky.social
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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sesmith.lol
Today is ALSO the day I learned that there's been escalating antisemitic violence across Australia. Mass shootings are SO rare there and I hope thorough investigation into this also sparks closer examination of how this came to happen in this context.
December 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed.

“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia * Bondi beach shooting live updates * Bondi terror attack: full report * What we know so far about the shooting in Australia A bystander tackled and wrestled a gun from one of the two alleged gunman during the Bondi beach mass shooting in which at least 12 people were killed, footage shows. Video of the scene shows the alleged gunman standing on a footpath between a grassy area and parking lot holding a shotgun and firing into the distance. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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NEW: Brown econ prof Rachel Friedberg says the shooting happened in a finals review session:

"The room has stadium seating with doors that enter at the top. [The TA] said that the shooter came in the doors, yelled something ... and started shooting." www.oceanstatemedia.org/news-and-cul...
Rachel Friedberg, a Brown economics professor, said the mass shooting happened in a review session for the final exam of her Principles of Economics course. She said she learned what happened from a teaching assistant who led the session. Friedberg herself was not present. "The room has stadium seating with doors that enter at the top," Friedberg said. "He said that the shooter came in the doors, yelled something — he couldn't remember what he yelled — and started shooting." "Students started to scramble to try to get away from the shooter, trying to get lower down in the stadium seating, and people got shot," Friedberg said. "I don't know if they're the only ones who got shot or not."
December 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure.

www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Live updates: Two deceased in active shooter incident at Brown University
Serving the Brown University community since 1891
www.browndailyherald.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.

We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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At least 2 killed and several more hurt in shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island
Police say multiple people have been shot in the area of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
apnews.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: Seattle Children's Hospital successfully fought this summer to get DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena quashed.

The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.

This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
IV CONCLUSION For these reasons, the Court GRANTS Seattle Children's motion to set aside the subpoena and motion to seal the docket. The Court ORDERS as follows: Subpoena Duces Tecum No. 25-1431-016 is HEREBY SET ASIDE; The docket in this action and all submittals filed thereon shall be maintained under seal; Seattle Children's may nonetheless communicate with, and provide sealed filings to, the Washington Attorney General's Office; The Washington Attorney General's Office may attend any sealed hearings in this proceeding; and The Washington Attorney General's Office shall comply with this Order. Dated this 3rd day of September, 2025. Joha X. Chan John H. Chun United States District Judge
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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kuow.org
Scientists expect atmospheric rivers to grow more powerful, arrive more frequently, and last longer as the earth’s climate keeps warming.
Northwest floods offer sneak peek of hotter climate's toll
“The science is clear that floods are going to become larger and more frequent in the future,” Washington State Climatologist Guillaume Mauger said.
www.kuow.org
December 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Western Washington faced threats of "catastrophic" conditions Thursday as an atmospheric river sweeps through the Pacific Northwest. 100,000 people have evacuated their homes in the Skagit Valley, an hour north of Seattle, to reach higher ground.
Live updates: 100,000 evacuated in historic Skagit Valley flood in Washington state
"Catastrophic" conditions continue to threaten Western Washington as an atmospheric river sweeps through the Pacific Northwest. 100,000 people have been placed under evacuation orders from their homes...
www.kuow.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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dumplingmenace.bsky.social
everyone should read Disposable Domestics by Grace Chang
December 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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democracydocket.com
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released.
democracydocket.com Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 4d
NEW: A federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. and sent to El Salvador without due process by the Trump administration — to be released from an ICE detention center, ruling his detention unlawful.
Judge Orders Abrego Garcia's Immediate Release from Immigration Custody
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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golden retriever sleeping on top of her snuggle puppy stuffed toy
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Grateful to have had the opportunity to visit Bowdoin and talk with students last week! If you'd like to invite me to join your college or university community for a reading, lecture, or other event in 2026, please reach out to my speaking agent: [email protected]
Bestselling author Nicole Chung speaks on adoptee experiences and writing – The Bowdoin Orient
bowdoinorient.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
B. No Order of Removal Exists for Abrego Garcia No such order of removal exists for Abrego Garcia. When Abrego Garcia was first wrongly expelled to El Salvador, the Court struggled to understand the legal authority for even seizing him in the first place. At the first hearing in Abrego I, the Court inquired of Respondents’ counsel: The Court: I want to ask, though, the very specific question, if there is a final order of removal, what . . . document got this process started? There is no warrant for his arrest by an order of removal. There is no statement of probable cause. There’s no charge. There’s no report that says that anyone saw Mr. Abrego Garcia doing anything illegal or criminal. So what is the actual document that gave these officers the authority to start this process? Counsel: That is not in the record, and the government has not put that into the record. And that’s the best I can do. Abrego I, ECF No. 33 at 21:11–22. The Court continued to press counsel about the existence of a removal order and was told plainly that none can be found: The Court: Okay. So if there’s a Title 8 removal order, there would be an order of removal that’s being executed, and we don’t have one for Mr. Abrego Garcia, right? . . . Do you have that order? . . . Is it in the record? Counsel: I do not have that order. It is not in the record. Id. at 23:7–24:4. Since that time, Respondents have never produced an order of removal despite Abrego Garcia hinging much of his jurisdictional and legal arguments on its non-existence. ECF No. 1 ¶¶ 68–69; ECF No. 32 at 10, 15–17, 27; ECF No. 87 at 11–12. Indeed, Respondents twice sponsored the testimony of ICE officials whose job it is to effectuate removal orders, and who candidly admitted to having never seen one for Abrego Garcia. See ECF No. 107 at 30:16–22 (testimony of Cantú) (“Q: Based upon your many years of experience you described to us, you know what a final order of removal looks like, right, sir? Cantú: I do. Q: And have you seen a final order of removal in regard to Mr. Abrego Garcia? Cantú: I have not.”). See also Abrego I, ECF No. 234 at 46:6–12 (testimony of interim Assistant Director for ICE Removal Operations, Thomas Giles (“Giles”)) (“Q: You have not seen the final order of removal, have you, sir? Giles: What do you mean by that? Q: I mean, you have not seen a piece of paper that represents the final order of removal vis-a-vis Mr. Abrego Garcia, correct? Giles: No, I have not.”).15 Based on this, the Court concludes that no order of removal exists.
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This workshop is now about half full (admission is rolling) and it’s shaping up to be a great cohort! Still plenty of time to apply; the deadline is Jan. 24.
nicolechung.bsky.social Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · Nov 6
Let's write together in 2026! If you're looking to jumpstart your memoir project—or are already underway & want some support to maintain momentum or figure out next steps—this @thewriterscenter.bsky.social workshop is for you. We'll meet twice a month, starting in February; learn more + apply here:
Memoir Year w/ Nicole Chung - The Writer's Center
Work on your memoir with bestselling author Nicole Chung! This intensive workshop is open to writers working on a memoir or memoir-in-essays. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in lively craft...
writer.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Look this thing doesn’t deserve as many episodes as Pride and Prejudice (1995)
December 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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“there’s never been a better time to be miserable and hate everything”
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
A photo shows someone pouring a drink. Headline: There’s Never Been a Better Time to Quit Caffeine
December 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
nicolechung.bsky.social
the original gift link to the story has expired, so here’s another one. I worked on this for 2+ years and learned so much from the dozens of birth mothers who shared their experiences in open adoption.
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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After the tenth of these emails I got Mad Enough to Blog it. Thanks to @electricliterature.com and @thedennemichele.bsky.social, and all the authors who shared their own scam emails.
That Personalized Email About Loving and Marketing Your Book Is a Scam - Electric Literature
Taking advantage of aspiring authors is a rich tradition, and now published authors are being scammed too
electricliterature.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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melodyschreiber.com
I'm reading through an old copy of Vanity Fair and look who's here! @sarahdigregorio.bsky.social and @nicolechung.bsky.social!!!
Feeling Tender New works of non-fiction plumb intimacy of all kinds Taking Care By Sarah DiGregorio This probing history of nurses (Harper) situates the profession as radical, necessary health care--but plagued, too, by structural inequities from sexism to racism. A Living Remedy By Nicole Chung Having lost her parents to varied failures of the American health care system, Chung has situated a portrait of grief, rage, and love against a backdrop of a middle class in flux. (Ecco)
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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propublica.org
#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

(Published Oct. 2025)
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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"The rapid, largely unregulated rise of datacenters to fuel the AI and crypto frenzy is disrupting communities across the country and threatening Americans’ economic, environmental, climate and water security."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM