Gary Chun
@garychun.bsky.social
Retired journalist, occasional gig writer. Home in the islands, in the middle of the sea. You fascinate me. Avatar portrait by R. Kikuo Johnson.
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Curious if anyone has the data but it seems like 80% of Twitter is now just MAGA and neo-Nazis trolls and bots.
December 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Curious if anyone has the data but it seems like 80% of Twitter is now just MAGA and neo-Nazis trolls and bots.
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The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science, endangered research, and left America fading to black.
When it comes to Trump's brain drain, “the damage is already done”
How the DOGE-triggered attack on government research left America in the dark.
www.motherjones.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science, endangered research, and left America fading to black.
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Top policy experts give their take on what the shutdown revealed about the current state of food and agriculture policy, and how the future of the country’s food system might look a little different as a result.
What the Shutdown Revealed About Food and Agriculture Policy
Experts warn that the longest government shutdown in history will continue to impact how the country farms and eats.
civileats.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Top policy experts give their take on what the shutdown revealed about the current state of food and agriculture policy, and how the future of the country’s food system might look a little different as a result.
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One of the world’s greatest living artists and documentarians and he’s perpetually a target for the most heinous censorship. Protect him, and his work, at all costs.
Jafar Panahi Gets Prison Sentence and Ban from Leaving Iran Amid ‘It Was Just an Accident’ Oscar Campaign
Jafar Panahi was sentenced to a year in prison and two-year ban from leaving Iran amid the 'It Was Just an Accident' Oscar campaign.
www.indiewire.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
One of the world’s greatest living artists and documentarians and he’s perpetually a target for the most heinous censorship. Protect him, and his work, at all costs.
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“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
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Millions of American families are struggling to afford their basic needs — food, housing, and health care.
What are Trump and Republicans doing about it? Raising health care costs and giving tax cuts to billionaires.
They simply don’t care.
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
What are Trump and Republicans doing about it? Raising health care costs and giving tax cuts to billionaires.
They simply don’t care.
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
‘Scraping for crumbs’: Americans squeezed by affordability crisis
Rising food, shelter and healthcare costs are hitting hard in Bethlehem and the surrounding Lehigh Valley
www.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Millions of American families are struggling to afford their basic needs — food, housing, and health care.
What are Trump and Republicans doing about it? Raising health care costs and giving tax cuts to billionaires.
They simply don’t care.
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
What are Trump and Republicans doing about it? Raising health care costs and giving tax cuts to billionaires.
They simply don’t care.
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
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People are organically shifting to taking care of one another and beginning to rediscover interconnectedness. There’s something growing and it doesn’t matter that it isn’t being harnessed by a political party. At some point it will shift the balance of power.
Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.
When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call 'mutual aid'
Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
People are organically shifting to taking care of one another and beginning to rediscover interconnectedness. There’s something growing and it doesn’t matter that it isn’t being harnessed by a political party. At some point it will shift the balance of power.
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Now that Pete Hegseth is making cartoon jokes about the accusations that he gave illegal "no quarter" orders, good time to reup this:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Now that Pete Hegseth is making cartoon jokes about the accusations that he gave illegal "no quarter" orders, good time to reup this:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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So timely!
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
So timely!
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It’s beyond time to stop fucking around. Get him out of the White House.
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It’s beyond time to stop fucking around. Get him out of the White House.
Just the best! @tmbg.bsky.social
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Just the best! @tmbg.bsky.social
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It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
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i really don’t want the US to get into a war with venezuela for no goddamned reason.
i want to speak to the manager.
i want to speak to the manager.
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
i really don’t want the US to get into a war with venezuela for no goddamned reason.
i want to speak to the manager.
i want to speak to the manager.
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96% of the highest-paid workers in the US have paid sick days.
Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend.
Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend.
Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
The Hidden Costs of Denying Paid Sick Leave
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
96% of the highest-paid workers in the US have paid sick days.
Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend.
Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend.
Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
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Indiana Republican state senator. I appreciate her not caving, but they are all still afraid to ever use Trump’s name. I guess doing so exponentially increases the threats. Trump rules the GOP with fear and intimidation. What a broken party.
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Indiana Republican state senator. I appreciate her not caving, but they are all still afraid to ever use Trump’s name. I guess doing so exponentially increases the threats. Trump rules the GOP with fear and intimidation. What a broken party.
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November 30: Awful situation across parts of South & Southeast Asia as two cyclones spawned extreme flooding and landslides that have left more than 1,000 people dead.
CY Ditwah
- Sri Lanka: >334 dead
CY Senyar
- Thailand: >162 dead; >$1bn economic loss
- Indonesia: >505 dead
- Malaysia: >3 dead
CY Ditwah
- Sri Lanka: >334 dead
CY Senyar
- Thailand: >162 dead; >$1bn economic loss
- Indonesia: >505 dead
- Malaysia: >3 dead
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
November 30: Awful situation across parts of South & Southeast Asia as two cyclones spawned extreme flooding and landslides that have left more than 1,000 people dead.
CY Ditwah
- Sri Lanka: >334 dead
CY Senyar
- Thailand: >162 dead; >$1bn economic loss
- Indonesia: >505 dead
- Malaysia: >3 dead
CY Ditwah
- Sri Lanka: >334 dead
CY Senyar
- Thailand: >162 dead; >$1bn economic loss
- Indonesia: >505 dead
- Malaysia: >3 dead
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December 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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One sign that your brain is super good is when your doctors keep giving you cognitive tests
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One sign that your brain is super good is when your doctors keep giving you cognitive tests
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Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
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A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...
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An oldy, but still extremely relevant (sadly):
December 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
An oldy, but still extremely relevant (sadly):
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XOXO to the guy who made this.
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
XOXO to the guy who made this.
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How pathetically fragile & childish the man some people voted for is.
November 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
How pathetically fragile & childish the man some people voted for is.