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Sep 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Deep diving a bit, the NYT follow up report notes that Trump has reduced his income by claiming all manner of “consulting fees” as expenses. But the investigation discovered a striking match. /1
Trump’s private records show that his company paid a very specific $747,622 in fees to an unnamed consultant for hotel projects in Hawaii and Vancouver, British Columbia. /2
Guess who owns that company? Ivanka Trump’s public disclosure forms — which she filed when joining the White House staff in 2017 — reveal she had received an IDENTICAL amount through a consulting company she co-owned. /3
I suspect the more the reporters dig, the dirtier and dirtier this is going to get. Did Ivanka really do any work on those projects? Or was this a way to shift money and hide family income? We’ll start to find out. /end

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Nov 8
"We’re all still grieving the electoral loss and feeling queasy about the prospect of Trump returning to the White House in January. But in response to the giddy pronouncements from the GOP and the Trump campaign, some have already begun to think about an effective political resistance to Trump and Trumpism.
Democrats need to make these plans knowing full well that Trump will be backed by a sycophantic GOP Congress and blank check-writing SCOTUS. And this time around, there won’t be any adults in the room, including White House counsel who during his first term would quietly shelve Trump’s most outrageous requests, or chiefs of staff like John Kelly who would struggle to moderate, educate and soften his most extreme positions.
No, this time around Trump will be surrounded by people even further to the right of him. They will seek to implement the most dangerous and destructive of policies, many drawn from the Project 2025 blueprint. And they will encourage Trump to issue Executive Orders that could reshape American democracy, insert our armed forces deeply into civil affairs, hurtle our economy into an abyss, and upend the lives of millions of minorities.
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Nov 4
As we all await the outcome of what feels like a make-or-break election, I want to offer some perspective, if you’ll hand a fellow with eight-plus decades the mic for a moment.
Through these decades, when we’ve faced tough and challenging years as a nation, in such moments it can often feel as if that’s all there’s ever going to be, strife and division, neighbor against neighbor. I certainly felt that as a Japanese American, interned during World War II. I felt that again as a closeted gay man struggling to hide my identity and keep my career, and even as a proudly gay one fighting to keep my marriage.
It’s only when we zoom out that the picture becomes clearer. Progress is not only evident, it is inevitable. When I was a boy, the laws were such in many states that I couldn’t even marry someone of the white race. Racism was baked into our laws, and the social structures reinforced it. Now, eighty years later, I’m married to a white *dude*! Things change, and the long arc bends, usually for the better because we have fought so hard for it.
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Jul 19, 2023
🧵**CALLING ALL FRIENDS, ADVOCATES, AND ACTIVISTS** A leaked e-mail from a Texas Department of Protective Safety trooper documents the remarkably cruel measures Governor Greg Abbott has instituted at the border to deter crossings. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
These include hidden razor wire traps, the withholding of water even in extreme heat, and orders to push migrants—including children and infants—back into the Rio Grande where they might drown.
The sight of razor wire to corral innocent human beings has echoes for me personally, when similar wire surrounded the Japanese American internment camps of my youth.
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Mar 1, 2023
Drum roll please…

I have a new publication called The Big Picture! There my team and I will connect with you directly, not just about current events and culture, but about how it all fits together within larger trends and ideas.

I’ve been around nearly 86 years… /1
In my time I’ve seen and lived through much.

I survived World War II and the internment of my family and community.

I saw Jim Crow and segregation fall during the Civil Rights Movement. /2
I marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Protested against the war in Vietnam

Witnessed gay liberation rise with the Stonewall Riots. /3
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Dec 7, 2022
Today is Pearl Harbor Day in the U.S., a “day that will live in infamy” for the unprovoked attack by the Empire of Japan upon U.S. forces stationed in Hawaii. But it also marked a dark turning point for Japanese Americans, who overnight became the “enemy.” At age 4, I was /1
classified as 4c, enemy alien, even though I was born in the U.S. Within a few months, the internment of our community was ordered by FDR with broad support from the American people, who turned their backs upon us. We lost our homes, our businesses and our freedoms. /2
It has been my lifelong mission to tell the story of the Japanese American internment so that we remember and do not repeat the mistakes of the past. Now, I am bringing that story to the UK from Jan-Mar in a show called “Allegiance” based on my own experiences. /3
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Dec 2, 2022
My feed today has all kinds of right wing posts in it from people I definitely do not follow. These are not retweets or likes by others. Just random far-right tweets. I feel sullied by the experience.
Example. I don’t follow this asshat. Two accounts I do follow are noted. But it’s not supposed to be in my feed.
Another example here. I would sooner follow a banana slug than this guy. Yet he’s on my feed.
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