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Dan Kim (aka danielmkim.bsky.social)
@danielmkim
He/him. Appa. Veteran. Equality for all, no exceptions. LFC. Oxford comma. 2 spaces. The Confederates were all traitors. GOP Delenda Est.
Feb 20 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
🧵 #OTD in 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, which ordered the incarceration - under the guise of benign "relocation" - of over 120k Japanese Americans. And now, not for the 1st time, a presidential candidate thinks this is a swell idea to revisit. #DayOfRemembrance Image 2. The perceived disloyalty of Japanese Americans, coupled with good ol' xenophobia that's as American as apple pie or baseball, drove this policy. So did Lt. Gen. John DeWitt, commander of the US Army's Western Defense Command. Such a charmer, this DeWitt. Image
Feb 1 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 I just saw "tipping" tread on this app, so might as well fire up some brain cells and get started on this. I promise, it won't take 30 minutes, but also, please bear with me because this is all coming off the top of my head. Why do we tip? 2. Let's start with a quick primer about what happens to restaurant tips, an indignant threaded reply to someone who opined that servers make too much money.
May 30, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I’m limited to a certain # of tweets per thread, but like my old squad leader used to say, I improvised, I adapted, & I overcame. Started this labor of love a few years back, but the 2023 thread of daily threads for #AAPIHM begins here on 1 May, with links to successive threads. I started this in 2018 because I was pissed off. At the time, @USArmy had a vanilla tribute to AAPI soldiers on the main Army page, but not even a link to the 4-4-Deuce. I’m still pissed, went to the @USArmyMuseum last summer & the tiny 442 exhibit feels like an afterthought.
May 30, 2023 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
1/19. Today in the #AAPIHM thread, the battle of the Vosges from another POV, & one of the bravest men I've ever had the honor to meet. George "Joe" Sakato was born in Colton, CA, 3rd of 7 children to a couple who owned a barber shop & bath house. When FDR signed Executive Order Image 2/19. 9066, the Sakatos were given a choice of being "interned," or moving to the Zone of the Interior (landlocked states). They chose the latter & moved to Glendale, AZ, where relatives already lived. By sheer luck, their new address north of the train line exempted them from
May 29, 2023 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
1/22. Almost 300k Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders have served in our nation's military. Of those, 36 are Medal of Honor recipients. Today for the #AAPIHM thread, we honor a soldier who was court-martialed for fighting, yet still received the MoH, Barney Hajiro. Image 2/22. Hajiro was born in Maui as the 2nd of 9 children, & worked as a stevedore in Oahu to help support his family. Like many Hawaiian men, he was drafted after Pearl Harbor; like almost all Hawaiians of Japanese descent, he served in the HI Territorial Guard, predecessor to
May 28, 2023 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
1/21. I covered the Lee brothers in a previous #AAPIHM thread, but considering the significance of this weekend, they deserve a closer look. The Lee brothers, Chew-Een (Kurt) & Chew-Mon (Buck) were born in Sacramento to Chinese immigrant parents. ImageImage 2/21. Kurt joined the US Marine Corps in 1944 when he turned 18, eager to join the war effort, but the Marines specifically, to counter white people's misconception of the "meek, obsequious, bland Asian," as he called that stereotype. Due to his ethnicity,
Nov 21, 2022 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
It’s #Thanksgiving horror story time. 1997, I’m 1 of a group of friends renting a row house on Adam’s Mill Rd NW, on the east side of the National Zoo. My housemates had all left town or were with family, so my plan was the stranded bachelor dinner. 2. The rule was, I’ll cook the bird, y’all bring sides & booze. There were about 8 of us. Didn’t you come to this, @clvnzrdz? There was a guy from my unit, some GW grad students, & a few odds & sods from different restaurants.
Sep 17, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Like a certain movie fighter pilot recently said, “it’s been a minute, huh, Mav?” This is much the same, but with food, not an F-14 Tomcat, so buckle in for the first #CookingForLieutenants thread in ages. Tonight we’re making shrimp scampi. 2. First, what is scampi? Scampi are langoustines, or small lobsters for lack of a better term. The original Italian recipe for scampi sautéed them with garlic, lemon, & white wine. When the recipe crossed the pond, “scampi” became synonymous with any seafood cooked that way.
May 26, 2022 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
🧵I can't fucking sleep tonight. Kept thinking about one of my last calls as an EMT after reading about cops not willingly putting themselves in harm's way. August 2001. I pulled my bus up just outside the PD cordon at the site of a DV call. 1/ Lots of nervous Barney Fife types with their hands on their pistols, taking cover behind their cars, filling the radio with useless traffic. Fire dispatch briefed me enroute. Normally, no biggie, treat the DV victim(s) & transport. 2/
May 25, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Ready for his band concert later. He’s the 2nd trumpet. Are the Blues Brothers going to get the band back together soon? (He’s also wearing my old uniform tie). The brass section’s first song is Baby Shark, with Junior providing the “do do do do do do”
Sep 15, 2021 • 29 tweets • 5 min read
I know it's early in the day to talk about wine, but like a sage once said before ordering 2 Bloody Marys for each of us one morning, "it's 5:00 somewhere." This 🧵 is in response to @jbradleyrushing, who asked for wine recommendations in the $15-$25 range. 2. Disclaimer: the prices listed here are for the Metro NYC market, so YMMV. I usually go to Total Wine, which is awesome because it's like WalMart, but for booze, which is better. We'll go in order of lighter to heavier bodied whites, then reds.
May 12, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1/ If you’re a retired GOFO railing against socialists (hello? You benefited from that very thing while you wore the uniform you now shit on with the Breitbart letter), “illegals” stealing American jobs & driving down wages (hello again, find me a white boy who’ll wash dishes)... 2. Not to mention “elections that reflect the will of the people” (come on now, your guy lost bigly, let’s move on from this already), & (derp) “rule of law,” get the fuck over yourselves & look outside your vacuum sealed retirement bubbles for a moment.
May 1, 2021 • 125 tweets • 67 min read
Once again, & because now more than ever, #AAPI must be fiercely proud of our heritage, I’ll be posting a thread, updated daily, for #AAPIHM .

My 2018 thread: twitter.com/i/events/99457…

2019 is here:

& 2020’s thread begins here: For day 1 of the Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month thread, I wrote a few years ago about the question we all hate, “where are you from?” #AAPIHM appafortwo.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/whe…
Mar 24, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Abbreviated #CookingForLieutenants thread tonight. Making crispy oven “fried” chicken. There’s a trick to making a dish that, by all rights, should have your cardiologist researching a new fishing boat. 2. That trick is in the 3rd step of the standard breading process, as I learned it in culinary school before the earth cooled. That traditional process is: flour, then egg wash, then breadcrumbs.
Mar 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
You always think it can’t happen in your enlightened multicultural metropolis, we’re better than this, but then you realize you only live 10 minutes away from this building. #StopAsianHateCrimes You always think it can’t happen in your enlightened multicultural metropolis, we’re better than this, then you realize that the woman was guilty of the heinous crime of being Asian American. #StopAsianHateCrimes radio.com/1010wins/news/…
Mar 17, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
I have very rarely allowed racist attacks on my community to affect me. Long’s massacre was bad enough, but to hear the @CherokeeSO explain it away as if the victims’ lives didn’t matter has been nothing less than infuriating. #Atlanta #StopAAPIHate #StopAsianHate When do Asian Americans’ lives matter, @CherokeeSO Sheriff Reynolds? Like, do we have to wait our turn, in case another white man with far too easy access to a pistol has a “bad day?” Or should we just accept racially motivated violence as our lot in life? I’ll wait.
Mar 17, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I have no idea why Generation X is trending, but here goes. “Dedicated” child care meant my mom made sure I had the apartment keys in my trouser pocket before I walked by myself to school, & that a Swanson TV dinner was thawing the oven, in case she had to work late. By 3rd grade, I’d learned how to use my mom’s makeup so she wouldn’t (at least, immediately) notice a black eye or bruised cheek from a fight with a racist bully when she came home. How to treat swelling & bleeding.
Jan 2, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
#PSA: I’m not personally a fan of Champagne, but please, people - I’m begging you, with tears in my eyes - there is far better & far less expensive bubbly than Cristal or Dom Pérignon. Recs:
Australia: Kreglinger, Yarrabank
California: Schramsberg Blanc de Blancs, Roederer Estate, Domaine Carneros by Taittinger
Champagne: Nicolas Feuillatte Brut Reserve, Bollinger Brut Special Cuvee, GH Mumm Brut Grand Cordon
Prosecco: Nino Franco Superiore
Cava: Segura Viudas
Sep 30, 2020 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
Pregame coffee table is set. What a hot fucking mess. Who in the Biden campaign was credulous enough to believe that Mango Mussolini *wouldn’t* try to dominate the conversation?
Sep 25, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
A rare midweek movie with the boy. Now I have to explain how cavalry went from horses to Hueys, then to Bradley’s & Strykers (puke). ImageImage Enter CSM Basil Plumley, who was 20x more imposing in person 25 years after retirement than as portrayed by Sam Elliot.
Sep 23, 2020 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Who doesn’t like lasagna? That font of cheesy meaty goodness? You? Then skip this thread. All others, brace for another #CookingForLieutenants thread later. 2. Ingredients:
1 # ground beef
1 box of Barilla lasagna noodles
Marinara sauce (recipe in the quoted tweet below)
1 cup chicken stock
1 15oz container of ricotta
1 cup grated Parmesan
1 bag of pre-grated mozzarella
2 eggs Image