I've been waiting for Matthew Belloni's analysis of Participant Media shutting down and this is more than worth the price of my Puck subscription 👇🏾

One of my mentors, Teresa Moore—a journalist who worked at San Francisco Chronicle and teaches media studies at University of San Francisco—once told me that, as a journalist who happens to be undocumented, I’ve been trying to write my way into America.

She’s right.

I just never imagined this.

I try—really hard—to live by and act on these words.

Thank you, salamat, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.

#NewProfilePic in honor of being a co-founder of 1587 Sneakers—the first sneaker brand founded by Asian Americans.

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If you care about immigration, please follow Camilo Montoya-Galvez, who is doing a stupendous job covering this complex beat 👇🏾

How can Elon Musk run companies—plural—and be this intentionally misinformed and utterly uneducated about immigration as a process?!?’

How many immigrants does Tesla employ? How many of those immigrants have relatives who are undocumented? (It’s called mixed status families,…

Dear Elon Musk:

Can you possibly be this deeply misinformed?

Don’t you live in Texas—where the construction industry relies on undocumented labor?

And, speaking as an independent here, “illegals” are wary of both parties: cnn.com/2024/03/11/opi…

About “illegal”—and what it means for immigration, and undocumented immigrants, in this Biden v Trump rematch cnn.com/2024/03/11/opi…

“The media we consume is where we are as a society, and there should be space for both a process film about a White man making a bomb”—Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”—“and a process film about a Black woman making a case about the hierarchy at the heart of American culture,”…

Being a citizen, of any country, is hard.

Being a human being––in an unequal, inequitable world––even harder.

E-verify didn't catch me when I was working as a journalist for San Francisco Chronicle, Philly Daily News, The Washington Post, HuffPost, etc. ⤵️