Jun Byun

mother to my dogter 🐶, reader of words on paper; lover of crispy balls made out of cheese

[Jun Byun @ChillinMilin]

Truer words have never been spoken #johnwaters #bookworm #MakeAmericaReadAgain

[House of Highlights @HoHighlights]

Luka did all this within the first 4 minutes of the game 🤯🤯🤯 https://t.co/hDrgtKeg8P

[Jun Byun @ChillinMilin]

@Dodgers Is Yamamoto missing from this graphic?

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

I’m Kamala Harris, and I’m running for President of the United States.

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

South Korea currently recycles close to 100% of its food waste, a remarkable jump from just 2.6% in 1996.

So, how did the nation's composting system become a model for the world?

Let's take a journey!

Thread ⬇️

[Stephanie Kennedy @WordswithSteph]

Clarence Thomas’s Ex-Girlfriend Speaks

Lillian McEwen came to know Clarence Thomas quite intimately back in the day. While Clarence has elected not to write or speak publicly of Lily, Lily has often chosen to be forthcoming about her relationship with Clarence — having much to say over the years.

Lily recalls, following the breakup of his first marriage, Clarence did not particularly like himself. Lily said she was never judgmental, but she provides candid, disturbing descriptions of Clarence: He was a selfish, sloppy drunk, who would come to her apartment and drink all the liquor. He was slovenly, and dressed like a bum. He was addicted to porn. Clarence was a rather angry, vengeful man.

Oozing hatred for Blacks who disagreed with him, Clarence Thomas regularly recited a racist chant under his breath — a chant featuring the “n” word.

Early 1980s: According to numerous women, as he slogged away at an EEOC job he loathed, Clarence Thomas was consistently aggressive and inappropriate with women. Targeting and stalking women in the workplace. Preying upon his female subordinates. Women hid from him. Women quit their jobs to escape him.

The Metamorphosis

It is Lily’s remembrance that Clarence Thomas possessed and effectuated the ability to transform and mask himself in order to succeed. Thomas devoted the late ‘80s to molding himself into his vision of the the ideal Black conservative — striving to win attention and success in elite political circles, especially the Reagan and Bush administrations.

“I’m their guy,” Clarence would chime, radiating with pride. White conservatives were in awe of Clarence Thomas, and he was beyond thrilled by the glowing adoration and acceptance.

Clarence Thomas’s strenuous efforts to be a model Black conservative did pay off in his professional life, but not with the more liberal Lily.

Instant Chemistry

In 1986, Clarence met Ginni Lamp — ultra-conservative and white. Even though he had long been strongly opposed to interracial romance, there was something about his connection with Ginni that changed his mind.

Clarence soon became Ginni’s guy.
Marriage ensued in 1987, and the evolution of Clarence Thomas continued — further right.

By 1989, Clarence felt like he was truly President George H. W. Bush’s guy — set for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Black Solidarity

In 1991, the GOP’s ideal Black conservative was indeed nominated. Incredibly, simply because of Thomas’s race, there was broad support in the Black community for Clarence Thomas when he was first nominated for the Supreme Court to replace Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Ultimately, however, upon close examination and consideration of Thomas, America’s most prominent Black leaders resolutely rejected him. Additionally, abortion rights groups criticized and campaigned against him.

Still, Clarence Thomas appeared to be on his way to an easy confirmation, until the hint of a dramatic bombshell suddenly surfaced.

Details below in Slow Burn:

[Jun Byun @ChillinMilin]

@espn “Experts”

[Nodutdol | 노둣돌 @nodutdol]

France has put a stolen Korean artifact on display in a Paris museum — with no plans to ever return it to Korea.

Jikji is the oldest book that was printed using metal moveable type. It was printed in Korea in 1377, and taken by the first French consul to Korea in the 1890s.

[KTVU @KTVU]

A lawsuit has been filed against a Northern California county alleging the sheriff and other officials engaged in a racial targeting campaign to threaten and intimidate Asian Americans in an effort to "isolate them and drive them out of the region." https://t.co/gJp6I6RElY

[John Kruzel @johnkruzel]

JUST IN: American confidence in Supreme Court sinks to lowest level ever recorded by Gallup https://t.co/oNLapHJdW9

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.

[Johnny Stanton IV @johnnystantoniv]

I just found out the person killed in the Laguna Woods shooting yesterday was my primary care physician, Dr. John Cheng. Absolute hero. He attacked the gunman and helped save so many in that church. I just wanted his name to be known. He will be missed.

[Phil Yu @angryasianman]

At the end of a debate for Santa Clara County District Attorney, DA Jeff Rosen refused shake hands with challenger Daniel Chung, then tripped him. What is this, a kids’ soccer game? No, because that shit would not be tolerated in kids’ soccer.

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

“My Korean immigrant parents often told me when I was growing up: ‘Don’t make trouble. We’re guests in this country.’ Never mind that I was born here, and that my parents are Americans, too,” writes @patriciapark718.
https://t.co/8knoQTyFul

[Jun Byun @ChillinMilin]

@clairecmc Where’s the same energy for all the white men (who have NO Chinese heritage) playing on China’s hockey team? Why not hashtag them? #EileenGu #jeremysmith #jakechelios

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

My father didn’t just happen upon death.

White supremacists assassinated him to silence his voice & stop his work of eradicating the “Triple Evils”: Racism, Militarism, Poverty.

Those who unrepentantly benefited from these evils railed against their eradication. They still do.

[𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑎 @MeliMels99]

I hope you will take a couple of minutes to watch this. Her name is Melanie Moore and she is from Georgia.
The whole country needs to hear this. Please watch.

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Goober the Clown
(who had an abortion when she was 23)

[Kimmy @kimmythepooh]

Experts say the wave reflects an emergence of an AAPI gen,mostly kids of immigrants, better poised than their predecessors to become agents in the pol process,&that ideas of AAPI as unfit to be leaders has begun to dissolve
my latest w/@sakshi_saroja
https://t.co/gyEGnvr6Zl

[The Good Liars @TheGoodLiars]

This guy says Critical Race Theory is the most important issue in the Virginia Election. He also says he has no idea what Critical Race Theory is.