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Jon Funabiki retweeted
26 Sep 2025
FYI there are more of us that said no to the Riyadh comedy festival in Saudi Arabia. Here’s the offer I got back in July
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Jon Funabiki retweeted
15 Sep 2025
Three months ago today, Rep. Melissa Hortman was murdered by a right-wing extremist.
RETWEET to honor her life 💙
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15 Sep 2025
South Korean attitudes toward the U.S. turn ICE-y. No surprise. koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffa…
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Jon Funabiki retweeted
12 Jun 2025
.@SenAlexPadilla is one of the most decent people I know.
This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful.
Trump and his shock troops are out of control.
This must end now.
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Jon Funabiki retweeted
12 Jun 2025
This just happened in the United States of America. Not Russia. Not Venezuela.
A U.S. Senator, manhandled by uniformed officers of the U.S. government, for challenging the Homeland Security director about what's happening in LA.
Every one of his colleagues, Republican and Democrat, should speak out NOW!
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Jon Funabiki retweeted
29 May 2025
Rahm Emanuel on President Trump commuting the federal sentence of Chicago gang co-founder Larry Hoover: “This is a notorious gang leader who had many, many people killed…I always thought, when I was growing up in politics, that the Republican Party was supposed to be the party of law and order.”
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Jon Funabiki retweeted
30 May 2025
"The administration has terminated more than 80% of USAID grants.
"A BU global health professor estimated these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children.
"That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished."
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Jon Funabiki retweeted
29 May 2025
BREAKING: At the Harvard Graduation Ceremony moments ago, Harvard President Alan M. Garber just got a standing ovation after taking a subtle shot at President Trump.
"To the class of 2025, from down the street, across the country and around the world. AROUND THE WORLD! JUST AS IT SHOULD BE!”
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29 May 2025
Meet George Lee: Asian pioneer in ballet and on Broadway | Ten Times Better … 50K views in three weeks! youtu.be/a1B4gqdvwEg?si=uRmH… via @YouTube
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Jon Funabiki retweeted
12 May 2025
It's noteworthy that the same folks in Congress who were clamoring ceaselessly about the "Biden crime family" would sit silently while a president pulls off the most audacious schemes ever to monetize the office for his personal gain.
#phonies
nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/po… via @NYTimes
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13 May 2025
Pinch me! PBS American Masters is now streaming Ten Times Better, the surprising and previously untold story of George Lee, a teenaged Chinese refugee who leapt to fame in George Balanchine's The Nutcracker and the groundbreaking Flower Drum Song. youtube.com/watch?v=a1B4gqdv…
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7 May 2025
We're so excited that Ten Times Better, the extraordinary story of Chinese American dance pioneer George Lee, is now being streamed by PBS American Masters ... pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters…
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Jon Funabiki retweeted
27 Mar 2025
"More than a thousand people gathered at Powder House Square near the Tufts University campus Wednesday evening to protest the arrest and possible deportation of graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk."
wbur.org/news/2025/03/26/pro…
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