Tamiko Nimura
@tamikonimura.bsky.social
Off socials for 7/25. Writer, community journalist, public historian. Words in SF Chronicle, Zocalo Public Square, Smithsonian, Discover Nikkei, HistoryLink, The Rumpus. 4ever English major. <3: @joshpar.bsky.social Rep: Transatlantic Agency
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Cover reveal for my memoir A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE from UW Press is now up at @discovernikkei.bsky.social
Cover reveal for my memoir A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE from UW Press is now up at @discovernikkei.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Cover reveal for my memoir A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE from UW Press is now up at @discovernikkei.bsky.social
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29 days. What Dems have been asking for remains the same: to negotiate a bipartisan agreement to reopen the government, protect critical programs like SNAP, WIC, & Head Start, and make health care more affordable for all Americans. Dems are here, ready, & willing to work — where are the Republicans?
October 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
29 days. What Dems have been asking for remains the same: to negotiate a bipartisan agreement to reopen the government, protect critical programs like SNAP, WIC, & Head Start, and make health care more affordable for all Americans. Dems are here, ready, & willing to work — where are the Republicans?
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Islamophobia in the US is a bigotry that is fully normalized and mostly unchallenged.
Cuomo has went all in on the anti Arab and anti Muslim rhetoric and decided to laugh along to a "Mamdani would support 9/11" joke.
October 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Islamophobia in the US is a bigotry that is fully normalized and mostly unchallenged.
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NBC News recently laid off 150 staffers in what the company is calling a necessary restructuring tied to the split between NBC News and MSNBC.The team behind NBC Asian America was included in the layoff. #NBCNews #asianamerican #aapi
NBC News Axes NBC Asian America Among Other Cuts in Restructuring
NBC News recently laid off 150 staffers in what the company is calling a necessary restructuring tied to the split between NBC News and MSNBC, as reported by The Wrap and The Advocate . The team behind NBC Asian America, a group of dedicated journalists who spent years telling stories about our community that mainstream media often overlooked, was included in the layoff. For many of us in the Asian American community (and other marginalized groups) this move is more than just corporate...
www.asiandescent.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NBC News recently laid off 150 staffers in what the company is calling a necessary restructuring tied to the split between NBC News and MSNBC.The team behind NBC Asian America was included in the layoff. #NBCNews #asianamerican #aapi
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NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Food banks won't have the capacity to meet the need that will arrive in Nov.
Please consider supporting your local food bank if you can.
Please consider supporting your local food bank if you can.
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Food banks won't have the capacity to meet the need that will arrive in Nov.
Please consider supporting your local food bank if you can.
Please consider supporting your local food bank if you can.
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For DC, this combined with federal workers who are furloughed now needing to access the local food banks, will be devastating
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
For DC, this combined with federal workers who are furloughed now needing to access the local food banks, will be devastating
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"I am both in mourning and angered that so many of our elders (and many of them long gone) devoted their lives trying to prevent what is happening now to vulnerable communities."
- @tamikonimura.bsky.social
- @tamikonimura.bsky.social
An elder once told Tamiko Nimura, “You can be a bridge between communities.” For her upcoming Discover Nikkei essay series, she will highlight Nikkei individuals and organizations actively resisting oppression today.
Read more: discovernikkei.org/e...
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Read more: discovernikkei.org/e...
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Introduction
Back in 2012, not long after I began writing for Discover Nikkei, I was at a Japanese American community event in Seattle. I met one of the event organizers and introduced myself. “Where are you in the community?” she asked. When the organizer asked that, I felt instantly ashamed, though I do not believe that …
discovernikkei.org
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"I am both in mourning and angered that so many of our elders (and many of them long gone) devoted their lives trying to prevent what is happening now to vulnerable communities."
- @tamikonimura.bsky.social
- @tamikonimura.bsky.social
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Read my latest:
Gaza is starving
Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Read my latest:
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Long Lead's newest feature THE AGE OF INCARCERATION puts a human face on one of the darkest stains of U.S. history — the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
It's a testimony of a time when the U.S. locked up its own people simply because of where their families had come from.
It's a testimony of a time when the U.S. locked up its own people simply because of where their families had come from.
Putting American history on ICE
In Long Lead's latest photo feature, some of the last survivors of Japanese American incarceration share haunting memories of injustice that echo to the present day.
longlead.substack.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Long Lead's newest feature THE AGE OF INCARCERATION puts a human face on one of the darkest stains of U.S. history — the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
It's a testimony of a time when the U.S. locked up its own people simply because of where their families had come from.
It's a testimony of a time when the U.S. locked up its own people simply because of where their families had come from.
I had the honor of co-editing the text highlighting stories of 9 Japanese American camp survivors, including @georgetakei.bsky.social . Documentation by Morgan Lieberman, calligraphy by Chiyo Sanada, design by Sarah Rogers. We hope you’ll check it out. age-of-incarceration.longlead.com
Japanese American Incarceration Survivors Remember What the US Forgot
During WWII, President Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act and incarcerated 125,000 Japanese Americans. Eighty years later, some of the camps’ last survivors reflect on lives scarred by injustice.
age-of-incarceration.longlead.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I had the honor of co-editing the text highlighting stories of 9 Japanese American camp survivors, including @georgetakei.bsky.social . Documentation by Morgan Lieberman, calligraphy by Chiyo Sanada, design by Sarah Rogers. We hope you’ll check it out. age-of-incarceration.longlead.com
Taking a social media hiatus for July 2025. See you on the other side. Contact info available on my website. Https://www.tamikonimura.net
July 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Taking a social media hiatus for July 2025. See you on the other side. Contact info available on my website. Https://www.tamikonimura.net
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Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class:
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
July 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class:
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
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Well, that's getting to the point.
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sengov.com/phone/
June 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Well, that's getting to the point.
sengov.com/phone/
sengov.com/phone/
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The MAGA vision is that the federal government should essentially be a massive concentration camp network with a side hustle doling out the occasional subsidies to political clients
June 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The MAGA vision is that the federal government should essentially be a massive concentration camp network with a side hustle doling out the occasional subsidies to political clients
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Big ups to all Schumer’s constituents who made calls and demonstrated today demanding this.
Democrats will force a reading of the entire reconciliation bill
“Schumer believes Americans deserve to hear exactly what’s in this monstrosity”
“Schumer believes Americans deserve to hear exactly what’s in this monstrosity”
June 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Big ups to all Schumer’s constituents who made calls and demonstrated today demanding this.
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Brad Lander is putting on a really lovely demonstration of how Jews can reject white supremacy and build political power for a multiracial coalition. Kristen Gillibrand is showing how white gentiles will use Jews’ fears of antisemitism to advance their own ends. We have a choice of which way to go.
June 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Brad Lander is putting on a really lovely demonstration of how Jews can reject white supremacy and build political power for a multiracial coalition. Kristen Gillibrand is showing how white gentiles will use Jews’ fears of antisemitism to advance their own ends. We have a choice of which way to go.
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I’m begging folks to mask up for Pride events! Show solidarity with your disabled and high risk peers and make the event safe and inclusive for everyone.
Now more than ever we need to stay united and ensure no one is left behind.
Masking is resistance.
Masking is community care.
Now more than ever we need to stay united and ensure no one is left behind.
Masking is resistance.
Masking is community care.
June 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I’m begging folks to mask up for Pride events! Show solidarity with your disabled and high risk peers and make the event safe and inclusive for everyone.
Now more than ever we need to stay united and ensure no one is left behind.
Masking is resistance.
Masking is community care.
Now more than ever we need to stay united and ensure no one is left behind.
Masking is resistance.
Masking is community care.
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Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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you know shit's serious when NYT is using the actual words to describe what's happening
June 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
you know shit's serious when NYT is using the actual words to describe what's happening
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ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
June 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
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Any way, one of the things that keeps me going in these hellish times is remembering that there are more of us — the powers that be just don’t want us to count. But we fucking do.
June 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Any way, one of the things that keeps me going in these hellish times is remembering that there are more of us — the powers that be just don’t want us to count. But we fucking do.
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They're just televising the construction of concentration camps like it's a good thing. This is unimaginably dark.
Ron DeSantis on his new camp for migrants: "We've got showers. There you see the shower and bath facilities."
June 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
They're just televising the construction of concentration camps like it's a good thing. This is unimaginably dark.
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Just called my US rep @repdangoldman.bsky.social to ask him to demand the House censure Ogles for this miserable, bigoted, anti-American, fascist attack - and to do everything he can to defend Mamdani and the rest of us. If you agree, please call your own rep asap.
Find your reps here: reps.fyi
Find your reps here: reps.fyi
Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.
June 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Just called my US rep @repdangoldman.bsky.social to ask him to demand the House censure Ogles for this miserable, bigoted, anti-American, fascist attack - and to do everything he can to defend Mamdani and the rest of us. If you agree, please call your own rep asap.
Find your reps here: reps.fyi
Find your reps here: reps.fyi