Rejin
@rejinl.bsky.social
Visual artist. Hyphenated American 🇭🇹
Header image is an installation of cast paper sculptures of my late father's tools.
she/her
https://rejinleys.com/
https://www.artsy.net/artist/rejin-leys
Header image is an installation of cast paper sculptures of my late father's tools.
she/her
https://rejinleys.com/
https://www.artsy.net/artist/rejin-leys
Factcheck: FALSE.
Everyone knows trump can't read.
Everyone knows trump can't read.
Trump: "I read a story that I was unhappy with Pete because he was attacking drug dealers. I said that's not exactly right, I would say very much the opposite. Pete Hegseth has been phenomenal. I read a story that I'm unhappy with Kristi. I'm so happy with her."
December 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Factcheck: FALSE.
Everyone knows trump can't read.
Everyone knows trump can't read.
Renaming individual teams to get rid of the racism? 👎🏽
Renaming the entire sport on the whim of a dementia addled loser? 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Renaming the entire sport on the whim of a dementia addled loser? 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Like i said no one in the world plays the game like FIFA www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...
Is it ‘soccer’ or ‘football?’ President Trump wants to rename the NFL
The President said "it really doesn't make sense" to call American football by that name.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Renaming individual teams to get rid of the racism? 👎🏽
Renaming the entire sport on the whim of a dementia addled loser? 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Renaming the entire sport on the whim of a dementia addled loser? 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Why did this take 2 years??
New: City Council’s Ethics Committee is expected to vote as soon as next week to formally censure Councilwoman Inna Vernikov for openly carrying a gun at an October 2023 pro-Palestinian protest, sources familiar tell the Daily News.
w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social
www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/05/n...
w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social
www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/05/n...
NYC Council panel looking at censure for Councilwoman Inna Vernikov over gun incident
The censure isn’t expected to come with any concrete penalty, such as a suspension or fine, but would condemn her actions and be entered into the official Council record.
www.nydailynews.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Why did this take 2 years??
Will the media hound Tisch to disavow her brother's comments? I think we know they'd never drop it if someone connected to Mamdani had made an equivalent statement about a Jewish official.
New: NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch's brother called Zohran Mamdani an "enemy" of Jews during a private charity dinner last night — an inflammatory comment that comes on the heels of the incoming mayor's decision to retain Tisch as NYC's top cop. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/04/n...
NYPD Commissioner Tisch’s brother calls Mamdani ‘enemy’ of Jewish people at charity dinner: sources
Benjamin Tisch, the younger brother of the NYPD commissioner as well as the CEO of the Loews Corporation, took the shot at Mamdani while delivering remarks at an annual charity gala hosted by the M…
www.nydailynews.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Will the media hound Tisch to disavow her brother's comments? I think we know they'd never drop it if someone connected to Mamdani had made an equivalent statement about a Jewish official.
Did I read that right? They arrested a Man for the pipe bombing, not a certain (retiring) congress critter from Georgia? 🤔
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Did I read that right? They arrested a Man for the pipe bombing, not a certain (retiring) congress critter from Georgia? 🤔
We just have to assume Jeffries has also accepted $$$ from lobbyists, unless proven otherwise. Only reason he'd say those charges are "thin."
No floor, all kneeling
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We just have to assume Jeffries has also accepted $$$ from lobbyists, unless proven otherwise. Only reason he'd say those charges are "thin."
Hegseth now saying he had better things to do than stick around and watch that boat strike to its conclusion?! We know the "commander in chief" is checked out, but shouldn't the Manly Man Head Honcho War Fighter put off having that beer until the murdering is over?
December 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Hegseth now saying he had better things to do than stick around and watch that boat strike to its conclusion?! We know the "commander in chief" is checked out, but shouldn't the Manly Man Head Honcho War Fighter put off having that beer until the murdering is over?
Ah yes, the culture that we are known for, that famously is not at all influenced by communities that came here from elsewhere 🙄🙄🙄
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
December 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Ah yes, the culture that we are known for, that famously is not at all influenced by communities that came here from elsewhere 🙄🙄🙄
There's also a wonderful and extensive exhibition of Mel Edwards sculptures at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. What U.S. based cultural institution would have both the courage and the resources to present work like this now?
According to the American Alliance of Museums, one-third of museums in the US have lost federal funding since Trump took office. Within this climate of erasure at home, four exhibitions of Black American artists in Europe take on even sharper resonance.
As the US Slides Into Tyranny, Europe Champions Black American Artists
It’s a striking contradiction: Four Black American artists get major shows in Europe while the American institutional capacity and constitutional protections collapse in tandem.
hyperallergic.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
There's also a wonderful and extensive exhibition of Mel Edwards sculptures at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. What U.S. based cultural institution would have both the courage and the resources to present work like this now?
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Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.
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Promoting my last book!
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Promoting my last book!
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Don't get me started 🤦🏽♀🤦🏽♀🤦🏽♀
Fresh back from a taxpayer-funded trip to Israel and Uzbekistan, Mayor Adams already has plans to visit New Orleans next week to get an award for “his leadership in fighting antisemitism" by a group that honored him for the same thing in Tel Aviv last week.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/24/a...
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/24/a...
NYC Mayor Adams heading to New Orleans for award from same group that honored him in Israel
Fresh back from a trip to Israel and Uzbekistan, Mayor Eric Adams already has plans to hit the road again next week, when he will visit New Orleans to be honored for “his leadership in fighti…
www.nydailynews.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Don't get me started 🤦🏽♀🤦🏽♀🤦🏽♀
Ketchup will be hitting the wall today 😂
A federal judge has dismissed the indictments against NY state Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI director James Comey, ruling that Lindsey Halligan – who brought both of the indictments – was improperly appointed.
Here's the order dismissing the James case without prejudice:
Here's the order dismissing the James case without prejudice:
#140 in United States v. James (E.D. Va., 2:25-cr-00122) – CourtListener.com
ORDER AND ADJUDGED as follows: (1) The appointment of Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney violated 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. (2) All actions flowing from ...
storage.courtlistener.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Ketchup will be hitting the wall today 😂
Real "and yet you participate in society" type question 🤨
Q: Why did you fly here? Aren't trains greener?
MAMDANI: I will use every form of transit and I want to make sure they are all affordable in NYC
TRUMP: That's a lot quicker too, in all fairness. I'll stick up for you.
MAMDANI: I will use every form of transit and I want to make sure they are all affordable in NYC
TRUMP: That's a lot quicker too, in all fairness. I'll stick up for you.
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Real "and yet you participate in society" type question 🤨
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Book/Print Collective
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Introducing the five collective members whose prints are featured in Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio, the latest installment of our annual Black and brown hands making series: Colette Fu, Jennifer Graves, Sun Young Kang, Rejin Leys, & Daniel Minter
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Introducing the five collective members whose prints are featured in Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio, the latest installment of our annual Black and brown hands making series: Colette Fu, Jennifer Graves, Sun Young Kang, Rejin Leys, & Daniel Minter
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Book/Print Collective
🇺🇸
Introducing the five collective members whose prints are featured in Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio, the latest installment of our annual Black and brown hands making series: Colette Fu, Jennifer Graves, Sun Young Kang, Rejin Leys, & Daniel Minter
🇺🇸
Introducing the five collective members whose prints are featured in Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio, the latest installment of our annual Black and brown hands making series: Colette Fu, Jennifer Graves, Sun Young Kang, Rejin Leys, & Daniel Minter
By these standards, there is no such thing as the American people. This land should be turned over to native peoples, who would surely do a better job of governing us than the bunch of fascists in charge now.
1. Ultra-nationalist minister Itamar Ben Gvir posts this just as Israel is reportedly pushing Trump to sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia only on the condition that Saudi Arabia normalize relations with Israel.
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
By these standards, there is no such thing as the American people. This land should be turned over to native peoples, who would surely do a better job of governing us than the bunch of fascists in charge now.
"Golden age of Law Enforcement" but don't you dare call them fascists or authoritarian. 🙄
ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan: "We are ushering in the golden age of law enforcement in this country right now thanks to President Trump and the leadership from Secretary Noem"
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"Golden age of Law Enforcement" but don't you dare call them fascists or authoritarian. 🙄
Hunted? Were they chased through their workplaces by masked men? Were they dragged out of their homes and cars in front of their children, never to be seen again?
Ed Martin: "What this pardon does is help rescue the people who were hunted. The Biden administration hunted the alternate electors who were participating in our constitutional process in 2020 ... they were Trump supporters who believed in the Constitution."
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Hunted? Were they chased through their workplaces by masked men? Were they dragged out of their homes and cars in front of their children, never to be seen again?
Well of course we are 🤦🏽♀
This trip comes as Adams has for weeks openly talked about potentially taking a job related to something international once he leaves City Hall at the end of the year.
As with his trip to Albania last month, NYC taxpayers are footing the bill for his Israel visit.
As with his trip to Albania last month, NYC taxpayers are footing the bill for his Israel visit.
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Well of course we are 🤦🏽♀
Simidor's archive as well as a large selection of books from his collection have found a home at the Haitian Studies Institute. I'm so happy that scholars and community members will have access to this material!
Love to see this next week at @brooklyncollege.bsky.social, inaugurating the Daniel Simidor Reading Room at CUNY's #Haitian Studies Institute.
Daniel was an amazing librarian & activist, who I learned so much from. The panels look great. 🙏 💙@rejinl.bsky.social!
www.eventbrite.com/e/daniel-sim...
Daniel was an amazing librarian & activist, who I learned so much from. The panels look great. 🙏 💙@rejinl.bsky.social!
www.eventbrite.com/e/daniel-sim...
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Simidor's archive as well as a large selection of books from his collection have found a home at the Haitian Studies Institute. I'm so happy that scholars and community members will have access to this material!
Why does WNYC like to describe Mayor-elect Mamdani as a "self described Democratic Socialist?" Does being a member of DSA not make him an *actual* Democratic Socialist? Are they just trying to make him sound less legit?
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Why does WNYC like to describe Mayor-elect Mamdani as a "self described Democratic Socialist?" Does being a member of DSA not make him an *actual* Democratic Socialist? Are they just trying to make him sound less legit?
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This week:
•FAA orders ground stop at JFK & O’Hare due to staff shortages
•USA has now lost 1M jobs under Trump—most since 2003
•US Army told soldiers to go to German food banks
•History's longest Govt Shutdown persists
•House in session only 12 of last 105 days
•Trump blocks SNAP to 42M Americans
•FAA orders ground stop at JFK & O’Hare due to staff shortages
•USA has now lost 1M jobs under Trump—most since 2003
•US Army told soldiers to go to German food banks
•History's longest Govt Shutdown persists
•House in session only 12 of last 105 days
•Trump blocks SNAP to 42M Americans
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This week:
•FAA orders ground stop at JFK & O’Hare due to staff shortages
•USA has now lost 1M jobs under Trump—most since 2003
•US Army told soldiers to go to German food banks
•History's longest Govt Shutdown persists
•House in session only 12 of last 105 days
•Trump blocks SNAP to 42M Americans
•FAA orders ground stop at JFK & O’Hare due to staff shortages
•USA has now lost 1M jobs under Trump—most since 2003
•US Army told soldiers to go to German food banks
•History's longest Govt Shutdown persists
•House in session only 12 of last 105 days
•Trump blocks SNAP to 42M Americans
Yes, go on a cruise. A nice long one. Starting today please 🙏🏽
ADAMS: Now “I don't have to deal with you guys, man. I can fly private now, I can go on a cruise, I can hang out in St. Bart.”
(via @nypost.com)
(via @nypost.com)
November 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Yes, go on a cruise. A nice long one. Starting today please 🙏🏽
An immigrant in Gracie Mansion would be excellent symbolism.
Mamdani won't say whether he plans to live in Gracie Mansion as mayor: "I don’t yet have an answer on where I’m going to be living, but I can tell you where I'm going to be working and that’s City Hall."
He has previously alluded to planning to move into Gracie if elected.
He has previously alluded to planning to move into Gracie if elected.
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
An immigrant in Gracie Mansion would be excellent symbolism.