The best valedictorian speech ever… “Fuck ICE, and Fuck the Trump Administration…”

@RepDerekTranCA It's a slap in the face to our Vietnamese community when you continue to use our refugee stories and trauma in your criticism of other politicians, while ignoring the rights that have been ripped away from immigrant communities here. It's time for you to step up and defend us.

Where is the outrage for Vietnamese refugees who are being detained without due process and deported to Vietnam by the Trump administration, @RepDerekTranCA? Your constituents in the 45th have called on you to defend their rights. Where have you been?

The Democratic Party is not the party of the working class. This is the consequence of co-opting progressive movements to please corporations and billionaires. Trump’s fake economic populism has moved the working class towards fascism and nativism.

BREAKING: OC Supervisor Andrew Do resigns effective immediately, following announcement he agreed to plead guilty in scheme to steal millions of dollars meant to feed needy seniors.

VietRISE, @HarborInstOC & @OCJusticeFund respond to Andrew Do’s resignation and guilty plea announced today. Do’s resignation is a necessary but insufficient response to the rampant corruption he has perpetuated while in office. He represents the worst of our elected officials.

I don’t aspire to be a media watchdog, the glass houses of my 29 years in daily journalism, etc. But when I woke up to *this* as the lead online article for America’s most powerful news organization, I winced. And it’s bothered me all day, because of its sweeping assertions. 🧵

BREAKING: Orange County officials are demanding the refund of millions in tax dollars that county Supervisor Andrew Do gave to a nonprofit linked to his daughter — saying Viet America Society has failed to show it actually did the work it was paid to do. https://t.co/Jc6JfaZZrS

Santa Ana is one of the many cities in CA w/ the constitutional autonomy to expand the electorate to noncitizens. Immigrants and refugees are the economic backbone and heart of Santa Ana. https://t.co/w8NuqLWUVJ

SAVE THE DATE for our 2024 Little Saigon Community Festival: Rise for Justice! We're thrilled to announce that we are bringing back the 3rd Little Saigon Community Festival this Fall! The theme for this year is 'Rise for Justice.' Get tickets here: https://t.co/SL818Q990I🌳🥳

Link to the full 2024 Asian American Voter survey published on July 10:

A new 2024 national survey on Asian American voters reveals significant ideological shifts among Vietnamese voters. These findings confirm what we've known: Vietnamese Americans are advocates for social justice & support progressive policies that uplift marginalized communities.

https://t.co/jPGw4HC5UV

Badr Dahlan’s full interview, listen to what he has to say, I have no words to describe what he’s been through.

Bader Dahlan, 29, recently released from an Israeli prison, endured severe torture including electrocution and brutal beatings during his one-month detention. Held in Netzarim, Khan Yunis, he describes prison as a nightmare, recounting forced movements on his hands and repeated

📢 Read our OpEd at the Voice of OC: It’s Time for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department to End All ICE Transfers https://t.co/2OkZfxQwUo

And Do hasn’t resigned either, a statewide embarrassment.

Kind of racist by this tabloid to mix two Latino councilmember last names 🤷🏽‍♂️

I didn’t receive an email to file a form by the city as stated in the @OCIndependent2 article, so what’s there to report here? How about you talk about the $13 million in taxpayer money that Supervisor Andrew Do funneled to his daughter’s nonprofit? Now that’s a story

Anyway, the @OCIndependent2 is just a far-right tabloid in Orange County that can’t get their facts right. They previously incorrectly “reported” that I was appointed to the rent board by Lopez, when I was appointed by CM Vazquez. The sworn FPPC complaint messed up on this too.