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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

What did Mamdani do today? Also can someone set up an account called "what did Madani do today" so that we can all revel in what he's doing? #zohran #mamdani #mayormamdani

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Want my painting of Anti-Fascist Coyotes? Bid on it now and support a great LA land back org, Coyotl Macehuallis. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Painting of coyotes laughing and being smirk, in purple, blue, and green

Painting of coyotes laughing and being smirk, in purple, blue, and green, framed and hanging on a wall.

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I'm running out of storage space! Looking to donate some older, large-ish paintings to your home, office, or organization's wall. Will deliver if within LA. DM for details! @artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Sending federal agents to Governor Gavin Newsom's press conference in Little Tokyo in front of the Japanese American National Museum is giving peak little dick energy

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.

Call these U.S. Representatives and tell them to vote NO on the “Big Beautiful Bill”:

AZ-06, Juan Ciscomani
CA-22, David Valadao
CA-40, Young Kim
CA-41, Ken Calvert
CO-08, Gabe Evans
FL-07, Cory Mills
FL-13, Anna Paulina Luna
FL-27, Maria Elvira Salazar
IA-01, Mariannette Miller-Meeks
IA-02, Ashley Hinson
IA-03, Zach Nunn
MI-07, Tom Barrett
MO-02, Ann Wagner
NJ-07, Tom Kean Jr.
NY-17, Mike Lawler
OH-07, Max Miller
OH-10, Mike Turner
OH-15, Mike Carey
PA-01, Brian Fitzpatrick
PA-07, Ryan Mackenzie
PA-08, Rob Bresnahan
PA-10, Scott Perry
TN-05, Andy Ogles
TX-15, Monica De La Cruz
VA-01, Rob Wittman
VA-02, Jen Kiggans
WI-01, Bryan Steil
WI-03, Derrick Van Orden

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Little Tokyo is a community of immigrants. Happy to have worked with Mitsuru Sushi to create this temporary mural of the owner's sisters and father. Support this legacy business! Huge thanks to Nellita's Craft for facilitating and for supplies. #art #streetart #mural #portraits #paintings

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Birthright citizenship This Chinese American man's SCOTUS case established it for anyone not yt or black.

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Getting started on a mural for a Little Tokyo storefront that's been boarded up due to protests against the ICE raids. Annoying to see our community of immigrants get tagged up by outsiders protesting in solidarity with immigrants. #immigrants #littletokyo #art #mural

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

When your sign is supposed to say "NO ICE" but ends up looking like "NOICE." Kerning matters. #graphicdesign #noice #meltice

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Remember dear reader, we can no longer call the interment of 120,000 Japanese Americans "bad," it is now officially "double plus ungood." #orwell

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Another portrait for Asian Americans who think ICE is not our fight. Quok Shee came to the US in 1916 with her husband & was detained at Angel Island in SF. She had to fight for nearly 2 years. Finally in 1918 a judge ruled that immigration officials had abused their power & withheld information. ⬇️

An oil painting by Kenji Liu of a Chinese woman, Quok Shee, in blues and yellows. She is facing to the right with a contemplative expression. In the background are shadows of redwood trees and ferns.

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

More for Asian Americans who think the ICE raids have nothing to do with them.

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

For Asian Americans who think the government's anti-immigrant raids have nothing to do with them, a little thread.🪡

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Do you support ICE? Fine. Here's the thing. ICE is violating the 14th Amendment rights of citizens, legal residents, and undocumented people. Supporting ICE means you are against the US as a constitutional republic and for a fascist dictatorship. Just admit it, because the rest of us can see you.

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Laura J. Nelson @laurajnelson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose? Who does the time? Who follows orders? Who salutes longest? Who prays loudest? Who dies first? Who laughs last?

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"Volunteer Fire Department" A thread on advice on extinguishing tear gas disseminated during the HK protests, in rough chronological order when they appeared. It's interesting to see how 'best-practice' evolved through 2019 as frontliners got better at neutralizing the stuff Source: TG (Oct 2019)

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intrusive_thoughts_librarian 💭📚 @sgeez.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Hottest in summer girls-guys-any attire 🥽🥽 ⛑️⛑️ 🛴🛴 🎒🎒 Orange cones brigade

Hottest in summer girls-guys-any attire
Orange cones putting out tear gas canisters
Gas masks, all black clothes, masks, safety goggles, hard hat ⛑️

Hottest in summer girls-guys-any attire
Orange cones putting out tear gas canisters
Gas masks, all black clothes, masks, safety goggles, hard hat ⛑️
Hong Kong protest gear gloves, umbrella

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Melissa Hung @melissahung.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

With alt text

Photograph of a protester in Hong Kong, who is dressed in black, covered nearly head to toe, and wearing glasses and various gear including a yellow construction helmet. Title says: Hong Kong Protest Gear Summer 2019. There are various blocks of text and arrows pointing to the various gear the protester is wearing.

- Yellow construction helmet: Protects against rubber bullets, tear gas canisters, flying bricks
- Broad face cover: To counter facial-recognition technology
- Backpack Typically holds snacks, water, change of clothes, tools and sometimes laser pens to shine in officers' eyes.
- Elbow & knee pads: For for falling, crawling and scuffing on city streets
- Loose change: For subway fare, to avoid being tracked through electronic transit passes
- Goggles: For flying debris
- Gas Mask: Protecting against tear gas, which Hong Kong police use liberallv
- Black t-shirt: Uniform adopted by Hong Kong protestors, in contrast to white Ts, worn by Beijing supporters
- Lycra skin covers: To protect against tear gas effects
- Umbrella: Protection against rain and pepper spray
- Heat-resistant gloves: To throw hot tear gas canisters back at police
Photo: Sasa Petricic/CBC

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Sending 2,000 troops to Los Angeles is the same thing as sending a few dozen random people to a gulag in El Salvador, they're doing this because it's a thing they've always wanted to do, not because of any broader goal or coherent plan. Subordination of strategy to tactical planning.

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

No one is obligated to obey a president who flouts the Constitution.

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I had this painting I didn't like lying around. So I decided to give it a makeover. I worked on composition, value, texture, and color palette. What do you think of the result? Leave a comment! #painting #art #asianamericanartist #figurativepainting #artcollector #losangelesartist

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

What a beautiful definition of writing by Davé, drawing on T. King’s “The Black Shoals” #indifference #anthropology

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/05/2025

If publishing actually wants more working class writers, more POC writers, more trans writers, more disabled writers, more *any* marginalised writers, the solution is really simple: PAY THEM. Give writers enough money to live and they'll give you all the words you want.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 01/05/2025

This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, California celebrates the over 6M people of AAPI descent who call the state home. This month is an opportunity to honor the incredible resilience of AAPI communities and recognize their many contributions to our state.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A district court judge just found that the Alien Enemies Act proclamation is clearly illegal. Guess who appointed this left-wing criminal judge? It rhymes with thump!

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Gratitude to Christine W. Schiepke for buying a giclee print of my painting, "Suehiro Cafe" as part of Art Print LA's fundraiser for wildfire relief. She says: 1/2 #art #artforsale #giclee #artprint #fineart #littletokyo #losangeles #suehirocafe #artcollector

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 22/04/2025

Covid could actually be over if we wanted it to be. But we were too desperate to insist that it was over when it wasn't. Our denial is going to ruin a lot of lives.

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This is why I am working on a portrait series of important historic Asian American court cases, including this one of Wong Kim Ark. My next work in progress portrait is of Bhagat Singh Thind. @bsky.art @abbetuck.bsky.social

oil portrait of Wong Kim Ark in blue, yellow, and gold. An older Wong looks out at he viewer while a younger Wong floats above him.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

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Renee Tajima-Peña @rtajimapena.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Nikkei family! Japanese American National Museum is bravely risking all to fight for our legacy and history while other institutions cower. Our parents and grandparents fought so hard for this museum. Now is our time. Donate! Donate! Fight! Give to JANM today www.janm.org/give

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Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH

The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Part of an in-progress series I'm working on. This 40" x 30" is titled Wong Kim Ark v. United States (1898), a court case which established birthright citizenship. For me it's important to reflect on current events in my #paintings! @art-mutuals.bsky.social #art #wongkimark #asianamerican

Portrait of Wong Kim Ark in gold and blue oil paint. An older Wong sits in the lower two thirds of the canvas while a smaller younger Wong floats above.

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

as anyone tried smashing a Tesla cybertruck piñata yet? i feel like that would be pretty popular.

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"The judge, Naomi Buchwald, said during a hearing in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday that “nothing in the record” indicated that Ms. Chung posed a danger to the community or a “foreign-policy risk” or had communicated with terrorist organizations." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/n...

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Judge Orders U.S. to Stop Attempts to Deport Columbia Undergraduate (Gift Article)

The administration has been seeking to arrest and deport Yunseo Chung, who immigrated from South Korea as a child, after she participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Thank you very much to my recent customers from Los Angeles who purchased these original paintings of Little Tokyo! #art #paintings #littletokyo #losangeles @bsky.art @artisforliving.bsky.social

Small acrylic painting of the Koyasan Buddhist Temple alleyway in Little Tokyo, decorated for New Year's Day. Painting is composed of translucent layers of blue, yellow, red, and orange. At the far end of the alley is the entrance to the temple, and two dark blue figures are walking way from it towards the viewer.

An acrylic painting of the First Street North block of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, featuring the Daimaru Hotel and Far East buildings in the center. The painting is composed of reds, greys, and yellows against a light blue sky.

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Went to see this Sawako Goda exhibit today at Nonaka-Hill. Goda was a Japanese avant garde artist active for 50 years but the 1990s and 2000s are amazing. Recommend! #art #artist #painting

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 14/03/2025

The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history. Archive is here: web.archive.org/web/20250304... Page was here: www.army.mil/asianpacific... Disgusting.

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Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders | The United States Army

U.S. Army Heritage Asian American & Pacific Islander Microsite | The United States Army

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

At #AWP25 in LA this month, visit the Kaya Press booth for outstanding API diasporic literature. And, they'll be selling 8"x10" giclee art prints of my paintings of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Mahmoud Darwish. #poetry #literaryportraits #art

Portrait of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha composed of blues and oranges. Cha looks out directly at the viewer and sports an 80s bob.

Portrait of Mahmoud Darwish in pinks and lavenders. Darwish looks out at the viewer from behind glasses.

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I only have a few months of student loans left under PSLF and technically I have the paperwork showing I've got those months covered, was just waiting for the bureaucracy to take action. They better not expect me to keep paying.

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Kenji C Liu • Asian American muralist and portrait painter @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

If an artist's post about their work falls in the social media forest, does it make a sound?

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The Verge @theverge.com · 21/02/2025

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

We the Builders aims to explain why DOGE’s data access matters.

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