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May-lee Chai (she/her)

@mayleechai.bsky.social
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Writer. Prof at SFSU. My Hungry Ghosts: Essays & Incantations…coming 9/22/2026! Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain; etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: may-leechai.com

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Tom from Temecula @tomfromtemecula.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 3h
Wait—what? You mean the IRS in 2013 allowed Zuck to receive a tax break on his SALARY? “Meta is already in one sizable dispute with the IRS over this [research & experimentation] tax break, for using it to subsidize Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar pay package.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 13h
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Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 14h
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h
Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 15h
Thanks to everyone who came to my virtual book talk today with author/critic Laurie Hertzel. Our host —the wonderful @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social —has signed copies of MY HUNGRY GHOSTS and THE GHOSTS OF FOURTH STREET and can ship nationwide! moonpalacebooks.com/item/u9g46nc...
Moon Palace Books event flyer with cover of My Hungry Ghosts (book cover:  background with yellow moons) and The Ghosts of Fourth Street (beige background with a house divided into quarters in pink and blue)  Screen shot of Laurie Hertzel (white woman with glasses and light brown curly shoulder length hair) and May-lee Chai ( Asian woman with black glasses and headphones and black hair)Another screen shot showing Laurie Hertzel in teal shirt before book case and may-lee chai gesturing with eyes closed before a Japanese paper screen background
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 18h
Also, some day I’ll stop talking about how amazing the model Athiec Geng is. But not today!
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 23h
WHAT: Saint Laurent (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: chic hopscotch or at a cocktail party you hear a ringing, a calling, & simultaneously 15 of you drop your champagne coupes & form a sisterhood—to OWN THE NIGHT IF IT WERE A SCENT: wheeled suitcase over cobblestone EMOTIONAL RANGE: 🔑/✨ #MJMfashionGuide
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 20h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19h
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday banning local, state and federal law enforcement officers from using gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to people. to.pbs.org/4AUIDXc
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Newsom signs California law banning officers from using gloves that deliver electric shocks
In California, lawmakers passed at least two dozen bills this year seeking to fortify immigrants' rights, restrict cooperation with federal immigration agents and tighten regulations on immigrant dete...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 19h
Recession indicator
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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today’s the day! Tuesday 9/29. Virtual event with Laurie Hertzel (Ghosts of Fourth Street) and @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social at 4:30 pm PT/ 6:30 pm Central/7:30 pm ET! www.crowdcast.io/c/4tcbzpyzdyy8
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My Hungry Ghosts by May-lee Chai
Register now for My Hungry Ghosts by May-lee Chai on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on September 29, 2026, 06:30 PM CDT.
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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh hellll
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unfortunately quite confident, the U.S. Supreme Court will eliminate same-sex couples’ right to marry before 2029. #Project2025 project2025.observer/en
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was the dude who talked about Dylan Roof and HIS family as victims . What a lot of hierarchical minded people think of as “empathy” is just identification . And .. sometimes recognizing identification isn’t about WOKE it’s about HISTORY www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/j...
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Ex-Charleston County magistrate must register as a convicted sex offender after guilty plea to federal charges
After nearly 30 years of wearing black robes and sitting in judgment, James Gosnell stood on the other side of the courtroom, before a judge in federal court July 2, and admitted to possessing and dis...
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#ResistanceRoots The fight for universal healthcare may seem like a relatively recent phenomenon, dating from President Truman’s failed proposal for a national, publicly funded health insurance system in 1945. However, the fight goes back to the 1910s, and it’s linked to anti-labor forces. /1
President Truman addresses a joint session of Congress. On Nov. 19, 1945, Truman sent a groundbreaking Special Message to Congress recommending a comprehensive national health program. His five-part strategy included constructing hospitals and health centers, expanding public health services, investing in medical research and education, providing cash benefits and disability insurance to workers, and prepaid national health insurance. The American Medical Association launched a campaign against it, condemning the plan as “socialized medicine” and comparing it to communism during the early years of the Cold War. By 1946, “conservative” Repubs controlled both houses of Congress and blocked the bill. Truman tried again with subsequent messages to Congress, but the legislative effort ultimately failed. Truman later called this defeat the most troubling disappointment of his presidency. Photo credit: Harry S. Truman Library.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bigots learn from the past better than anyone So long as they do it quickly & quietly, nobody will notice that they've brought back segregation www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
The trans women in sports panic has got to be one of the GOP's most successful manufactured culture war campaigns. Somehow they got a lot of people who would otherwise say they support trans rights to somehow fear "fairness" in sports. It's a non-issue.
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Laurence Thompson @thompsonlg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Canada’s alarming increase in homelessness is not simply a story about a shortage of homes, though inadequate supply & weak tenancy protections are certainly part of it. At its core, the crisis is about affordability, income levels, & the absence of an enforceable right to housing.”
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my colleague: I have a question me: MC: yk period blood & stem cells? is it true no one has researched it because it is icky? me: OK WELL, Menstrual-blood stromal cells were first found in 2007, but the science way to say "icky" is "research is limited due to gender bias & sociocultural stigma"
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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus fucking Christ
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AKlien @ancestrlrge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have 3 sisters. Fellas, do not respond with “not all men” when a woman voices concern for their safety. If you feel need to prove you are not apart of it, do so through action and empathy. And holding your male family and friends accountable.
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Darin Self @darinself.com · 28/09/2026
The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault.
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: A federal judge in Denver says immigration agents involved in two arrests of immigrants in Colorado should be punished for violating a court order on warrantless arrests.
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ICE agents involved in two Colorado arrests deserve to be punished for violating order, federal judge says
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Before this year, the Bay Area weather service office had never issued a coastal flood advisory in September. This week’s advisory marks the second such instance this month, an indication of El Niño’s capacity to raise the seas that will only grow into winter.
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Bay Area gets second-ever September coastal flood advisory as seas rise with El Niño
The unusually high September tides are a taste of what is to come this winter, when record tides are possible.
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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh no. 😥 I love the fog.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Mamdani: "To have a potential governor who embraces ICE and has gone so far as to create effectively a private militia in Nassau County, that is in many ways the antithesis of what people hope for is the future of the state, and yet that is exactly what Blakeman is offering."
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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow Tues Sept 29 at 4:30 pm PT/6:30 pm Central Time/ 7:30 pm ET! Join me and author Laurie Hertzel (Ghosts of Fourth Street) for a virtual book talk abt My Hungry Ghosts and telling the stories that haunt us w @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social . Pre-register here: moonpalacebooks.com/events/58923...
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My Hungry Ghosts by May-lee Chai | Moon Palace Books
Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OOPS! 🫠 So sorry, FAM, we forgot to turn on FREE ART subs this month! Our bad! 🫣 They are turned on now! 🖌️ Free art subs will remain open the entire month of October! Please send us your best! 🎨
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Three people dead, including a child, in attempt to cross Channel to UK
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Three people dead, including a child, in attempt to cross Channel to UK
Dozens also reported injured after inflatable boat carrying 105 people gets into trouble off northern France A child was among three people who died ⁠and dozens of others who were injured while ⁠attempting ​to cross the Channel on Monday, French authorities have said. France’s maritime ​police ‌said ‌it received a ‌distress call in the early hours from an inflatable dinghy carrying 105 people that had ‌run into trouble in calm seas. One report said the vessel had overturned. Continue reading...
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"A demagogue who hijacked American democracy, just as the nation’s founders feared would happen, is devolving into a mad king before our eyes:"
This is exactly why the time to sound the alarm is now, and not Nov. 10 or Jan. 3 when undoing irrational and unlawful moves by the White House will be much, much harder. Look, TV punditry and newspaper analyses that stop pretending the president is a well man, or newspaper editorials calling for his resignation, or leaders in Congress backing impeachment won’t end the crisis...today.

But calling attention now to Trump’s gross unfitness to hold office will set the stage for the battles to come — moving the Overton window on what can be done to restore democracy and helping any sensible Republicans understand there’s still a way to save both themselves and the country before it’s too late.

The right words matter, a lot. We need to start urgently looking for them.
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also notable: (at least) two of the most reviled cops during the 2019-2020 pro-democracy protests, Rupert Dover and David Jordan, were holdovers from colonial times. Good examples of absolute FILTH (failed in London, try HK)
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The reason why Wu Chi-wai ended up shouting in English "Who is your commander" (at the police who had fired tear gas at weaponless protestors -- and, in this photo, then Legislative Councillor Wu too -- back on June 12th, 2019, at Admiralty) is because the commander was a native English speaker...
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胡志偉:我要見指揮官
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At the very least, since the OpenAI Navier Stokes controversy, a suggestive pattern is emerging. Writers remember: they took our work without thinking twice. The commercial and reputational rewards of stealing science may be too tempting www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I once had a male judge on a court of appeals ask me during oral argument if 4 men charged with a gang rape was "just a case of boys will be boys."
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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wild story about scientific discoveries continuing amid T’s funding cuts with quick thinking and an improvised lab. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...
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In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life (Gift Article)
A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Sara Margarita Medina Ramos @sarammedinaramis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Recall... Blood Pressure Medication
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FDA Announces New Nationwide Blood Pressure Medication Recall - AOL
On September 17, the FDA classified an ongoing voluntary recall of chlorthalidone tablets, which are used to treat high blood pressure, as a Class II recall.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Acosta: I think he is in full freak-out mode, sort of like that German movie Downfall, where the Allied forces are advancing on Berlin… I’m almost picturing Trump in sort of the same mindset right now. You know, “This poll says this, sir. This poll says that, sir,” and he’s losing his shit.
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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OMFG State of Connecticut basically charging rent for prisoner’s cell and collecting after they are released
DeSenti's experience is not unique. She is one of hundreds of Connecticut residents who have had money seized in the last five years through a state law that dates back more than three decades. That law enables the
Connecticut Department of Correction to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison and then collect on that debt in certain situations.The state has charged as much as $347 per day, meaning anyone who was imprisoned for a year in Connecticut racked up a tab of nearly $127,000. The state can collect on that debt for up to two decades after people are released from prison.
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Debbie Iron Bow @ironbow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As a child of a survivor of these hellish places called residential school, I can tell you with everything in me that the children who survived told the truth. Everything they said and what they didn't say, happened. We lived with the shell of the humans who came back. We know what they experienced.
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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