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Trump 100% sends late night flex texts to his buddy Putin bragging about “conquering” Venezuela and Putin’s response is just “lol Iran tho”

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17/10/2026

I’m delighted to be sharing the stage with my friend and hero David Henry Hwang for this conversation about his life, his plays, the ideas that thread through them and his incredible career as one of the foremost voices of our community! Sure to be packed—if you’re in NYC and able to join please do!

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The City University of New York
Asian American Studies Program
Please join the
Asian American Studies Program
for an evening with Tony- and Obie-award winning playwright
David Henry Hwang
in conversation with journalist Jeff Yang
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 | 6:00 PM
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10065
(between Park and Madison Avenues)
Co-sponsored by:
Hunter College Theatre Department and LGBTQ Policy Center
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DAVID HENRY HWANG is a playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. His stage works include the plays FOB (1980, Obie Award), M. Butterfly (1988, Tony Award), Golden Child (1996, Obie Award, Tony nomination), Yellow Face (2007, Obie Award, Tony nomination), and Chinglish (2011, Drama Desk nomination), as well as the musicals Soft Power (2018, Drama Desk nomination) and Flower Drum Song (2002 and 2025, Tony nomination). Called America's most-produced living opera librettist by Opera News, Hwang has written thirteen operas, including An American Soldier
(2014) and, most recently; The Monkey King (2025). M.
Butterfly, Yellow Face, and Soft Power were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
JEFF YANG is a writer, journalist, and podcast host. He is an expert on Asian American pop culture and is the coauthor of RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now (2022) with Philip Wang and Phil Yu and The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America
(2023). Yang previously wrote the "Tao Jones" column for The Wall Street Journal was the "Asian Pop" columnist at the San Francisco Chronide. He co-hosts the podcast "They Call Us Bruce" with Phil Yu, where they "present an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America" and have twice hosted David Henry Hwang to discuss his work.
Please RSVP here:

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17/10/2026

The definition of yikes

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16/10/2026

Like, just how dumb and bad do you have to be for the dumbest and worst administration in American history to fire you in less than a week?

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16/10/2026

Dear Dodgers Sure does suck to be swept and have the opposing team celebrate on your home turf Signed, Yankees fans

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 14/10/2026

Almost certainly more than a few drinks

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 14/10/2026

Okay, so Jaime West (D), running for city council in Fayette, IN, clearly heavily pregamed before this interview. Not gonna lie tho, there’s something there. “Fire all republicans” because you “just can’t stand ‘em”? Party on, Jaime West. (And watch til her final comment at the end. Woot)

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 09/10/2026

Trump: Paying more for gasoline is patriotic, we all need to make sacrifices for our country’s survival <higher taxes for billionaires> Trump: NO NOT LIKE THAT

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 09/10/2026

There’s nothing complicated about this. If you terrorize LGBTQ people, fewer youth will identify themselves as LGBTQ out of shame and for self-protection. Q.E.D. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

washingtonpost.com

Number of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in ‘free fall’

Conservatives have trumpeted the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but researchers say the reasons for the decline are unclear.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 05/10/2026

Easy one. This incredibly grim childhood body-horror story is still unsettling when I think about it as an adult <shiver>

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 26/09/2026

Honestly their culture may be more sophisticated than ours at this point

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 25/09/2026

Jill Stein: “Three glasses of Cool Aid please”

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Alt: Inglourious Basterds meme three glasses

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 25/09/2026

Our country has become the geometric fucking epicenter of a fascist typhoon of shit and blood, in part due to her repeated acts of partisan sabotage, and as expected, Jill Stein once again draws her guns and shoots the people marching next to her

@DrJillStein
X.com
If you had high hopes for Democratic Party reform, you may want to reset your expectations.
PS. Stop drinking the cool aid.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 25/09/2026

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 19/09/2026

We haven’t had an episode for a few weeks, and this new episode helps explain why. With our old friends George and Traci, we talk about aging parents, caregiving and preparing for end of life—and I share a little about the journey we’ve been on with my dad. theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/they-call-us...

They call us preparing for the inevitable

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 15/09/2026

COYOTE VS ACME manages to make Coyote an incredibly sympathetic protagonist, turns a cartoon caricature of Peter Lorre into a romantic hero and casts Lana Condor to play Will Forte’s niece without explanation needed, so it’d be a win even if it weren’t hilarious