Renee Tajima-Peña
Filmmaker PBS Asian Americans, Who Killed Vincent Chin?, May 19th Project, No Más Bebés, Calavera Highway & more
Professor at UCLA
- GOP’s first step in rescuing ICE funding. Don’t fall for it Senators— aka Schumer, Booker, Kaine & Co.
- Border czar Tom Homan will be heading to Minnesota, while Gregory Bovino, the bombastic and controversial Border Patrol chief leading the surge, will soon leave the state. n.pr/49GFyyi
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaReminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaPope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.
- Don’t forget Obama first appointed Homan to ICE. Democratic leadership has a lot of work to do to catch up with their constituents and stand firm on the right side of history startribune.com/tom-homan-minnesota…
- MAGA/GOP shifting from lying about their murders to fabricating Obama adm killings. Obama was guilty of deportations and family separations that many resisted. But masked unidentified thugs brutalizing flower vendors, flouting due process and gunning down peaceful protesters in broad daylight? No.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaA thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020
- For a minute I thought Bill Kristol’s account was hacked. But there it is #AbolishICE
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaBREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaThree journalists, including a CBS News contributor, were killed in an Israeli military strike in Gaza on Wednesday. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-Peña🇫🇷🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪 🇸🇮 Five nations – France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Slovenia – have confirmed they will not join Donald Trump’s Board of Peace at this time, Al Jazeera and BBC report. 👉 What else do we know: ▪️Invitations were sent over the weekend to more than 50 world leaders, according to U.S...
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaPer a 1968 Harris Poll, Dr. Martin Luther King had a public disapproval rating of nearly 75%. The people today claiming it is divisive to condemn the triple evils he fought against—racism, poverty, and militarism—are the people who overwhelmingly hated him when he lived. #MLKDay
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaDr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaAfternoon panelists at our upcoming symposium! Tyler Green, historian, author, and host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast Rafael Gonzalez, President and CEO, Grand Performances Renee Tajima-Pena, Professor, UCLA @rtajimapena.bsky.social Hamza Walker, Director of The Brick and co-curator of Monuments
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaICE is targeting Hmong families in St. Paul as they go door to door looking for people to kidnap. they’re asking “do you have any Asian neighbors”
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-Peña🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaOngoing and obvious reminder that firing chemical weapons directly at people's heads like this *is* deadly force.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaICE awarded Palantir a $30 million contract in April 2025 for ImmigrationOS, a platform delivering "near real-time visibility" on self-deportations and visa overstays. Stephen Miller owns about $200,000 worth of their stock. Expansion of ICE is a gold mine for him. truthout.org/articles/ste...
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaEvergreen.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaIt’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaMarco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
- Another good reason not to drink and drive - or take an Uber - tonight on New Year’s Eve #GoodRiddance2025
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaTomorrow is the last day of this holiday toy drive for Chicago families impacted by ICE. 41 of the 60 kids who were registered have had a present purchased. Organizers are hoping every child and family can receive a gift. Let's help them reach their goal! Venmo: KHPWtoydrive
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaThe first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn’t on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists flew a dozen planes to drop turpentine or nitroglycerin bombs on Black Americans. Viola Fletcher was there. www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-Peña5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaThe British press doesn’t mince words. 🇬🇧
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaAOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaOn this Epstein stuff, just a reminder that multiple contestants in the Miss Teen USA pageant - to repeat, TEENAGERS - said that when Trump owned it, he would walk into the dressing room so he could watch them changing clothes www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kend...
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- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaFrom North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaBREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaThe 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaFor New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city. So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaThis was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaPatel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives. All on the taxpayer’s dime. trib.al/TBvPo7A
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaBREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
- What does it say about a society when this level of state brutality is forgotten and normalized
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaPriorities.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaThat's great! Here's the link to Senator Merkley's YouTube channel and the live feed happening now: www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaIt's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets
- In a year of fires and ICE - LA still has joy and each other
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- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaHow you know you’re at a No Kings rally in Mississippi
- Tag the press if u post images of the millions who marched. Sometimes they need help 👀 @nbcnews @abcnews @cbsnews @cnn @cnnpolitics @newshour @nytimes @wsj @washingtonpost @apnews @latimes @dallasnews @houstonchron @chicagotribune @sltrib @bostonglobe @miamiherald @ajcnews @newsweek @time @people
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaOne of my better shots today (downtown St. Louis, Missouri). #NoKings
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- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaAbout 300 attended a No Kings rally in Fremont, Nebraska.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaAdministrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-Peña“Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.“
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaThinking 🤔 about the meaning of life…..
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaAnyone saying they’re not racially profiling is unserious
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaMy latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
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- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaI knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles. You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaSpot on.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaTHEY CALL US BRUCE, the podcast @angryasianman.bsky.social and I have hosted since 2017, is celebrating our 300th—and what better way than a LIVE convo with longtime pal Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social on his fantastic new book WATER MIRROR ECHO, about our shared inspiration—the great Bruce Lee!
- The takeaway: Why bother flying them in when he could just call them all on Signal? 🤣📲 #PeteHegseth #SignalGate
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaOf course there's no shortage of suppressed speech in this country, but one particular form that I learned about from @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social was just how much abolitionist speech was kept from poor white people in the antebellum South. In many ways they lived under a police state.
- Reposted by Renee Tajima-PeñaArticles that will probably be scrubbed soon: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
