Politically Asian! Podcast

New Tuesday, new episode! This week in Asian American politics: Republicans whistle a different tune this week saying Chinese non-citizens can still buy land in Texas, but there's still lots of room for false accusations and bans for people "associated with" the government  Julie Su is nominated for Department of Labor Secretary and we talk about her red flags and green flags Racist Dilbert c...

New episode out now! This week in Asian American politics: We made enough "Ohio" jokes on Tiktok and now a train derailed. Why should Americans who have never been to Ohio/will never go to Ohio care? How will it impact YOU? Because spoiler, it does! The NYTimes asks 12 Asian Americans a couple of questions. We thought the questions were basic af and didn't allow for nuance in conversation—what did...

New Tuesday, new episode! This week in Asian American news and politics: Nimarata Randhawa aka Nikki Haley announced her intent to run for president Asian Americans flock to the Southeast, particularly North Carolina; Texas politicians push a bill that would bar Chinese people who aren’t American citizens from buying property East Harlem experiences an influx of low-income and elderly Asians movin...

New Tuesday, new episode! Also happy Valentine's day to our listeners we love you. This week in Asian American politics - The Chinese balloon. Is it a spy balloon, is it not, is it a threat, is it not? And some stuff on America gearing up to profit from a US-China war - Biden's State of the Union 2023 - Ron DeSantis bans any book that remotely makes white people feel uncomfortable - COVID in the U...

New Tuesday, new episode! This week in Asian American politics - Updates on the motive for Half Moon Bay shooter - COVID racism cost Asian restaurants $7.4bil in 2020 - Daniel Dae Kim says Crazy Rich Asians also held a lot of Asian American films back - College Board dilutes AP African American history after conservatives complain - Half a million people go on strike in Britain -- CHECK US OUT ON...

New Tuesday, new episode! This week in Asian American politics - TW/CW: We talk about the Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay shootings, our reactions at the time, discussions on elderly, immigrant Asian populations, and more. - Protests escalate in Atlanta as the city and state try to move forward with plans to build an 85-acre sized cop training facility in a forest right next to Atlanta, what peopl...

New Tuesday, New episode! This week in Asian American politics: - K-Pop group Omega X wins its lawsuit against Spire Entertainment, its abusive management company. - Rikers Island may not close, even though the whole plan in NYC was to close Rikers to build "smaller" jails in Chinatown and 4 other locations. But now Eric Adams is saying not only is Rikers closing up in the air, he still wants the...

This week in Asian American politics! - 7,000 nurses strike at two big hospitals in NYC  - Being "tough on crime" and standardized testing are two issues driving older Asian Americans to vote Republican - Biden signs bills preserving Japanese internment camp sites just as Gwen Stefani announces she is "Japanese" - Georgia Tech publishes first paper on TIk Tok not being the big bad security th...

This week in Asian American politics! - Purdue University's Chancellor mocks Asian languages in undergraduate commencement speech but doesn't face any repercussions.. yet.  - A racist at In-N-Out is caught for several racist hate crimes thanks to Tik Tok - American casinos target Crazy Poor Asians - Bodies in China burned on the street at COVID hits China hard before New Years - More drama in...

This week in Asian American politics! - Indian tech workers protest in California over H1B visas and green card restrictions. Currently, Indian tech workers have to wait 150+ years for green card approval. - Boba Guys close their original shops in SF after union busting their workers. - Shocking stories of Southeast Asian prisoners in California who are at risk of being deported by ICE. - End of K...

This week in Asian American politics: - Joe Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act, which sounds like something conservatives would make up to support a "traditional marriage" but it actually protects same-sex marriage and interracial marriage. All it took was Joe Biden's entire life for him to come around on gay people! - Okinawa is home to 75% of US military bases in Japan, and there are many...

This week in Asian American Politics! - Country with the most amount of people (China) listens to its protesting people and loosens up COVID restrictions. Asian Americans in Georgia overwhelmingly vote for Raphael Warnock, helping him beat Herschel Walker, the latest Trump supporter to run for Senate. - WW2 explosives are still buried in Native Hawaiian ancestral lands, preventing Native Hawaiians...

This week in Asian American politics! - The NYPD can now involuntarily hospitalize any mentally ill person on the street who appears "unable to take care of themselves". What could possibly go wrong?  - 2 years ago, NYC launched a $1 million fund for innovative solutions to hate crimes that don't involve the police. The fund was split into many $20k grants, but none of that money has been giv...

New Tuesday, new episode! This week in Asian American Politics - Pacific Island Tuvalu is rapidly sinking underwater, so they're making plans to digitize the entire nation. If New York City ever sinks, please please make  Staten Island go first. - Asian Techpocalpyse is happening as tens of thousands of tech workers are being laid off. Many tech workers are H1-B visa holders and if they can't...

This week in Asian American Politics: - Chinese American scientist Sherry Chen, who was falsely accused of spying and arrested in 2014, wins her legal case. She's settled for $2 million from the US Government and more importantly, a formal meeting and apology from her boss (also the US gov). - The FIFA World Cup is happening this week, but behind the scenes, the organization is exploiting and k-wo...

New Tuesday, new episode! This week in Asian American politics: - The Supreme Court is deciding whether to get rid of affirmative action or not and it's the one of the few times where almost all Asian people have an opinion on something related to politics - LA Chinatown slumlord Don Toy seeks to profit from abusing Asian elders by selling Cathay Manor, one of the last low-income apartment units i...

This week in Asian American politics: - The UK gets its first South Asian multimillionaire conservative Prime Minister! Woohoo? - American Samoans' birthright citizenship case doesn't even get considered by the Supreme Court. What happened to taxation without representation? - A worker dies on the job at Paris Baguette and in classic capitalist fashion, workers are asked to work the next day, lead...

This week in Asian America politics! - Lots of nail salon workers in America are Asian, and this week we talk about how their reproductive health is heavily harmed by the chemicals they work with for 8+ hours a day. In NYC, there are new regulations requiring better ventilation starting this year, but for many workers it's too late. - Shein is the Thanos of worker violations. In a new piece by the...

This week in Asian American politics: - Trump is subpoena'd by the Jan 6th. committee. Elaine Chao finally believes in democracy once rioters take over the capital. Will Trump finally go to prison, or is his plot armor too strong? - U.S. bans all new Huawei devices, proving they can tell Asian (devices) apart. - Seattle cancels plans to expand a 270-bed shelter in Sodo, just south of the Chinatown...

This week in Asian American Politics! - Constance Wu is back online and shares stories of how not all skinfolk are kinfolk, even in the entertainment industry.  - Coastal cities in Southeast Asia are sinking faster from rising sea levels compared to other metropolitan cities due to differences in soil composition. Are we gonna get climate change reparations for smaller countries suffering the...

New episode out now! And maybe one of our best? This week in Asian American politics: - You know what they say, third time's a charm for ending Southeast Asian deportation! There's a new bill introduced by Congress Members in California to end deportations for Southeast Asian refugees who fled to America before 2008… which includes many people who came to America because America destroyed their co...

This week in Asian American politics: - Like a 40 year old dad who tells everyone he played varsity football, Ohio Senate candidates nostalgically cling to the idea of Ohio being a manufacturing state. Despite Ohio having a large nursing industry that makes up most of its economy, these candidates are stoking anti-China flames to bring back manufacturing and get elected, even if this spells Ohio's...

This Week in Asian American Politics - Cambodian refugee Sophea Phea, who was deported by ICE 11 years ago, finally returns to the U.S. and is reunited with family. - "Aesthetic" Asian activists jump on the #StopAsianHate bandwagon for a year and are now trying to solve racism with NFTs. People will think twice about committing hate crimes knowing I have a picture of an ape. - Columbia University...

This week in Asian American politics: - California lawmakers say #ContinueAsianHate and vote to keep the prison-to-ICE deportation pipeline, something that affects many Southeast Asians (see Phoeun You). - SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins takes California back to the 1990s by being "tough on crime." Her team is reviewing past cases to see if hate crime labels can be applied to them retroactivel...

This week in Asian American Politics: - Many low-income Asian women live in conservative states where abortion is now illegal, with one of the main states being Texas. Contrary to what Texas says, it's time to mess with Texas so they stop messing with basic rights. - South Asian Studies programs are being created at more universities. The twist? They're mainly offered at Ivy League$ and there are...