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Assistant editor and columnist for the Opinion section of the San Francisco Chronicle. https://www.sfchronicle.com/author/harry-mok/
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Chipping away at privacy protections can lead to bad things writes University of San Francisco law professor Tiffany Li in a @sfchronicle op-ed.

What’s next?

As a fellow editor of letters to the editor, I concur.

Voice of America silenced.

I take this personally. My dad volunteered while imprisoned at Heart Mountain. He believed in a united front against facism. He was the only one of his squad to survive the war. The 100th was feted in deep red Texas by survivors of the Lost Battalion rescue, a heroic story now buried as “woke DEI”

Two of the most decorated U.S. military units get scrubbed from Army website.

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A federal judge on Friday largely blocked sweeping executive orders from President Donald Trump that seek to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

Among those most bewildered and frightened by a coast-to-coast convulsion of violence linked to a cultlike group of hardcore vegans and well-educated computer savants are the parents of young people who’ve spent time with the “Zizians.”

My column: Trump and the right-wing crusade against DEI, immigrants and transgender rights shows we haven't learned our past https://buff.ly/3X5B8dw

My column: DEI initiatives are aspirational goals to do what the name implies: encourage a diverse environment where everyone has fair opportunities. They’re not about giving one group an advantage or placing some above others

My column: DEI initiatives are aspirational goals to do what the name implies: encourage a diverse environment where everyone has fair opportunities. They’re not about giving one group an advantage or placing some above others

Suspected DOGE impersonators storm S.F. City Hall, demand documents

Chronicle is moving www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...

Slanted Door’s Charles Phan dies https://buff.ly/3PMeN0K

Why do we have birthright citizenship? In 2022, I wrote about Wong Kim Ark’s lawsuit, which seemed to settle the legalities of the 14th Amendment, but defining what being American means has always been elusive. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office jury described it as a brazen “pay-to-play” conspiracy involving former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

Documentary claims Nick Ut didn’t take the photo apnews.com/article/viet...

Stephen Gong had a great run at CAAM https://buff.ly/4fVl1pF

3.7 earthquake https://buff.ly/3PsOrkf

Meta drops its fact-checking program https://buff.ly/4gCd8Xf

My latest column: Dr. Bryant Lin hopes that telling the story of his own cancer can draw attention to the paucity of specialized medical research and treatments for Asians and Asian Americans. tinyurl.com/DrBryantLin

My latest column: Dr. Bryant Lin hopes that telling the story of his own cancer can draw attention to the paucity of specialized medical research and treatments for Asians and Asian Americans. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/asian-lung-cancer-nonsmoker-19991255.php?utm_source=marketing&…

My column: Dr. Bryant Lin's research involved why Asians disproportionately get nonsmoker lung cancer. Now he has it. “Yeah, it is ironic ... It’s ironic that I became the poster child for this.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

This is ridiculous and scary.

7.0 earthquake hits Northern California www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

6.0 quake

Third place, Columns News/Political! Thanks San Francisco Press Club.

I’ve written previously in support of closing SF’s Great Highway (and most of my neighbors hate me for it). I cut through some of that rage in this column.

Unlike the spatula in your kitchen, you can’t control what packages a restaurant uses for takeout. And as of 2021, third-party food delivery has grown into a more than $150 billion global industry. That’s a lot of takeout containers. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/sole...

Batten down the hatches

i haven’t seen many aapi-centric starter packs, so here’s one for those seeking:

My most recent-column @sfchronicle.bsky.social Worst-case scenario is happening