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In this official first episode, we introduce our weekly segment, “This Week’s Trump Tweets” #twtt. We also chat about why the AAPI racial category makes no sense, each ethnicities home country politics, and why you should care about these nuances, whether you are Asian or not.

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Episode Links:

• Episode 0 (Listen to this episode to find out why we started this podcast.)
• Sean Spicer’s pre-inauguration interview at the University of Chicago
• Trump talks about how he will use 280 characters to push back on the media
• NBC News report that Trump tried to undermine re: “new job” announcements
• 2010 Census Report on AAPI racial group growth and composition
• Breakdown of locations of the Asian diaspora in America
• Section 203 Voting District
• Wausau, Wisconsin: largest number of Hmong population per capita in the US
• Good primer of the recent armed conflicts between India and Pakistan
• South Korean government monitors Trump’s Twitter account
• Influx of international students to the US, surpassing 1 million in 2016
• AB 1726 in California, proposing to micro-dissect the AAPI category