National Security Agency director Robert O’Brien, 2020
U.S. fantasies of expansion, commercial dominion, and military prowess have long hinged on a premise of Pacific exceptionalism. Couched in the millenarian language of manifest destiny, the Pacific region and its multitudinous ecosystems, cultures, peoples, and nations have been vacated in favor of an
aqua nullius that frames the region as an empty space designated for U.S. possession by divine providence.
This manufactured Pacific
idea what David Palumbo-Liu describes as a “repository of the American imaginary” has borne many names.
3 Amid the nineteenth-century annexation of Hawai‘i and the colonization of the Philippines, politician Whitelaw Reid heralded the ultimate conversion of the Pacific into an “American Lake.”
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For years, late-night television host James Corden has played a food-based truth or dare with celebrities called
Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts. Participants choose to either answer personal questions or take a bite of a food deemed disgusting to eat, like ghost pepper hot sauce, a sardine smoothie or dried caterpillars.
“Wow, it all looks so terrible,” Jimmy Kimmel, host of late night show
Jimmy Kimmel Live! said as he appeared on Corden’s segment in 2016. “I know people can’t smell it, but it doesn’t smell good, either.”
James Corden hosts The Late Late Show and has come under fire for a segment involving Asian delicacies.
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By Kathy Chouteau
Rep. Mark DeSaulnier is set to host two town halls on Fri., May 28. First up will be a webinar on “
Navigating the Immigration System” from 12-1 p.m. PT, followed by a “
Conversation on Race Town Hall on the Fight to Address AAPI Hate in America” from 3-4 p.m. PT. Both events will be held on Zoom and streamed live on Congressman DeSaulnier’s Facebook page.
During the Navigating the Immigration System webinar, the California congressman will be joined by special guest Jennifer LaForce, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) community relations officer, San Francisco District. LaForce will give participants an update on the latest changes at USCIS and address questions about securing visas, applying for citizenship and other topics of interest.