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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸

@nkfinity.bsky.social

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Japanese/Chinese ハーフ living in the USA 大田区🇯🇵 X 辽宁🇨🇳 X SF Bay Area🇺🇸 Has a Japanese soul, an American brain, and a Chinese stomach. Born in Japan, roots for Japan in the Olympics🇯🇵🎌🇯🇵 Somewhat of an Japan Knower. Loves history. Radical Qing monarchist?

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · Nov 10

My 2026 prediction: Dems win the House.

My 2026 hot take: Dems take the Senate through AK, NC, OH, ME.

My 2028 hit take: Ruben Gallego over Nikki Haley.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6h

But especially Reagan judges who actually believed every word about liberty, democracy, and the American Way.

Their anger is vicariously *scary* when deployed against MAGA tyranny.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 4h

this is an incredibly brave thing he did and it’s even more brave that he actually told a journalist about it because there’s a 98% chance they will doxx him in exchange for a signed photo of donald trump

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 4h

My first-world problem at Japanese continental breakfast is that all my faves are rice bowls. 卵かけご飯、海鮮丼、カレーライス、オムライス、Choosing between them is painful.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 6h

the media likes republicans and wants them to win

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 8h

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h

The right-wing tech oligarchs are perhaps more oligarch than right-wing. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 7h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 9h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

I'm surprised no one has invented hostess clubs in the West because that is essentially the same model

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 11h

The latest from Young Men Research Initiative: Young men are increasingly using OnlyFans to have someone to talk to

open.substack.com/pub/youngmen...

Young Men Use OnlyFans for More than Just Porn

How the pay-per-view site is becoming an emotional support system

open.substack.com

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 15h

It's so funny that people copy this, given that DOGE was basically the least effective domestic US policy initiative of all time.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 15h

Think I'm going to cancel my Post subscription and find some other local news source to support

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 17h

Nothing super special about it but always gotta get エビチリ while in Japan because it’s the one type of Chinese food you can’t really find in the US. (At far as I know at least)

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 17h

I haven’t looked at it super deeply but I imagine Takaichi wanted to have certain scandal-hit LDP members in the cabinet without committing to any kind of housecleaning.

川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 18h

Watching NHK with the in-laws.

Picked a great time to be in Japan.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 18h

I guess I didn’t expect the bottom to fall out this quick. But Takaichi must’ve said something real stupid in her meeting.

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 20h

Btw I do like to emphasize this was probably foreseen by LDP elders. They aren’t stupid. While Komeito has been a reliable coalition partner I feel like this is almost a calculated move to breathe into like new alliances (Ishin?)

osakakanagawa50.bsky.social @osakakanagawa50.bsky.social · 21h

She is really from Japan's Margaret Thatcher to Japan's Liz Truss real fast.

Her only hope is pulling in both DPFP & Ishin into the government.

Keeping LDP minority government isn't feasible for her.

Can't believe we're not passing a week yet.

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osakakanagawa50.bsky.social @osakakanagawa50.bsky.social · 6d

Unless she can prove the critics wrong, not surprised if election will be held next year.

There's non-zero chance snap election can be called immediately.

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 20h

Lmao I predicted a few months? Turns out I was very wrong. I was pretty down on Takaichi but I underestimated how deeply everyone hated her.

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 22h

This is a big part of why I found a lot of the dooming over Takaichi to be so silly. She is deeply unpopular on her right flank and most likely would never have a strong enough mandate to do anything.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 22h

NHK: Japan’s Komeito Party Quitting Ruling Coalition with LDP

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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING:

"Japan's Komeito party will leave the ruling coalition led by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), public broadcaster NHK reported on Friday, casting uncertainty over the LDP's ability to govern as Sanae Takaichi takes over as new leader."

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. British Curry originates from India, and the British spread it to Japan.

There’s a whole-ass story about the Japanese Navy adopting British curry as a staple food to prevent Biri Biri. And now every JSDF navy ship has its own “lineage” of curry recipes.