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David Ambaras

@borderlander62.bsky.social

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Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · Feb 23

NO KINGS, NO FUHRERS

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 7h

Republicans seem horny to stomp out the No Kings protest now. Which only shows why the protests are necessary.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 2h

No army to fire on the Bonus Army

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h

The US military stops getting paid from next week.

White House has, for now, ruled out legislative fix for military pay

Over 1 million military paychecks could go unfulfilled on Oct. 15.

www.politico.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h

No Kings protests, and anti-regime protests in general, serve two main positive functions:

1) Reminding participants and observers that they’re very far from alone, countering regime efforts to divide and isolate

2) Showing the absurdity of regime lies about the peaceful, pro-democracy opposition

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 6h

Funny they can't say the name of protests because saying "No Kings" makes it soooo clear it's the opposite of a "hate America rally"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 2h

Vladimir and Estragon's Excellent Adventure

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 8h

My wife and I are going to see Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Waiting for Godot this weekend.

I’ve never seen the show before. Which one of them plays Godot?

David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 2h

Bari Weiss actually owns 147 Google accounts

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2h

I think something has to be really wrong with you to be in ICE right now

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 2h

He's gonna get the Presidential Medal of Freedom Fries with that shake

David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 2h

Trump will think that he has to murder more Venezuelan fishermen

Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 4h

Idk maybe we should incentivize Trump to achieve real peace by giving him the Nobel peace prize

David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 2h

The revolution will be inflatable

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 2h

Rubio: Mr. President, I have some good news and some bad news.
Trump: What's the good news?
R: The Nobel Prize has gone to a far-right friend of Bolsonaro's.
T: And the bad news?
R: (Sinks into couch)

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 7h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 21h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

NEW: Florida's surgeon general Joseph Ladapo isn't just guided by science—his beliefs are shaped by a wife who says she can speak to spirits and levitate, and an energy healer guru.

The latest from @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social:

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

www.motherjones.com

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 5h

No Kings was never photographed with Jeffrey Epstein

Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 6h

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 5h

Qatamericar First!

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

??????

www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho

The move is a sign of increasingly close ties between the U.S. and Qatar.

www.cbsnews.com

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 5h

Dimwit Operative as Gauleiter Executive

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 8h

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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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 5h

Excellent response. My one quibble: "our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone" should be "our core belief that academic research funding should be based on academic merit alone."

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 8h

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5h

There is no need to editorialize. Just quote.

“Why don’t we tattoo a Star of David on the forehead of every terrorist we have to release?” - My daughter

Proud father.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 5h

Caudillos Unite!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 5h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 20h

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

UNC is one of the brightest spots in LIS and nothing I have read about this forced merger makes me feel like decisionmakers care.

They're jumping onto a bandwagon, hoping to "career readiness" HE, and are willing to ruin the reputation of everyone involved to make conservative politicos happy.

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