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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2h

Japan’s far right is on the rise, alarming foreign workers. Nowhere is that anxiety more apparent than in the city of Toyota, where immigrants power the economy while facing political backlash.

Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them

In the city of Toyota, immigrants help power the economy while facing political backlash.

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 2h

the freaking Portland protest frog is warming up in the pen

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 2h

The innings will continue until morale improves.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 8h

I love this image.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2h

Frogs are the canaries, apologies for mixing metaphors, for climate change and the fact that they ever represented fascism was an obvious misstep, I mean Kermit alone, Jim Henson did acid one recorded time and he just sat quietly in a chair and his humanist values endured

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2h

Low key pumped that we’re taking back frogs

Frogs are a 90s ecology symbol frogs are woke as hell

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 8h

I love this image.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2h

It's not a reasonable position, and if it gains popular support it'll be a complete fucking disaster. And yet.

AND YET.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2h

This is what I mean when I say, when it comes to political positions, most ppl just run on vibes. 100% feelings-before-facts. Japan is screaming towards a population crash at 1,000 MPH, it's not reversible at this point. But you have political parties agitating to return to hermit kingdom status.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2h

Japan’s far right is on the rise, alarming foreign workers. Nowhere is that anxiety more apparent than in the city of Toyota, where immigrants power the economy while facing political backlash.

Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them

In the city of Toyota, immigrants help power the economy while facing political backlash.

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 2h

Baseball fans rn

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h

There is no light here. Not even God’s grace can reach us.

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 3h

this headline would be fine without that last s

Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 3h

"Firm views"

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 19h

Israel’s new “agreement” with Hamas isn’t a peace deal, it’s a tactical pause. Troops remain inside Gaza, “repositioned,” not withdrawn. Netanyahu says they’ll still “act against threats.” Hostages will return to Israel, but peace isn’t next. It’s waterfront property for Trump.

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Gus & Echo @katskitties.bsky.social · 4h

What? You were just about to put the iPad away. Too bad. I’m using it

Echo is sitting neatly on top of human’s iPad which is laying in the middle of the bed.

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🎃Nosferascoob🎃 @scoobydouchebag.bsky.social · 1d

We are the sons of the Hamburger you couldn't Help

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 3h

"why make AI generated videos of ICE beating and kidnapping people when we already have a lot of real ones? you don't need to convince the left it's happening!!"

the point is to muddy the waters and give the right ammo to insist ALL the videos are/could be AI if a few of them are. #political

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Lazersaurus @robertinks.bsky.social · 4h

If the word "Harryhausen" means anything at all to then you have got to watch the new Deathstalker. What an absolutely stupid-good time.

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 7h

can you imagine half-assing a last-minute ceasefire that won't last a week and still not getting the Nobel Peace Prize

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Animation Magazine @animag.bsky.social · 10h

Netflix, Gobelins Paris and multi-Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pinocchio,
www.animationmagazine.net/?p=3279350

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 3h

ICE out of Portland!
#abolishICE #resist #PDX

A digital drawing of a frog standing on a bright red background. The frog is holding a sign that says “ICE out of Portland”. The frog looks mad.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 12h

There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers.

But no $ for health insurance for Americans?

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SmallBu Animation @smallbu.bsky.social · 8h

We did a bunch of this! Happy day!!!!

Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 12h

Hey everyone, we have some big news to share!

LACKADAISY - Last Call

A preview of Lackadaisy Season One - the Speakeasy is in its prime as Mitzi and the band regale the crowd with an original musical number, Last Call. This seemed like the ideal way to announce that Lackadaisy is now officially a ‪Glitch‬ Production!!

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 3h

GOOD NIGHT,
HERMAN

NANCY SAYS GOOD NIGHT TO HER PET FISH HERMAN.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 5h

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 5h

I think a lot about how Michelle Obama remarked on regularly being in rooms with the most powerful and wealthy people in the world and her chief takeaway was that they're just not that smart

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 5h

"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 5h

billionaire brain rot is WILD

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