John Kawakami
@johnkawakami.bsky.social
How We Stop War – Using history to reduce armed conflict
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December 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
SO I'm reading this about Charlie Chan, and OMG, the people don't get it. They are not realizing it's a stereotype, and the reason why there was protest wasn't just the corniness of Charlie Chan in the past, but the anger against Hollywood circa 2000.
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Charlie Chan Banned
From IMDB
"After receiving complaints from Asian-American organizations, the Fox Movie Channel has not only canceled its planned "Charlie Chan's Mystery Tour" film festival, but has banned all Charli...
animesuperhero.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
SO I'm reading this about Charlie Chan, and OMG, the people don't get it. They are not realizing it's a stereotype, and the reason why there was protest wasn't just the corniness of Charlie Chan in the past, but the anger against Hollywood circa 2000.
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animesuperhero.com/forums/threa...
All claims of original thought, of discovery, are suspect.
December 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
All claims of original thought, of discovery, are suspect.
Yes. Jack London was a racist elitist who looked down on Black people. This article ignores that he also hates Chinese.
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Jack London, Celebrity Socialist at 150
For more than 100 years, his short story, "To Build a Fire," was required reading for nearly every school kid in the US, most likely to teach them the
www.counterpunch.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Yes. Jack London was a racist elitist who looked down on Black people. This article ignores that he also hates Chinese.
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I'm listening to WHAT IS POLITICS? | 12.3 The Great Land Theft (secret history of Israel / Palestine pt. 3) on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/dir-wfd2y...
12.3 The Great Land Theft (secret history of Israel / Palestine pt. 3)
In this chapter of Secret History of Israel/Palestine, we look how the small urban elite stole much of region’s land from it’s rightful peasant owners, turning them from an independent tribal peasantr...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I'm listening to WHAT IS POLITICS? | 12.3 The Great Land Theft (secret history of Israel / Palestine pt. 3) on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/dir-wfd2y...
What if we had a SoCal Adobe Plan, where older suburban houses would be replaced with 1 or 2 adobe/cob houses? This could increase housing density, reduce energy costs, lengthen house life (into centuries), use up lawn space (and thus, reduce water use)...
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
What if we had a SoCal Adobe Plan, where older suburban houses would be replaced with 1 or 2 adobe/cob houses? This could increase housing density, reduce energy costs, lengthen house life (into centuries), use up lawn space (and thus, reduce water use)...
I'm so happy to see they are turning golf courses into neighborhoods.
Residents push back against housing development in Woodland Hills – NBC Los Angeles share.google/aMAHaFNY3A2T...
Residents push back against housing development in Woodland Hills – NBC Los Angeles share.google/aMAHaFNY3A2T...
Residents push back against housing development in Woodland Hills
Dozens of people packed the pews of St. Mel Catholic Church Friday to come up with a plan to stop developers from closing a historic golf course and country club to build nearly 400 homes on the land....
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December 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I'm so happy to see they are turning golf courses into neighborhoods.
Residents push back against housing development in Woodland Hills – NBC Los Angeles share.google/aMAHaFNY3A2T...
Residents push back against housing development in Woodland Hills – NBC Los Angeles share.google/aMAHaFNY3A2T...
If you get charged a late fee on you card, you can talk to the chat bot to have it waived.
December 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If you get charged a late fee on you card, you can talk to the chat bot to have it waived.
Reposted by John Kawakami
Denmark has reached a deal to compensate thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland over cases of forcible contraception carried out by health authorities over decades starting in the 1960s.
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Denmark to compensate thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland over forced contraception
The Danish health ministry said Wednesday that women who were given contraception against their knowledge or consent between 1960 and 1991 can apply for individual payouts of 300,000 Danish kroner (ab...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Denmark has reached a deal to compensate thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland over cases of forcible contraception carried out by health authorities over decades starting in the 1960s.
www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
At the City of Bell City Council meeting. Mobile home residents are objecting to the city sale of their mobile home park, which is city owned.
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
At the City of Bell City Council meeting. Mobile home residents are objecting to the city sale of their mobile home park, which is city owned.
Did a search for Catherine Liu and Vivek Chibber, and saw this author. On my to read list. jacobin.com/author/nived...
Nivedita Majumdar
Nivedita Majumdar is a professor of English at John Jay College, CUNY. She is cochair of the John Jay chapter of Professional Staff Congress, the CUNY faculty and staff union.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Did a search for Catherine Liu and Vivek Chibber, and saw this author. On my to read list. jacobin.com/author/nived...
If you're not interested in late 19th to 20th century American elite intellectual liberalism and the tendency toward anti-intellectualism, this podcast might get you interested. Varn Vlog interviews Daniel Tutt, both from a radical socialist perspective.
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America’s Battle Over The Intellectual with Daniel Tutt - Varn Vlog
What if America’s “anti-intellectualism” isn’t a decline in smarts but a culture built to distrust theory? We trace that paradox from Puritan moral rigor and pragmatist “cash value” truths to the post...
varnvlog.buzzsprout.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
If you're not interested in late 19th to 20th century American elite intellectual liberalism and the tendency toward anti-intellectualism, this podcast might get you interested. Varn Vlog interviews Daniel Tutt, both from a radical socialist perspective.
varnvlog.buzzsprout.com/1777565/epis...
varnvlog.buzzsprout.com/1777565/epis...
Replacing Calibri with Times New Roman, because Calibri was too accommodating for people with disabilities.
Unreal. What kind of bugs is TNR isn't even an "old" face. It was commissioned in 1931 by The Times in the UK. This was contemporary with other new faces like Gill Sans.
Unreal. What kind of bugs is TNR isn't even an "old" face. It was commissioned in 1931 by The Times in the UK. This was contemporary with other new faces like Gill Sans.
My initial instinct was to rage against Rubio, but I don't think that's particularly helpful.
So instead, I'm going to share the 2023 WaPo article explaining Blinken's rationale, and why it's genuinely important we all think about these aspects of accessibility.
Gift link here: wapo.st/4oJuDYQ
So instead, I'm going to share the 2023 WaPo article explaining Blinken's rationale, and why it's genuinely important we all think about these aspects of accessibility.
Gift link here: wapo.st/4oJuDYQ
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
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December 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Replacing Calibri with Times New Roman, because Calibri was too accommodating for people with disabilities.
Unreal. What kind of bugs is TNR isn't even an "old" face. It was commissioned in 1931 by The Times in the UK. This was contemporary with other new faces like Gill Sans.
Unreal. What kind of bugs is TNR isn't even an "old" face. It was commissioned in 1931 by The Times in the UK. This was contemporary with other new faces like Gill Sans.
A couple more. I'm not that happy with these, but they still look cool to me.
December 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
A couple more. I'm not that happy with these, but they still look cool to me.
My liberal snowflake.
December 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
My liberal snowflake.
