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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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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 11h

Yeaaaa like I said she’s not even popular amongst her right flank. Set up to fail.

川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 14h

I think, becoming an adult, I’ve become extremely cognizant of just how much of my motivations are just “want to impress my parents”

Not a bad thing per se but yea, tough to betray your deep cultural roots.

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rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 14h

Looks like this government is doomed from the get-go unless they pull off a miracle somewhere.

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 15h

I’m 7 Asahi’s in. Drunk. Having a good time.

Man I miss both my grandpas. Two absolutely great men, each in their own different ways. Super bummed out I’m unable to show them my kids. They would be so proud of me.

Even though I’m super westernized filial piety is still a big thing for me. Sigh.

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

Weigel is a known anti-Dem journalist. His agenda is pretty clear even though he should know a lot better.

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

Weigel is a ratfucker who will never miss the chance to paint Dems as weak and feckless.

Like I’m not certain what will happen either way. But Weigel has an agenda to push so of course he’s gonna state one side definitively.

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

😭I had to step in and help translate between the hotel staff and the guest. Felt pretty useful.

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

Hotel we’re staying in is completely swamped by a huge Korean tour group apparently.

Guess Takaichi-San has not dampened their enthusiasm for tourism in Japan.

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

Hotel we’re staying in is completely swamped by a huge Korean tour group apparently.

Guess Takaichi-San has not dampened their enthusiasm for tourism in Japan.

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

Wish there was a Polymarket where I can bet against Elon’s promises.

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 1d

All Dem governors should stand in solidarity with Pritzker and say they will withdraw as well if this demand isn’t met.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 2d

Wait she’s lesbian wtf?!?!?!!!?!?

Truly the most diverse fascist movement ever. American exceptionalism baby.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 2d

The press believes that right-wing extremists are owed space at every table from city councils to academia, no matter how out of place or inappropriate, and that they are unique in this entitlement

They believe this because they are in sympathy with those extremists

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

A major reason why Republicans in Portland are "an endangered species" is that the OR GOP as an institution has become one of the more radically far right, state-level parties in the country. And in a state party gone off the deep end, the Multnomah county GOP stands out for its extremism.

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 4d

This was lazy reporting, and the Times would have done better for its audience exploring why so many Portlanders voted in DSA council. Article includes nothing from these voters. Describing Republicans in Portland as an “endangered species” is a choice.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

As per usual with much mainstream coverage of US politics, it appears that Republicans never have agency. It's not that the OR GOP has rendered itself electorally unviable by nominating Qanon loving Christian Nationalist 9/11 truthers for Senate, it's that Portlanders are irrational GOP haters.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 2d

NHK is so good. Now doing a special on Trump’s relationship with Roy Cohn.

Again, cannot imagine American media doing anything remotely educational as this.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 2d

You guys remember Jade Helm?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

Donald Trump and Kristi Noem are using every lever to provoke our communities and incite chaos.

If Trump and Noem wanted to help Illinoisans, they would work with us — not against us — to protect public safety.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

people who want you to believe they can predict events a century out but can't predict Donald Trump fucking up.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

absolutely nothing discredits “longtermism” more than how much of these freaks are only belatedly realizing how much of a mistake it was to bandwagon with Trump

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3d

the rats! the ship! the water, rising!

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

absolutely nothing discredits “longtermism” more than how much of these freaks are only belatedly realizing how much of a mistake it was to bandwagon with Trump

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3d

the rats! the ship! the water, rising!

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 3d

curtis yarvin seems somewhat unhappy

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality.

The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.