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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, bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 14h
Oh yeah that’s the good stuff
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 15h
He used a chatbot as a focus group
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 15h
Same energy.

@Sassafrass_84

I'll take $5,000 dollars over socialism.
It's not a hard choice.
Vote RED!
Jack Posobiec: What if instead of a vaccine we just were able to get exposed to a weak version of the virus that enabled us to build the antibodies we need to fight the real thing.
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 15h
Maybe a good thing she kept her distance from the Talarico campaign...
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 17h
Got another anti-trans campaign ad just now and man just fucking leave the trans folks alone already. Fuck’s sake.
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 15h
Chris Rufo is your own personal wallet inspector, you fcking rubes
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 15h
Remember "Keep your government hands off my Medicare"
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Or as he put it, suckers and losers
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Or the Executive Branch claque
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From the Central Park Five to the Cornell Seven
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
You are absolutely right. The intellectual work that the right is trying to finance is shoddy and would not withstand peer review - which is why a key part of the movement is to replace peer review with "viewpoint diversity." The question is how to convince funders to support humanistic scholarship.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Zawinul had other stuff to do that day
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The whole thing is Joni inviting Weather Report to hang out on their day off. Also John Guerin, who rules the second half of "Paprika Plains"
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
static.klipy.com
I'm All Jacked Up On Mtn Dew
ALT: I'm All Jacked Up On Mtn Dew
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Weirdo say no weirdos
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Also, when you have no concept of music
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Natalie at the Sam's Club, stocking up on Depends
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FATALITY
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know who can afford to stay at home and take care of their kids, right?
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026
Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning.
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Potemkin arsenal, Potemkin command structure
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Claude never saw the Cramps at CBGBs
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fcker thinks he's Qianlong
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Real "Hitler didn't kill as many as Stalin" vibes
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Was snarking of course
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump also said that since the US has used up all its arms in Iran, he is asking China to manufacture the weapons China would like to purchase
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Beshear forever, man
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm still livid over his "You Bluesky people might not understand it, but the NYT has been doing all the important work investigating Trump" post
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ossoff, anyone?
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
El-Sayed’s interviews are the new Masterclass on how to highlight how Republicans are predictable & pickle-brained. He broke the mold. He bet that on the day that we won, Trump, JD Vance, Mike Rogers etc. would go on talking about his name & faith. He's getting my vote in November. #pinks
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You be you.
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If they were really smart, they'd have them playing on the gas pump screens. That would work big time
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bernie has never known how to pick his aides or interlocutors. His approach to AI is just further evidence of this major flaw.
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gee, if only the major papers had spent more time calling out the danger he posed instead of burying it on A16
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah real muscular
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is when we realize that humans are going to be assembled into racks of batteries for the data centers, housing shortage solved
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system.
Each detention unit would sit on asphalt or concrete behind an office's existing security fence, with a counter for processing people and a separate holding area fitted with a toilet and sink for detainees according to the draft work statement.
The agency also wants a 300-square-foot unit for interviewing people in custody and a 60-square-foot "Virtual Immigration Court Unit" for hearings run by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that operates the immigration courts.
Both must also be designed for their purpose before delivery.
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
God: I take no responsibility
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lighting up his farts
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
forbiddenstories.org
The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Taking away people’s healthcare: bad. Taking it away before an election: politically stupid. Thinking that saying “FRAUD” will fool people: something you only do if your brain is totally Fox-addled. IOW, a perfect encapsulation of Team Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump officials cut 760,000 enrollees from ACA, claiming fraud
Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force concluded that the people were wrongly signed up for the government health care program.
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Subprime
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"I really am the Zodiac Killer -- he nailed it"
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Constituent services was supposed to be her insurmountable advantage. Oh, not that lind of constituent services...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Great article on how sheriff's deputies in Durham, N.C. are referring people to ICE for very minor offenses. The cooperation between local cops and the immigration goon squads is a growing stain on America indyweek.com/news/durham-...
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Durham Judicial Officials Are Unnecessarily Putting People on ICE's Radar for Low-Level Crimes
Durham judicial officials flagged people for citizenship checks when they didn’t need to, landing some in ICE custody, INDY found.
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This reminded me of the old Brian Morton piece "How Not to Write for Dissent," which was a tongue-in-cheek study of "Strategies of Subversion: Discourse, Desire, and The Other in ‘Gilligan’s Island."
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨the Department of History at the University of Toronto (St George campus) is hiring an Assistant Professor in the history of early modern or modern South Asia jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
jobs.utoronto.ca
Assistant Professor - South Asian History
Assistant Professor - South Asian History
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tell them to talk to the hand
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