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Doug in Japan @dmikawamallery.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Goal Japan! I’m liking Honda’s commentary on NHK.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026

Mamdani's speech at the Knicks parade was easily the best I've ever heard at an event of that sort. I posted the whole thing on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Highly recommended.

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Mamdani Remembers Some Knicks Guys during phenomenal parade speech

YouTube video by Aaron Rupar

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Okay, this is just fabulous.

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Doug in Japan @dmikawamallery.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

So many scenes and locations unchanged 60 years later, when I was a student there, to today. Such gratitude that this treasure was spared the firebombing.

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

One of the many post-mortems I read yesterday talked about the butterfly effect of Ishiba losing the upper house -> resigning and replaced by Takaichi -> coalition ends with Kōmeitō -> Kōmeitō flails about and joins with CDP. For want of three upper house seats...

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

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Nate Ledbetter @nhledbetter.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Still going thread breaking down the entire Bad Bunny halftime show. Great for us new to all this.

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Nothing in the middle of the road but roadkill. bsky.app/profile/tobi...

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Jake Adelstein @tokyovice.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

🚨DOJ quietly yanked an 86-page Epstein memo: “Investigation into Potential Jeffrey Epstein Co-Conspirators.” It lays out interviews with alleged victims, investigative targets, and attorneys. I archived it—full memo here. Fuck you Pambi and pedophile protectors. app.box.com/s/inb1kswr77...

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This map is just...wow.

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osakakanagawa50.bsky.social @osakakanagawa50.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Ok, the exit poll aligned with mainstream pollsters so far.

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

My 2026 Japanese general election thread starts here. We're now less than a half hour to polls closing.

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

People often ask, is Shakespeare still relevant? Why study the humanities? Well, here is an example from the Colbert show, in which Ian McKellen spontaneously delivers an extraordinary speech -- relevant as ever. Shakespeare’s words are timeless, urgent and important. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQiw...

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Ian McKellen using Shakespeare to tear off the false moral mask that xenophobes wear across the west

YouTube video by Tkio

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Matt Barrows @mattbarrows.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Roger Craig's long wait is over. He's heading to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. No Frank Gore this year, but given that he ranks thir in all-time rushing yards, it shouldn't be long before he gets in.

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Matt Maiocco @mattmaiocco.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026 Roger Craig Drew Brees Larry Fitzgerald Luke Kuechly Adam Vinatieri

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49ers on NBC Sports Bay Area @nbcs49ers.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🚨 BREAKING: 49ers great Roger Craig officially is a Hall of Famer Read more from @mattmaiocco.bsky.social: bit.ly/45RJr11 (➡️ Toyota NorCal Dealers)

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eric-branch.bsky.social @eric-branch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Forty-three years after the #49ers had questions about his hands (yes, his hands) pioneering dual-threat running back Roger Craig elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/01/2026

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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Azby Brown @azby.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

There's so much good in people.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026

Race as a construct is so powerful that only now are many people saying ‘they are killing us’. They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026

Guys you work at the terminator factory what did you think was gonna happen

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Evidence again of @jonathanbchait.bsky.social's point that the phone is the weapon Trump fears most

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

In 1775 a lot of people were unhappy with the King but they weren’t necessarily ready to commit treason. That changed when the King’s troops started shooting their neighbors, stealing food, and raping women.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The mom who we all saw turning the wheel and trying to drive away was actually a domestic terrorist trying to run over a poor ICE agent, and now the nurse who we all saw coming to the aid of another ICE victim was actually a deranged shooter who had to be taken down.

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 23/01/2026

On January 22nd, the Japan Meteorological Corporation announced its third cherry blossom forecast for Japan. As of now, initial flowering is expected near the end of March for Osaka, Fukuoka, Nagoya, and Tokyo, top of April for Sendai, and end of April for Sapporo.

On January 22, 2026, JMC released its 3rd forecast of the dates when cherry blossoms will start to flower (kaika) and reach full bloom (mankai). JMC has estimated the flowering and full bloom dates for Somei Yoshino (Yoshino Cherry) trees in approximately 1,000 cherry blossom viewing locations in cities from Hokkaido to Kagoshima. JMC will provide timely updates.(next update: February 5)

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, between true and false, no longer exist.” - Hannah Arendt

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Meidi-ya on Roppongi Dori, which opened there in 1959, will close next month. It's one of those shops which everyone knows, and hardly anyone uses. That wasn't always the case. roppongi.keizai.biz/headline/5045/

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「明治屋六本木ストアー」閉店へ　66年の営業に幕

六本木のスーパーマーケット「明治屋六本木ストアー」（港区六本木7、TEL 03-3401-8511）が2月16日で閉店する。

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This is a little goofy but it's much better than the alternative

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Doug in Japan @dmikawamallery.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

That was amazing. I am totally exhausted. One step closer!

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 09/12/2025

Worst cantrip ever

iPhone magnifier icon: a yellow sofa in a blank circle. Caption reads DETECT FURNITURE

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Tom Fay @tom-fay.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

First snow seen on Mt Fuji this season - 21 days later than average, but much earlier (15 days) than the super late ‘first snow’ of last year

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Tom Fay @tom-fay.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Early autumn scenes in the Japanese countryside

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Last Dive Bar @lastdivebar.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Sat here for 10 minutes just admiring this work of art. A true masterpiece that evokes all kinds of emotions, memories, and greatness. Come out to Raimondi Park and stop by to see Kalani Ware’s tribute to the Man Of Steal.

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Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 16/07/2025

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘠𝘢𝘬𝘶𝘻𝘢 (1974) starring Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura. Takakura walks through Koma Geki Mae, now Cine City Square, in Kabukicho, Shinjuku 🎥 The place has changed (Toyoko kids, tourists, and touts) but some things appear the same.

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Doug in Japan @dmikawamallery.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

youtube.com/watch?v=Ffu6... Don’t usually share YouTube videos but I love these 2 legends.

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Bootsy Collins + Buckethead In Conversation

YouTube video by Reverb

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Paulie Mac @pauliespod.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

PMP is the place to be Verlander returns for the #SFGiants, @CreativeTonyR will tell us if Indy can extend the #NBAFinals and more…8pm tonight, y’all www.youtube.com/@PauliesMacs...

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Paulie Mac @pauliespod.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

‼️ The following is an announcement from the EPS (Emergency Particle System) Today’s show has been moved to 8pm tonight. Tony is reporting for jury duty. We’ll be ready to rock at 8pm tonight, y’all ‼️

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