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Konrad Aderer

@konraderer.bsky.social
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Nassau County, NY. Hapa yonsei. Filmmaker: They Took My Father Too, Resistance at Tule Lake, Enemy Alien

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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looking forward to this urgent discussion!
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The lethality of program titles that force your foes to shit their pants with laughter share.google/H5jG2c9hwCbh...
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) on X
Today, I am announcing the Joint Warfighter Evaluation.
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I turned my X profiles into Dada-inspired spoof accounts a couple years ago and they just noticed🤣😆😘...pinned post was the Ubu Roi picture below.
Message with logo for X at top: Hello Fofan Scofield, Your account was reported and has been suspended for violating the X Rules.Black & white photo of a scene from a 1964 production of Alfred Jarry's absurdist play Ubu Roi, directed by Michael Meschke at the Marionetteatern in Stockholm, with set and puppet designs by Franciszka and Stefan Themerson. Central figure is King Ubu in a characteristic round costume with a spiral design on the front.
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asians-art.bsky.social @asians-art.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
View of Castle Rock from the jail of Tule Lake Segregation Center concentration camp, a jail within a jail, July 4, 2026
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
NO PARKING for ICE ANYTIME, ANYWHERE JOIN US! Monday August 3 5:30 pm Corner of Harrison & Greenwich
ICE OUT of 35 HARRISON!
Tribeca residents believe ICE is parking at ICON's garage at 35 Harrison Street in Independence Plaza, NYC.

What do we know?
• The garage is federally contracted and closed to the public. HSI (Homeland Security Investigations - a division of ICE) routinely parks vehicles there.
• Currently this garage holds a fleet of brand new, unlicensed SUVs - exactly the type ICE uses for abductions, and which could quickly be deployed in an ICE surge.
• 35 Harrison is .6 miles from ICE's headquarters at 26 Federal Pl. and just 1 mile from the ICE Field Office at 201 Varick St. - both launching pads for kidnapping our neighbors.
• MAGA billionaire Steven Roth is CEO of Vornado which owns Independence Plaza
JOIN US!
Monday August 3 5:30 pm
Corner of Harrison & Greenwich
Subways - A/C or 1/3 to Chambers St.
NO PARKING for ICE ANYTIME, ANYWHERE
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The 2026 Tule Lake Pilgrimage brought over 400 people to a Japanese American detention site on the patriotic 250th anniversary of the U.S. buff.ly/7Cr86Yn
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This morning we shared the first public preview of They Took My Father Too at the 2026 #TuleLakePilgrimage. It was more than fitting to show this adaptation near the detention camp where the original story was published, to a rapt audience including descendants of incarcerees who may have read it.
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We wrapped production of They Took My Father Too in May! On our Substack newsletter I share a sneak peek at our footage, and where I'll be during the 250th anniversary celebration of the U.S. buff.ly/pULeBzJ
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I was just reminded about Martin Scorcese going through a really dark period with drugs and obsessive work around Raging Bull. Now I can understand the impulse. Having a normal life and directing film are undertakings at war with each other. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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Martin Scorsese admits: 'A major part of me wanted to die.' Then ‘Raging Bull’ saved him
Rebecca Miller’s five-hour Apple TV+ docuseries is a candid look into the artistic process and personal journey of director Martin Scorsese.
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Boycat is an app that scans bar codes and shows you if the product is subject to boycott: Ko-fi.com/home/coffees...
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konradical just became the newest member of Boycat on Ko-fi! ❤️
Ko-fi lets you support creators you love with tips, memberships and shop sales!
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It's been hard for me to accept that Kyoko Nancy Oda passed away. She gave so much to me and many others. Outside my own home, last year I stayed the most at her house as I was preparing and shooting my film in L.A. Rest in power, Kyoko. www.facebook.com/share/v/1BRC...
Kyoko Oda smiling with a stack of containers of honey roasted peanuts she bought to support my daughter's Girl Scout campaign. - Konrad AdererFilmmaker Konrad Aderer working with papers and a laptop on a dining room table in front of a Japanese painted screen - picture taken by Kyoko Oda
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
My arrival for our final day of production in Little Tokyo! Gratitude to our base camp - Tenkaippin. ありがとうございました!
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Preparing for final shoots in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles! A peek into the They Took My Father Too production diary. Capturing the forced removal took intense preparation, including a race to find the perfect U.S.-grown sakura tree. buff.ly/pGK355P
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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The administration's proposed elimination of funding for the Japanese American Confinement Sites program will hurt places like Heart Mountain, Topaz, Minidoka, Manzanar and other organizations trying to tell this history. We're working to reverse it. www.powelltribune.com/stories/fund...
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Funding jeopardy - Powell Tribune
As the long process to restore and create an exhibit to display the historic root cellar at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center continues, the funding that made that and other projects possible is ...
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Though I'm a non-Christian I wasn't always, and I still have no answer for this question. Easter, springtime, is a good time to consider what resurrection directly means for me. What of living in this moment is eternal? How do I live each moment with awareness of it? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/o...
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Opinion | Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? A Debate.
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Christ is risen.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History. NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊ #NO_KINGS
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I'm saving my outrage for the endless list of more important stuff. But it's amazing to think how far public standards have fallen. Think of any prior U.S. president, saying something this asinine and offensive in a state visit, and what the reaction would have been.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/03/2026
Even though Markwayne Mullin has vowed to champion the same mass deportation agenda as Kristi Noem, Fetterman just voted to advance Mullin's nomination as DHS secretary. Fetterman could have blocked Mullin's nomination. Instead, this supposedly Democratic senator decided to back the regime.
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‘Trump’s favorite Democrat’ Fetterman bails out pick to replace Noem at DHS in Senate cliffhanger
Oklahoma senator survives committee vote despite saying he ‘understood’ why the committee chairman was subject to savage beating
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I'd love to have a transcript of Takaichi's thoughts during this meeting.
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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
#PhantomsFriday The Drowned Man's Ghost Tries to Claim a New Victim for the Sea, Thorvald Niss [1842-1905] Skagens Museum, Skagen, Denmark #TheVictorianBookoftheDead
In a seaside landscape, a skeletal figure tugs at a man in oilskins as they stand in the water, just off the beach. Gray, stormy clouds in the sky, and a tower or lighthouse stands in the distance.
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Frank Abe @frankabe.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The U.S. creating Topaz concentration camp 2.0 in Utah.
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The firing-up-the-base-with-Islamophobia project seems tired, but Drumpfist politics has gotten this far solely by firing up their base, so I guess it feels foolhardy for them to quit now.
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Frank Abe @frankabe.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Join me and the people who bring you the “No Kings” march for this webinar on stopping 21st century American concentration camps. I’m honored to help introduce Andrea Pitzer, author of “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps.” RSVP here for this March 5 mass call.
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Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos @handle.invalid · 10/02/2026
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.
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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I first joined the Tule Lake Pilgrimage in 2010 to grasp the devastating consequences of resisting a loyalty questionnaire in the middle of a war. At the last pilgrimage in 2024, I documented the movement to translate and interpret the Japanese-language literature of incarceration. buff.ly/cOgAUSB
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Though hostile forces beset the arts and the retelling of marginalized histories last year, my woke, DEI film surged ahead into production. Join me on Substack for behind-the-scenes updates, along with the research and discoveries of translation that drive this project. buff.ly/FXG5QF2
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They Took My Father Too - December 2025
We surged ahead in a challenging year, completing our main production phase.
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Frank Abe @frankabe.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Two new episodes of Rachel Maddow's BURN ORDER podcast available today. Ep. 3, "One Drop," features Norm Mineta, Satsuki Ina, and Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga. Ep. 4, "Like an Ordinary American," highlights the Supreme Court cases of Gordon, Min, Fred, and Mitsuye Endo. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Japanese American incarceration has this irrepressible way of coming up in the news. I wrote a brisk account of the times our history has become a focus of organizing for immigrant solidarity, a distorted right-wing talking point, or both. open.substack.com/pub/konrader...
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My ride through the recurring relevance of Japanese American history
My community's legacy of incarceration gives us a voice, when the national media listens.
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Densho @denshoproject.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Today is #GivingTuesday — a global day of generosity that empowers people and organizations to strengthen their communities, and the official start of Densho’s year-end giving season.
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Japanese American Citizens League National @jacl-national.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The JA Experience - Part 2: The JACL is Available Now! Learn more about our 90+ year history! You can also help support us this Giving Tuesday so we can continue bringing the voices of the community together! You can watch part 2 and learn more about how to support JACL at: bio.site/jacl_national
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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 02/12/2025
Looking for a gift for a Japanese literature aficionado in your life? Buying yourself something special for the holidays? Consider picking up one or more of the books we've covered together on the RJL podcast.
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Read Japanese Literature Podcast
Read Japanese Literature is a podcast about Japanese literature and some of its best works.  Find out more at ReadJapaneseLiterature.com.
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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
On this Giving Tuesday, please consider donating to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. Your donation will help us continue to tell the story of the Japanese American incarceration at Heart Mountain. www.heartmountain.org/donate/?utm_...
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Donate - Heart Mountain
Donate to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation or the Memory & Justice Endowment Fund to ensure our future.
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I'm such a substack newbie. After more than a year off the bird site I'd lost sight of the sickness of the MAGA mind parading itself. substack.com/@wfunews/not...
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SPQR (@wfunews)
On a given day, suspend habeas corpus, coordinate arrest raids at 3:00am across the country to arrest and hold suspected traitors, seditionists, lawless judges, terrorists (Antifa and ICE obstructioni...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
It's Cyber Monday, so look no further than the Heart Mountain store. We've got classic books, like Setsuko's Secret by Shirley Ann Higuchi, Heart Mountain by Douglas Nelson and In the Shadow of Heart Mountain by Frank T. Inouye. Check it out here: shopheartmountain.org/collections/...
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Catalog
Make donations, begin or renew your membership, or browse the HMWF Store catalogue, which highlights media about Japanese American incarceration by former incarcerees and their descendants as well as ...
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Hey hey hey I just started on substack. My first post: "Re-imagining the unseen" introducing my recnet pivot to narrative filmmaking. open.substack.com/pub/konrader...
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Re-imagining the unseen
After decades as a documentary filmmaker, I returned to my narrative roots. My current film is an act of translation, adaptation, and cultural recovery.
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
My former neighborhood
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PSC-CUNY @psc-cuny.org · 20/11/2025
Join experts and advocates for an online town hall about why and how corporations and the ultra rich should pay their fair share of taxes in New York State. Then get involved in the campaign that will make our affordability agenda a reality. ➡️ psc-cuny.org/TAXTHERICH
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This ICE List project looks like it's just getting off the ground, but I'll keep checking back: icelist.is
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ICE List – Put ICE on ice
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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
U of Washington Press BOOK SALE - January 2 get 40% off & free domestic shipping on all books sitewide. #BookSky uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
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A Place for What We Lose
In a moving conversation with the past, Tamiko Nimura explores her late father’s life and her family’s wartime history at Tule Lake. The typewritten page...
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Japanese American Citizens League Chicago @jaclchicago.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Tues, November 18, 6PM-8PM | JACL Office (5415 N Clark St, Chicago) JACL Chicago and Nikkei Uprising are gathering on Tuesday, November 18, 6 - 8PM, for a zine- and whistle-packing night at the JACL Chicago office. #jacl, #civilrights, #activism
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Japanese American Citizens League National @jacl-national.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Applications are now available for the 2026 JACL/OCA Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C.! Join us from March 14-17, 2026, to learn about the work both of our organizations do on a national scale. Applications are due Sun., 12/14 at 11:59pm HST. Learn more and apply at: jacl.org/jacl-oca-lea...
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AsAmNews @asamnews.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Frank Chuman, a Japanese American lawyer who dedicated much of his life to fighting for the rights of Japanese Americans, has died at 105. asamnews.com/2025/11/16/f...
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Japanese American civil rights activist Frank Chuman dead at 105 – AsAmNews
Frank Chuman, a lawyer who dedicated much of his life to fighting for the rights of Japanese Americans, has died at 105.
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