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Modern Japan History Association @modernjapanhist.bsky.social · 15h

A video of the recent MJHA "New Books from Japan" discussion with Tsuruzono Yūki regarding his recent 「人の移動」の国際政治 ("International Politics of Migration") is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel! Please have a look, and feel free to share this link with anyone else who might be interested

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New Books from Japan #14 - Tsuruzono Yūki on「人の移動」の国際政治 ("International Politics of Migration")

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Modern Japan History Association @modernjapanhist.bsky.social · 9h

On October 22nd! Haruko Wakabayashi (Rutgers University - New Brunswick) on her new book “Rutgers Meets Japan: A Trans-Pacific Network of the Late Nineteenth Century”, with Hiromu Nagahara (MIT) and Nick Kapur (Rutgers University - Camden). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6713865

A screenshot of the event description from the event website, featuring an image of a book cover with a bright red banner over an ukiyo-e Japanese artistic print depicting square-rigged ships on the ocean.

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 22h

The Japanese translation of my book on the 1960 Anpo protests is now available for preorder on all platforms!

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 22h

The Japanese translation of my book on the 1960 Anpo protests is now available for preorder on all platforms!

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 14/10/2026

AI perhaps offers us a really great opportunity if we choose to take it. The one thing it produces is cliche. In order to resist it, we must declare a war on cliche. We must make our language and remake it. Our visual imagination should be shaken up and strive for the shock of the new.

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“The video of a wheelchair-bound Hasan executed by firing squad will serve as ready-made propaganda for jihadist groups like Al Qaeda and Islamic State,” he said. “I don’t understand how this benefits the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...

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For Trump, a Firing Squad on Livestream Becomes the Latest Spectacle

The idea seemed to surprise even some inside the Trump administration.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026

Trump just had a massive meltdown over losing the Nobel Peace Prize to South African anti-apartheid jurist Navi Pillay. Trump attacked Pillay, admitted he knows nothing about her, claimed he deserves EIGHT Nobel Peace Prizes, took credit for preventing wars around the world,… 1/

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Are you into Spartans for the pederasty, the infanticide, or do you just have a kink for getting stomped on by Boeotians?"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It still amazes me how these chudfucks idolize the crusades as if they weren’t one and all massive, embarrassing failures, own goals against fellow Christian kingdoms, and flimflam artists selling children into slavery… Actually, on second thought, maybe it makes perfect sense

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

University of Michigan today. The most tipping-point image I've seen to exemplify our fascist descent. And the surrender was won with the weapon of false antisemitism charges against people protesting genocide--making administrations complicit in genocide. A moral nadir. This is how republics die.

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Never before have "marketing gimmick" and "mass psychosis" so totally converged

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

WaPo reports that Trump is stealing money again, this time money appropriated for (among others) Eastern Europe and sending it to Latin America. But I think stealing $$ from Iraq is just as important. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Late Wednesday, the administration quietly notified Congress it was defying the hold and moving ahead, diverting to Panama, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia $52 million that had been approved for Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia and Iraq, the officials said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss security matters.

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NARRATOR: It wasn't actually mind-boggling.

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Modern Japan History Association @modernjapanhist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On Thursday, October 8! Don't miss Jordan Sand's 2026 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture, "The Stuff of Japanese History: Materialist Approaches". From 7:00-8:30 pm ET (Friday, 10/9, 8:00-9:30 am JST)! Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6695701

A screenshot of the website with the event details for the MJHA's distinguished annual lecture, featuring a portrait photograph of Professor Jordan Sand.

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For those in Tokyo, I'll be giving a talk (in Japanese) next month at the Junkudō bookstore in Ikebukuro! The topic is the Japanese translation of my book "Japan at the Crossroads," out soon from Misuzu Shobō. Renowned historian Nakakita Kōji (Chūō University) will be the discussant.

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NARRATOR: It wasn't actually mind-boggling.

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another version of my book's cover, now with 100% more OBI

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Link: president.cornell.edu/initiatives/...

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is from Cornell University's own report on sexual assault (p. 4). 35% is pretty staggering, and far out of line with recent figures at similar schools.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Japanese used bookstores are reporting a massive uptick in bulk purchases of used Japanese books by overseas buyers, seemingly without any regard to their contents. The only logical conclusion is that these books are being stripped, scanned, and discarded to train AI models.

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow!!! Congrats, and very much deserved!

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another version of my book's cover, now with 100% more OBI

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚨👀 Lot worse than we collectively imagined: The Trump regime is looking into “data center-related proposals covering at least 17,600 acres of public land across six states — Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming.”

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Trump Is Considering More Data Centers on Public Lands Than Previously Known

The data center proposals cover at least 17,600 acres of public lands across six Western states.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/09/2026

Next Trump will demand to have a plaque added to JFK’s plot at Arlington or he’ll extinguish the eternal flame.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

once you see this regime as the collective equivalent of an abuser then the whole of its rhetoric and actions makes perfect sense

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trump is dead serious. See this chart from March: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Chart showing that prior presidents including Trump’s first term grant disaster requests from blue and red states roughly equally before Trump 2 started rejecting most requests from blue states

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“If you don’t rename the Kennedy Center after me I will close it forever” Again living in DC is experiencing the constant humiliation of “what if Robert Moses had the most gaudy taste possible and randomly got obsessed with musical theatre”

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The Board of The Kennedy Center today agreed, almost unanimously, to close the Building for Safety reasons, and so that it can begin the process of Reconstruction. The closing will take place immediately, however, the Renovation and Reconstruction, which is a very large and complex job, cannot begin until such time as the D.C. Circuit rules on the Board's approved name.
If the ruling is a negative one, which it should not be, and is not overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Reconstruction and the Renovation of The Kennedy Center will not take place. The attorneys from the DOJ will ask for an expedited appeal. In the meantime, 17 Million Dollars, raised by President Trump, has been put into The Kennedy Center account to keep it afloat. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Air pollution is now legal, it seems

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Air pollution is now legal, it seems

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Most of Russia’s oil comes from places nowhere near Ukraine and all of Russia put together produces just a fraction of what passes through Hormuz. It’s all such obvious bullshit.

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