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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸

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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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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3h
I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 4h
Broken record, but the fundamental problem is the voters. Many are too dumb, evil, or irresponsible to be allowed a say in the collective decision-making process of a modern state
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 5h
Between Lula being behind and Lee in S. Korea becoming unpopular, I really would like to emphasize that there’s no one easy trick to resolving facism for good.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10h
Here's part 2 of my California voter guide. This one covers how I'm voting on all 14 propositions that are on the ballot this year: publiccomment.blog/p/the-public...
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The PUBLIC COMMENT 2026 California Voter Guide — Part 2
The ballot propositions
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 10h
It’s why I’m Team Touch the Stove
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10h
the clear throughline behind every Trump voter is a refusal to believe that their behavior has consequences
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
why is he insulting literally every GOP candidate?
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 22h
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think part of the problem with an ad blitz is that you can't target your ways around this like you can with a gradual buildup
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@dhookstead

Did we cancel D-Day because of a little rough weather? No. Play the damn game.

Readers added context

D-Day was delayed by a day because of the weather
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
you asked for ten thousand. i give you one.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026
"New survey data from Siena suggests close to 50% of men aged 18–49 have an active sports betting account… Instead of fighting what is clearly an emerging crisis, we have some of the biggest names in professional sports acting as spokespeople for DraftKings and Kalshi."
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Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The revisionism around him because he’s “fun and goofy” is pretty insane.
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Nate Ledbetter @nhledbetter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You know that DoorDash commercial where Jameis Winston tries to steal the crab legs would be a lot funnier if he also wasn't, you know, a rapist.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 03/10/2026
it’s simultaneously incredibly gross and deeply funny that her argument is that they are the party of values and that they have a duty to set those values aside to retain their power
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage
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Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Malfoid (female genderbent Draco Malfoy) is blowing up in the internet’s and this is yet another datapoint that man desperately yearns for Tsundere.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Let Them Fight
ALT: Let Them Fight
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
MFW I start my Qing play through and Ajige just betrays me right away. (Somewhat historically accurate since he did initiate a coup…)
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What The
ALT: What The
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#349 - Taiping 24: The Bouncer "It's a big club – and you ain't in it!" - George Carlin, Great Sage, Equal of Heaven megaphone.link/ARML2740569794
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#349 - Taiping 24: The Bouncer by The History of China
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Everyone thinks they can imitate Trump and just do crimes and double down and be teflon, but Trump is legitimately a generational political talent, and *waves hands* they are all very much not.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rahm Emanuel sells hate clicks and the media enables this because they love hate clicks. Like he is completely irrelevant and yet gets articles like this written about him all the time.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
YouTube video by MS NOW
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Russ Vought should be prosecuted for violating the law with impoundment after this is all over.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 02/10/2026
The US dispatched another aircraft carrier and thousands more troops to the Middle East, signaling a potential escalation in the Iran war. www.semafor.com/article/10/0...
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US signals potential escalation in the Iran war
The US dispatched another aircraft carrier and thousands more troops to the Middle East, while Tehran is reportedly preparing its own response to any American attacks.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kansas has 4 former, living GOP governors. Two have now endorsed Adam Hamilton, the Dem, for Senate. Mike Hayden just penned this oped in the Kansas City Star this morning; Adam Graves had done the same last month.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Aaaah I can’t wait for the reverse 2010 to happen.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m at full candy corn
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Why do you hate Republicans” They are fucking torching my state. We are begging for Herbert, “frugal” dugall or Mitt Romney to return. They made this personal they made many of us out to be fools and Im going to spend the rest of my life helping to tear down their party
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
because it's a facially and formally neutral rule that nevertheless does racism
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She was being blackmailed over explicit photos. She went to police and gave them the photos as evidence. The cop kept the pictures on his phone, showed them to others, and didn’t catch the blackmailer- who ended up killing her. Just enraging. I wonder why victims of sex crimes don’t report 🤔🤬😢
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University of Utah police officer showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey to his co-worker
<b>UPDATE</b><i>: Logan police announced </i><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/05/17/logan-police-will" target=_blank><i>an internal affairs investigation into Officer Miguel Deras</...
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Noah Weinberger @noahweinberger2003.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@eleanor.lockhart.contact 😭 Of course Anakin likes gentoo. He optimized everything
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’d argue those little steps, throughout history, absolutely matters. Humans don’t change overnight. But it’s these little progresses that we build over thousands of years that make us, the modern man, so much “enlightened” than those in the past.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bernie Sanders 🤝 Chongzhen Emperor. Absolutely horrendous at evaluation of talent. The Ming produced many fine and loyal generals and commanders, almost all of the famous ones met their end because of Chongzhen listening to bad advise and micromanaging!
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A ton of immigrant groups are pretty conservative (hell, I am personally!) and older Republicans realized this and put a serious amount of effort to, at least, not offend these groups. But the new crop of GOP is not only straight-up racist, they don’t bother hiding it.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Other people have made this point but for old people their entire world view is anchored to the past. Like I know older Japanese folks who still thinks the Red Army is a thing.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You know I’m always hesitant to pull the “I’m Japanese/Chinese so my opinions on those subjects are authoritative!” Card but sometimes I read takes from Western Tankies and it does make me want to pull the card hard.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Something nice about education polarization and selection bias is that the group, [Regular People Who Can Recognize John Roberts], is an almost proper subset of [People Who Hate John Roberts], so he is NEVER getting recognized by random people being like "thank you for the work you do, Mr. Roberts."
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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m kind of flip about this, but basically US foreign policy — like virtually every other great power in history — is extremely self-interested and self-serving. In the concert of Europe era, basically all the major powers dressed up their blatant self-serving motives with similar bullshit.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Again, only <Republicans> get to talk about US citizens, let alone human beings, let alone other elected officials, like this. Which is why it's so exhausting to listen to Ezra Douthglesias & everyone else tell Democrats that they need to moderate & stop talking funny & reach out to Real Folkz.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“No they really believe it” is a way better heuristic for understanding political actors than “they are on the take” 9 times out of 10. Sometimes beliefs are downstream of materialism and political economy. But these relationships are more complicated than “bribes”
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well gerontocracy is also entrenched in the US because 1. Weaker political parties, where primary voters are the key people who select candidates and not the party itself and 2. Older people just vote more. Like that’s it. Younger people can complain all they want but they just don’t vote.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump has been attacking Cornell and other Ivy Leagues for years, but for some reason, decided praise Cornell here 🤔
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Orthogonal to your point but always love the word 奴才. (Just in general! Not in this context) because it reminds back to my younger days of watching too many Qing period dramas. 奴才该死!
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nixon went down in the end because his own party turned on him. they ran the numbers and decided he was a bad bet. I think now they’ve simply decided as long as they never break ranks again and it’s always them against the Democrats, they can keep this going forever without consequences
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've said it before, I've said it again: Bluesky has a disproportionate and extremely loud percentage of users who think it's morally righteous to abuse people as long as it's for a good enough cause, and an even larger percentage of users who specialize in justifying why causes are good.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The entire interior U.S. should be alarmed as Canada fast tracks a new crude oil pipeline from Alberta to Canada's West Coast that will push more of Canada's oil away from U.S. refineries that rely on it, and could negatively impact U.S. refineries.
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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This poll also has almost 80% support for capping credit card interest at 10% which people would absolutely HATE
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