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S. Hayase

@quicktide.bsky.social
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Organizing for a sustainable San Jose Japantown. Working for an end to the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Joining the struggle to build true multi-racial democracy.

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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
White text on a black background with the red "eji" logo (Equal Justice Institute.)
The text reads as follows: The question about the death penalty is now whether people deserve to die for crimes they commit.  The real question is: Do we deserve to kill? -- Bryan Stevenson
"Do
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I don't know who made this but it cracked me up. Just a little humor for chaotic times. 😊
Caption:  "The Islamic Republic of Japan is now threatening to block The Strait of Hormuz following hostilities with the United States."

The image is an AI-generated "photo" of Godzilla walking through the strait amongst a number of oil tankers and other vessels.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The trump regime wants to build an ICE detention camp in Gilroy, CA. We already know that confining people without due process based on their nation of origin or their ethnicity/race is wrong!! This is the WWII concentration camp at Amache, CO which held my dad as a California public h.s. student.
Black and white historic aerial photo of barracks in neat rows extending for acres. Beyond, a desolate emptiness ending in the horizon.  The illustration for the article has a more distant aerial photo of what look like barracks in a compound with other buildings.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
If you're a California voter, remember that Matt Mahan is taking a lot of money and political leadership from Silicon Valley technocrat/technofascist billionaires. And he hasn't delivered in San Jose.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Let's get some Senators on this list. Where are the major newspapers' editorials calling for removal?
Black and white photo of Trump's face on black.  Title:  It is time to remove Donald Trump from the presidency. Subtitle:  The following lawmakers are now calling for Trump to be removed via the 25th Amendment.  Superimposed over the trump photo are two columns listing fifty Democratic Party representatives plus former GOP representative Margorie Taylor Green.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Trump claims the Iranians called him first.
A psychiatrist's office. Trump lying on a couch.  The doctor in a chair taking notes. The psychiatrist:  "The Iranians you've been talking to for 2 days...are they in the room with us now?"
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A probably AI image of a man and a woman shown facing each other from chest up. The woman has long hair.  The man has a beard and is wearing a red MAGA hat. Dialogue balloons as follows:
MAGA Man:  "Nazis were socialists.  You can tell because 'socialist' is in the party name - national socialists!"
Woman:  "Yeah... and urinal cakes are cake.  You can tell because 'cake' is in the name."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Be careful when eating Italian.
A scene in a restaurant.  At one table, nobody is there, but a cloud of smoke rises above the plate. At another table, a concerned couple holding menus listen to the waiter say, "It is my understanding that the gentleman ordered both the pasta and the antipasta."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
by Nick Anderson, Rawstory
Crying woman sitting in a chair.  She's labeled "Epstein victims." Bending over her and shouting with a giant mouth is Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, and she's yelling "Have you SEEN the stock market?!"
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Photo of white and colored drinking fountains.  The caption above the photo:  "The people who need their own halftime show are the same people who needed their own water fountains."  Attribution:  threads.com/@designingdawn
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Cartoon by Sutton.
Cartoon.  Scene is a snowy neighborhood. The title across the top says: "spot the paid agitators"  Three community member on the left -- a man, woman and child -- are carrying signs that say "ICE out of our community," "Hands off our neighbors", and "Be NICE not ICE." On the right, three masked, helmeted goons labeled ICE, one spraying pepper spray at the man, woman, and child, one holding a long gun, and one kneeling atop a man face down in the snow in his underwear.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Protest sign that says:  "ICE is not going after the worst... they're hiring them."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This should not be hard to understand. If we created a system, we should be able and willing to dismantle it when it proves that it cannot stop itself from committing atrocities.
Drawing of the blue knit bunny hat worn by the little boy who was used as bait to catch his father and then who was detained. Hat has eyes, fluffy ears, and fluffy tie ends.  Text:  A system that steals children must be dismantled.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Abolishing ICE is the most reasonable, logical, and effective thing to do. There is no training people who were recruited via fascistic promises that they would have the opportunity to brutalize immigrants.
A child's blue knitted cap with droopy ears and ties with fluffy bunny tails on the ends. Text on top:  "Protect Children."  Text on the bottom:  "Stop ICE."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Rectangular sign: We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to Anyone
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Listen to the CA grizzly.
Cartoon by Lalo Alcarez. Ferocious grizzly snarling at a terrified ICE agent whose ski mask balaclava has blown off his head with the force of the California grizzly's words, which are "TAKE THAT MASK OFF!"
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Spelling test.
"If G H can stand for P as in Hiccough,
If O U G H can stand for O as in Dough,
If P H T H stands for T as in Phthisis,
If E I G H stands for A as in Neighbor,
If T T E stands for T as in Gazette,
If E A U stands for O as in Plateau,

Then the right way to spell POTATO should be:
GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU"
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent. 📸: Erik Castro/Special to The SF Chronicle
Aerial photo of a beach, far enuf that people look like dots. They are standing in a formation spelling out "MURDER" next to a very large, upside down American flag signalling disaster. Words have been added to the photo so the message says:  "It was MURDER.  ICE OUT!!"
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A poster full of text: Title: "Renee Nicole Good wasn't the first killed by ICE... In 2025 ICE murdered:" then there are two columns filled with names. The names are predominantly Latino and Asian.  Then another title:  "In 2026 ICE has murdered 2 people: those persons are named and they are Keith Porter and Renee Nicole Good.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Hold those killers accountable. May Rene Nicole Good rest in peace and may her family get justice for her unjustified murder.
Artist: Jesse Duquette. Large, empty white rectangle. In the bottom third of the picture is a large, hand-lettered word that says COWARDICE. The last three letters (ICE) are lettered across the vest of a masked, red-hatted man with shades on. The first part of the word, COWARD is black on white and the last part, ICE is white on black.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Colorful blue, black, red horizontal stripes with text handwritten in white: "No War in Venezueal, Keep Trump out of South America!"
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Flight 93 was headed towards Washington, D.C., probably towards either the U.S. Capitol or the White House. Passengers brought the plane down in a field in Pennsylvania and all lives were lost.
Blue rectangle with text:  "In a country where ordinary citizens had the courage to give their lives to down a plane headed for mass tragedy (Flight 93), it is inconceivable that elected Republicans can't summon the courage to challenge an out-of-control president."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Round image like a political button: photo of the White House with text saying "Regime Change Begins at Home."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Political cartoon by John Buss. Belligerant figure of Trump with military epaulets and medals on his suit. Dialogue bubble says: "It's illegal to disobey my illegal orders."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The unforgiveable, unpresidential, vile behaviors just keep piling up. When's the impeachment happening? Very ready for that, a conviction and a removal followed by prosecution for the crimes he's committed so far.
This is a political cartoon by Dave Whamond, published on November 18, 2025. It shows an ugly, angry pig with Donald Trump's signature blond comb-over and orange make-up sneering at the small figure of a woman journalist holding a microphone. The Trump Pig is saying, "Quiet, Piggy!" which is what he said when a woman journalist asked him a question about the Epstein files.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A big problem for the mediocre, corrupt liars.
Red t-shirt with white and gray writing.  Text:  "The Far-Right is angry because they're being judged by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Don't know the source, but hilarious!
Out of perspective map of NYC with big arrow pointing to Staten Island.  Text says:  "BREAKING: Cuomo has fled the NYC mainland following its fall to socialist Zohran Mamdani.  Sources say he will establish a new govt on Staten Island with the goal of eventually reclaiming the entire city.  Mamdani has promised to purge all remaining Cuomintang on the mainland."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"Psychedelic western" themed poster with Elmo in a cowboy hat smiling and waving. Text says: "Call me crazy, partner, but I'd rather have my tax dollars go to healthcare and SNAP instead of I.C.E. terrorizing kids and families in Chicago, but I guess I'm crazy."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A table with three in the top row, three in the bottom row. Each has an orange Venn diagram showing the relationship between "Trick" and "Treat." From top to bottom, left to right:  "Trick OR Treat", "Trick AND Treat", "Trick XOR Treat", "Trick NOR Treat", Trick NAND Treat", and "Trick XNOR Treat".
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
What are you doing on October 18? It's No Kings Day! No Kings, no tyrants, no billionaires.
A hand-written sign afixed to a chainlink fence:  "We have been too quiet for too long.  There comes a time when you have to say something.  You have to make a little noise.  You have to move your feet.  NOW IS THE TIME."  -- John Lewis
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Important truth. The result of sadopopulism. Poor guy identifies as being against all these enemies, and doesn't really believe that government policy could help him. Rich guy doesn't disabuse him of this fallacy, and encourages it.
Two white men.  On the left, a fat, MAGA-hat wearing working guy.  On the right a bald guy in a suit smirking with a bag a cash and giving the thumbs up sign.
On the left: "I vote Republican to keep foreigners, minorities, women, socialists, gays, and liberals from ruining my life."
On the right:  "I vote Republican to keep this moron from realizing I'm the only one ruining his life."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
A classroom, teacher at the desk, students facing her. Teacher says, "Children, today we're going to learn code! It's important for a prosperous future!"  Girl raises her hand and says, "Teacher, after that, could we learn how to survive in a civilization threatened by ecosystem collapse, rising sea levels and the resulting geo-political turmoil, armed conflict and the increasing polarization of ideological orientations, and humanity's seemingly insatiable appetite for stuff?"
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
War is hell.
Photo of a soldier (looks like WWII) sitting on a box outside a tent writing a letter:  "My dearest, War truly is hell here in Portland. I have witnessed such atrocities in my short time here. The worst of which was a horde of naked cyclists riding by.  It gives me chills to think of how many of them sat on their balls.  My only thought now is to make it home to you.  Love, your guardsman."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
White lettering on black:  "To the Chicago restaurants refusing to serve ICE, the businesses locking their doors when they show up, and the tow truck drivers hauling their vehicles away -- thank you.  Stay Strong, Chicago.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Compare and contrast. 😀
"Evidence" supplied by Kash Patel, allegedly related to the shooting at the ICE detention center.  Five bullets lying on a dark, possibly wet surface. Bullets scribbled on with marking pens, one says "Anti-ICE"Gary Larson cartoon. Dog hiding, thinking "Oh, please, oh please.." Cat peering into the clothes dryer and lots of hand-written signs with arrows pointing into the dryer saying "cat fud."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
An apt observation. What is free speech anyway? Only for racists in power?
Post: Bishop Talbert Swan
Caucasity is spending eight years calling the nation's first Black president, 'Barak the magic Negro,' 'boy,' and 'tar baby,' his wife a 'gorilla in heels,' because you have free speech...
...but now wanting to fire everyone who calls a deceased racist a racist.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Tom Homan sets the standard for due process, right? Give him his Tom Homan-style due process.
Post by btuckertime:
Look, Tom Homan has not had a trial and has never been proven guilty.  So let's all take a step back and do what he would do - send him to a secret prison in El Salvador until we can figure this out. Hearts 19.5k
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
MAGA = rolling the clock back to Jim Crow, Chinese Exclusion, and Kafkaesque censorship. Nothing "common sense" about that. White supremacy without a doubt. Let's get a little liberty and equality in here! The U.S. we want is free and fair and respects the people!
Racist New Law in Texas Restricts Chinese Immigrants from Buying or Renting Homes.
As of Sept 1, 2025, thousands of Chinese immigrants are among those banned from buying homes and signing apartment leases in Texas.  This is all thanks to SB17, a racist new law legalizing housing discrimination and fueling hate against Asian people just because of where they come from.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The "Kubrick stare" showing peak derangement.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Hey, Trump!
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The Loser Corps! Too dumb to know they're violating the U.S. Constitution!
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"photo of Gavin Newsom holding a flag, wearing a blue hat with the letters MTPNAPA.  Caption:  "Make the president not a pedophile again."
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Lalo Alcaraz on the recent ICE/CBP raid on Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, CA. ICE raid took place on the exact spot that Japanese immigrants and citizen children were ordered to report for detention and indefinite incarceration in 1942. Shame on ICE! Shame!!
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
CA Governor Newsom's social media posts are hilarious trolling of those of the Orange King Midas, and if the msm was a little quicker, could provide some useful counterpoint to the terrible communiques of POTUS, now obviously in serious mental decline. @nytimes.com @latimes.com @washingtonpost.com
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
There's no future in becoming an ICE goon. After you deport all the immigrants, trump will make you pick lettuce in some other state for your healthcare (no pre-existing conditions!)
Join ICE! Like the Gestapo, but for cowards.
Do dogs hate you?  Need cash to spend on a punisher skull tattoo instead of child support? Can you only get hard to the sounds of children crying? Hoping to die alone and unloved?
[Drawing of a masked ICE agent wearing a MAGA hat and doing a Nazi salute.]
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Beautiful poster by Leland Wong.
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S. Hayase @quicktide.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Progressive political work includes making sure that we have welcoming, supportive spaces for boys and young men, and that we accommodate who they are. Let's not forget them. We need them on our side. Pls don't just monku or complain about your personal situation; think about how we can improve.
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