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Get in Touch
If you’re coming over from social media, and want to read political books, join my Reading Group contact list. If you want to send me an email landofziploc at gmail. I can give you my Signal and phone through email, but we should chat on Signal first. My Bluesky link is above. Often, I’ll post…
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
Join the Rosemead Tenants Union Contingent! Go to the rosemeadtu.org site and sign up for the group, and you’ll eventually get some info.
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
Recently found photos about Boyle Heights and Arts District gentrification, and added them to this old post, also about the same topic.
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Beating the Oligarchy
Ideas for moving forward. This is my current thinking, and I reserve the right to change it, completely, as I learn more.
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Erasing Race and Gender at the Naval Academy; Inventing Black and White; Erasing History at the National Archives
Update – the US Naval Academy released a list of books they pulled from the shelves because of this Trumpist anti-DEI purge. Here is that list. This is what the Trumpists fear: the truth about our country, about racial divisions, and gender divisions, that were part of the law, and utterly inimical to both individualistic…
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Getting Off of Big Tech
Messaging Signal and Signal Groups johnk’s haha, a meme and humor group – https://signal.group/#CjQKICj66MMGy-SZzQAflDFLUvPTZex7Hih49TtaEjbq8_5lEhBpaXvFlKR2DFKDw-ph7Thn Signal – a messaging app similar to Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, Line, KakaoTalk. Nonprofit based in the US. Telegram – business based in Russia. Others Matrix / Element – similar to Slack or Discord, but not as smooth. Alternatives to Google…
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
The world was just too depressing for a while, so I didn’t have time to curate the stories I was reading. I just posted a bunch to my bluesky account, @johnkawakami. Instead, I messed around with this crossword puzzle tool. Other Ones Black Reconstruction Racism
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Government Takeover
Marxist State Theory of DOGE by David Calnitsky Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data Wells Fargo Is Plotting to Privatize the Post Office Blast from the Past: 2021: USPS Takeover Back in 2021, I wrote this letter to Congress, criticizing DeJoy. He was never removed. Dear ____: We…
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
I made this TikTok about Thomas Nast cartoons about white immigrant opposition to Chinese immigration, and part of it discussed the Draft Riots, which were part of the composition in a cartoon. user6041026417578 wrote: I made a long video, but it was boring and I wasn’t certain my interpretation was correct, so I am going…
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
How Japanese curry (kare) intersected with a right wing anti-Western, anti-imperialist movement.
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Prompt Collection 3
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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The Commodity Fetish
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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The Independent Progressive Party
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The Mirror
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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I’m a Trollaholic
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Height Discrimination
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Chili History
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Beating the Oligarchy
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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The End of Facebook
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
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Social Media
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority