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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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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
This is a revised and updated repost of an older post about US support for Nazis during the 1930s. Now it’s a closely related post about the rise of the 1920s KKK. This post needs some rewriting, and more detail.
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
I don’t know if this is Homeland Security, but the video says it is. Is it ICE? This happened in Rosemead on Encintas and Mission up in the north side. The cops broke the surveillance camera before breaking in. (If the creator needs to reach me, my tiktok is @johnisveryboring.) My sentiments exactly. This is…
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Taking Over “Public School”
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Height Discrimination
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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Beating the Oligarchy
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Pee Commerce
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Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers