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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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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Libertarians on Immigration
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Height Discrimination
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Columbusing: Eastside
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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Conservative Hopelessness about Anti-Asian Violence
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Beating the Oligarchy
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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The Independent Progressive Party
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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February Links
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery