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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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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
This was a minor pain in the ass, and I’ll go into some detail about the problems I had. I’m complaining a lot in this post.
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Inventing Black and White
Original post on Nov 8, 2024 Inventing Black and White – Learn how Bacon’s Rebellion became a turning point for the way the laws of colonial Virginia distinguished people of different races. (Note that the two classes – poor vs. indentured/slaves – united, but it was to continue the expansion of the colonies into indigenous…
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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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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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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Meta-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 5
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Prunus Mume, lost in translation
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Opening a Dozen Email Boxes? Use Mozilla Thunderbird (and Donate)
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How to Buy Windows 10 Cheap
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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Quick Installer for Woocommerce
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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February Links
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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Lifehacks Here
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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DALL-E as Cheese Hegemon and Destroyer of Words: Hamburgers and Pizzas with Mandatory Cheese, and Erasure of Pigs in Blankets
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The Independent Progressive Party
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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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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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!