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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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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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BBB System Configuration Testing Script
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Some Yelp Reviews
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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How to Buy Windows 10 Cheap
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
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Computer Shopping
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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Update for April 29, 2019
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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Adding Google OAuth Authentication to the Symfony HWI OAuth Bundle
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Creating Email Messages with Clickable Links that Add Events to Your Calendar
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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The Western Gender Binary
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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WordPress error: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress.
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WordPress Admin Emails Not Getting Through to Gmail addresses, Docker Container Based WordPress with BusyBox
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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Changing Emails is Hard
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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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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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective