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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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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
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DALL-E and NSFW Content, How to Make Your Own
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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First COVID-19 Post
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w32tm reports the computer did not resync because no time data was available
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Dodging
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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Inventing Black and White
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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The Mirror
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness