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Akiko Takenaka

@ata225.bsky.social

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Professor of Japanese history at the University of Kentucky. Book on motherhood and peace activism in Cold War Japan forthcoming in February 2025

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Akiko Takenaka @ata225.bsky.social · Mar 2

Use the promotional code AAS2025 for a 30 percent discount. Valid till July 2025

Akiko Takenaka @ata225.bsky.social · Jan 14

My new book has arrived!

A book titled Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan

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Faith M. Jackson @kissedbythesun.bsky.social · 13d

🚨BREAKING🚨: Portland Frog receives Nobel Peace Prize.

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 14d

This is awesome.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Sep 6

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · Sep 2

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists & Flock Fleecing Frauds.

For any believer, atheist or agnostic who will ever have to deal with right-wing Christian nationalists; releasing 9/9.

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...

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Akiko Takenaka @ata225.bsky.social · Sep 7

Super important. But the fact that this needs to be said in America makes me profoundly sad, scared, and angry

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 7

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · Aug 7

THREAD: There are a lot of unanswered questions 12 hours after President Trump — who, according to the Constitution, has no final authority over the census — released a social media post calling for unprecedented changes to how the government produces data that forms the foundation of U.S. democracy

Trump wants a new U.S. census to exclude people here illegally. It'd be unprecedented

Trump is calling for a "new" census that excludes people in the U.S. without legal status. The 14th Amendment requires the "whole number of persons in each state" in a key set of census results.

www.npr.org

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · Jul 14

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · Jul 6

Emmy-winning Austin, TX based TV meteorologist on Facebook:

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · Jul 5

each year on this day i find company in this poem

“No Explosions”
by Naomi Shihab Nye

To enjoy
fireworks
you would have
to have lived
a different kind
of life

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Jul 5

One thing that is weird about the Mandami story is the focus on the checked boxes, not the rest of the application (which presumably contains essays or other written statements). Admissions people actually read those! (especially at a school like Columbia, in an era of paper applications) 1/

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · Jul 4

Of course, the Medicaid and SNAP cuts are appropriately getting the most attention. But almost lost has been the dramatic expansion of ICE, dwarfing every other law-enforcement agency combined. I had feared a private Trump vigilante force. Much worse. An official one.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Jun 30

Trump promised not to cut Medicaid and his signature legislation cuts Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Jun 30

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

substack.com/redirect/169...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · Jun 30

Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day.

1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · Jun 27

Hey.

Two-thirds of people DON'T KNOW what's in Trump's budget bill, even though it will affect all of us. Polls show when people know what's in it, they don't want Trump's Big Ugly Bill.

So let's make sure more people know what's in it 🧵

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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · Jun 22

In a 4 minute address gloating over US bombing of Iran, President Trump made this statement:
“We love you, God, and we love our great military.”
This is Holy War language.
He was flanked by Hegseth, who has the Crusades motto “Deus vult” tattooed on his arm.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Update from Maggie Haberman

www.nytimes.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Jun 22

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · Jun 22

For those who don’t have truth social apparently we are at war. Insanity that this is how the U.S. president makes an announcement.

I’m old enough to remember a US president making an announcement to the nation and not posting something this serious to a right wing platform

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jun 18

Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress.

The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Jun 18

A lot of people are talking about whether Trump is going to go to war with Iran but not enough people are talking about the fact that Trump has no legal authority to do so without Congressional authorization

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Akiko Takenaka @ata225.bsky.social · Jun 17

Listen to today’s Daily Beans (and on all other days, but especially today) mswmedia.com/show/daily-b...

Do not miss the interview with @christineahn.bsky.social

Christine Ahn (@christineahn.bsky.social)

Peace activist, organizer, writer, mom, surfer and hopeaholic. Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; founder, Women Cross DMZ. Expert on Korea, feminist peace, U.S. foreign policy.

christineahn.bsky.social

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · Jun 15

After a November election that felt like the end of the world, after months of attacks on values and institutions we hold dear, after a Democratic official and her husband were murdered Saturday morning, we needed to see that we weren’t the only ones heartbroken, freaked out and super pissed off:

Americans take to the streets*

Patriots were everywhere Saturday — *except at Trump’s dumb birthday party

www.thealtmedia.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 15

Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 15

It’s not just Mike Lee — Bernie Moreno is pretending that a registered Republican evangelical anti-abortion Trump voter who assassinated a Democrat and had more on his hit list is a representative of “the extreme left”

Bernie Moreno & •
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The degree to which the extreme left has become radical, violent, and intolerant is both stunning and terrifying.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 15

This is an egregiously shameful tweet from a US senator

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · Jun 14

It's .........very cosplay so far here at Trump's birthday parade. Those wigs must be so damn hot

Let's do this!

🧵

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Erik Ledbetter @bandoblue.bsky.social · Jun 14

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

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