Hiki Komori
@hikikomorisaito.bsky.social
Humanitarian principles, compassion and justice. 🕊 The courage to stand up for what is right and decent is the catalyst for ethics in action. 🌙
🖤Palestinian Rights/Civil Rights
💛Science/Technology
🧡Anti-MAGA-DOGE-Fascist-Zionist
🩶Spirituality/Philosophy
🖤Palestinian Rights/Civil Rights
💛Science/Technology
🧡Anti-MAGA-DOGE-Fascist-Zionist
🩶Spirituality/Philosophy
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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CBS has become state regime media.
A Message to CBS from MeidasTouch
By Ben Meiselas
www.meidasplus.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
CBS has become state regime media.
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Thou shalt boycott CBS (Censorship Broadcast System)
December 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Thou shalt boycott CBS (Censorship Broadcast System)
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Now removed as well. CBS is no longer a legitimate news operation. CBS is state news.
Looks like Yahoo is the only one still alive www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...
Inside CECOT | Sunday on 60 Minutes
A group of Venezuelan men thought they were being deported from the U.S. back to Venezuela. Instead, they were delivered to CECOT, the notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador, where they were...
www.yahoo.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Now removed as well. CBS is no longer a legitimate news operation. CBS is state news.
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CBS really Bari'd the story huh.
December 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
CBS really Bari'd the story huh.
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🇸🇪🇵🇸 #WATCH | A pro-Palestine demonstration took place in Stockholm, Sweden, calling for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.
He was arrested on 27 December 2024 after Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, destroyed the facility, and detained him at gunpoint.
He was arrested on 27 December 2024 after Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, destroyed the facility, and detained him at gunpoint.
December 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🇸🇪🇵🇸 #WATCH | A pro-Palestine demonstration took place in Stockholm, Sweden, calling for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.
He was arrested on 27 December 2024 after Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, destroyed the facility, and detained him at gunpoint.
He was arrested on 27 December 2024 after Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, destroyed the facility, and detained him at gunpoint.
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In the past 48 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 12 killed (8 of whom were recovered from the rubble) and 7 injured arriving at hospitals.
Just another day of the Israeli "ceasefire"
Just another day of the Israeli "ceasefire"
December 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
In the past 48 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 12 killed (8 of whom were recovered from the rubble) and 7 injured arriving at hospitals.
Just another day of the Israeli "ceasefire"
Just another day of the Israeli "ceasefire"
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I love that people have refused to give up on helping Gaza however they can
💥 #BREAKING | The Global Sumud Flotilla has announced a Spring 2026 Gaza mission, pledging more than 100 boats and over 3,000 participants from 100+ countries ‼️
You can join yourself by going to the website globalsumudflotilla.org
Let’s make history 💪🇵🇸⛵️
You can join yourself by going to the website globalsumudflotilla.org
Let’s make history 💪🇵🇸⛵️
December 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I love that people have refused to give up on helping Gaza however they can
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A Holocaust survivor.
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
The granddaughter of a holocaust survivor
All stand together against the Genocide
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
The granddaughter of a holocaust survivor
All stand together against the Genocide
December 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A Holocaust survivor.
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
The granddaughter of a holocaust survivor
All stand together against the Genocide
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
The granddaughter of a holocaust survivor
All stand together against the Genocide
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It’s interesting how so many Holocaust survivors stand in opposition and yet so many invoke the Holocaust to “justify” this evil, bastard child of the Holocaust
www.democracynow.org/2023/11/8/ma...
www.democracynow.org/2023/11/8/ma...
Holocaust Survivor Condemns Israeli Assault & Calls for Peace
We speak with 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram, who has been protesting outside the White House calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Ingram says experiencing anti-Jewish hate, losing family m...
www.democracynow.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It’s interesting how so many Holocaust survivors stand in opposition and yet so many invoke the Holocaust to “justify” this evil, bastard child of the Holocaust
www.democracynow.org/2023/11/8/ma...
www.democracynow.org/2023/11/8/ma...
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1. So I have a few thoughts on "heritage Americans," Nathanial Hawthorne, witch-hunting, Thomas Pynchon, Calvinism, strange feuds, the Daughters of the American Revolution, FDR, the moral responsibilities of nationalism & (I guess) Jack Kirby.
December 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
1. So I have a few thoughts on "heritage Americans," Nathanial Hawthorne, witch-hunting, Thomas Pynchon, Calvinism, strange feuds, the Daughters of the American Revolution, FDR, the moral responsibilities of nationalism & (I guess) Jack Kirby.
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4. The relation between Thomas Pynchon and his great-great-great-great Grand Father William is not merely a biological one. William Pynchon was the author of "The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption" - a fierce critique of Calvinism & the first book banned in the Western Hemisphere.
December 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
4. The relation between Thomas Pynchon and his great-great-great-great Grand Father William is not merely a biological one. William Pynchon was the author of "The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption" - a fierce critique of Calvinism & the first book banned in the Western Hemisphere.
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5. William Pynchon got into trouble with is fellow colonist not only as critic of Calvinism but also an opponent of Connecticut's vicious ethnic cleansing of the Indigenous populations. His political unpopularity led him to return to England, although some of his family remained.
December 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
5. William Pynchon got into trouble with is fellow colonist not only as critic of Calvinism but also an opponent of Connecticut's vicious ethnic cleansing of the Indigenous populations. His political unpopularity led him to return to England, although some of his family remained.
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6. Thomas Pynchon is very mindful of his family's history. William Pynchon is recast as William Stothrope in Gravity's Rainbow. More broadly, Pynchon's work pervasively grapples with Calvinism, presenting history as a long battle between the supposed elect and the preterite (the supposedly damned)
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
6. Thomas Pynchon is very mindful of his family's history. William Pynchon is recast as William Stothrope in Gravity's Rainbow. More broadly, Pynchon's work pervasively grapples with Calvinism, presenting history as a long battle between the supposed elect and the preterite (the supposedly damned)
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8. Strangely enough, Pynchon's ancestry also entangles him with another great American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose own primordial American ancestor William Hauthorne had been a judge (a friendly one) in the blasphemy trial William Pynchon in the 1650s.
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
8. Strangely enough, Pynchon's ancestry also entangles him with another great American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose own primordial American ancestor William Hauthorne had been a judge (a friendly one) in the blasphemy trial William Pynchon in the 1650s.
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9. Perhaps to exorcise his own family guilt, Nathaniel Hawthorne portrayed William Pynchon (renamed Colonel Pyncheon) as a vicious witch-hunter in The House of Seven Gables (1851). This provoked an angry letter from Rev. Thomas Pynchon (1823-1904), the namesake & great grand uncle of the novelist.
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
9. Perhaps to exorcise his own family guilt, Nathaniel Hawthorne portrayed William Pynchon (renamed Colonel Pyncheon) as a vicious witch-hunter in The House of Seven Gables (1851). This provoked an angry letter from Rev. Thomas Pynchon (1823-1904), the namesake & great grand uncle of the novelist.
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10. Despite the fact that Nathaniel Hawthorne inexplicably slandered the ancestor of Thomas Pynchon, the two novelists actually have much in common: both are "Heritage Americans" for whom a distinguished ancestry is not a point a pride but a reason to grapple with their nation's dark history.
December 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
10. Despite the fact that Nathaniel Hawthorne inexplicably slandered the ancestor of Thomas Pynchon, the two novelists actually have much in common: both are "Heritage Americans" for whom a distinguished ancestry is not a point a pride but a reason to grapple with their nation's dark history.
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11. All the genealogical information I've presented is to show just how much a "Heritage American" Pynchon is: his family is woven into the literary and political history of the USA going back nearly 500 years. And this fact deeply inflects his novels as fierce interrogations of national sins.
December 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
11. All the genealogical information I've presented is to show just how much a "Heritage American" Pynchon is: his family is woven into the literary and political history of the USA going back nearly 500 years. And this fact deeply inflects his novels as fierce interrogations of national sins.
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12 If Pynchon is a nationalist he's a morally responsible one. But there are other "Heritage Americans" who have an uncritical relationship with the past & who use their ancestry as a pretext for xenophobia: the group Daughters of the American Revolution often did that.
December 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
12 If Pynchon is a nationalist he's a morally responsible one. But there are other "Heritage Americans" who have an uncritical relationship with the past & who use their ancestry as a pretext for xenophobia: the group Daughters of the American Revolution often did that.
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13. Franklin Roosevelt once addressed the Daughters of American Revolution and saluted them as "fellow immigrants." As Allan Bloom once explained, this was a cheeky tweak at the group's ethnic chauvinism (from Bloom's Giants and Dwarfs).
December 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
13. Franklin Roosevelt once addressed the Daughters of American Revolution and saluted them as "fellow immigrants." As Allan Bloom once explained, this was a cheeky tweak at the group's ethnic chauvinism (from Bloom's Giants and Dwarfs).
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14. And I can't help but note that Jack Kirby (the son of immigrants) himself mocked this type of "Heritage American" hubris in the form of his Loyalist LARPing villain William Taurey (i.e. Tory). From Captain America #194 (Feb. 1976). The End.
December 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
14. And I can't help but note that Jack Kirby (the son of immigrants) himself mocked this type of "Heritage American" hubris in the form of his Loyalist LARPing villain William Taurey (i.e. Tory). From Captain America #194 (Feb. 1976). The End.
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12. One way to read Pynchon's oeuvre as a long secret history of the USA and technological modernity, both byproducts of a Calvinist and technocratic hubris that spells doom. This secret history has unflinchingly portrayed some of the darkest moments of the past, including genocidal wars.
December 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
12. One way to read Pynchon's oeuvre as a long secret history of the USA and technological modernity, both byproducts of a Calvinist and technocratic hubris that spells doom. This secret history has unflinchingly portrayed some of the darkest moments of the past, including genocidal wars.
Mark Wiseman, a former high ranking BlackRock Inc. executive will be replacing Kirsten Hillman, who is stepping down after eight years as Canada's ambassador to the U.S.
Wiseman's background is primarily as a high-profile financier & business executive, not as a diplomat.
Wiseman's background is primarily as a high-profile financier & business executive, not as a diplomat.
December 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Mark Wiseman, a former high ranking BlackRock Inc. executive will be replacing Kirsten Hillman, who is stepping down after eight years as Canada's ambassador to the U.S.
Wiseman's background is primarily as a high-profile financier & business executive, not as a diplomat.
Wiseman's background is primarily as a high-profile financier & business executive, not as a diplomat.