mellady mizphan
@melladymizphan.bsky.social
Now in Tokyo, Melbourne raised. Interested in many things, expert in few! (Happily) Left X recently, hoping to find this a nicer place. Japanese pop culture, musicals, history, matcha and chocolate..
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January 24, 2026
January 24, 2026
This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:01 AM
January 24, 2026
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Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity
They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
January 24, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
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Beautiful prose. Tragically accurate.
“It does not matter, in practical terms, whether ICE’s actions are legal. In mafia states, legal is a malleable notion. What matters is that they are wrong. What matters is how they can be stopped.”
“It does not matter, in practical terms, whether ICE’s actions are legal. In mafia states, legal is a malleable notion. What matters is that they are wrong. What matters is how they can be stopped.”
New article! On life, death, and the rampage of ICE.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...
A Shining Mausoleum on a Hill
Life, death, and the rampage of ICE.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Beautiful prose. Tragically accurate.
“It does not matter, in practical terms, whether ICE’s actions are legal. In mafia states, legal is a malleable notion. What matters is that they are wrong. What matters is how they can be stopped.”
“It does not matter, in practical terms, whether ICE’s actions are legal. In mafia states, legal is a malleable notion. What matters is that they are wrong. What matters is how they can be stopped.”
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“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”
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for anyone who would like a cozy, relaxing YouTube watch, no one is doing it like the V&A Museum’s ASMR channel and this is my new favorite
I have been listening to it before bed a truly unhinged amount
I have been listening to it before bed a truly unhinged amount
ASMR Knit with Me: 1940s Vintage Gloves | Relaxing 90-Minute Knitting Sounds | ASMR at the Museum
YouTube video by Victoria and Albert Museum
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
for anyone who would like a cozy, relaxing YouTube watch, no one is doing it like the V&A Museum’s ASMR channel and this is my new favorite
I have been listening to it before bed a truly unhinged amount
I have been listening to it before bed a truly unhinged amount
Horrific news coming out of Sydney tonight. Struggling to believe it. Just awful.
December 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Horrific news coming out of Sydney tonight. Struggling to believe it. Just awful.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
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1. Need a last-minute costume.
2. Take TikTok advice that all women have what they need in their closets for an Alexander Hamilton costume.
3. Construct and execute the look.
4. Tell the world.
5. Receive affirmation from Alexander Hamilton himself.
2. Take TikTok advice that all women have what they need in their closets for an Alexander Hamilton costume.
3. Construct and execute the look.
4. Tell the world.
5. Receive affirmation from Alexander Hamilton himself.
October 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
1. Need a last-minute costume.
2. Take TikTok advice that all women have what they need in their closets for an Alexander Hamilton costume.
3. Construct and execute the look.
4. Tell the world.
5. Receive affirmation from Alexander Hamilton himself.
2. Take TikTok advice that all women have what they need in their closets for an Alexander Hamilton costume.
3. Construct and execute the look.
4. Tell the world.
5. Receive affirmation from Alexander Hamilton himself.
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Another day, another random post bitterly defaced by yours truly, who only strives to keep it real 😇
October 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Another day, another random post bitterly defaced by yours truly, who only strives to keep it real 😇
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"...it did not take long for the myth of “Akromiya” to be debunked. I know, because I was the one who debunked it."
another amazing loreflash from the inimitable kendzior! #Hero
another amazing loreflash from the inimitable kendzior! #Hero
Inventing Antifa
In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"...it did not take long for the myth of “Akromiya” to be debunked. I know, because I was the one who debunked it."
another amazing loreflash from the inimitable kendzior! #Hero
another amazing loreflash from the inimitable kendzior! #Hero
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Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon
Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon
I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon
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Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.
Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.
Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.
October 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.
Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.
Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.
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This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
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I took this picture myself at the CDC protest today. These are among the hundreds of bullet holes in CDC headquarters windows, visible from the street. I heard today that the admin has no urgent plan to fix these windows.
Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
August 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I took this picture myself at the CDC protest today. These are among the hundreds of bullet holes in CDC headquarters windows, visible from the street. I heard today that the admin has no urgent plan to fix these windows.
Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
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Sanseitō, one of Japan's far-right parties, is expected to overperform in the upcoming Upper House elections. How has it built up its base? Mainly by taking a page out of US President Donald Trump’s fascist playbook - i.e., by lying about immigrants.
buff.ly/msRiQsj
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Sanseitō: How The Far Right Party is Bringing MAGA Tactics to Japan - Unseen Japan
The party is using Trump-like tactics to single out foreigners living in Japan. Will voters reward it at the polls?
unseen-japan.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Sanseitō, one of Japan's far-right parties, is expected to overperform in the upcoming Upper House elections. How has it built up its base? Mainly by taking a page out of US President Donald Trump’s fascist playbook - i.e., by lying about immigrants.
buff.ly/msRiQsj
buff.ly/msRiQsj
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Greetings from the Tokyo metropolitan tropical rainforest. I’m not sure but I strongly suspect that some of these raindrops are actually Ghibli characters.
June 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Greetings from the Tokyo metropolitan tropical rainforest. I’m not sure but I strongly suspect that some of these raindrops are actually Ghibli characters.
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Co-sign here: we're very much in uncharted water here, for sure. Don't buy the punditry and facile predictions, bad, good, or otherwise 👇
I see many folks making many uncaveated claims about what happens next.
I also see the best and most seasoned experts admitting that they don’t know what’s coming—and advising us not to buy what such fully confident pundits are selling.
Trust the latter view. We’re in largely uncharted territory.
I also see the best and most seasoned experts admitting that they don’t know what’s coming—and advising us not to buy what such fully confident pundits are selling.
Trust the latter view. We’re in largely uncharted territory.
June 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Co-sign here: we're very much in uncharted water here, for sure. Don't buy the punditry and facile predictions, bad, good, or otherwise 👇
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June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM