川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸

It’s a big reason why we have two kids but we refuse to use strollers in Japan. Just a huge hassle to find elevators. Just suck it up, carry the kids, and use stairs/escalators around stations.

Japanese train stations are in a fierce competition of how ADA hostile they can be while still being technically compliant.

Just survived Toyosu station, entered the fare gate and was told there’s no elevators. You had to exit and enter through a physically separate fare gate area. Like what.

Every virus causes damage to you; this is a part of the existence of every living thing on this planet. Eventually, the damage will become significant enough that you'll die. That, too, is something that happens to all living things. That's why you have to actually live while you live.

Never get that in Tokyo, nope.

Completely anecdotal but I feel like directness is correlated with how rural the area is.

I visited Kurashiki as an adult and was chatting up a taxi driver “wow things haven’t changed a bit in 30 years!” And he straight-up told me my eyes had problems, because there was a lot of new development.

Most predictable thing in the world that we'd start coming up with reasons why protesting against Trump is cringe and bad.

"Tears of the Mountain", the 3rd 2025 graduation short from french Gobelins school, is online.
Directed by Luke Ashworth, Yehor Bondarenko, Alp Kurdoğlu, Romane Talva and Ange Yajima.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9J...

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Trump’s superpower. It’s quite amazing honestly. What a political talent.

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Completely and utterly anecdotal but I feel like I run into more Northeast Chinese in Japan whereas in America a huge majority is from the South, and I wonder if there’s a traditional reason for this (Manchukuo)

The entire Republican Party strategy for achieving what are comprehensively & wildly unpopular policy objectives now consists entirely of bypassing Article I of the Constitution through wildly illegal abuses of both Article II and Article III.

The thing is JD Vance has taken the lesson of “always double-down and never admit any faults” from Trump because it works for Trump

But he’s got the causality wrong. Trump can do it because he’s Trump, Vance does not have it and doubling done just make him look stupid.

You’re absolutely right. People are being super weird about the *abilities* of AI.

TIL Bessent is a married gay man.

MAGA is truly a diverse, woke movement.

The next Dem admin must come down hard on every entity involved.

The Groypers are on a long march through the institutions and right-wing Jews are way too complacent about the idea that it’ll be fine because these people also hate Muslims.

this administration is held up and together by negative polarization, but they're also basically running a natural experiment in trying to break negative polarization so we get to find out just exactly how far it'll carry them ig

the government needs to stay shut down until the authoritarianism is meaningfully constrained or Republicans break the filibuster

there are a couple of ways to think about this, one is that no one should be running for their first senate race at this age, and the other is that if platner can’t beat her, he definitely can’t beat collins. i think he can. everybody needs to stop crying and start fighting.

In general even people on here struggle to comprehend how much WORSE the GOP has become even from their very bad baseline.

I know other people are saying this is what College Republicans always was, and I’m not trying to run interference for republicans, but my experience with friends who were members a quarter century ago was not this. This is much worse.

But the establishment!!!!

Like come on, pols like Obama, AOC, and most recently Mamdani overcame them to win. It can happen if you got talent. Believe in your candidates.

It’s because the ghosts of 2016 will forever haunt any form of online political discourse.

biden-era policies were extremely geared toward the working class, whose wages went up at much higher rates than the top half of earners and saw a job boom, as well as IRA investment in traditional manufacturing regions. they rewarded him by switching heavily to Trump.

Every angry screed about how Biden blew it just does not acknowledge the whole reason Biden was unpopular was because he did the exact economic policy they claimed to want instead of pummeling the workers with austerity until Doordash servants worked for pennies and Subway footlongs were $5 again.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Congrats to everyone whos been eagerly handing it to Donald Trump for signing a thing that actually has to be maintained long term, not just signed, bc they were so eager to dunk on Biden that they were willing to ignore the whole context of this region. Your Fell For It Again Award is in the mail.