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"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Deeply conflicted, Kushner represents the U.S. in high-stakes negotiations with Iran Today in Geneva, Switzerland, Jared Kushner will represent the United States in meetings with Iranian officials — a last

As Trump ramps up his warmongering with Iran, his own son-in-law Jared Kushner — who is leading negotiations with Iran — stands to profit from lucrative contracts with its regional rivals.

The Trump family's insatiable greed endangers us all.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Black and white photo of Porter seated at a desk in front of a row of bookshelves and a card catalog. She is a Black woman with shoulder length wavy hair. She is wearing a dark dress with white accents, and is reading a book which is open on her desk.

Dorothy Porter was a librarian at Howard University where she took a small collection of donated materials by and about Black Americans and curated it for 40 years into the 180,000 item Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. #BlackHistoryMonth
www.historians.org/perspectives...

明日、2月17日は旧暦のお正月。
沖縄では旧暦で一年の行事を行う場合も多く、まめ書房でもこの時期に沖縄の方から年賀状をいただく事があります。
こちらは、ユニークな鳥の形のしめ縄。
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#しめ縄 #民具
#まめ書房 #mameshobocrafts

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.

And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.

- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide

-There's worms & mold in food

-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows

www.propublica.org/article/life...

Being back in California has been interesting. Before leaving, I was sad to be going. Now that I'm back, I feel very lost? Not sure which way is the right way or even if I have professional or personal goals.

Taco over the plate of tacos.

One big taco with guacamole

View from Angeles Flight Railway

Some amazing blue corn tacos and small explorations of Grand Central Market and Angels Flight Railway a few days ago.

Alabama advocacy group expands its historical sites After building a museum, memorial and sculpture park, the Equal Justice Initiative opens a new site celebrating Civil Rights Era resistance in Montgomery

Read the Art Newspaper's piece about the growth of the Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama.

Noodles and Kimchi

Cafe counter with blue. Heart decorations.

Just a little coffee run and picnic last weekend.

CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

Shun Medoruma is one of the most important contemporary Ryukyuan writers, especially since his 1997 Akutagawa win. His novel In the Woods of Memory was the first full-length work from Okinawa translated into English. Today, he spends more time as an environmental and peace activist than as a writer.

Language in Japan, Volume 1 Published by The Society for Japanese Linguistics. OPEN ACCESS

From the 2024 inaugural issue of the journal "Language in Japan." Michinori Shimoji (roots from Miyako) writes a guest paper, addressing the issue of whether the "first person" inclusive is really a first person category by examining Ryukyuan languages.

www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/lij/1...

Apparently there is another video of ICE murdering someone and so I will remind you, again, that you do not have to watch it in order to confirm the thing everyone already knows: ICE is a lawless group of thugs who are killing people who stand up for basic American rights.

ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.

It's King Day! Don't Allow Them to Memory Hole What It Means

My new piece is up!

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Today let me draw your attention to another concerning passage in the IMLS NOFO.

They want projects that "explore innovative alternatives to traditional credentialing and librarian education [and] explore cutting edge tools and fresh topics in the content and provision of continuing education."

What books do you consider to be Pacific Islander classics? Books pictured: Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal Spitz (Mā’ohi) The Crocodile by Vincent Eri (Papua New Guinea) Waimea Summer by John Dominis Holt (Kanaka Maoli) The Wreck/L’Épave by Déwé Gorodé (Kanak) The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera (Māori) Pouliuli by Albert Wendt (Samoan) Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport (Kanaka Maoli) Cousins by Patricia Grace (Māori)

What books do you consider to be Pacific Islander classics?

これは新たな名著です。
『戦後80年からのメッセージ 2045年のあなたへ 〜私たちは沖縄戦から何を学んだのか〜』(2025年刊)、沖縄戦を軸とする「平和学習」の最新テキスト。
授業での使用を想定した本ですが、世界で戦争が止まず日本も軍拡を進める今、私達大人こそが学ぶ内容が満載です。
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#戦後80年からのメッセージ #2045年のあなたへ #新城俊昭 #東洋企画
#まめ書房 #mameshobobooks

From Okinawa to Singapore to NYC: Talk with Aya Rodriguez-Izumi, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, and Fang-Tze Hsu. JANUARY 14, 2026 at 5PM PST.

www.aaa-a.org/programs/fro...

琉球孤の島々に伝わる風習、「針突(ハヂチ)」。
かつて女性が手の甲や指に施した刺青の事で、奄美・沖縄・宮古・八重山と地域ごとに様々な紋様がありました。
こちら『琉球孤の入墨 針突』(2025年刊)は、1936年の『奄美大島婦人の入墨研究』の復刻版で、当時の貴重な針突の42例の図版を収録。
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#琉球孤の入墨針突 #鹿児島県立大島中学校 #南方新社
#まめ書房 #mameshobobooks

I'm having so much whiplash and want to throw up. 🙃

Happy Birthday!

2026年年賀状デザイン ゴムスタンプでカラフルな紅型っぽいモチーフです。馬とシーサーのイラストがあります。 テキストは「謹賀新年　2026　昨年は大変お世話になりました　本年もよろしくお願いいたします」 2026 nengajo design Colourful and analog stamp style, bingata themed. There's a horse and a pair of shisa.

Better late than never!
Here's me 2026 nengajo!
遅くなりましたが今年の年賀状です！
ゴムスタンプを一生懸命掘りました。でも、手作業ではこんなにきれいにスタンプが押せないので、まず、黒でスタンプしてGIMPで色付け、回転、配置してます。

2 vertical 8.5 x 11 inch prints side by side on a green cut mat. the print on the left features a manta ray cut out against a blue background with green rocks framing the lower half of the piece. the print on the right features a taro patch in the rain.

first art of the year!!

This is so sweet!

Cecil Williams was a photographer from Orangeburg, South Carolina whose many photos recorded the Jim Crow south during the civil rights movement.

This is how Israeli settlers, backed by the military, erased a Palestinian village from existence last week The last family in the Palestinian village of Yanoun left their home last week, joining a growing list of communities that have been erased from existence through the establishment of Israeli “shepherding...

The last family in the Palestinian village of Yanoun left their home last week, joining a growing list of communities that have been erased from existence through the establishment of Israeli "shepherding outposts" in their place.

mondoweiss.net/2026/01/this...

#Palestine #Israel

It's crystal clear: a pending criminal indictment does NOT cure the clear illegality of this attack under int'l law. It violated the UN Charter in just the same way Russia's attack on Ukraine did. And unlike our 1989 Panama invasion, there seems not even a pretense of a threat to Americans there.