Kate Yonezawa

What the fuck are we doing?

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Two years of genocide
Two years of butchering innocents who only want to live in peace in their own country.
Like with the decades before, world leaders turn their backs on Palestine.
"IsraHell has the right" they all said, pouring weapons and cash into the heinous IDF's hands.
#SavePalestine

Japan's LDP appoints Sadako Yamamura as Prime Minister

The world: Japan so progressive, much feminism, wow

The woman:

Maybe not the best mom, but certainly one of the best!

Yeah this!!!

My son was 1 when leaders gathered in Paris & pledged to keep warming BELOW 1.5C.

He’s now 11, & we’re spending our second year ABOVE 1.5C.

They’ve doomed all our children because preserving a suicidal economy is more important.

We. Should. Be. Furious.

In the past four days alone, Israel has struck 10 UNRWA buildings in Gaza City, including seven schools and two clinics currently serving as shelters for thousands of displaced people.

This affects us all. America is the rotting carcass in the well.

All kinds of alerts and warnings-typhoon 15 isn’t particularly strong, but it’s moving slowly and will dump lots of rain. We live about 100 meters from a large river, so we’ll be keeping an eye out for the next 22 hours.

unbelievable. one of the very few graduate translation programs in the anglosphere is shut down. america is nothing if not INSULAR

**Oita Prefecture’s

Hatozu Beach white sandy beach, blue sea, and pines

Hatozu Beach summer day

Ours Prefecture’s Hawaii- had it all to ourselves today!

Got that, Bone Spurs? Wes Moore says keep his name out of your mouth.

Well done, Governor! 👏🏻

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.

But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.

D.C. statehood now.

Ridiculous and idiotic. I hope the attorneys general involved here, in Connecticut and Rhode Island, push back hard

I guarantee you that none of the men who paid for sex with the girls Maxwell and Epstein trafficked were roofers looking for work at a Home Depot

Witkoff delivered Russian medal from Putin to family of American who was killed fighting for Russia in 2024 | CNN Politics US special envoy Steve Witkoff delivered a Russian medal to the grieving family of an American who was killed fighting for Russia in 2024, a senior administration official told CNN.

Can you imagine a US envoy handing a Nazi medal to the family of an American who died fighting for Hitler? Because this just happened:
www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...

Pulling weeds in rice field early morning

Pulling weeds in rice field early morning

Pulling weeds in rice field early morning

Pulling weeds in rice field early morning

Thanks to our volunteer crew- showed up at 5:45 am for early morning weeding in the rice field!

Bon odori

Bon odori

Bon odori

Bon odori

Tonight’s neighborhood Bon-odori- first time since Covid!

Do not turn away.

Omukaebi お迎え火

お墓

Obon 2025

WA hiker’s viral video shows overgrown trails, full toilets in national park

Our parks are in survival mode and they need more staff!

This is sickening. We are watching a new iteration of Hitler’s “final solution” happening in real time while Western leaders hem and haw over how to influence Israel’s actions in Gaza. The time for complete divestment from this apartheid, murderous, colonial-settler project was decades ago.

So summery! 🎐

The Terrorism Suspect Trump Sent Back to Bukele An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador.

Why isn’t this story getting the traction it deserves?https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-terrorism-suspect-trump-sent-back-to-bukele