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Gerald Curtis: Takaichi victory hastens LDP's collapse; 'not if, when' Veteran Japan watcher worried about what comes after the 'most boring election'

The emeritus dean of Japan politics studies in the U.S. has thoughts about Takaichi:

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Finally, a masculine Leftist like me has something to do!

This is also how I learned that the primary weekday business traveler is a guy who works with his hands for a living?? Never too old to learn something, I guess!

No international body should ever again schedule anything in America.

...so where do you think we should move the United Nations?

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

Is there good recent historical work on the Barbary pirates? I know Colley has written about narratives of enslavement, but is there anything by someone using non-European sources in a significant way? 🗃️

If the Dodgers didn't have the most likable baseball player of all time they would be so easy to hate

If it was the other way around—if a protester had shot a CBP officer like this—they’d have already nuked Chicago, Portland, and Manhattan.

I will never root against Sasaki Roki.

👀 Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with Republicans on Obamacare funding, saying she’s not a fan of the law but demands action to prevent a premium hike. “I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.” She says GOP leaders don’t have a plan.

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

I’m glad to see a judge say this. It’s common sense.

There is no reason why ICE agents—who carry weapons and detain people—should operate with more anonymity than a public librarian or health department worker.

Those folks face actual doxxing and harassment, yet they don’t hide their faces.

I'm finding the blogs and videos of some of the right-wing folks who were outside the ICE building over the weekend. It's funny because they're so convinced that the military needs to intervene in the "chaos" and "anarchy" but there they were walking around without incident outside the building.

Travis Kelce, wearing a newsies hat and a shirt that seems to be pattered on a motels wallpaper, and Patrick Mahomes, wearing a red checkered vest made out of an Italian restaurants tablecloth

I love them both but Travis and Patrick look like they’re running a traveling medicine show in the Great Depression

"We're gonna crash some planes if you don't fund ICE."

In it for the challenge coins

yes. yes it does.

Important to note ICE tends to drop off detainees before 9 a.m. and after 6 p.m., which is why people were protesting at 5 a.m. to begin with. It's not because waking up at 4 a.m. was a convenient time for protesters!

Claim: rioters attacked ICE
Truth: ICE rushed at unarmed protesters standing on a patch of grass

"Surely the President that refused to give up power in 2020, turbocharged ICE with sacks of cash, and recently conducted an Air Assault operation on a Chicago apartment complex will allow Dems to take control of Congress come January"

The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.

Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.

the hardest part of living in Portland is having your house burn down every single night and then having to rebuild it during the day. the amount of money i spend just in drywall is insane.

Oh we’re at the “initiate a war” stage.

If only we had defeated not only the Nazis but also nationalism...

I write about this in my article, "Postcolonial as the governmentality of immigration controls."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Waukegan mayor intervenes after Border Patrol arrest of woman turns physical outside Waukegan City Hall The Waukegan mayor intervened after U.S. Border Patrol agents forcefully arrested a woman, who is reportedly an American citizen, outside of the Waukegan City Hall Monday afternoon.

This just happened:

DOJ argues about ICE officers being doxxed.

Ellis responds at length, discussing doxxing and threats faced by judges and acknowledging how horrible it is, but says "that doesn't mean that you then get to do this job and be anonymous. ... Under the rule of law, it is important to be transparent."

two seasons ago, Angela Bassett’s character thwarted a pirate attack while on her honeymoon cruise

last season, she landed a passenger plane on the freeway after the pilot had been yeeted out of the cabin during a tornado of bees

this is the natural progression of things

Yes, when I want to know what the Black community in Chicago is thinking, I always turn to someone who's really got their finger on the pulse: Stephen Miller.