@frankabe.bsky.social
Co-editor, THE LITERATURE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION. Lead author, WE HEREBY REFUSE. Blogs at http://Resisters.com. Links: https://linktr.ee/
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
11.02.2026 02:24 β π 5496 π 2782 π¬ 94 π 196
In Portland, join us Feb. 16 for two screenings of this rarely-seen 1976 TV-film from which I got my rarely-used-since SAG card. It's the 50th anniversary of "Farewell to Manzanar," and you can bet our panel discussion will address what's happening now. Tickets: www.portland5.com/winningstad-...
10.02.2026 08:37 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
For this year's Day of Remembrance, I'll join Carole Hayashino and Hanako Wakatsuki-Chong and get to meet Jeanne Houston's daughter at this doubleheader in Portland: two screenings of the 1976 TV-movie of her book.
28.01.2026 06:57 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
You can reserve a spot here to join the three-mile Read and Run tour:
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I've heard it said we must meet readers where they are. This Saturday I'll greet runners who've completed a loop around downtown Seattle, the waterfront, and Chinatown/International District, and tell them about the legacy of John Okada and NO-NO BOY. Glad I don't have to run alongside them.
21.01.2026 20:41 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
The cover of The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration (2024), a Penguin Classics anthology edited by Frank Abe & Floyd Cheung.
I hope & believe I shared this at some point in 2024 when it came out, but it's sadly only more timely still & must-read material here in early 2026. Incredible work from @frankabe.bsky.social & my friend Floyd Cheung, full of authors & texts that will be new to most of us (me included). ποΈ
20.01.2026 20:35 β π 63 π 20 π¬ 1 π 0The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
22.12.2025 22:46 β π 35204 π 19896 π¬ 1676 π 2089Just picked up the book yesterday. β€οΈ
21.12.2025 20:07 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0So true. Thanks for sharing.
21.12.2025 20:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It is powerful to refuse. Even the most powerless have that power.
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Mind-blowing to bring the story of wartime incarceration and the links to today to 1,900 @maddow.bsky.social fans in LA on Sunday. Watch for the full program on Monday, December 29 on @msnownews.bsky.social. My impressions here: resisters.com/2025/12/16/b...
19.12.2025 06:51 β π 20 π 8 π¬ 2 π 0Thanks. Rachel made it easy for us to feel comfortable in front of all two thousand of you.
19.12.2025 05:59 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I finished Burn Order and cried. Time to write lesson plans for students to learn about then and now!
18.12.2025 16:07 β π 14 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Absolutely incredible. The team did an amazing job. As in the previous podcasts the research, facts, human stories so well done. Iβve learned more about this history that informs us today. We must never give in or give up our rights. We require courts and elected to hold & honor these truths.
17.12.2025 16:23 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Amazing work by Rachel as always.πΊπΈ
17.12.2025 04:55 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Great show. Come back!
17.12.2025 04:54 β π 16 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Just finished the podcast today. It was brilliant.
17.12.2025 04:49 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
@maddow.bsky.social @frankabe.bsky.social.
15.12.2025 00:26 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
OMG...I'm so very excited π an eve with @maddow.bsky.social and @frankabe.bsky.social at the @OrpheumTheater and in LA.
15.12.2025 00:08 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Great podcast. Rachel is a consummate professional and so smart. She does justice to telling your story. I have long yearned to know more about that chapter in our history. It has been an honor to get to know you all a little bit via the podcast.
17.12.2025 07:14 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you for this work. I was 17 when I first learned about the imprisonment of Japanese Americans and legal immigrants. I was so shocked by it. I am half-Japanese (dad is white from Oregon, mom from Kyushu). My American grandmother was opposed to their marriage her entire life 1/2
17.12.2025 09:50 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Anti-Japanese racism was a destructive force in our family, sadly. I didn't know why she believed these things and now I do. I asked my three kids to listen to this series and to imagine all of us on the trains because they would have been sent away, too...to really picture how it would feel...
17.12.2025 09:55 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0and then to keep it in mind as we hear similar rhetoric directed at other people. Thank you so much for this important work. You are a hero of mine! I admire so much the Japanese Americans who fought against this treatment and who demanded more from our country....
17.12.2025 09:56 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0I cannot recommend BURN ORDER strongly enough.
Really well done and, unfortunately relevant today.
Iβve asked my entire family to listen to the Burn Order podcast between now and Christmas so we can discuss it. ππ»
17.12.2025 05:55 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
See our full conversation with @maddow.bsky.social as a special in her usual timeslot on @msnownews.bsky.social on Monday, December 29, 2025, 6:00 pm PT/9:00 pm ET. And you can now binge all six episodes of her BURN ORDER podcast at the usual outlets. 3/3
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Onstage, @maddow.bsky.social put us at ease with questions that were so focused and specific, it was easy to share our thoughts with her wildly engaged audience of 1,900 in the ornate Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. 2/
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