David Fedman
@dfeds.bsky.social
historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Trump's minions have turned the NEH into a slush fund for conservative ideological groups. Trump corrupts everything in his grasp.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
November 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Trump's minions have turned the NEH into a slush fund for conservative ideological groups. Trump corrupts everything in his grasp.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
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I am so so sorry that Alice Wong has left. I didn’t know her well, but I knew her for a long time and had many convos - and her words, her advocacy, and her humor meant so much for so many. And in classic Alice fashion she generously left us all a note. Safe travels, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. 一路走好
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I am so so sorry that Alice Wong has left. I didn’t know her well, but I knew her for a long time and had many convos - and her words, her advocacy, and her humor meant so much for so many. And in classic Alice fashion she generously left us all a note. Safe travels, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. 一路走好
Blues singer Awaya Noriko = certified badass
From her memoir, My Vagabond Record (Waga Hōrōki):
From her memoir, My Vagabond Record (Waga Hōrōki):
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Blues singer Awaya Noriko = certified badass
From her memoir, My Vagabond Record (Waga Hōrōki):
From her memoir, My Vagabond Record (Waga Hōrōki):
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Devastating piece on the human toll of Kavanaugh Stops.
Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.
Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.
For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’
The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Devastating piece on the human toll of Kavanaugh Stops.
Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.
Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.
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Not a critique of Tom at all, but how quickly we’ve acculturated ourselves to a world where the president publicly orders an investigation, and his AG salutes in plain sight. The corpse of the post-Watergate era is well and truly rotted through.
Instead of just releasing the Epstein files, Trump ordered the DOJ to investigate Democrats and AG Pam Bondi is complying.
Are they setting up a pretext to block the release by arguing the files are now part of an active investigation? I’m not saying that would work, but he’s desperate to block.
Are they setting up a pretext to block the release by arguing the files are now part of an active investigation? I’m not saying that would work, but he’s desperate to block.
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Not a critique of Tom at all, but how quickly we’ve acculturated ourselves to a world where the president publicly orders an investigation, and his AG salutes in plain sight. The corpse of the post-Watergate era is well and truly rotted through.
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In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.
the lebron james of loathsome at it again
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
the lebron james of loathsome at it again
Fascinating exchange on Japan's support of US bombing operations in Vietnam between Mori Motojirō/Hanyū Sanshichi of the Socialist Party, PM Satō Eisaku, and FM Shiina Etsusaburō at the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Councilors on July 16, 1966
"The destruction of cities is too much"
"The destruction of cities is too much"
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Fascinating exchange on Japan's support of US bombing operations in Vietnam between Mori Motojirō/Hanyū Sanshichi of the Socialist Party, PM Satō Eisaku, and FM Shiina Etsusaburō at the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Councilors on July 16, 1966
"The destruction of cities is too much"
"The destruction of cities is too much"
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Trump spent his first Thanksgiving after getting elected President with Jeffrey Epstein. 2017.
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Trump spent his first Thanksgiving after getting elected President with Jeffrey Epstein. 2017.
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The bulk of Republican Party voters enjoy accusing others of child sexual exploitation but are delighted to be led by men guilty of this same crime. This isn’t “cognitive dissonance” so much as the ultimate in-group privilege. The double standard is the point
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The bulk of Republican Party voters enjoy accusing others of child sexual exploitation but are delighted to be led by men guilty of this same crime. This isn’t “cognitive dissonance” so much as the ultimate in-group privilege. The double standard is the point
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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Good for them.
One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Good for them.
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“The U.S. military built bases and installations across Unalaska and throughout the Aleutians during WWII, then abandoned structures and equipment when forces left — including insulation with asbestos, drums of brake fluid & antifreeze, & transformers containing polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs”
Old WWII military sites still affect daily life in Unalaska — residents are changing what they hunt, fish and eat due to lingering contamination.
Unalaskans are changing their subsistence practices due to WWII contamination
Residents reported changing where they pick berries and plants, and where they hunt birds and fish. Some have stopped harvesting salmon and marine invertebrates entirely.
akpub.io
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
“The U.S. military built bases and installations across Unalaska and throughout the Aleutians during WWII, then abandoned structures and equipment when forces left — including insulation with asbestos, drums of brake fluid & antifreeze, & transformers containing polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs”
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The world must not look away from the genocide in Sudan.
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The world must not look away from the genocide in Sudan.
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I have voted
for the deal
that was on
the Senate floor
and which
is probably
caving
to fascism
Forgive me
the flight delays were
so annoying
and so old
for the deal
that was on
the Senate floor
and which
is probably
caving
to fascism
Forgive me
the flight delays were
so annoying
and so old
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I have voted
for the deal
that was on
the Senate floor
and which
is probably
caving
to fascism
Forgive me
the flight delays were
so annoying
and so old
for the deal
that was on
the Senate floor
and which
is probably
caving
to fascism
Forgive me
the flight delays were
so annoying
and so old
Currently locked in a (super niche!) battle with my co-author ranking our top-5 wartime diarists:
My list:
1) Furukawa Roppa
2) Tokugawa Musei
3) Hashimoto Aiko
4) Nagai Kafu
5) Tokugawa Musei
His:
1) Nagai Kafu
2) Kiyosawa Kiyoshi
3) Isshiki Jiro
4) Yoshizawa Hisako
5) Tokugawa Musei
My list:
1) Furukawa Roppa
2) Tokugawa Musei
3) Hashimoto Aiko
4) Nagai Kafu
5) Tokugawa Musei
His:
1) Nagai Kafu
2) Kiyosawa Kiyoshi
3) Isshiki Jiro
4) Yoshizawa Hisako
5) Tokugawa Musei
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Currently locked in a (super niche!) battle with my co-author ranking our top-5 wartime diarists:
My list:
1) Furukawa Roppa
2) Tokugawa Musei
3) Hashimoto Aiko
4) Nagai Kafu
5) Tokugawa Musei
His:
1) Nagai Kafu
2) Kiyosawa Kiyoshi
3) Isshiki Jiro
4) Yoshizawa Hisako
5) Tokugawa Musei
My list:
1) Furukawa Roppa
2) Tokugawa Musei
3) Hashimoto Aiko
4) Nagai Kafu
5) Tokugawa Musei
His:
1) Nagai Kafu
2) Kiyosawa Kiyoshi
3) Isshiki Jiro
4) Yoshizawa Hisako
5) Tokugawa Musei
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My two cents is that at the end of the day, after everything, Senate Democrats identify more with Senate Republicans, and ultimately with Donald Trump, than they will ever identify with you and me
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My two cents is that at the end of the day, after everything, Senate Democrats identify more with Senate Republicans, and ultimately with Donald Trump, than they will ever identify with you and me
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I’m not a highly paid political consultant, but it seems to me that “Republicans showed that they’d rather starve children and risk planes falling from the sky than lower health care costs” is a better message than this.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I’m not a highly paid political consultant, but it seems to me that “Republicans showed that they’d rather starve children and risk planes falling from the sky than lower health care costs” is a better message than this.
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...
Government Shutdown Delays US Jobs Data for Second Month
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...