川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸
@nkfinity.bsky.social
Japanese/Chinese ハーフ living in the USA
大田区🇯🇵 X 辽宁🇨🇳 X SF Bay Area🇺🇸
Has a Japanese soul, an American brain, and a Chinese stomach.
Born in Japan, roots for Japan in the Olympics🇯🇵🎌🇯🇵
Somewhat of an Japan Knower.
Loves history. Radical Qing monarchist?
大田区🇯🇵 X 辽宁🇨🇳 X SF Bay Area🇺🇸
Has a Japanese soul, an American brain, and a Chinese stomach.
Born in Japan, roots for Japan in the Olympics🇯🇵🎌🇯🇵
Somewhat of an Japan Knower.
Loves history. Radical Qing monarchist?
Pinned
My 2026 prediction: Dems win the House.
My 2026 hot take: Dems take the Senate through AK, NC, OH, ME.
My 2028 hit take: Ruben Gallego over Nikki Haley.
My 2026 hot take: Dems take the Senate through AK, NC, OH, ME.
My 2028 hit take: Ruben Gallego over Nikki Haley.
I once had a Chinese nationalist call me a “Liaoning cockroach” for…not espousing the views and values of the CCP
Like brah my family fled the country because of what the CCP did how are you seriously expecting me to have any sense of solidarity with it?
Like brah my family fled the country because of what the CCP did how are you seriously expecting me to have any sense of solidarity with it?
Another Haaretz piece that I am struggling with, but this, in particular, just makes me feel like the "relationship" between Israel and the diaspora is — in the eyes of many Israelis — that the diaspora sends money while being dismissed as lesser Jews. Not healthy!
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I once had a Chinese nationalist call me a “Liaoning cockroach” for…not espousing the views and values of the CCP
Like brah my family fled the country because of what the CCP did how are you seriously expecting me to have any sense of solidarity with it?
Like brah my family fled the country because of what the CCP did how are you seriously expecting me to have any sense of solidarity with it?
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To the extent I have "tribal interests" in the Jewish Community, it's the community I belong to, of annoying Park Slope secular Jews who have coexist stickers on their hybrids. If you think we're not really Jewish that's fine, really, I get it, but then why am I supposed to care what you think?
Another Haaretz piece that I am struggling with, but this, in particular, just makes me feel like the "relationship" between Israel and the diaspora is — in the eyes of many Israelis — that the diaspora sends money while being dismissed as lesser Jews. Not healthy!
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
To the extent I have "tribal interests" in the Jewish Community, it's the community I belong to, of annoying Park Slope secular Jews who have coexist stickers on their hybrids. If you think we're not really Jewish that's fine, really, I get it, but then why am I supposed to care what you think?
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A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11.
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11.
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
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"What's the point of standards?" should be the official slogan for the Free Press.
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"What's the point of standards?" should be the official slogan for the Free Press.
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On Veterans Day, we honor those who put service before self.
To every veteran and their families: Thank you for your courage and sacrifice. Our nation is stronger and safer because of you.
To every veteran and their families: Thank you for your courage and sacrifice. Our nation is stronger and safer because of you.
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
On Veterans Day, we honor those who put service before self.
To every veteran and their families: Thank you for your courage and sacrifice. Our nation is stronger and safer because of you.
To every veteran and their families: Thank you for your courage and sacrifice. Our nation is stronger and safer because of you.
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I mean, it's weird enough seeing the US press treat him like a "normal" president.
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I mean, it's weird enough seeing the US press treat him like a "normal" president.
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Look, as a veteran, the best thing you can do today for me is to stop putting videos of the orange buffoon in my feed.
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Look, as a veteran, the best thing you can do today for me is to stop putting videos of the orange buffoon in my feed.
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A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
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The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
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i am mad as shit about the democrats caving, have a very good memory, and if you quiz me on exactly what happened this week on election day 2026 i will get maybe 30% right
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
i am mad as shit about the democrats caving, have a very good memory, and if you quiz me on exactly what happened this week on election day 2026 i will get maybe 30% right
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one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later
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His statement is pretty blunt for a Senator, calling out the Minority Leader of your own party ahead of the Majority Leader is...well suffice to say I think Marty is now off Chuck's Christmas card list lol
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
His statement is pretty blunt for a Senator, calling out the Minority Leader of your own party ahead of the Majority Leader is...well suffice to say I think Marty is now off Chuck's Christmas card list lol
Reddit moment: Redditor (derogatory) chastising another for eating ramen in Japan because ackshually “it’s not native to Japan unlike sushi”
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Reddit moment: Redditor (derogatory) chastising another for eating ramen in Japan because ackshually “it’s not native to Japan unlike sushi”
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The ACA cuts happened in the reconciliation bill in July, every single Democrat voted against it and they got 3 detectors so Vance had to break the tie, and the Dems just shut down the government for 40 days to try and get them to undo it, it is absolutely deranged to blame this on “Democrats”
Yes - this is a loss because Democrats have now signed on to ACA cuts as a complicit party and once again made it a less effective issue for the mid terms
From that perspective, this would be a failure, right? Because the Dems lose the narrative that they did everything to stand in the way of ACA cuts.
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The ACA cuts happened in the reconciliation bill in July, every single Democrat voted against it and they got 3 detectors so Vance had to break the tie, and the Dems just shut down the government for 40 days to try and get them to undo it, it is absolutely deranged to blame this on “Democrats”
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Its not that Elon is a brain dead poster that annoys me, its that he's so bad at it
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Its not that Elon is a brain dead poster that annoys me, its that he's so bad at it
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A good way to do this is also to get a few of your friends together and take over your local Democratic Party! This involves going to a lot of boring meetings but it's *very* possible to do in a lot of the country.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A good way to do this is also to get a few of your friends together and take over your local Democratic Party! This involves going to a lot of boring meetings but it's *very* possible to do in a lot of the country.
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We're debating on the government funding package right now and every single Republican voted against a Democratic amendment to pass a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
We're debating on the government funding package right now and every single Republican voted against a Democratic amendment to pass a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
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The Democrats erred by not forcing Republicans to nuke the filibuster. But there was nothing Democrats could have done to get the ACA subsidies extended, because Republicans control all three branches and strongly believe that only rich people should have access to decent healthcare
You can criticize Senate Democrats for capitulating but Donald Trump and Republicans are the ones destroying the ACA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The Democrats erred by not forcing Republicans to nuke the filibuster. But there was nothing Democrats could have done to get the ACA subsidies extended, because Republicans control all three branches and strongly believe that only rich people should have access to decent healthcare
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By a vote of 76-24, the Senate agreed to the motion to table the Paul amendment to strike a provision modifying the definition of hemp for purposes of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
By a vote of 76-24, the Senate agreed to the motion to table the Paul amendment to strike a provision modifying the definition of hemp for purposes of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946.
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1/6 A new standard for public accountability is here. GLOW—Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog—is officially launching today to hold government lawyers accountable. We're unveiling The Government Lawyers Database at glowlaw.org. #RuleOfLaw #Accountability
The Government Lawyers Database
glowlaw.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
1/6 A new standard for public accountability is here. GLOW—Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog—is officially launching today to hold government lawyers accountable. We're unveiling The Government Lawyers Database at glowlaw.org. #RuleOfLaw #Accountability
I talked to a normie friend last night and they were unaware of a shutdown. I had to show them news of flights being cancelled.
I’m still pretty annoyed about last night. But people acting like the vote itself had an impact on the normie voter (not the material effects) really need to touch grass.
I’m still pretty annoyed about last night. But people acting like the vote itself had an impact on the normie voter (not the material effects) really need to touch grass.
I need people to take a breath and take a step back if they believe this is true of how normie types are going to respond to this a year from now, or if they want to manifest this narrative to make them respond that way.
No one is really going to pay attention to the ACA subsidy vote because what matters is Democrats had leverage, people saw them use it, and people saw them give it away
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I talked to a normie friend last night and they were unaware of a shutdown. I had to show them news of flights being cancelled.
I’m still pretty annoyed about last night. But people acting like the vote itself had an impact on the normie voter (not the material effects) really need to touch grass.
I’m still pretty annoyed about last night. But people acting like the vote itself had an impact on the normie voter (not the material effects) really need to touch grass.
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lmfao i hadn't realized until now that OpenAI has altogether promised 1.5 trillion in compute spending
that's Trillion with a T
brother i don't think the pornbot subscriptions are gonna get you there
that's Trillion with a T
brother i don't think the pornbot subscriptions are gonna get you there
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
lmfao i hadn't realized until now that OpenAI has altogether promised 1.5 trillion in compute spending
that's Trillion with a T
brother i don't think the pornbot subscriptions are gonna get you there
that's Trillion with a T
brother i don't think the pornbot subscriptions are gonna get you there
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My honest take is that Ds played a bad hand poorly and the TL is split between people pretending a Pikachu, an expired debt card, and a five dollar coupon for Taco Bell was aces over kings and people pretending shitting on the table and yelling YAHTZEE is 69 dimensional chess.
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
My honest take is that Ds played a bad hand poorly and the TL is split between people pretending a Pikachu, an expired debt card, and a five dollar coupon for Taco Bell was aces over kings and people pretending shitting on the table and yelling YAHTZEE is 69 dimensional chess.
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And if we want anything really big, we need a comfortable majority that allows for defections
The 89th Congress (1964 election) started with 68 Senators and 295 House reps on the blue team. LBJ swinging his dick around helped, sure, but holy shit those numbers though.
The 89th Congress (1964 election) started with 68 Senators and 295 House reps on the blue team. LBJ swinging his dick around helped, sure, but holy shit those numbers though.
The thing about winning is that if you wanna win the policies you want you have to actually win elections. We lost elections in 24. So now we don’t get to win policies. Lots of folks seem to struggle with that. Gotta elect majorities.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
And if we want anything really big, we need a comfortable majority that allows for defections
The 89th Congress (1964 election) started with 68 Senators and 295 House reps on the blue team. LBJ swinging his dick around helped, sure, but holy shit those numbers though.
The 89th Congress (1964 election) started with 68 Senators and 295 House reps on the blue team. LBJ swinging his dick around helped, sure, but holy shit those numbers though.