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Long Lead's newest feature THE AGE OF INCARCERATION puts a human face on one of the darkest stains of U.S. history — the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. It's a testimony of a time when the U.S. locked up its own people simply because of where their families had come from.

I had the honor of co-editing the text highlighting stories of 9 Japanese American camp survivors, including @georgetakei.bsky.social . Documentation by Morgan Lieberman, calligraphy by Chiyo Sanada, design by Sarah Rogers. We hope you’ll check it out. age-of-incarceration.longlead.com

Taking a social media hiatus for July 2025. See you on the other side. Contact info available on my website. Https://www.tamikonimura.net

Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class: newrepublic.com/article/1954...

Well, that's getting to the point. sengov.com/phone/

The MAGA vision is that the federal government should essentially be a massive concentration camp network with a side hustle doling out the occasional subsidies to political clients

Big ups to all Schumer’s constituents who made calls and demonstrated today demanding this.

Brad Lander is putting on a really lovely demonstration of how Jews can reject white supremacy and build political power for a multiracial coalition. Kristen Gillibrand is showing how white gentiles will use Jews’ fears of antisemitism to advance their own ends. We have a choice of which way to go.

I’m begging folks to mask up for Pride events! Show solidarity with your disabled and high risk peers and make the event safe and inclusive for everyone. Now more than ever we need to stay united and ensure no one is left behind. Masking is resistance. Masking is community care.

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

you know shit's serious when NYT is using the actual words to describe what's happening

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.   This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

Any way, one of the things that keeps me going in these hellish times is remembering that there are more of us — the powers that be just don’t want us to count. But we fucking do.

They're just televising the construction of concentration camps like it's a good thing. This is unimaginably dark.

Just called my US rep @repdangoldman.bsky.social to ask him to demand the House censure Ogles for this miserable, bigoted, anti-American, fascist attack - and to do everything he can to defend Mamdani and the rest of us. If you agree, please call your own rep asap. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

80-90% of polled voters say Direct File is a good thing. It is quite literally one of the most popular government programs in America. If Democrats cared more about winning than making their donors happy, they could win 8-10 House seats next year just with ads showing off this tweet.

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

Left's strong night, updated: —Mamdani finishes well ahead. —All 10 challenged NYC Progressive Caucus members win, or way up. Jumaane Williams, too. —Left may add councilors (AOC- or WFP-backed newcomers up) —WFP-endorsed candidates win primaries for Syracuse & Buffalo mayor.

He's not mayor YET, y'all. This was a primary. I can't emphasize that enough.

Mr. Kennedy, who said he is not going to take away anyone's vaccines, has made it impossible to get COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy. In other words, he lied. www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/h...

Iran is launching missiles at Israel literally right now www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Friends, there are a BUNCH of tickets available still, but registration closes tonight! We won't just talk about what comps to pick, but how the right ones will make the rest of your query stronger and more effective. Join us! It'll be fun!

Democratic Congressman from Illinois on US attacks on Islamic Republic of Iran nuclear sites. Via Fox News.

An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.

Bombs 3 nuclear sites and then says “Now is the time for peace”? This is an escalation that will lead to more death. Congress must reconvene immediately to stop the President from pushing us into war.

Casual reminder that Congress has the sole constitutional authority to declare war, not the president or his shadow presidents. Call your reps --> 5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

2. The “Gang of Eight” — the Speaker of the House, the House Minority Leader, the Senate Majority Leader, and the Senate Minority Leader, as well as the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, and the Chair and Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

On Juneteenth the team released “The Black Papers” a compendium of scholarly contributions by some our best scholars, organizers, lawyers, activists, and journalists. Check them out. stateoftheppl.com/blackpapers/

The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

2,100 people in mixed families—including orphans—were incarcerated under a gov't policy that “one drop” of Japanese blood made someone dangerous. They were among the 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in US concentration camps during WWII. More www.tracyslater.com/books #booksky #skystorians

Trump Overstepped His Authority By Dismantling the IMLS; Can Be Sued by Comptroller General: bookriot.com/government-a...

"All of us live in the debris of the past, which means we also have choices about how to move forward as a society, informed by our shared histories." Read a Q&A with Coll Thrush, author of WRECKED, and #SickSeriesinWesternHistory editor Joshua L. Reid: uwpressblog.com/2025/05/28/c...

Join me in supporting Coyote Media Collective, a new worker-owned publication stacked with some of the most talented writers in the bay area and launching later this summer. Cannot wait to read this.

"ICE is not too big to fail. It is too dangerous to continue. We don’t need a gentler deportation force. We need a government that refuses to criminalize protest, weaponize immigration or suppress dissent," writes Omar Suleiman. religionnews.com/2025/06/10/a...

Most of you know I do the #BlackMusicMonthChallenge every June out of love - no sponsors. However, I'm not beyond accepting a love offering of appreciation! if you are so moved, you can drop something in the plate via cash.me/$musicsermon or Venmo (Naima-Cochrane). Thank you!

I’ve been planning this class for MONTHS and I’m so excited to share it with those who show up 💕👩🏾‍💻📝✍🏾

Happy to talk to you about my love of zines!! Everyone can and should make their own!

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Thank you to @revloveproject.bsky.social for these posters! #nokings

The Trump Administration's forcible removal of Senator Padilla today is un-American and unacceptable. Our elected officials have a right — and a duty — to conduct oversight of President Trump's abuses of power. As much as the administration wants to silence dissent, we the people won't back down.

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

A PSA for anyone who needs to hear it: if someone mutes you on social media b/c of an exchange you had, please don't find their mailing address and mail them a letter, even if you feel you've been misunderstood. It's creepy and invasive. (I shouldn't have to explain why this is a hard & fast rule!)

Every prominent Democrat in the country should jump on this immediately. Enough bullshit cowering on this issue. Get on this! Trump just handed you a massive weapon. Use it!

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How Very Sad that you have to *Pay People* to come to your Big Birthday Party Parade Craigslist: pay seat fillers for Trump's Birthday Parade with "a [undisclosed] flat daily fee and... a lunch of fast food and soda.