📌💔🇺🇸In the long drive back from My Lai Village to Da Nang last summer, I not only reflected on the lessons of that tragically decimated village, but also the larger foolishness of the United States in its Vietnam war strategy. Little did I know that within a year, the United States would…

In the last day, the mood here in #Japan has been described as "anxious caution." While the new #Takaichi administration is signaling "close contact" with #Trump, the average J-person on the street in #Tokyo is more concerned about a spike in gas prices and the risk of a wider ….

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Despite Brown University, Sydney Australia, and the late Rob Reiner's murder, I, as but one, will remain undeterred. I will focus on performing one good deed today for someone in need, counteracting with light, the dark and souless impact of…/

🆘📌If you think The Convicted Felon would not easily sellout ally South Korea to North Korea, would not sellout ally Japan to Russia or China, would not sellout ally Taiwan to China, (over business deals or mere flattery) indeed, you have another think coming.

Having dedicated several decades to observing and advocating for America's robust and collaborative engagement in #Asia, in tandem with our free-world allies, my primary concern now in view of this #Trump v.2.0 #NSS 2025 is the integrity of our global alliances. …/

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You’re listening to an administration and it’s law-enforcement representatives who are patting themselves on the back about bringing in the pipe bomber and yet at the very same this administration pardoned criminals convicted of sedition-type activities…./

In the past, when the FBI or other law enforcement agencies solved difficult cases, they presented the facts professionally and cooly without excessive self-praise or aggrandizement. The current self-serving, arrogant behavior and blaming others is disgusting to listen to. What a crew of narcissists

📌🔥🆘 Major daily #Japanese Economic Journal #Nikkei with the top story (12/3) reports US Defense Secretary #Hegseth now under serious suspicion of committing #warcrimes 米国防長官に戦争犯罪の疑惑浮上　難破者の殺害指示か、米政府は否定：日本経済新聞https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOGN01BUZ0R01C25A2000000/

📌Note well: 34-count convicted felon set this into motion with his words which resulted in 170+ injuries, several deaths and nearly $4 million damage to my U.S. Capitol. We will hear no more of this “Seditious Six” from the dishonest supporters of “The Seditious ONE.”

Hit tip to David Feldman.

#Japanese commentators and average readers are sounding off one after the other over #Trump saying to a reporter “Shut up, pig!!”(sic) His image is so low here in Japan it can’t go any lower (English samples follow) トランプ氏、女性記者に「ブタ、静かに」　エプスタイン元被告めぐる質問さえぎる トランプ氏、女性記者に「ブタ、静かに」　エプスタイン元被告めぐる質問さえぎる

Bookmark this handy-dandy chart. Deploy it when talking with "Christian" "nationalist" family members or friends who still support Donald Trump despite his terrible role model for young people growing up in America. The chart tactically…/⤵️

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

(Auschwitz Konzentrationslager Visit: 40 years ago this week…) 今からちょうど四十年前のこの週、私はポーランドのアウシュヴィッツへと赴きました。 その場所は「暗く、悪魔的である」という表現以外に見つからず、そこで七時間にわたり、調査、歩行、そして瞑想に耽りました。その経験は、私の心を凍らせるほど重いものでした。 特に私を苦しめたのは、人類の歴史における痛ましい問いです。民主主義の下にあった人々でさえ、なぜ恐ろしい人物に権力を委ね、その人物がいかに社会を最も忌まわしい深淵へと引きずり込んでいくのか。…/⤵️

What I wanna ask MAGA christian Nationalists is “But was King Cyrus of Persia **that** perverted?”

Sources see a pattern where DHS and ICE recruitment ads primarily feature white individuals and sometimes use imagery linked to white nationalist themes, while enforcement-related social media posts frequently showcase individuals identified as Black/Brown in connection with arrests and detention.

What an absolutely incredible photograph, which speaks of such historic times that you and I both live in as Americans.

#Portland Update. Hey. What gives? #InsurrectionAct #Trump #MartialLaw #RealityCheck

Hometown makes good 🔵🔷📘💎💙📘🔷🔵🔷📘💙🔷🔵📘🔷🔵🎶🇺🇸🔥 #Dodgers  #LosAngeles

One big lie, and grandiose promise after another… Eight years ago when he stated he had “solved” the North Korean nuclear problem and deserved a Nobel… And now they’ve waved him off and stated that giving up nukes is the biggest joke, that they have no intent to do so: youtu.be/trRJVf2YYgM

Often, to know where we’re heading, it helps to know where we have been. This book cannot easily be put down. I recommend Ruth Ben-Ghiat to everyone, (though I warn it may cause some loss of sleep, but it will also awake activism). #RuthBenGhiat #Strongmen

🇯🇵🇺🇸🇯🇵🇺🇸🇯🇵🇺🇸🇯🇵🇺🇸🇯🇵🇺🇸 📌During convicted felon President #Trump's gold-plated, flattery-fueled reception in #Japan, an 800-pound elephant loomed large, deliberately ignored for the sake of diplomatic harmony and Japan's core goal: ⤵️/

Urgent message to #Japan friends during the visit of #Trump here in #Tokyo ~ 事実確認：この男性は34件で有罪判決を受けた米国の重罪犯で、在職に就くためのクーデターを試み（議会議事堂で174人が負傷）、ホワイトハウスの三分の一許可なし破壊し、ニューヨークの裁判所で公式に裁定されたレイプ犯です...これらの問題は、ご本人のASEAN・日本・韓国旅行中に話題になりますか？

If you love America, and its history and legacy, this will indeed make you sick over what the current tenant did to this property without consulting We the People, the joint landlords, and now blocking photography of his sin. Credit: CBS TV (1962) #EastWing #WhiteHouse #Trump

My recent article on Japan, tariffs, free trade, and Reagan: www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas...

🆘💖🇺🇦🇯🇵⛩️💥Really excellent news for #Ukraine from #Tokyo! [translation] (Sankei)⤵️ 🇯🇵 Support for #Ukraine from Japan “New Prime Minister #Takaichi attended the "”Volunteer Nations" online meeting on the night of the 24th, her very first international conference as prime minister, alongside…

LeMonde (Paris): "Demonsting twice a year does not make it possible to catch up with Donald Trump, who continues his offensive against the institutions" —Gilles Paris “Seven million people marched on October 18 in the United States to protest against…. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

#RussianTV mercilessly mocks USA and American democracy, stating the large #NoKings crowds were no match for #Trump‘s clever deployment of harsh PR. One ebullient commentator states gleefully he actually wishes Trump were a “king”… They’re mocking us 🇺🇸 folks, to our core.

VIDEO Excellent TV (Asahi) coverage breaking in #Tokyo showing the #NoKings demonstration, portraying it as a massive turnout against #Trump and really letting the American people speak unfiltered⤵️ 2500カ所でトランプ政権に抗議　全米で“王様はいらない”デモhttps://youtu.be/e9Ufdj0cYnM?si=KKNS28WTXzvW7zOo

#Japanese press is positively reporting massive NO KINGS in the USA and readers are responding with encouragement, saying “it seems #Americans are now standing up for their democracy against #Trump” 米2600カ所で反トランプデモ　「NO　KINGS」最大規模 news.yahoo.co.jp/pickup/6556023

#NoKings #NoKingsTokyo #NoTyrants #Japan #Tokyo Patriotic 🇺🇸Americans turned out today here in 🇯🇵TOKYO, JAPAN. (About 1/3 of crowd pictured). Many passerby Japanese were rather curious. Little-to-no opposition sensed. (Trump very unpopular at present). #トランプ

This is very powerful… I should mention that it 3 PM local time today there will actually be a NO KINGS event here in Tokyo Japan… It will be comprised of many local/peaceful Americans and will be limited by Japanese local law, but there will be no shortage of Japanese supporting it as well.

Gotta love🇻🇦❤️‍🩹 this guy! Punches both fascism and communism in the face. And stands up to free, unfettered journalism worldwide. Definitely senses creeping authoritarianism coming to Washington DC. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

If dangling the prospect of a Nobel in front of Trump, his obsession—over the end of the Ukraine war—energizes him to fully arm Ukraine to the max so that they damage Russia greatly, recover big territory, push 🇷🇺 out of the country and do achieve peace…Then so be it… Let him have his damn award.

Tell us he wants to create fascist-architecture monuments in DC in tribute to himself as a part of his dictatorial takeover, without telling us directly… Shame, ABC Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Reverse the situation for a minute. 🇺🇸 ➡️ 🇯🇵 vs 🇯🇵 ➡️ 🇺🇸 #Japan is enjoying 80 years of democracy brought largely by the #US., which defeated its #fascism. If now #Japan elected a leader taking them away from those democratic principles and into authoritarianism again ….⤵️

Arrogant Trump has many more parallels to Nicolas Maduro than he does Maria Corina so let’s put to bed once and for all this self-serving envious nonsense talk about him receiving and Nobel Peace Prize.

🔥💖 It is highly appropriate that this #NobelPeacePrize award just went to somebody courageous, #Maria, trying to help their country and pull it from dictatorship back into democracy🇻🇪. And not to somebody leading another country trying to drag it from democracy into a dictatorship.🇺🇸💔

My blood boils when he talks foreign policy at the grassroots. He stands before people with no little to no knowledge base related to complex international affairs, either because they are not interested in the world beyond American shores or the US media simply does not present it to them…/2

Just saw the mainline conservative economic daily #Nikkei on the Tokyo stands with a top story relating to the #Kirk Memorial, stating “#Trump Administration Appeals to Make (Kirk) a #Martyr at Memorial; Attacks the Political Left” 「米政権「殉教」訴え　カーク氏追倬、左派攻撃」

Why I recently visited My Lai 4 village, #Vietnam. (Site of the 1968 My Lai (Son My) Massacre by members of the US armed forces. Covered up by troops and brass, but eventually exposed by courageous whistleblower patriots. #MyLai #MyLaiMassacre

lol. Trump and Putin. 🌹Lover boys. ❤️‍🔥

Follow up from visit to MY LAI #Village in Vietnam, site of the 16 March, 1968 US Army massacre of upwards of 504 innocent Vietnamese civilians—-and resulting in only one conviction but with many perpetrators. #MyLai

My Lai Massacre Site Visit, Vietnam (1) 7-20-25