O’Hara was incredible forever, on SCTV, the Christopher Guest movies, Beetlejuice, Home Alone, etc. But she didn’t become as famous as her talent warranted until her 60s. Suddenly it was like everyone caught up to her, and she could’ve worked forever. To have her taken away at this moment? No.

The Tsuyoshi Shinjo-led Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters slogan for 2026 is "Domiれ” which is derived from "Dominate" but apparently easy to say, so the fans will enjoy it.

Just sent out the January newsletter. I wrote about 弊社 and 御社, two words which were difficult for me to differentiate and use at first. I have a helpful mnemonic, and if you think of them as pronouns, their usage also becomes a lot easier. newsletter.howtojapanese.com/onsha-heisha/

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2 weeks of ICE funding is 2 too many

absolutely insane that dems leadership are to the right of half the george w. bush white house on defunding DHS and abolishing ICE

i just skimmed this article and don't know much about harry potter, but it seems insentitive and insulting to say millenials need to grow up the month 2 millenials were killed in a nonviolent movement against intolerance and totalitarianism. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

This was a super easy recipe. I think all the ingredients are pretty easily accessible in Japan as well. www.seriouseats.com/spaghetti-pu...

Like DAZN talked a big game when they got the Samurai Blue's WCQs but they bent the knee as far as sublicensing home games; Abema also did the smart thing and made it all free in addition to sublicensing Japan's games. If Netflix gets too greedy with Ohtani and company, though. Hell to pay.

I'm not sure if Netflix execs fully appreciate the extent to which they stand on a knife's edge in Japan with this WBC deal. If they handle this poorly it could tank the platform's reputation here permanently.

Also, leave it to Trump to engineer a Katrina-scale political crisis completely out of thin air within a year of taking office, rising out of nothing more than mind-boggling policy choices and a complete inability to avoid putting huge quantities of firearms in the hands of America’s worst people

They're squirming.

I noticed this yesterday and earlier today. Lag with videos. The algorithm feeling a little off. Seems maybe corrected, but I'm still not sure whether I'll continue using the app. I've basically learned how to keep a baby alive and how to cook from TikTok, so it does have its uses.

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couldn't agree more. it's great to be inspired by games you love, but you desperately need to engage with other kinds of things like books, movies, music, theater, going to a museum, looking at a cool tree...you know

“Don’t call us the Gestapo or we’ll have to summarily execute people.”

Finally some national Dems with correct messaging. Hopefully leadership follows suit.

The absolute bare minimum demand here should be DHS funding won't pass while Kristi Noem is DHS secretary and Bovino's still around. Not just this or that mild statutory provision they're gonna break with impunity anyway. The problem is not insufficient laws. The problem is you have lawless people.

Please read.

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

Good, the next thing that should end in the Senate is this presidency.

Wolves-Warriors postponed to tomorrow. The right call by the league

Essential thread. But it is depressing in that implies the people we voted for are trying to hoodwink us.

genuinely stunning image

Just went through all the bookmarked blogs I used to read. It's sad how many are gone, but I guess nice to see that some are just dormant. I guess that's the benefit of blogspot or wordpress. The content will live on, likely longer than self-hosted material like my own.

The Mainichi didn't pull any punches in their op-ed a few days ago about the snap election: 説得力は乏しく、かえって疑問が増した。独りよがりな姿勢と言うほかない。 mainichi.jp/articles/202...

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Are メークイーン the best/preferred baking potato in Japan?

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This feels like an important thread.

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Peak snow country cozy vibes.

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They couldn't even straightforwardly condemn it! They said he should spend more of his incredible mental focus lowering beef prices! There is no indication that anyone in Democratic political leadership thinks it's bad to invade our treaty allies.

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

This is the easiest thing in the world to say right now, and very few national-level Democrats are saying it.

Verdict in the trial of Abe assassin Yamagami Tetsuya coming soon. 有料記事がプレゼントされました！ 1月21日 22:32まで全文お読みいただけます。 【速報中】山上被告に判決へ「生い立ち、どこまで量刑に考慮か注目」：朝日新聞 digital.asahi.com/articles/ASV...

I always wonder how many people reserve 恵方巻 at konbini given how easy they are to find at supermarkets on the day of.

He's just straight-up telling everyone that he's deployed a vicious occupying force to brutalize an American state and terrorize every non-white resident because they didn't vote for him

I am excited and exhausted to finally release my annual data report on job advertisements in East Asian Studies! 📊🌏 This marks 5 years of collecting job data, so it's possible to see changes over time. For interactive visualizations, view via browser rather than phone. prcurtis.com/projects/job...

Am I mistaken or are the PDFs for the competitions password locked to prevent printing? Seems a little intense...

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

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Kevin Harlan is the greatest.

“Leave Greenland alone!” Heckler interrupts Star-Spangled Banner at NBA game in London, wins cheers from crowd. (Video via Reddit)

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

The fundamental problem with Jentleson's anaysis—which is indicative of the problem with Searchlight's approach in general—is that he's treating ICE as if it were a law enforcement agency under civilian control in a stable democratic polity.

fwiw these are unionized hotels and their local sent a formal request to employers not to accept ICE bookings or allow ICE to use their facilities www.facebook.com/share/p/1aV9...

How is it that only former members of the GOP see how dire this situation is and speak about it clearly?

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