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The Kito family started the Fugetsu-Do sweet shop in Little Tokyo in 1903. They were incarcerated at Heart Mountain during the war and then returned home, where they're still thriving. Thanks to our friend Christine Garceau who delivered these delights today.

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Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Krieger was ordered Friday by a Japanese court to pay approximately $114,000 in damages for injuring four people during a 2022 incident in which he charged into a group of pedestrians near a popular beach. (from @hanakusumoto.bsky.social & @alexmwilson.bsky.social)

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His cronies bought stocks on the dip & now he's doing the pump up so they can dump ... grifters gotta grift...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u... the peter principle part deaux

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Like measles, misinformation is spreading, poll finds - NPR

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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For a Treasury Secretary, credibility is scarce, and valuable, and should be spent in the service of the American people. But this one is frittering his away, and it leaves us more vulnerable the next time there's an economic crisis.

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Houthi rebels in Yemen have shot down seven U.S. Reaper drones in less than six weeks. It's a loss of aircraft worth more than $200 million in what is becoming the most dramatic cost to the Pentagon of the military campaign against the Iran-backed militants.

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Steve Usdin writing in BioCentury: “It’s official: FDA says its cuts are delaying drug regulation — Layoffs, lack of access to journals slow response FDA says”

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#dementiaDon short term memory is going... did I do thaaaat?

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VanMetter went to the office first thing in the morning and told the security guard, “Hi, I’m dead.” “Another one,” he recalled the guard saying. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Every day, more Americans are getting fed up with the backwards policies of today’s MAGA politicians. Right there with you. We’re fighting back.

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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.

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Just weeks after creating a $50 million tax credit for private schools, Idaho shut down a $30 million grant program that helped public school students pay for laptops, school supplies, tutoring and other expenses: propub.li/42xqTlC 📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social

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Why not 100%? 100% sounds cooler.

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Trump is once again speaking on behalf of Putin, blaming Zelensky and not Putin for his inability to resolve the conflict. He doesn't care about the people of Ukraine or their sovereignty. He just wants to get credit for ending the war.

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“There is virtually no inflation.” - Trump, 4/21/25

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BREAKING: The Dow sinks 1,000 points as worries about President Trump’s trade war and his criticism of the Federal Reserve cause investors to pull further from the U.S.

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Every single service member and veteran, if they’re being honest, will all tell you the exact same thing: We’d be immediately burned at the stake if we treated classified intel the way Pete Hegseth has treated it.

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guess SecDef wasn't paying attention to the Annual OPSEC trading when he was in the NG.

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Lock her up... oh... never mind...

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Black and Japanese American residents of California were banned from living in many parts of Los Angeles, so they created their own communities and shared experiences. For many JAs, Jackie Robinson was a hero from the neighborhood. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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remember the Kennedy family hid their daughter Rosemary after a lobotomy. RFK Jr just following family tradition...

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Grifters gotta grift... filling the trump pockets. #shame

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Know this: Every step Donald Trump takes is aimed at concentrating more power into his own hands. He seeks to humiliate opponents & eliminate alternative sources of public influence (the legal system, the universities, the media, and the cultural institutions).

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Seventy-two trading days in, the S&P 500 is enjoying its fifth-worst start to a year in history. #GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🥇 @officialbilello1.bsky.social

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All staff were put on leave at the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. Congress created the entity in 1987 and, among other things, it helped drive down veterans homelessness.

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on this day in 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. writes “Letter from a Birmingham Jail". “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

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Hi! 😊

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Tippy taps.. 😊

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A herd of elephants in South Africa came across a broken down truck full of oranges.. 😅

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We’ve faced attacks on democracy before—and we’ve never backed down. Our Interim Executive Director, Helen Hutchison, shares her story of resilience and determination in the fight for women’s rights and democracy. The League stands strong, but we need you. 👉🏽 Read her article here: bit.ly/3P9gUv6

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Compromise: he can remain Secretary of Vodka

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“…when we honor truth, we defend memory. When we recognize identity, we affirm dignity. And when we restore the names and symbols of the past, we stand stronger—together—against the forces that would divide us.” My latest in @thebulwark.bsky.social

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Interesting. Two of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence condemned the Crown for denying legal protection, especially imprisonment without cause. “For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury.” “For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses.”

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#TariffThePenguins

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