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Rabbit lover/mom to an amazing daughter. Pro-degrowth & peace. Love books, nature & old things. Concerned citizen. Empath. Introvert. Born/raised in🇺🇸&🇯🇵currently in 🇯🇵.Into philosophy, politics & education.何処にいてもマイノリティとして生きてきた🇺🇸🇯🇵ハーフ。学べば学ぶほど知識は増えるのに分からない事が増える。
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Even with this belief, I have noticed that I speak less. I’ve also noticed that others around me that used to be more vocal, speak less. And these subtle changes within us scare me of what the next few years will do to us.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

A genuine question. How does one have a mature, calm discussion with people that refuse to listen while behaving and speaking like this? The way Trump spoke to Zelensky reminds me of how my father speaks to those with opposing views and opinions. Just heartbreaking to see our nation come to this.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

submitted 9 days ago • 508 comments

アメリカはどうなってしまうのだろう。私の周りのリベラルの友達は全く政治的な話をしなくなり、報道を避け、SNSも辞めてしまった。ただ恐ろしい事に私の親族の多くは熱心なクリスチャンで今も現政権を支持。そういう人達が実際少なくないという現実を無視してきた結果が今のアメリカでは？と思ったりする。まだ就任して２ヶ月ちょっと…取り返しのつかないところまで民主主義国家は崩壊し暴走し続けるのではと危惧してる。

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

submitted 10 days ago • 2320 comments

Please SHARE! If ONLY every American would have the courage to read this well researched article, Musk & Trump would lose millions of followers. The alleged promoters of openness act in all secrecy! www.reuters.com/legal/where-...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

submitted 22 days ago • 972 comments

The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979.  Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth.  Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

submitted 14 days ago • 558 comments

I, for one, am not reassured by the fact the German extreme right only got 20 percent. The acceptable number of German far-rightists is zero. The 1930s taught us that.

submitted 14 days ago • 299 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 21 days ago • 2107 comments

ぜひ、ご参加下さい。ガザで家族を殺害された人々が、どのように生きようとしてきたか。ドイツに生まれ、ガザ出身のパレスチナ人の父を持つ兄と妹。二人のドキュメンタリーを上映します。トークゲストは坂本美雨さん。オンライン参加もできます。3/28、座・高円寺にて。 d4p.world/news/30037/ #D4P

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

When billionaires take control of vital communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. And when those billionaires justify their business motives by citing “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Don't be fooled.

submitted 54 days ago • 136 comments

Same thing occurring in Japan almost every year and lack of staff is often one of the reasons. Is it just the UK and Japan? Politicians here are concerned about the declining population, pressuring females to have more children yet we can’t seem to protect the children that are already born.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Yet why do so many continue to choose Amazon for our purchases and X over Bluesky, indirectly supporting these oligarchs?

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

I mean, what prompted this to be printed on pizza boxes? We are in trouble as humanity, aren't we? 😞

submitted 87 days ago • 70 comments

In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents. It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years. There should be no profit in education or healthcare.

submitted 88 days ago • 101 comments

これも色んな意味で様々な問題に繋がるのではないかと個人的には思っている。野菜や果物は食生活を豊かにするだけではない。 経済格差により添加物や加工食品という偏った食べ物ばかりが増えることで身体の健康だけでなく頭や心への影響はないのだろうか。 英語のYou are what you eatを思い出す。

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

It’s currently my favorite poster here in Japan about having the courage to share your opinion and being responsible for the words you speak whether face to face or on social media.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

L’oiseau de feu 🕊️

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

How Microplastics and Forever Chemicals Combine to Become Even More Toxic When exposed to microplastics and PFAS together, the harm to tiny water fleas vital to aquatic ecosystems increased by up to 41% compared to exposure to each pollutant alone. www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/...

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submitted 101 days ago • 26 comments

The time has come for climate populism! The class struggle and the climate struggle must become one. The top 1% spew as much planet-heating pollution as the entirety of the bottom 50%. Stop blaming people with plastic straws. Start blaming plutocrats. That's how we win. (1/8)🧵

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

I’d like to recommend this book I found at an used bookstore in Komaba. I was too young when it was written but it seems to have been popular in the 80’s. Though I don’t agree with everything written, the discussions about education & American democracy has given me a lot to think about.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.” ― Marcus Aurelius

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

It’s a question we ask all the time.

submitted 103 days ago • 414 comments

A huge poster (ad) by Ikebe Music in Shibuya trying to encourage passersby to think about peace. Wouldn’t it be a better world if politicians, nations and people chose instruments?

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

“Everyone talks about peace but no one educates for peace. In this world, they educate for competition, and competition is the beginning of any war. When educating to cooperate and owe each other solidarity, that day we will be educating for peace.” Maria Montessori

submitted 111 days ago • 3 comments

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments