Edo Forsythe

[和海/Nagomi 【official】 @official_nagomi]

一緒に楽しみましょう✨
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[Edo Forsythe @Prof_Edo]

@official_nagomi Thanks for bringing your talent back to Hirosaki!! You’re fabulous!!👏🏼❤️👏🏼❤️

[Jake Adelstein/中本哲史 @jakeadelstein]

Japan's pacifism used to be a point of national pride– and political necessity. Those days are gone. PM Takaichi has a plan to get rid of the post-war "Peace" constitution: kill non-Japanese people.
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[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Today's Supreme Court decision reverses hard-won progress under the Voting Rights Act.

It means less representation for millions of Black Americans and other voters of color, as lawmakers gain greater ability to manipulate their districts. There will be more extreme partisan gerrymandering, lopsided elections, less accountable government, and policies that hurt rather than help with everyday life.

But this is no time to be demoralized, because we know it does not have to be this way. We can mobilize around reform, new laws, and where necessary, constitutional amendments for fairer government. Only then can we feel the benefits of a balanced Court, a truly representative Congress, and an election system free from the distorting power of extreme corporate and partisan manipulation.

[Jake Adelstein/中本哲史 @jakeadelstein]

On the 40th anniversary of Chernobyl, it’s important to remember that Japan didn’t learn the lessons from that accident nor have they learned lessons from their own. The next nuclear disaster is just a matter of time.
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[和海/Nagomi 【official】 @official_nagomi]

ぜひ聴いてください！
3週目は私が京都弁にチャレンジしますどすえ？

[Edo Forsythe @Prof_Edo]

@_shiopan Let’s hope the seggsual harassment doesn’t resume upon your arrival!!🤞🤞🙏🙏 お帰りなさいin advance❣️

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Jeffries on Kash Patel: "We have to stop putting all the blame on the people who nominated this incompetent, toxic, malignant individual. What about the people who confirmed him? It's extraordinary to me that Senate Republican confirmed people like Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, RFK Jr, and Patel."

[Edo Forsythe @Prof_Edo]

@RaraSensei I love that she spent the day reading!!!! 📖

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: And my word of warning to my own political party is that we would make a terrible mistake if we thought that our job was to just take power somehow and then put everything back the way it was. That’s not what we’re here to do.

We’re not out to go around and just find all the little bits and pieces of everything that they smashed and tape it together and say, “Here you go, I give you the world as it looked in 2023.” That’s not going to work. It’s not what we need.

So much has changed, and the truth is they are destroying things right and left. They’re destroying a lot of good, important things. They’re destroying some useless things too, because they’re destroying everything. So now we get a chance to put things together on different terms.

[Edo Forsythe @Prof_Edo]

I was shocked at how many young teens were hanging out in this area obviously homeless or almost there. Sadly they might not be interested in any efforts the city makes to help—they seemed to be looking for a place to fit in and a sense of belonging.

[Unseen Japan @UnseenJapanSite]

Kabukicho's Toyoko area has become a gathering spot for Japan's runaways - & a hunting ground for adults who exploit them. Police arrested a 37-year-old man who held a 16-year-old for 20 days and forced her into paid sex with 20 to 30 men.

[Edo Forsythe @Prof_Edo]

@capsulebutt Gorgeous pictures!!

[Edo Forsythe @Prof_Edo]

@capsulebutt WTF?!?!?!? How do men think this behavior is in any way acceptable???? Never in a million years would these things even pop into my head. Their parents really dropped the ball. On behalf of men, I’m sorry you and @_shiopan and other women have to go through this abuse🙇🙇🤬🤬

[Edo Forsythe @Prof_Edo]

One of my fmr students and a @HiroGakuEnglish @HiroGakuUniv graduate doing amazing as a model!! We’re proud of you, @official_nagomi ❤️🌸❤️🌸❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[和海/Nagomi 【official】 @official_nagomi]

ラジオ聴いてくれた皆さん、
ありがとうございました🙇‍♀️
来週も聴いてねー

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[Pennsylvania Governor's Office @PAGovOffice]

🚨NEW: @GovernorShapiro SLAMS Trump and Congressional Republicans for cutting Medicaid, leaving Pennsylvanians without health care, and shuttering rural hospitals: 

"This is because Donald Trump decided he wanted to give a tax cut to the people at the top and screw over the people that needed access to health care in our communities. It was wrong.”

[Jake Adelstein/中本哲史 @jakeadelstein]

@washingtonpost She’s just Prime Minister Abe in a blue dress.
And she’s doing everything that I said she would do. It just takes a while for people to catch on.

https://t.co/3VlD8UWw9d

[Edo Forsythe @Prof_Edo]

@RaraSensei I feel your exhaustion!!!😩😩😩 Hope we can get some rest over the weekend!!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Khanna: "No. I'm not supporting new funding. The answer for every Democrat should be 'absolutely no.' It's $400 billion for a war we oppose? We could have universal childcare for that. We could have free public college for that."

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

Fucking outrageous. And highly illegal.

"Trump has grifted his entire life. Now he’s just taking it.

The State Department transferred $1.25 billion in foreign aid to Trump’s Board of Peace, pulling $1 billion from international disaster assistance, $200 million from peacekeeping operations, and $50 million from international organizations.

Money that Congress authorized for hurricanes and refugees, moved without a congressional vote, into a fund that Trump created by executive order and controls personally. When reporters asked the State Department about it, a spokesperson said they had nothing to announce at this time.

The Board of Peace has one defining characteristic. Trump controls it forever. He named himself chairman for life. No audits. No transparency requirements. No conflict of interest rules.

Countries pay $1 billion into a fund he runs to get a seat at the table. It has transferred nothing to Gaza, disclosed nothing about its spending, and received $1.25 billion of your disaster relief money without a word of explanation.

When he leaves the White House he keeps the fund. That is not a loophole. That is the design."

He’s Not Grifting Anymore. He’s Just Taking It. https://t.co/eYb5g4g9bR

[Unseen Japan @UnseenJapanSite]

ICYMI: A new report from the Japanese police, analyzed by a major newspaper here, adds yet another study to the global pile of evidence that immigrants are far from being dangerous. They are, in fact, less criminal than ever. More below.