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David Ambaras

@borderlander62

Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts.

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Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

08.03.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 12254 πŸ” 4239 πŸ’¬ 417 πŸ“Œ 170

Read the whole thread

08.03.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Writing is thinking. AI writing is not that

08.03.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can run your car on liver, says RFK Jr

08.03.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

04.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 2408 πŸ” 994 πŸ’¬ 128 πŸ“Œ 158

Stephan as Stefan: This tweet has everything

08.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's not a war if it's only six days, say the people who were dragged into it by the country famous for having won the Six Day War

08.03.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the reverse version of those β€œevolution of man” drawings

07.03.2026 23:43 πŸ‘ 7981 πŸ” 1633 πŸ’¬ 314 πŸ“Œ 49

Challenge for those who don't know their ass from their elbow: know your ass from your elbow

08.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 7262 πŸ” 4858 πŸ’¬ 505 πŸ“Œ 1315

Crazy Donny, his crimes are INSAAANE

08.03.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They're saying it's the most dignified dignified transfer ever now look at these curtains we're gonna hang in the ballroom

08.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thread, with some important comments as well

07.03.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would be better if it was a Bratwurst House

07.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To reach those Nazi and Nazi-adjacent men, one has to be Nazi or Nazi-adjacent

07.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In six months we will turn the corner into the tunnel at the end of which is the light of a freight train speeding toward us

07.03.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bari Weiss: Wait, they didn't tell us that at University of Austin

07.03.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Soon Hegseth will be more of a coffee boy than a secretary

06.03.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.

06.03.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 3392 πŸ” 877 πŸ’¬ 220 πŸ“Œ 58

Melania wants a shoe shopping buddy

06.03.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Senator Mullin on January 6th

06.03.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 3262 πŸ” 1152 πŸ’¬ 204 πŸ“Œ 85

Is our children learning

06.03.2026 02:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you abolish them they won't need a secretary

06.03.2026 02:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a green shirt is laughing while sitting in a row of chairs . ALT: a man in a green shirt is laughing while sitting in a row of chairs .
06.03.2026 02:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

05.03.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 12893 πŸ” 3339 πŸ’¬ 2106 πŸ“Œ 568

I'm going to be meeting him in a couple of weeks!

06.03.2026 02:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Announcing Ratio, the new game from the New York Times. Hock up a shit excuse for whitewashing atrocities and guess the correct number of times you get called out

06.03.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the New York Times practically created an entire "leftist campus antisemitism" vertical. I will be very curious to see how much attention it pays to this, and how clear it is about what it means.

05.03.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 194 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

The NYT, which long ago eliminated its public editor position, is whining when called to account by the public for an odious failure

06.03.2026 01:46 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is far more threatening to American Jews than anyone's policy views toward Israel

06.03.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 447 πŸ” 84 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1