Yes, please keep covering this bizarre and scary shift to the right in Japan. One of the things I've always loved about Japan is that it feels safe, and a friend who lives there (but who was raised in the US) says it's because extremist thinking is unimaginable. I hope that stays true!

From this morning's Guardian, an illustration that makes it clear red counties receive far more Federal assistance than blue ones. Will the current regime's extreme cutbacks in aid lead to realizations of betrayal (or will Republicans try to blame Biden and/or spin this as fake news)?

Why doesn't the geriatric toddler just lead us all in a rousing chorus of Gosudarstvenny Gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii? Orwell is surely spinning in his grave.

My first Bluesky post, easily the best Groundhog's Day song ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hwE...