kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD)

Can’t the EU et al impose sanctions on Musk and all his companies and business interests?

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

Job opening for the Japanese Studies Librarian position at the Asia Library, University of Michigan Please see the job posting below. The deadline for application is November 15, 2026. For more information or to apply, please visit careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

UPDATE: While the No Kings Instagram is back up, admins remain locked out and cannot post Meta must restore full access immediately Until then, continue following for updates: @ACLU.org , @MoveOn.org , @publiccitizen.bsky.social & @Indivisible.org -TN

Why is the leadership of the Unification Church hereditory?

China is increasingly seen more favorably than the US in most countries in the world, including across most of Europe.

Release ALL the Epstein files NOW

This is SO concerning www.alternet.org/amp/trump-st...

Newsletter: “It could never happen to me!”

Japan’s minister in charge of harmoniously coexisting with foreigners seems to embody an increasingly xenophobic national mood. My piece with Karyn Nishimura. fccj.or.jp/number-1-shi...

【社説】外国人の永住、突然高くなる壁　望みを砕く変更は悪手だ：朝日新聞 www.asahi.com/articles/ASV... 〈かけがえのない人生を送る地として日本を選び、永住をめざしている外国人の望みや意欲を打ち砕くような改定だ。人道上も看過できない〉

The newest members of the SAIS community have arrived in Washington, D.C.! 🏛️ Over the past week, our new students connected with classmates, faculty, staff, and alumni during Orientation 2026. Take a look at the moments that kicked off the new academic year! 🌍

2026年8月28日の深夜に行われた統一教会の徹夜精誠 その中の【合心呼名祈祷】より オモニム ムジェ ソッパン‼️ オモニム ムジェ ソッパン‼️ オモニム ムジェ ソッパン‼️ （お母様の無罪釈放） 求刑13年を無罪釈放にしろと❓💦 いくら何でも有り得ないだろうし、おこがましいにも程があるのでは無かろうか？

Considering the phrase "mystical intuitions are a core component of any fully holistic scientific research," it's hard to decide who is the crackpot here. Mystical and science do not mix, full stop.

Sick until proven healthy - the wellness/industrial complex open.substack.com/pub/erictopo...

Science tikkun: a bioscience pandemic framework in a Hebrew tradition of global repair

A leaked letter from Natalie Harp to Trump & a post about it from a Bill Gothard cult survivor. It's understandable to feel Natalie reaped what she sowed, but this person who posted & myself, a Moonies cult survivor, picked up on the abusive grooming in Natalie's words. I hope she finds help 😔

中国、日本の沖縄帰属に「疑義」　フィリピンにも類似主張（共同通信）

日本人の台湾“進学”10年で2.8倍　米国より安価な留学費用、誘致手厚く「学費無料、生活費支給」（西日本新聞me）

Hey folks, I have some free audiobook codes to give away for my first book, Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World. If you want one shoot me a DM

Placing East and Southeast Asia in Convo, Forum In Memory of Aaron Stephen Moore got published! Writing "Agents of Development: The Roles of Insects + Entomological Expertise in Japanese Technical Aid in Southeast Asia"=next best thing to talking w ASM in person read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...

my latest on the miracle of the MMR vaccine. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

【既刊案内】 デジタル・デモクラシー ビッグ・テックを包囲するグローバル市民社会 著者：内田聖子 ビッグ・テックが独占するデジタル技術によって監視や搾取が世界的に広がり、抗議の声が各地にわきおこっている。公正で倫理的なテクノロジーを求める民主主義の姿とは。 chiheisha.co.jp/2024/03/07/9...

外国人政策の厳格化加速　高市政権「永住」厳しく　「選ばれぬ国に」懸念の声：時事通信 news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/5c2... 「この時期の見直しは小野田紀美外国人政策担当相がとにかくやりたいと急いだ結果だ」 「法律に匹敵する厳しい要件を（ガイドラインで）勝手に定めるのは国会の権限の侵害だ」

In @cp-cellrepmed.bsky.social: Paul Cohen's lab at Rockefeller finds that three minutes of sprinting can do something that 90 minutes of moderate exercise cannot: dramatically reshape the molecular contents of the bloodstream. #hearthealth #metabolicdisease #aging 🔗: https://bit.ly/3SuOD7y

"government overreach designed to disconnect citizens from the truth and advance an authoritarian agenda" "must recognize how critically linked science is to democracy itself and defend its integrity with every tool at their disposal." @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our understanding how our brain ages and why our memory begins to slip around age 50 have been completely revamped through 2 new landmark studies involving the microglia, the brain immune cells erictopol.substack.com/p/why-our-me...

Super excited to see one of my DH grad students co-author a paper on her statistical/topic modeling work related to Chinese film reviews! She was way above my level already working on this project, but I'm happy my class gave her space to refine it for eventual publishing! doi.org/10.1007/s107...

Japan governors' association declaration on equal treatment of immigrants www.nga.gr.jp/committee_pt...

www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...

For a very readable account of how modern medicine is based on critical thinking and avoidance of “authority:” Helen Pearson’s

図書館ボランティア 令和8年度新規ボランティア募集 筑波大学附属図書館は、平成7年度から地域におけるボランティア活動の希望者に活動の機会を提供するため、「大学図書館ボランティア」制度を設けております。このボランティア活動は、本学附属図書館の利用者に対する援助のため、自らの意思に基づき、ご自身の生涯学習の一環として、その知識・技能を無償でご提供いただくものです。 www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/lib/ja/about...

"Escaping the #Moonies: Teddy Hose' Story of Survival" Cultimatum-The Culture of Cults & Human Trafficking @teddyhose.bsky.social 2 Aug 2026 [0:56:50] #UnificationChurch #Cult https://s.cultpodcasts.com/o4eF772LhU_e1ADVbjR6FQ

Lewis Goodall is a disputed hack, at best,

Two things. One of the main exploitation methods of those spreading misinformation is to take normal scientific arguments over details and suggest they imply doubt over an entire subject. The second, what is ‘at best’ supposed to imply other than that the idea that long covid itself is a lie?

Sunny afternoon with a good book

“Rev. Moon spoke about if your husband...does the wrong thing, the people responsible...are the wife & children… "I saw him throw something at my daughter just past her ear, & it crashed against the wall...I just thought, ‘No, that’s it…I’m done.’ …I took 12 months to formulate a way to leave.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

‚Japan „weak espionage laws and flourishing high-tech industry have made it a crucial piece of the Russian war effort. Ninety percent of Russian missiles and drones contain Japanese components, according to Ukrainian government estimates.‘ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/w...

Sun Myung Moon’s wife and successor Hak Ja Han, 83, is facing the rest of her life in prison after prosecutors in her bribery case requested a thirteen year sentence. Read all about it in my book on the history of the family and the church out next year! www.chosun.com/english/nati...