Blackford Oakes
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SF's Chinatown is a vibrant small business community being crushed by Trump's tariffs.
Toured the neighborhood yesterday with @BettyYeeforCA and met those paying the price.
As governor, I'll cut their health costs, cut their electricity bills, and stand between them and Trump.
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@MykhailoRohoza The japs at that time deserved that fate. Only a traitorous clown would feel sorry for those murderous fucks.
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When Barack Obama entered the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 27, 2016 — becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the city destroyed by the United States in August 1945 — the world focused on his speech. Cameras showed the wreath at the cenotaph. Headlines rightly emphasized the weight of the moment. But almost no one noticed a short, quiet Japanese man standing among the official delegation.
His name was Shigeaki Mori. He was eight years old on the day of the atomic bombing. By 2016, he was the only person who knew the names of all twelve Americans who died in Hiroshima — U.S. prisoners of war whom America had never fully accounted for.
Mori spent forty years finding them. Not for money. Not by order. Simply because he believed the dead should have names.
He was born in Hiroshima on March 29, 1937. On the morning of August 6, 1945, he was crossing a small bridge about 2.5 kilometers from the epicenter. The blast threw him into the stream below. Decades later, he recalled:
“I climbed out and saw a woman stumbling toward me. Her body was covered in blood, her organs hanging out. Holding them, she asked where the hospital was. I cried and ran away.”
He was eight. And there were no hospitals left.
Mori survived. He grew up in postwar Japan, worked ordinary jobs — in a brokerage, later at a piano factory — but dreamed of becoming a historian. He never got a formal degree. So he became one on weekends.
In the 1970s, a professor showed him a document: a list of twelve American airmen shot down over Japan in 1945. They were crew members of two B-24 bombers — Lonesome Lady and Taloa — captured and held in Hiroshima, just 400 meters from where the bomb exploded.
They died from their own country’s bomb.
For decades, their story was barely acknowledged. Families were told only: “missing, presumed dead.” No details. No truth.
Mori decided to find it.
Without funding or institutional support, he spent decades reconstructing their fate — comparing archives, tracking records, even locating surviving crew members. One by one, he restored their identities.
Then he wrote letters.
In broken English, he contacted families across the U.S. — often seventy years too late — explaining what had happened to their sons, brothers, husbands.
In 2008, he published his research, which eventually led the U.S. government to officially acknowledge the deaths of the twelve American POWs in Hiroshima.
In 2016, a documentary introduced his story to a wider audience. During Obama’s visit, Mori was invited to attend. In his speech, Obama mentioned the victims — including “twelve Americans held in captivity.”
For the first time, a sitting U.S. president publicly acknowledged them on Japanese soil.
After the speech, Obama approached Mori — a small, elderly man who bowed politely. Then, unexpectedly, the president opened his arms.
They embraced.
The image went around the world.
In 2018, at age 79, Mori visited the United States for the first time. He attended memorial events, spoke publicly, and finally met some of the families he had written to for decades.
When asked why he devoted his life to Americans who died beside him, Mori answered:
“My work was not about people from an enemy country. It was about human beings.”
Shigeaki Mori died in Hiroshima on March 14, 2026. He was 88 years old.

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California's bullet train between LA to SF could now cost between $126 - $231 Billion.
I asked chair of CA Senate Transportation Cmtee @SenDaveCortese if private investors are actually coming to help.
"I think we do," he said. But, they need to see state's "skin in the game"
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@unclelukereal1 Blame the ghetto rats that breed like rats with no one holding a job.
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We are ALL FAILING this country.
Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
He should have been removed before the war started. He is mentally unwell.
Forget the Jesus pictures. Forget the Pope. We can go through hundreds of examples.
The sane washing — pretending this is normal — that's just the surface problem.
The real problem is that we have willing accomplices.
What we have in America right now is a complete failure of political elites to execute on the constitutional system that was built specifically for this moment.
We are all accomplices to this man's reckless behavior.
-Every senator who stays quiet.
-Every executive who writes the check.
-Every commentator who normalizes it.
He needs to be removed from office and he won't be.
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@sourceryy @friedberg Moron democrats have swindled taxpayers for decades. Vote everyone one of these corrupt bastards out of office.
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.@friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt":
"People don't realize how screwed California is. I worry that if California falls, so does the union."
"We're $250 billion to $1 trillion short."
"If it was the federal government, they would just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits."
"There's a Supreme Court case in California that said once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits. It has to stay forever."
"And the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it."
"No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California. So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services."
" This isn't about taxes and Billionaire Tax Act. I don't think you can tax your way out of this problem. People will just leave the state."
"California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country and we need to figure out what we can change to fix it."
At the @HillValleyForum 2026
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🚨A white man charged with murder after hunting down and shooting a Black FedEx driver because he was Black.
This monster targeted his victim because of his race, shooting him multiple times in a brutal attack.
Predators like this are getting bolder, and our communities are paying the price with their lives.
He waited 20 minutes before calling for help, then tried to claim Stand Your Ground. Listen to this.
This is why I always say: these racists have no soul and no limits. They’re walking among us, and they’re getting more ruthless by the day.
Do you think this should be charged as a hate crime? What do you think should happen to him?
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Democrat activist admits he wants American taxpayers to fund welfare for illegal aliens
He also wants taxpayers to pay for social security payments for illegals
The Democrat activist is Thomas Saenz. He’s the President and General Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
This is a prominent Latino civil rights organization often aligned with progressive and Democratic positions on immigration
You understand what’s happening here right? His organization financially benefits from bringing over as many illegals as possible into America and then he wants American taxpayers to pay for their healthcare, welfare and even social security payments
We have to stop tolerating these people. Denaturalize and deport them all back
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An entire store of Black people watched as a violent Black man ROBBED and ATTACKED a White man.
A Black lady recorded and laughed.
The White man repeated, “I am just trying to get to work,” as the Black man emptied the White man’s pockets and put him in a headlock.
The White man works for it; the Black man feels entitled to it even with force.
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@IsaacHayes3 Hard to register if your high all the time and lost your license from DUI convictions.
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Black people in America need to be registered to vote, all of us. Full Fk’n Stop.
In states like Georgia, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, turning to vote can shift outcomes in House, Senate, and gubernatorial races.
Look at Georgia. About 3.5 million Black residents live here. Roughly 2.5 million of us are eligible to vote, yet only around 1.4 million of us actually do. That leaves between 900,000 and 1.1 million eligible Black voters not participating.
Now compare that to the margins of the last two Ga: governor’s races. In 2018, the race was decided by about 54,000 votes. In 2022, about 191,000 votes. The number of eligible Black voters not participating is between 7 and 10x larger than those margins.
This isn’t about theory, it’s about MATH. If we show up consistently, outcomes change. The shift starts with registration, and it is sustained by turnout.
Register and VOTE.
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California has built one of the largest solar fleets in the world. Panels are strewn across deserts, rooftops and valleys, costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
It was promised as the power of the future.
But then the duck curve hit.
Solar floods the grid during the height of the day, far more than California can use, so operators are forced to dump gigawatts of "green" power.
Then the sun sets and solar output collapses to zero, just as evening demand spikes. California then scrambles to fire up gas plants to keep the lights on, with billions more spent on this backup generation.
The world's solar capital ends every day running on fossil fuels.
A 24-7 gas grid would cost far less to construct and maintain than solar, and it would actually work 24-7.
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