View of Castle Rock from the jail of Tule Lake Segregation Center concentration camp, a jail within a jail, July 4, 2026

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The 2026 Tule Lake Pilgrimage brought over 400 people to a Japanese American detention site on the patriotic 250th anniversary of the U.S. buff.ly/7Cr86Yn

This morning we shared the first public preview of They Took My Father Too at the 2026 #TuleLakePilgrimage. It was more than fitting to show this adaptation near the detention camp where the original story was published, to a rapt audience including descendants of incarcerees who may have read it.

We wrapped production of They Took My Father Too in May! On our Substack newsletter I share a sneak peek at our footage, and where I'll be during the 250th anniversary celebration of the U.S. buff.ly/pULeBzJ

I was just reminded about Martin Scorcese going through a really dark period with drugs and obsessive work around Raging Bull. Now I can understand the impulse. Having a normal life and directing film are undertakings at war with each other. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Martin Scorsese admits: 'A major part of me wanted to die.' Then ‘Raging Bull’ saved him

Rebecca Miller’s five-hour Apple TV+ docuseries is a candid look into the artistic process and personal journey of director Martin Scorsese.

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Boycat is an app that scans bar codes and shows you if the product is subject to boycott: Ko-fi.com/home/coffees...

konradical just became the newest member of Boycat on Ko-fi! ❤️

Ko-fi lets you support creators you love with tips, memberships and shop sales!

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Read the full article and become a member today: blog.boycat.io/posts/everyt...

It's been hard for me to accept that Kyoko Nancy Oda passed away. She gave so much to me and many others. Outside my own home, last year I stayed the most at her house as I was preparing and shooting my film in L.A. Rest in power, Kyoko. www.facebook.com/share/v/1BRC...

My arrival for our final day of production in Little Tokyo! Gratitude to our base camp - Tenkaippin. ありがとうございました！

Preparing for final shoots in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles! A peek into the They Took My Father Too production diary. Capturing the forced removal took intense preparation, including a race to find the perfect U.S.-grown sakura tree. buff.ly/pGK355P

The administration's proposed elimination of funding for the Japanese American Confinement Sites program will hurt places like Heart Mountain, Topaz, Minidoka, Manzanar and other organizations trying to tell this history. We're working to reverse it. www.powelltribune.com/stories/fund...

Funding jeopardy - Powell Tribune

As the long process to restore and create an exhibit to display the historic root cellar at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center continues, the funding that made that and other projects possible is ...

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Though I'm a non-Christian I wasn't always, and I still have no answer for this question. Easter, springtime, is a good time to consider what resurrection directly means for me. What of living in this moment is eternal? How do I live each moment with awareness of it? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/o...

Opinion | Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? A Debate.

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Christ is risen.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History. NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊ #NO_KINGS

I'm saving my outrage for the endless list of more important stuff. But it's amazing to think how far public standards have fallen. Think of any prior U.S. president, saying something this asinine and offensive in a state visit, and what the reaction would have been.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Y’all.

Even though Markwayne Mullin has vowed to champion the same mass deportation agenda as Kristi Noem, Fetterman just voted to advance Mullin's nomination as DHS secretary. Fetterman could have blocked Mullin's nomination. Instead, this supposedly Democratic senator decided to back the regime.

‘Trump’s favorite Democrat’ Fetterman bails out pick to replace Noem at DHS in Senate cliffhanger

Oklahoma senator survives committee vote despite saying he ‘understood’ why the committee chairman was subject to savage beating

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I'd love to have a transcript of Takaichi's thoughts during this meeting.

#PhantomsFriday The Drowned Man's Ghost Tries to Claim a New Victim for the Sea, Thorvald Niss [1842-1905] Skagens Museum, Skagen, Denmark #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

The U.S. creating Topaz concentration camp 2.0 in Utah.

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 5mo ago

A large warehouse facility on Salt Lake City’s west side has been sold to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The firing-up-the-base-with-Islamophobia project seems tired, but Drumpfist politics has gotten this far solely by firing up their base, so I guess it feels foolhardy for them to quit now.

Join me and the people who bring you the “No Kings” march for this webinar on stopping 21st century American concentration camps. I’m honored to help introduce Andrea Pitzer, author of “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps.” RSVP here for this March 5 mass call.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑@50501movement.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join 50501 on March 5th for a mass call for a discussion about how everyday people are fighting back against the Trump administration's plans for warehouse concentration camps across America. bit.ly/march5masscall

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC

You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...

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I first joined the Tule Lake Pilgrimage in 2010 to grasp the devastating consequences of resisting a loyalty questionnaire in the middle of a war. At the last pilgrimage in 2024, I documented the movement to translate and interpret the Japanese-language literature of incarceration. buff.ly/cOgAUSB

Though hostile forces beset the arts and the retelling of marginalized histories last year, my woke, DEI film surged ahead into production. Join me on Substack for behind-the-scenes updates, along with the research and discoveries of translation that drive this project. buff.ly/FXG5QF2

They Took My Father Too - December 2025

We surged ahead in a challenging year, completing our main production phase.

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Two new episodes of Rachel Maddow's BURN ORDER podcast available today. Ep. 3, "One Drop," features Norm Mineta, Satsuki Ina, and Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga. Ep. 4, "Like an Ordinary American," highlights the Supreme Court cases of Gordon, Min, Fred, and Mitsuye Endo. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order

News Podcast · Series ·

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Japanese American incarceration has this irrepressible way of coming up in the news. I wrote a brisk account of the times our history has become a focus of organizing for immigrant solidarity, a distorted right-wing talking point, or both. open.substack.com/pub/konrader...

My ride through the recurring relevance of Japanese American history

My community's legacy of incarceration gives us a voice, when the national media listens.

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Today is #GivingTuesday — a global day of generosity that empowers people and organizations to strengthen their communities, and the official start of Densho’s year-end giving season.