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January 18th, 2026

Today, CBS News and other legitimate media sources report that the U.S.A. has taken action on visa processing for undocumented persons.

There's more online.

Note to self:

@jennywritesworld just posted:

https://www.tumblr.com/jennywritesworld/806112070306283520/you-can-live-with-dignity-you-cant-die-with?source=share

This lady asks remarkably intelligent questions - I’m so used to puff, it was surprising.  She did her research - or someone did, and she relayed that well.

Author: Brenda Braxton

PORTLAND, Ore. — During the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, KGW is exploring the connections between the Northwest and Japan, talking to Japanese American people in Portland about their lived experiences here. The series is called "Our Shared Journey."30-year-old Sachi Kaneko is a Portland activist. She identifies as queer and biracial. She said her peers in the Japanese American community are becoming more diverse —racially and socially— and she's an example of that.

Kaneko isn't shy about breaking with tradition. She's a deep thinker with an easy laugh but she's serious about her activism. 

"Oh, I have to be outspoken about this stuff," she said. "Not for me. I would prefer maybe not to be on television or like tell everyone things about my personal life, but because I think people need to see that there are people different from them and they still deserve equal rights as a human being."

Kaneko didn't always have that strong voice.

"The first time I really started thinking about race and realizing I was a little bit different— I was really young," she remembered. She wasn't exactly sure where she fit in— the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Japanese American father.

"I think a lot of biracial children have the experience where it brings two different cultures together, but on my mother's side—sort of the Russian Jewish side—my grandfather didn't really like Asian people. So, I grew up knowing he would make comments about my dad like Chinese laundry jokes and things like that. [My grandfather] was never very involved in my life. As a young child I thought that was because I was Asian. It was very confusing."

Before Kaneko claimed her Japanese heritage, she rebelled against it.

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