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Lisa Hirsch

@lisairontongue.bsky.social

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Music writer (SF Classical Voice, SF Chronicle, Opera). Blogs at irontongue.blogspot.com. Alto, martial artist. Former tech writer. Music, books, politics, food, public health. Cis, queer, Jewish. I instablock men who follow only women's accounts.

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · Apr 12

My posts are roughly 40% classical music and opera; 40% leftist politics; 20% books / food / cat photos / architecture / other stuff.

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 13h

Dammit, left out a word. So much FOR thinking....

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 13h

I'll forever wonder if Salonen tried to program the Boulez concerts with SFS and administration shot him down.

I mean...I kind of assume he did.

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 13h

So much thinking he'd be a good presidential candidate.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 15h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 14h

Important thread: JB Pritzker is talking an anti-DJT line while letting Illinois state police brutalize people. ICE agents are being housed at his family's hotels.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 14h

Verifying from personal experience that this is a useful skill.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, the issue seems to be that you've got DMs turned off - I tried messaging you.

Send me email. :-) This address is very public: [email protected]

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I am sorry!

I will see some of the films. I have a full pass, but the festival is opposite a new opera I am reviewing, an old opera I am attending, and an important concert I plan to attend.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 1d

Must read it! Our nickname for him was Frumious, as in Bandersnatch, thank you Lewis Carroll.

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 1d

MIT refuses to kowtow to the Trump regime.

Mike C ⓥ @security-mike-c.bsky.social · 1d

And for those who need the alt-text:

bsky.app/profile/kath...

Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 1d

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 2d

My DMs should be open to you. On a phone, there's an icon for DMs at the bottom of the screen.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking hell. This sucks.

Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Lays Off 25% of HUCTW Staff | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard will lay off roughly 25 percent of staff represented by its clerical and technical workers’ union at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and reorganize several offices in response t...

www.thecrimson.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

Response from Sam Lau, Spokesperson, @hrc.org, the nation's largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization:

"Yes, Lt. Gov. Earle-Sears, that is indeed discrimination. Vote for Abigail Spanberger."

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 2d

AS: My opponent has also previously said that she thinks it’s okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay. That is discrimination.

WES: That’s not discrimination! (2/2)

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 2d

Very excited to be interviewing my friend and former colleague @leahlitman.bsky.social at the @hammer.ucla.edu on Tuesday, October 14 (cosponsored by @law.ucla.edu) about her new book, Lawless. Free admission and video of the event will post afterwards. Join us!
hammer.ucla.edu/programs-eve...

Leah Litman on the Supreme Court | Hammer Museum

University of Michigan Law School professor Leah Litman will discuss her provocative new book, which argues that the Supreme Court has abandoned legal reasoning in favor of political grievances dresse...

hammer.ucla.edu

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so very sorry.

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 3d

Done!

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 3d

Safe travels! I aspire to visit China one day.

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 3d

I have seen this b.s. move in corporations and it's a b.s. move for an orchestra.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 4d

“Respiratory viruses can cause serious illness, particularly in vulnerable groups such as infants, older adults, pregnant individuals & those with weakened immune systems…” Wish they also understood & conveyed that COVID is a *vascular* disease & *everyone’s* vulnerable to it.

Mask mandates return in parts of the Bay Area as virus season nears

Mask requirements are returning to health care settings across parts of the Bay Area, as health officials brace for the annual surge in respiratory illnesses — including COVID, influenza and RSV.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 3d

Goes for everyone and everything. Protect trans people, protect immigrants regardless of their legal status, protect Black people, protect Muslims and Jews, protect Latinos, protect women.

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 3d

@silentbeauties.bsky.social Will you be at any of this year's SF Silent Film Festival?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3d

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health.

Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

www.independent.co.uk

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