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Luke Tsai @theluketsai.bsky.social · 12d

Here's @jzigoris.bsky.social with a deep dive into the Chinese workers who basically built up Northern California's wine country from scratch in the 1860s and 1870s. I didn't know this history! www.kqed.org/arts/1398179...

The Chinese Roots of Northern California’s Wine Industry Run Deep | KQED

Despite a long association with Europeans, Chinese laborers established the iconic vineyards of Sonoma and Napa Valleys.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · Aug 4

It’s crazy how they can just start chucking law-abiding people in prison and change societal expectations around that, so that many people just say “welp, that’s just a thing that happens here now (and it ain’t me)!”

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 4

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
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Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility

Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · Aug 5

In messages to faculty and staff, university leaders cited federal policy changes under the Trump administration as key drivers behind the cuts.

Stanford lays off hundreds, citing federal cuts under Trump

In messages to faculty and staff, university leaders cited federal policy changes under the Trump administration as key drivers behind the cuts.

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KQED News @kqednews.kqed.org · Aug 4

Thousands of Once-Secret Police Records Are Now Public. Here’s How You Can Use Them

The database, which includes about 12,000 cases detailing police misconduct and serious use of force from hundreds of agencies, is the first of its kind in California.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Aug 3

ABC News’ “This Week” looks back at the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings and interviews me about my new oral history and the importance of remembering first-hand accounts: abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/vid...

Video New book uses oral history to tell story of the atomic bomb

ABC News' chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz speaks with author Garrett Graff about his new book on the atomic bomb during WWII ahead of the event’s 80th anniversary.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Aug 4

Aaron Boehmer examines the hope in human connection and Octavia Butler’s “speech sounds.”

What We Can Give Each Other: On Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds”

In 1983, Octavia E. Butler published “Speech Sounds” in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, a short story that would win her her first Hugo Award a year later. Written, as Butler put it in the…

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Berkeleyside @berkeleyside.org · Aug 4

Aimee Phan started writing another book about young Vietnamese protagonists and ended up with a fantasy. And other new Berkeley books.

Berkeley author’s YA novel tells story of Vietnam’s national heroines with magic and time travel

Aimee Phan started writing another book about young Vietnamese protagonists and ended up with a fantasy. And other new Berkeley books.

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Julie Zigoris @jzigoris.bsky.social · Aug 2

“Bodies generally fit together, it’s people who don’t.” A beautiful reading last night by @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social at @mcwconf.bsky.social in the quaint Crown Hall. #mendocino #mcwc25

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ACLU @aclu.org · Aug 1

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

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Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social · Aug 1

"I’m not sure what made me eat his ashes that night..."

Start a new month with a #debut #fiction publication from Grace Ballard @doricliterary.bsky.social

You know that relationship you were warned about but went ahead with anyway? It's about that!
#Rollercoaster
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Eating My Ex

I swiped a fingerful of his remains while no one was looking and laid it on my tongue like acid. I wanted to keep a part of him for myself, to integrate his corpse into my living body. I would regr…

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Julie Zigoris @jzigoris.bsky.social · Aug 1

“We never end up with the book we began writing.” Wise words from @pegalfordpursell.bsky.social at @mcwconf.bsky.social that feel especially relevant as my project shapeshifts thanks to stellar feedback from my workshop crew. #mcwc25 #mendocino #books #writing #thelostartist

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jul 31

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.

These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants

Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

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Zandra.Bluesky 420buddy @zandra-b.bsky.social · Jul 20

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jun 12

A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference.

But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie

Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.

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KQED News @kqednews.kqed.org · Jun 12

Feds Detain 2 Palestinian Men At SFO, in US to Speak at Interfaith Gathering

Religious community members and Supervisor Bilal Mahmood protested Customs and Border Patrol agents’ detention of the visitors, who had visas to the U.S.

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Julie Zigoris @jzigoris.bsky.social · Jun 12

In my latest piece for @atlasobscura.com, I step inside the world of the illegal plant trade—the fourth largest black market after the ones for humans, drugs and arms. I learned so much working on this piece. #berkeley #plants #blackmarket #botanical #cycad www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pla...

The Secret Gardens Saving the World’s Rarest Plants

In greenhouses from Berkeley to Santa Barbara, a little-known rescue network protects endangered cycads from poachers, smugglers, and extinction.

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Julie Zigoris @jzigoris.bsky.social · Mar 31

The Gen Zers I interviewed were also into thrifting and shop new only for certain basics and layers.

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Julie Zigoris @jzigoris.bsky.social · Mar 31

According to my sources, it's getting better—the hem allowance on pants, for example, is much bigger. And I talked to a lot of Gen Z who are buying it again (some of those voices are included in the story). We'll see if it sticks.

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Julie Zigoris @jzigoris.bsky.social · Mar 28

Repugnant. What is wrong with people?

A.S. King @as-king.bsky.social · Mar 27

I just got a public death threat from a few folks who noticed I am doing a library event to talk about my career and my books. They called me all the familiar names, then “I won’t be sad if someone shoots her in the face.” And a woman’s reply, “Right between the eyes.”

I am a children’s author.

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Sarah Hotchkiss @sahotchkiss.bsky.social · Mar 27

Tickets for the 2025 SFFILM Festival go on sale tomorrow tomorrow at 10 a.m. and I plucked out some gems from 150+ films for ya:

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Tickets Not to Miss at the 2025 SFFILM Festival

Five recommendations for big-ticket items and under-the-radar offerings in this year’s film festival.

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Julie Zigoris @jzigoris.bsky.social · Mar 27

Three years ago, I did a deep dive on Gap falling apart at the seams. Today I have a story out with the inverse narrative: The brand is poised to make a comeback, thanks to crisp marketing, Parker Posey and Zac Posen. Will it last? #SanFrancisco #gap #sfgate www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

SF's forgotten clothing empire is rising again: 'Feels like the Gold Rush'

The first Gap store flung open its doors on Ocean Avenue in 1969. Now, the San Francisco-headquartered clothing brand is achieving newfound relevance.

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Julie Zigoris @jzigoris.bsky.social · Mar 26

It seems we are following that playbook very well these days.

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Julie Zigoris @jzigoris.bsky.social · Mar 26

"...Actively supporting all dissident movements — extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics..."

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Julie Zigoris @jzigoris.bsky.social · Mar 26

Alexsandr Dugin—Putin's favorite philosopher—wrote in 1997 in the Foundations of Geopolitics that Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts ..."

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Julie Zigoris @jzigoris.bsky.social · Mar 25

Congratulations! As a former academic, I've always been curious what it's like to write for The Conversation. As a Slavist, my field was decidedly *not* high-profit publishing, so it's fascinating to get a peek into the sciences.

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