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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 · 7h

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 · 11h

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 · 11h

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 · 11h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

I'm so very sorry.

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 1d

Done!

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 1d

Safe travels! I aspire to visit China one day.

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

“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 · 1d

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 · 1d

@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 · 1d

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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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 1d

If you are, lunch at a great Ethiopian restaurant is on me. :-)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe! I've only seen it once.

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, I love the book!

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 2d

It's got beautiful music, so yeah.

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 2d

In retrospect, I thought M-D had too much men at sea, not enough obsession, which I sorta say.

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 2d

Huh, looking back, I liked the libretto for M-D more than I thought. (Also, I recently saw Dead Man Walking again and realized I had been VERY WRONG in what I said about it. It's a terrific opera.)

irontongue.blogspot.com/2012/10/thar...

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know who the ideal librettist is to write a libretto for K&C, but I was....not thrilled with the Moby-Dick libretto, an even thornier and more idiosyncratic novel. (I think the only way to adapt M-D is with a six to ten hour experimental opera. There's SO MUCH THERE.)

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the many, many questions Pamela Jo Bondi refused to answer today, the most incendiary was about whether she's seen photos of Donald Trump with unclothed underage girls. It is so damning that she couldn't just say, "No."

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

This is not going well for Pam Bondi

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 2d

(Probably won't see because it's 2500 miles away and there's no HD broadcast. I'd go if I were on the East Coast.)

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