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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 2h

I love egg nog, but this is much too soon. 😭

Choire @choire.bsky.social · 3h

2025 is over eggnog’s here

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 2h

Filled out my California Ballot. 🗳️📬Yes on 50 ✅ Yes on Santa Clara County Measure A ✅

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 14h

💯 agree.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15h

this is wonky stuff and is also really important

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 15h

The illegal USAID cuts are the thing that broke me

A complete dismantling of constitutional governance in order to facilitate crimes against humanity

What Trump, Musk, the Supreme Court, etc have done to these families is beyond cruel, beyond heartbreaking, beyond unforgivable

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 18h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts 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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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

(It was annoying how almost no one, including the host 😬, knew how to properly pronounce “secede” or “secession,” though.)

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Great discussion of this proposal on KQED Forum this morning. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

www.motherjones.com

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

What an embarrassment. The man is mentally deficient.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

lmao

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Anti-woke crusader Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says

Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says

www.independent.co.uk

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Keep doing what you’ve always done and make them fire you. Make them live up to any false promise; maybe it will wake them and spur them on to fight.

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

All politics are personal and all writing is political.

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

When you only measure value in USD, the cost savings are negligible and the damages immeasurable.

NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 1d

The cuts at the National Endowment for the Humanities go far deeper than any of these agencies - almost 70% of 179 people were terminated, despite no change to the agency's budget.

There were no savings here - only idealogical destruction. #NEH

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

How much smaller the federal workforce is now vs. a year ago
Ed Dept 42%
OPM 33%
HUD 31%
Treasury 29%
Defense (civilian jobs) 22%
Small Biz Admin 21%
Energy 20%
Interior 15%
HHS 14%
SSA 11%
EPA 10%
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Comic book villain pathetic loser vibes.

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Prof. Jonathan Lear, RIP chicagomaroon.com/48589/news/p...

Philosopher Jonathan Lear Dies at 76

Lear, a philosopher who focused on Aristotle and the philosophy of psychoanalysis, passed away on September 22.

chicagomaroon.com

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing that this most patient primatologist wanted to yeet these dangerous, failed humans into space. 🚀

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 3d

It’s still your bday on the west coast, Jacob. 🎂 🎉

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3d

"a colossal setback to the constitution + its norms, but it is also an opportunity to change those norms for the better.

In creating a new constitutional prototype, we may think more clearly, or at least draw it up more freely, if other states were not around."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan

States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater

www.theguardian.com

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 3d

There’s something focusing about grading in a cafe though.

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 3d

Post-pandemic, I cannot find late night coffee shops in my area, much less 24-hour ones. Not even near university campuses.

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 3d

Can hardly imagine a more peaceful protest.

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 3d

Did anyone get his badge number?

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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · 7d

📢 New SCS Blog Post

Nina Papathanasopoulou on the upcoming performance of the *Odyssea* by We Players, San Francisco's premier site-integrated theater company, to be held in conjunction with the AIA/SCS annual meeting in SF:

JANUARY 9, 8:00-10:00 PM, Yosemite Ballroom, Hilton SF Union Square.

We Players Bring the Odyssey to Life at the AIA/SCS in San Francisco | Society for Classical Studies

www.classicalstudies.org

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 3d

This is a wonderful shelf of books!

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, I’m glad she’s with you and your wife.

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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 3d

If you know someone…

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