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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵

@sylviachi.bsky.social
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lawyer but not your lawyer. admin law enthusiast. i work on environmental and climate justice, public banking, and public power. she/they 🇺🇸🇹🇼 Nutmegger in Oakland opinions are my own! San Francisco: Vote YES on B! www.ourcityourbank.com

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 9h
Hey, remember when you were asking for the definition of non-sequitur?
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 15h
The Trump admin said that ICE would scale back on community arrests if states complied with its deportation agenda. But data show that was a false promise. ICE's assault on communities has only gotten worse, even for states that do collaborate with the federal agency:
Trend chart showing ICE arrests from Oct. 2024 - July 2026, with spikes in Jan 2025 after Trump's inauguration; in April 2025 after the White House set an arrest quota; and a surge throughout summer 2026. Thanks to local collaboration, ICE arrested many people from local jails, police stations, and prisons.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 12h
Tell me again why private industries should be allowed to externalize the costs of climate pollution on the rest of us?
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 13h
Californians take note! Vote yes on the Billionaire Tax (Prop 40), and no on 41 & 42
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 18h
#BAAJA is backed by the White House, the Oil & Gas Association and the Corporate Energy Buyers Association (the trade association of hyperscaler companies) because it will hyperaccelerate dirty-energy data center development.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14h
interestingly, trump approved GA's disaster declaration for isaias today within hours
people.com
Trump Tells Crowd in North Carolina They Won’t Get FEMA Funding If They Don’t Vote for Republican Candidate
While at a rally in North Carolina to support Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley, President Donald Trump said if Whatley wasn’t elected he’d withhold FEMA funding from the state.
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Blood Lily 🩸 🏳️‍⚧️ @tigerlily.northsky.social · 10/10/2026
The #Valkyries sweep the champions! #wnba
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
Guess who isn't going to vote for #BAAJA
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Does this look like "law enforcement" to you?
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The bullet-still-lodged-in-body is becoming ICE’s calling card. It happened in Austin too.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...
abc7.com
Off-duty ICE agent shot after assaulting 72-year-old man and his daughter at Fresno home, police say
Authorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Cooperative ownership, forged through tenant organizing, has created a real cultural asset for the entire community. The walls of the buildings are now painted with murals, each one representing one value of the cooperative: justice, dignity, fight, empathy, and unity."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Meet Commander Geordi La Forge (fka Lightning). He's approximately 10 months old and I think ~45 pounds. Volunteers at the shelter thought he was a Belgian Malinois mix but I think he might be German Shepherd / Australian Cattle Dog / Pitbull? / 100% good boy.
A black and brindle teenaged, medium-sized dog with pointy ears, lying down on some gravel-covered ground and looking introspective.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Congrats to the mainstream media for completely normalizing this.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sounds like you're ready to get some bad guys
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm prepared to offer the FBI my services to train agents on escaping quicksand.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Everyone is somehow getting twelver
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Modern Money Lab U.S. @mmlusa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
‘Finding the Money’ is now available to stream for FREE on the Giant Pictures YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3TJ...
youtube.com
Finding the Money | FULL DOCUMENTARY | Politics/Economics
YouTube video by Giant Pictures
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Second, the whole point of the lynching spectacle was to indict and implicate the white community involved the lynching. It tied them together; it implicated them; it bound them to each other in guilt and shame.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@beaubaumann.bsky.social is right: everyday, until the supposed day of public execution, is a struggle over the message. I would add two things: First, when I say that the Civil War taught us No Kings, No Masters, this is what I mean. The master had sovereign authority over the plantation.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thanks @thomasmarois.bsky.social for sharing how a municipal public bank would work for San Francisco, just like well-designed, democratically accountable public banks work all around the world. San Francisco, vote YES on Prop B! www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
sfchronicle.com
A public bank could be key to fixing San Francisco’s affordable housing crisis
OPINION: Establishing a public bank would help provide values-aligned finance tools to help make our city greener, more resilient, more democratic and more affordable, Thomas Marois writes.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm so sorry, that's devastating.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: The ICE agent seen wearing a hi-vis vest and waving around an AR-style rifle at the scene of the shooting in New York was a supervisor named Brenden Cuni, who has a history of alleged violence and lying in court. @dmehro.bsky.social, @awinston.bsky.social, and @regret.bsky.social report:
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
DOG!!!
A sweet black and brindle young German shepherd mix looking up expectantly at the camera. His ears are at attention!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another basketball player, this one from Southern Connecticut State University, detained last month: www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/09/09/i...
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ICE Arrests SCSU Athlete At Tweed - New Haven Independent
Federal immigration agents arrested a Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) basketball player at Tweed New Haven Airport on Friday -- as ICE has established an authorized presence at the Morris Cove regional airport.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Multiple college basketball players have been detained by ICE for expired visas (while the feds seem to be causing delayed visa processing). www.wjtv.com/sports/baske...
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MVSU basketball player detained by ICE
ITTA BENA, Miss. (WJTV) – A basketball player on a scholarship to play at Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU) was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The studen…
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For Whitehouse and Heinrich, what is the expected value of a "public commitment" from the White House and "a fuller public accounting" of the status of currently-stalled solar and wind projects? It seems to me like they're publicly signaling that they're negotiating from a position of weakness.
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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Looks like the GAO released a finding yesterday that the EPA violated the Impound Control Act when they illegally cancelled Community Change Grants. "We find that EPA violated the ICA" Those of us in the impacted organizations have known about this from day one.
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U.S. GAO - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—Application of Impoundment Control Act to the Administration of Community Change Grants
Congress appropriated amounts to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to carry out the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants...
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/10/2026
Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."
404media.co
'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting
Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thank you for enlightening me!
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
💯 We need to be investing in capacity-building from the bottom up. It's been clear for years that we've *been* needing to do that.
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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This matters for after Trump too. Post-authoritarian reconstruction should not merely change who controls concentrated federal public power. It has to democratize where public capacity is located and the institutional forms through which it can be exercised.
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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"When the latest allegations against Yekutiel came out, so did the revelation that Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman had defended his political ally to colleagues and the press with exculpatory statements that there’s a 'different threshold' for sexual misconduct in the gay community."
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I didn't realize Nikola Tesla's existence was a matter of debate.
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 08/10/2026
How are data centers impacting jobs? Views on how data centers impact local jobs and local tax revenue are mixed. Similar shares of Americans say data centers are mostly good and mostly bad for these things.
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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 08/10/2026
NEW UNION ALERT: The workers behind Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering are organizing with CWA! They’re fighting for better pay, job security, healthcare, remote-work protections and strong safeguards against AI. The gamemakers are done playing around!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What if they promise to call it SI? www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Vance says Microsoft, Adobe barred from sponsoring H-1B workers for green cards
The vice president announced the move in a Thursday press conference where he said Microsoft is discriminating against Americans by prioritizing foreign workers.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 08/10/2026
HHS is creating its own lawyers for unaccompanied children in immigration court, inside the same department that holds those children in custody. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids
Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shades of the Bay Area Council’s campaign against the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge trail which also involved 1000s of form emails from “community members”. How many of these were faked too? The Bay Conservation & Development Commission didn’t ask & violated their charter to approve the closure.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
prospect.org
Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump: "Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. You want to see a horror show? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. You want to see some bad things happen?"
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Me coming across a reference to the statute of frauds (TIL Missouri, and AFAIK only Missouri, has a municipal statute of frauds!)
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Maybe the better way to get the message of "don't create written evidence of our corruption scheme" to land is to call your interlocutor instead of sending it by text.
An image depicting a text message that says: "What a nightmare you'll literally cost me my ambassadorship stop writing"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior
An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars. An Asian man smiling at the camera.
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