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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A pain point for me in this cruel and resilient era is going to be the church elders using AI for their flyer design going forward. 😭

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Amy Grant Gregory Porter Mika Allison Russell Brandi Carlile Indigo Girls Esperanza Spalding Alabama Shakes Sarah McLachlan Yo-Yo Ma And because we love concerts I will add P!nk, Billy Strings, Flamy Grant, Nickel Creek, and Tedeschi Trucks for fun

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I like living near my cousins. We get to hang out sometimes and I get to see them do their thing. Sometimes it’s a music recital for adults with developmental disabilities and sometimes it’s a presentation on plant-based diets, inflammation, environment/global warming, and equity.

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January.

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I checked my spam folder at work because I’m waiting for an approval, and there was an email in it that began, “Laura, I won’t stop emailing.” Why

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There are so many real horrors and it feels extra injurious that some corporate conglomerate bought out the conglomerate that owned our Orange Theory and decided to close two in the East Bay (3 in SF already went through this), including ours.

Two laughing women have their arms bare and flexed with pen drawn on each declaring “Arms by OTF Emeryville”

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Species 1995 because my brother and his friend wanted to see Waterworld and I thought Species looked slightly better.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Roberts Court’s jurisprudence on discrimination echoes the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision upholding Japanese internment—a case whose approach the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The See-No-Evil Supreme Court

The majority refuses to see evidence of racism.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In Trump v. Hawaii, Roberts wrote that “the forcible relocation of U. S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.” But the author of the Korematsu opinion, having exchanged his white robe for a dark one, would have agreed. After all, Hugo Black wrote that “pressing public necessity”—not “racial antagonism”—motivated the Japanese-internment policy. Black upheld Fred Korematsu’s conviction because he argued that the presence of a national-security motive meant the racism against Japanese Americans didn’t count. And that is exactly the logic the Roberts Court has followed in so many cases. This reasoning—Black’s reasoning—has been reiterated again and again by Roberts and his right-wing colleagues to sanction discrimination against the vulnerable populations targeted by the Republican Party.

The Korematsu decision may be overturned by the “court of history.” But its legacy lives on in the Roberts Court.

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I know a lovely and earnest Asian American PhD (I think they went to the same church) who met with her or her staff during the height of COVID anti-Asian hate to try to explain the connection between what she says and hate crimes and… yeah.

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Something I think vexes certain people about me is sometimes I talk big and I also 1) get high volumes of work done, 2) am charming and can work with almost anyone in the church, 3) have compassion for people with whom I disagree. For some reason this is deeply confusing. Apropos of nothing (1/3

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

One of my weird fundamentalisms is my horror at people’s disregard of the flag code under the guise of being a better patriot.

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Deep breaths, drink your water, go outside at least briefly. There are more of us than there are of them and we will outlast them. And the fact that we exist will stick in their craw. And that gives me joy.

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Alert: the coffee and pastry shop was open for the morning only. I might bring my travel aeropress set up over there because how else are we going to make it through?

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Apropos of nothing, a reminder that white supremacy is a worldview and an ideology, and it does not require a white body to persist.

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

How we track business at the General Assembly.

Open laptop at convention center, screen says “you are not connected to the internet.”

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

That feeling when the convention center prohibits outside food and beverages and yet the coffee machine inside is broken. Cool cool cool.

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Jamie Fox @whatlawfoxsays.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Measured by where things stood when its reign began, the Roberts Court is the worst SCOTUS on racial justice. Ever. Worse than Taney or Fuller courts.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 25/06/2026

Left: Justice Alito's description of the record in the TPS case Right: Former Secretary Noem

None of the cited statements by either the President or
the Secretary was overtly racial, and in substance all ex-pressed policy views that could rest on race-neutral justifi-cations. For example, one may oppose TPS and favor
tighter restrictions on immigration for economic or other
reasons that have nothing to do with race. And a person
without racial bias can provide a harshly unfavorable de-scription of living conditions in some of the countries with
TPS designations. The criteria for TPS designations guar-antee that many, if not most, designated countries have
such characteristics.

Secretary Kristi Noem @Sec_NoemI just met with the President.I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom—not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS.WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.6:52 PM · Dec 1, 2025 · 13.2M

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

An “editor” in the romance book space just asked if I had a literary agent because she loved my “voice” in the book I edited on racism and the church. Uh-huh.

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It’s PCUSA General Assembly time again and I have blocked my access to all social apps during working hours. Maybe that’s good lol. Praying for the discernment of all and looking forward to being in Milwaukee with the crew next week!

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Oakland Ballers @oaklandballers.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Did you know that Jimmy Claxton broke the baseball color barrier in 1916 with the Oakland Oaks — 31 years before Jackie Robinson debuted for the Dodgers? For Juneteenth we commemorated Claxton’s legacy — as he is also the first Black player ever printed on a baseball card. Long live Jimmy Claxton!

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Hi, I’m part of the Orange Theory cult. So many of these studios are closing or being combined. Is there credence to the understanding some of us have that private equity has taken over and are ruining Orange theory (and kind of everything).

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The world's first trillionaire did this

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Just came home after seeing the Oakland Theater Project’s performance of The House of Bernarda Alba. Fascism does a number on everyone.

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“My Friends” by Fredrick Backman, “American Peril: the violent history of anti-Asian racism” by Scott Kurashige, “The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie” by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

One of my favorite things about being in the Bay Area is the proximity to Japanese Americans (my mom’s side of the family) and JA-specific cultural events and advocacy. Went to a screening of “Defiant to the Last” www.defianttothelast.com/directors-st... The story of how we have photos of the

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About | Learn, Reflect, Take Action — Defiant to the Last

Explore the story of Japanese American resistance at Tule Lake during WWII, highlighting civil rights struggles and lessons on civil liberties. A tribute to resilience.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026

Every time something bad happens in a Black or other POC majority city, you should see if that city is generally allowed to govern itself. There are so many cities that can’t, for example, ban guns because a Republican legislature was like nope in like, 1973.

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 07/05/2026

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

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VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I’m gifting this to all of you because this MUST BE TOLD. Trump is bulldozing Native American History. Satellite imagery reveals bulldozer marks running through about a third of the enormous fish etching inside the wild preserve that is over 1,000 yrs old! 🎁🔗 wapo.st/4eHD0TF

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Trump’s border wall expansion just bulldozed an ancient tribal site

Construction in the Arizona desert damaged an enormous Indigenous ground etching resembling a fish that is thought to be at least 1,000 years old.

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NPR @npr.org · 30/04/2026

By weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, the Supreme Court has paved the way for the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress. n.pr/4edJ5XA

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Supreme Court paves the way for largest-ever drop in Black representation in Congress

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I got called this multiple times by some church people last month (my dad’s family is Jewish) and maybe my next presbytery newsletter article will be about how Christian antisemitism gets dressed up as righteousness.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 30/04/2026

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This is attempted murder in a concentration camp

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

How many years do I have to be out of a state until they stop phone banking me for elections? Because I haven’t voted in Georgia since 2019.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Reminder that people lost their jobs for saying Trump and his administration were racist

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/04/2026

"What Iranians deserve is so ordinary is almost embarrassing to say aloud. They deserve not to spend their mornings calculating whether they will survive until evening. They deserve to be seen as people... not as acceptable losses, not as the unfortunate human context around a geopolitical problem."

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Laura Mariko Cheifetz (she/her) @veryasianrev.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I guess we get another day, some of us, to try to make this all less terrible. Let’s make the best of it.

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