J. Mijin Cha
@jmijin.bsky.social
Assist prof, env studies; Fellow, Climate Jobs Institute and @cplusc.bsky.social; Board, Greenpeace Fund; just transition; labor/climate. 🍉 #COYS 🇰🇷🇺🇸
📚: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550796/a-just-transition-for-all/
https://mijincha.com
📚: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550796/a-just-transition-for-all/
https://mijincha.com
My friend is sending me AI slop that students are submitting and I regret ever complaining about bad student writing because the worst student writing was still better than this slop.
February 16, 2026 at 12:08 AM
My friend is sending me AI slop that students are submitting and I regret ever complaining about bad student writing because the worst student writing was still better than this slop.
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Kent Wong was an educator + organizer who treated immigrant workers as the moral heart of labor.
Gregory Mantsios writes, "We honor him best by continuing the work he began — building movements grounded in dignity, solidarity, and hope."
inthesetimes.com/article/kent...
Gregory Mantsios writes, "We honor him best by continuing the work he began — building movements grounded in dignity, solidarity, and hope."
inthesetimes.com/article/kent...
February 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Kent Wong was an educator + organizer who treated immigrant workers as the moral heart of labor.
Gregory Mantsios writes, "We honor him best by continuing the work he began — building movements grounded in dignity, solidarity, and hope."
inthesetimes.com/article/kent...
Gregory Mantsios writes, "We honor him best by continuing the work he began — building movements grounded in dignity, solidarity, and hope."
inthesetimes.com/article/kent...
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I asked actor Neil Patrick Harris about political art at #Berlinale today. He didn't want to engage and said: "I'm always interested in doing things that are apolitical".
February 15, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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Fascist-lite doesn’t get us anywhere. Immigrants ARE great. It’s actually not a hard case to make.
We will never advance morally nor will Dems gain durable power electorally unless we actually MAKE THE ARGUMENT. And it's not hard: immigrants are great. Continuing to shit on or apologize for or insist only on mitigating evil against immigrants means we will never actually win.
February 15, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Fascist-lite doesn’t get us anywhere. Immigrants ARE great. It’s actually not a hard case to make.
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Yesterday upwards of 300 million people across India held a national strike.
Numerous unions and farmers' groups flooded the streets, shutting down large segments of the economy.
One of the key demands was a withdrawal from the trade deal struck with the Trump administration.
Numerous unions and farmers' groups flooded the streets, shutting down large segments of the economy.
One of the key demands was a withdrawal from the trade deal struck with the Trump administration.
February 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Yesterday upwards of 300 million people across India held a national strike.
Numerous unions and farmers' groups flooded the streets, shutting down large segments of the economy.
One of the key demands was a withdrawal from the trade deal struck with the Trump administration.
Numerous unions and farmers' groups flooded the streets, shutting down large segments of the economy.
One of the key demands was a withdrawal from the trade deal struck with the Trump administration.
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Roy: “To hear them say that art should not be political is jaw-dropping. It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time...”
She is right. To prescribe that artists stay out of politics is deeply deeply wrong.
She is right. To prescribe that artists stay out of politics is deeply deeply wrong.
Asked during the opening press conference if films can effect political change, the German film-maker [& Berlin film festival president Wim Wenders] said that “movies can change the world” but “not in a political way”, adding that film-makers “have to stay out of politics”.
My sweet summer child.😬
My sweet summer child.😬
Berlin film festival defends Wim Wenders after Arundhati Roy attacked ‘jaw-dropping’ comments
Berlinale head says artists should not be pushed into soundbites after author quit over president’s remarks that film-makers should ‘stay out of politics’
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Roy: “To hear them say that art should not be political is jaw-dropping. It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time...”
She is right. To prescribe that artists stay out of politics is deeply deeply wrong.
She is right. To prescribe that artists stay out of politics is deeply deeply wrong.
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
This is the rot at the core of reactionary centrism. It is not the brag that she thinks it is.
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
This is the rot at the core of reactionary centrism. It is not the brag that she thinks it is.
Curling is not my sport but low-stakes drama is so I guess now I’m watching curling
February 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Curling is not my sport but low-stakes drama is so I guess now I’m watching curling
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It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
Troop 6000
www.girlscoutsnyc.org
February 14, 2026 at 10:45 PM
It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
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Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.
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Have yet to encounter a single person freaking out over the 2028 nomination who’s doing anything remotely serious to protect the needs of the vulnerable in 2026
February 14, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Have yet to encounter a single person freaking out over the 2028 nomination who’s doing anything remotely serious to protect the needs of the vulnerable in 2026
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You can rest assured that someone w/ administration ties will make bank from this directly and also that from now on the private sector will be even more prominent in the provision of a public good - information - w/ all accompanying inefficiencies & inequities. Really selling the country for parts.
The Trump Administration appears to be continuing to move forward in its plans to dismantle the Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research, announcing yesterday plans to shed the NCAR supercomputing facility to a third party. More: tinyurl.com/26924vy4
NSF announces move of National Center for Atmospheric Research's supercomputing facility to a third party
Impacts on computing resources for atmospheric science research unclear
tinyurl.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:28 AM
You can rest assured that someone w/ administration ties will make bank from this directly and also that from now on the private sector will be even more prominent in the provision of a public good - information - w/ all accompanying inefficiencies & inequities. Really selling the country for parts.
“At least your Korean is better than Edward Lee’s.” Korean aunties 😬
February 13, 2026 at 8:36 PM
“At least your Korean is better than Edward Lee’s.” Korean aunties 😬
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This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
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I fear that men are about to do what men do. They are about to characterize any sober thinking about power as non-technical and therefore unserious.
We have seen this pattern over and over again in tech criticism. Women and people of color repeatedly lead on understanding tech changes.
We have seen this pattern over and over again in tech criticism. Women and people of color repeatedly lead on understanding tech changes.
February 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I fear that men are about to do what men do. They are about to characterize any sober thinking about power as non-technical and therefore unserious.
We have seen this pattern over and over again in tech criticism. Women and people of color repeatedly lead on understanding tech changes.
We have seen this pattern over and over again in tech criticism. Women and people of color repeatedly lead on understanding tech changes.
This is the news we all deserve 💜
BTS IS BACK… and ready to take over 2026.
Nearly four years since BTS went on hiatus for mandatory military service in South Korea, the biggest band in the world is returning with a fifth studio album and a massive global tour gq.visitlink.me/GnvmXK
Nearly four years since BTS went on hiatus for mandatory military service in South Korea, the biggest band in the world is returning with a fifth studio album and a massive global tour gq.visitlink.me/GnvmXK
February 13, 2026 at 2:51 PM
This is the news we all deserve 💜
This is just like UBI. Every study shows it works and is more cost effective but societies‘ hatred of poor people means we‘d rather pay more to make them suffer.
Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…” #HousingFirst
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…” #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:41 PM
This is just like UBI. Every study shows it works and is more cost effective but societies‘ hatred of poor people means we‘d rather pay more to make them suffer.
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somehow I get the feeling that if Mamdani had a nazi tattoo we'd have simply never heard of him again about 15 min after it was revealed instead of having to read a new piece every 5 days about how he's just a smol bean
February 13, 2026 at 1:18 PM
somehow I get the feeling that if Mamdani had a nazi tattoo we'd have simply never heard of him again about 15 min after it was revealed instead of having to read a new piece every 5 days about how he's just a smol bean
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
"We urgently need to overcome the capitalist law of value and democratise our economy... It is our labour and our planet’s resources that are at stake. And so we must claim the right to decide what is produced, how, and for what purpose."
We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
"We urgently need to overcome the capitalist law of value and democratise our economy... It is our labour and our planet’s resources that are at stake. And so we must claim the right to decide what is produced, how, and for what purpose."
I was extremely confused by this trend of putting protein in everything (do I really need a protein latte) until @sevier.io pointed out it's almost always whey protein and I realized, oh this is some dairy industry shit.
February 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I was extremely confused by this trend of putting protein in everything (do I really need a protein latte) until @sevier.io pointed out it's almost always whey protein and I realized, oh this is some dairy industry shit.
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My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
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Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
February 12, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you