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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
Huge thanks to DeVonta Smith for helping me beat @itsmccarthy.bsky.social this week 😎
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Robyn once again saving us
Robyn’s Return Is Imminent
The Swedish pop star will drop “Dopamine” on Wednesday, her first new single in seven years.
www.thecut.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be."
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Team Poe 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Universal health care would avoid so much of this bullshit
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I spill more food on myself with age. wtf.
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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SNAP benefits are currently being held hostage by the Trump administration and their fate now lies with the Supreme Court.

Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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When you switch from fossil to clean you only use like 30-40% of the energy to do the same stuff, bc most energy from fossil fuels is lost as waste heat

What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth

WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE
From my file on the IEA's world energy outlook.

"Primary energy" = what goes in

"Final energy" = what comes out
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The space in between: mostly lost energy bc burning fossil fuels is absurdly wasteful.

So in the net zero scenario, that gaps closes to zero --->>
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
There are just too many good lines in this, ie, this dig at David Brooks, “An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.”

Study the humanities and social sciences, people.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“people who work in the media. How many times are you going to be shit on before you stand up, people?” 🔥🔥🔥
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Where are our free speech warriors? Bari? Hello?
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Oh come ON
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
COYS!!!!!
We can’t lose to MU.
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
We can’t lose to MU.
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is so good and so what I would expect a @bradlander.bsky.social food diary to be
Brad Lander Ended Election Night at a Taco Truck
“I can’t even tell who I’m talking to half the time. At some point, my daughter puts a drink in my hand.”
www.grubstreet.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Let's go! The City of Cleveland - home to a public power utility - is one of the first in the nation i've heard of so far banning shutoffs during this federal shutdown crisis.

Public power can lead the nation in showing what democratic institutions can do to make our lives better.
We're announcing a 30-day moratorium on utility disconnections.

The federal shutdown and cuts to SNAP benefits have placed an unfair and unexpected burden on households. No one should have to choose between keeping the lights on and putting food on the table.
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Again, why is anyone taking anything he says on climate seriously?
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Van Jones can go f himself.
Center left repeating right-wing framing, will wonders never cease
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I've bookmarked this for days when it feels hopeless. Zohran forever.
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech after being elected NYC mayor
Mayor-elect centered affordability and the working people of the city in his speech while emphasizing: ‘Hope is alive’
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Tattoo this on every elected
People are sick and tired of being a turnout machine for elections but sidelined when it comes to deciding the platform, this person said: ​“We should be electing people that are about us, not whenever they need us. "
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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"Jurors found Sean Dunn not guilty of one misdemeanor assault charge on Thursday in federal court in D.C."

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...
DC ‘sandwich guy' found not guilty of assault after throwing sub at federal agent
A man charged with assault for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent calls it an act of protest. Prosecutors are trying to prove that it was a federal crime. Jurors heard attorneys’ opening statement...
www.nbcwashington.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM