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Silvia Secchi
@profsecchi.bsky.social
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Natural resource economist, geographer, meanderer, informed agitator, immigrant.
Trans rights are human rights.
💧Dall’acqua salata a quella dolce e zozza💧
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · Nov 7
Seems like a good time to remind ourselves that in 1931, when Mussolini forced academics to sign an oath of allegiance to the fascist regime, only twelve refused.
Academic freedom and fascism: A new book on the Italian professors who said NO in 1931
Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (32) Earlier addressed in the Library333 series Inclusive searches & sources @FMG Library – with posts on the Academic Freedom Inde…
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 17h
I think rollins got someone in the room who wants it and has bought enough trump crypto for it to happen, but I absolutely agree with you that won’t solve anything.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 17h
And of course the farm share of the food dollar is less than 15-16 cents so this likely won’t have any impact at all either. I suspect ICE has had a much larger impact. Anyway, a country is only as good as its treatment of vulnerable people and this country has sucked at it forever, even more now.
ERS Food Dollar's Three Series Show Distributions of U.S. Food Production Costs | Economic Research Service
Using three different models of the same food supply chain, the USDA, Economic Research Service’s Food Dollar Series breaks down the distribution of a representative $1 of annual consumer food expendi...
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 17h
I cannot find the clip, but NPR this PM run a piece on how USDA is going to lower the H-2A worker wages to keep food prices affordable (it’s been floated before I believe). It strikes me that we are going to make the most vulnerable among us bear the burden of making things “affordable”.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 19h
Amazing sunset in Iowa City rn
Trees with a backdrop of pink and purple sky. Trees with a backdrop of pink and blue sky.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Lol the photos for the Olivia Nuzzi piece in the NYT.
Don’t know if I can bring myself to read it (it’s a “great read” too).

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you Mark that’s helpful.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Brought it up in class today. After having told the students that US state and local initiatives can still help with climate change as the feds dropped the ball, I then had to tell them some of these initiatives are shrinking not growing. ☹️😕😔😞🙁

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Banditelli getting a Banditelli style photo of a bald eagle eating from a CAFO trash container would actually be amazing. Narrative changing levels of great.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
I’m cool with a Banditelli visit to Johnson County Iowa during eagle migration season, personally. Would gladly make dinner to celebrate it too.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
My 2¢ for today is that people who argue for some sort of pride in a nation and its greatness present or past are always forgetting about someone’s rights being erased, generally in very painful ways. Remember those rights first, that pride doesn’t buy you anything anyway.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Really @pricelaborecon.bsky.social we need you and your people to explain this to the rest of the county. I for one am really into this crap as I teach the importance of state and state coalitions in climate policy while the feds bow out of it.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
You may want to engage with Native American and Black communities in a meaningful way on how they see this country before you use the power of your expertise and followings in a public forum.
For all it’s worth, I am an immigrant who is not uplifted by your language.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Shapiro being floated as the representation of the future of the Democratic Party sure did give me pause in the context of this.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
I sure did.

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 1d
So.....did no one else notice that Pennsylvania just dropped RGGI?

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
This whole language of greatness, I wish it would go down the drain. It is basically hegemony for polite society or something like that.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
This is a settler colonial country build on genocide and land expropriation, and the work of enslaved people.
There is no greatness to make up for the horrors of this foundation and its continuing erasure.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
As an immigrant from a place that was invaded many times, the mother of two Native Americans and the spouse of one I implore people like this person to THINK. ABOUT. WHAT. THEY. SAY. AND. IMPLY.
Let’s forever get rid of this nationhood and greatness language for all that is holy.
busbyj2.bsky.social Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 1d
More of this please. Immigrants made America. They make America better. Those who claim otherwise betray the the principles of what made and make America great.
josephpolitano.bsky.social Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 1d
More of this please. Immigrants made America. They make America better. Those who claim otherwise betray the the principles of what made and make America great.
josephpolitano.bsky.social Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
I’m personally not a fan of the Catholic Church, having grown up non-Catholic in Italy, but I am heartened by this.
josephpolitano.bsky.social Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 1d
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Some amazing DARVO stuff going on at Indiana. A+

“The university released a statement saying that it was “committed to academic freedom, following policies that uphold due process for faculty and provide a framework to best serve our students.””
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Ah sorry we cannot let you guys do that, we need asinine parity in all things!

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d
Me when I find out we are migrating to Microsoft Teams Phone
a cartoon character is covering his eyes with his hands .
Alt: Stitch pulling his eyes.
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 1d
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d
Two top contenders for sure. Also so comprised of themselves and insufferable when talking to the media.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d
Tal you need also to see actual wolverines! They are smol but mighty and revered in Native American and First Nation cultures.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d
I don’t have much hope that the economics discipline is willing and able to reform itself from the inside but here’s a pretty damn freaking obvious place to start.
Epstein Bantered Regularly With Larry Summers
www.nytimes.com

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 2d
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

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Epstein Document Search
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