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Sara Fan
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Poetry. Nonfiction. Maybe fiction? Dreaming in landscapes.
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I'm at the combination
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Editors! @ucanr.edu is hiring an editor for peer-reviewed materials produced by @uofcalifornia.bsky.social scientists. First application review date is Dec. 5
@sciencewriters.org See careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucanr/EM... 📚https://ucanr.edu/careers
Careers | UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Working at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Collaborating to solve problems.  Connecting to serve communities.UC Agriculture and Natural Resources brings UC information and practices to all 58 Cal...
ucanr.edu
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Given the passing of disability activist and light-in-the-world Alice Wong, we at COYOTE invite people to share what she and her work meant to them. Whether you knew Alice personally, organized with her, or were simply a fan of her writing, we'd love to hear from you. (1/3)

(📷: Jen White-Johnson)
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Applications for our spring 2026 internships are still open! Want to intern with our copydesk, marketing + membership, events, and social media departments? Apply now!

Learn more at https://airtable.com/app5UeNk1TbjY8imi/pag2EATFjk8cNUcIo/form
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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a thread for screaming
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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continuing to update this resource for SNAP recipients in the Bay Area — now with 31 food businesses/restaurants where folks can get free or subsidized hot meals 💖 www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...
These Bay Area Restaurants Are Offering Free Food to SNAP Recipients
Amid a government shutdown that will cut off aid for 42 million Americans, local food scene folks plan to pick up the slack.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Federal immigration agents are coming to the Bay Area. Here’s a guide on how to protect yourself.

missionlocal.org/2025/10/immi...
Immigration agents are coming to the Bay Area. Here’s how to protect yourself.
Consulting with attorneys and immigration advocates, Mission Local has compiled a list of know-your-rights tips for people in San Francisco.
missionlocal.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.
What We Can Do About ICE
ICE is in the Bay Area. And yes, we can all do something about it.
www.coyotemedia.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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The California Teen Poet Laureate (TPL) is a new position established under California law.

This young artist will be an advocate for poetry in the Golden State and will represent the state and the California Arts Council (CAC) at events throughout their two-year term.

See capoetlaureate.org/teen
October 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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🚨Come work with me at @propublica.org!
We are hiring a reporter to cover higher education — the best beat there is. 🏫

job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
Higher Education Reporter, National
New York City, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
October 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"Read for pleasure. Read for beauty. Read because you are restless, your mind alone, whirring in your own consciousness, and you seek the profound enchantment of, through reading a book, seeing the world through someone else’s eyes."
Excerpts from McSweeney’s Quarterly: A Letter from the Editor of McSweeney’s Quarterly
- - -Today we are celebrating the release of the latest issue of our award-winning quarterly journal. To celebrate, subscriptions are $10 off, and...
buff.ly
August 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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city dwellers: for a story, what’s your favorite part of living in a city?
August 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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A growing number of the new victims of Trump’s cruel, illegal ICE terror are young Asian Americans with LEGAL STATUS who have grown up their entire lives in this country and are being swept up for minor infractions or technicalities.
August 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Ruth Asawa, Merry Renk, Beth Van Hoesen, Sally Byrne Woodbridge, and Imogen Cunningham: In spite of ideas of the modern male genius alone in his studio, these women modernists “made motherhood into a medium.”
Ruth Asawa Proved That Mothering Is Inherently Artistic
Jordan Troeller’s book about the Bay Area sculptor and her artist-mother community shows us how reciprocity and caretaking become the work itself, not just the subject or the conditions.
hyperallergic.com
August 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Further update as of ~9:20pm Pacific Time on 7/29: There has been a *localized* upgrade to Tsunami Warning for segment of NorCal coast due to potential for <6 ft inundation near Crescent City. Rest of U.S./Canada West Coast remain under (lesser) Advisory. tsunami.gov/events/P...
July 30, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause
After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.  This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...
wck.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday.

We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
July 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well.

We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.
June 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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"While a mild fire removes duff, brush and small burnable fuels, it leaves large tree trunks. Logging removes the large stuff and leaves the small. 'Logging is not a solution to fire, Pyne said. Logging and fire do opposite things.'" www.kqed.org/science/1997...
California Faces Rough Fire Season as US Forest Service Work Becomes More Politicized | KQED
As California braces for fire season, experts see signals — and shortcomings — in the Forest Service Chief’s annual letter.
www.kqed.org
June 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"
June 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Can't wait to read your essays--send 'em my way!!
Calling all nonfiction writers! Our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest is open now through August 1, with @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social serving as guest judge. One winner will receive $1000 and publication.

Submit online at prairieschooner.submittable.com/submit
May 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM