Shirley Huey
shirleyhuey.bsky.social
Shirley Huey
@shirleyhuey.bsky.social
Writer/reader/eater/wanderer. SF born + raised. Words: Catapult, Panorama: the Journal of Travel, Place, & Nature, EatingWell, sparkle+blink, Berkeleyside, & others. Former atty. Member, Writers Grotto. https://www.shirleyhuey.com
Am I the anti Mindy Kaling? Just followed a link excitedly to a food history story only to get to an LATimes recipe. No! I want the story, dammit!
July 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
June 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Grateful for small things: mom is well enough to enjoy ice cream and watch the NBA playoffs tonight…
May 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights

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May 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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For those who have seen the phenomenal Ryan Coogler film #SINNERS and are interested in the history of Chinese immigrants and families in the Mississippi Delta, from #AJ+
youtube.com/watch?v=2NMr...
The Untold Story Of America's Southern Chinese [Chinese Food: An All-American Cuisine, Pt. 2] | AJ+
YouTube video by AJ+
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May 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Thinking about the woman who I met on BART a wk after mom first went into the hospital in Feb. She was so kind to an utter stranger, offering an ear and then giving me these flowers. Grateful to folks who show kindness to all in need. She said she worked in hospice… let good karma come back to her.
May 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Here’s a preview of the coming clash with SCOTUS which has already confirmed noncitizens are entitled to due process. “Sudden deportation” violates the Constitution.
May 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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You MUST watch this exchange from today’s Tx House debate on anti-library HB3225.

“This is about your desire to make sure that children have access to sexually explicit materials,” says the bill’s author.

“Rep Alders, do you know what I have done for a living?” Says @voteannjohnson.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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No, definitely not. They were quite clear in their press conference that they were there to do a review of the premises, which is absolutely in their right to do. Also, I believe they said Mayor Baraka was arrested *after* he'd left the building.
May 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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From earlier this week, reporting on what led up to this arrest at @documentedny.bsky.social:
May 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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COVID-19 tests, other health supplies provided free at 51 kiosks across L.A. County. What you need to know
COVID-19 tests, other health supplies provided free at 51 kiosks across L.A. County. What you need to know
Free public health supplies are being provided at 51 kiosks throughout Los Angeles County. The supplies include COVID-19 rapid tests, Naloxone, condoms and fentanyl test strips.
www.latimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I’ve entered an “every meal is comfort food” phase again. lunch today: coffee and a slice of apple pie. #sorrynotsorry
May 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Sure is a good thing to be familiar with Muni, BART, AC Transit, and the ferry.
May 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
WTAF- the BART is not running at all?!!!
May 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The dahlias are out
May 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services
Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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BREAKING—Fabian Schmidt, the German man with legal permanent residency who was detained for no apparent reason and violently interrogated at Boston’s Logan Airport in March, was RELEASED from prison yesterday and the case against him has been DISMISSED, a source familiar with the situation tells me.
May 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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NEW: @nbcnews.com confirmed last night that the Trump admin almost sent a dozen men from Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Mexico to Libya, a country described as a “hellscape” for migrants where some have been SOLD INTO SLAVERY and many have been subjected to extraordinary horrors.
May 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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I'm happy to share that I have a poem in this wee collection, available for purchase now:

www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten...
Ten Poems about Weeds
A weed is just a plant in the wrong place – many gardeners will have said these words to themselves with a wry smile when contemplating an afternoon of pulling up nettles or digging out ground el...
www.candlestickpress.co.uk
May 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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THIS WEEKEND! Feeling discouraged about your writing's language? This craft intensive is for writers who are feeling unable to find the perfect word/and or words to convey the nuance and depth that we want our readers to feel.

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May 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Following up on my last post, here’s my first podcast interview about my forthcoming memoir, A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE—and bringing a book so painfully relevant for current events to readers. Thanks, @movetotacoma.bsky.social. movetotacoma.com/podcasts/his...
Tacoma History & Intergenerational Resilience with Tacoma Author Tamiko Nimura
Tamiko Nimura discusses her book, A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake. It explores her father’s experience as a Japanese American incarcerated during World War II.
movetotacoma.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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"when I actually met my birth mother, I knew I was like, this might be the only time I ever have with her. And so I went back to where I was staying and I just wrote every single detail that I could"

Give a listen to @thesusanito.bsky.social before our new episode comes out tomorrow!
Susan Kiyo Ito: Adoption, Birth Mothers, & Reproductive Justice
Amanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker speak with Susan Kiyo Ito, author of I Would Meet You Anywhere, about adoption, the complexities of meeting one's birth mother, and reproductive freedom.
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May 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I made a series of graphics to promote Down in the Sea of Angels on Instagram. This is my favorite one. I hope you buy the book (anywhere books are sold) or get it from your library 💚🍵

#sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky 🌈🚀💫
May 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM