lawyer but not your lawyer. admin law enthusiast. i work on environmental and climate justice, public banking, and public power. she/they 🇺🇸🇹🇼 Nutmegger in Oakland opinions are my own!
If I were the mayor of San Francisco — where 1/3 of the city's population is immigrants — I would at least make a statement about the escalation in arrests at SFO and deportation efforts.
Sylvia Chi 齊思涵Still crickets from San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie.
As an alum of Dartmouth's illustrious non-AI animation program (one class, Film Studies 35), this is embarassing.
Dartmouth Arts and SciencesStudents in the Foundations of Digital Design and Music and Artificial Intelligence classes teamed up this spring to make animation set to a music track, using AI to expand creativity rather than replace it.
There are many morally abhorrent things this administration is doing to immigrants, especially how they target people with asylum applications for arrest and mistreat people in detention.
Gabe Ortíz“The administration’s response to the rising number of detainee deaths is to change the way it reports them.” Truly trying to erase reality everywhere. thehill.com/opinion/immi...
Still crickets from San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie.
Frank D. RussoAt least 11 Bay Area residents have been detained in ICE airport crackdown SF Chronicle Any with expired travel visas even if they have US spouses, no criminal records, no removal order & have pending applications for legal immigration Low hanging fruit to meet quota Avoid airports bit.ly/3RqYGKu
Still crickets from San Francisco Mayor Daniel Laurie.
Rep. Kevin MullinAirports should not become an ICE enforcement zone to round people up. Read the full article here: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Notably, the NYT continues to omit this relevant context.
Marty LedermanAnother reminder, in case anyone still cares about such things: This war is so clearly unconstitutional that even the Trump Administration (including its very compliant OLC) hasn't offered any argument to the contrary. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
Of course, she's still doing it.
Sylvia Chi 齊思涵8/ Ex: She has insisted on using a talking point that the state could save $4 billion in bond interest expenses by creating a state public bank. (I invite everyone to ask her to explain how that would work.) She tried to pressure another volunteer, a retired banker, into testifying to that effect.
"Starr Sciortino is in her second year of the electricians union’s apprenticeship training. ...But she compares working on a data center to helping build a weapons factory." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/b...
A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands (Gift Article)The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.www.nytimes.comLydia DePillisToday from me: A.I. companies suddenly have a voracious appetite for electricians and carpenters. I wrote about the hundreds of millions of dollars they're pouring into training as competition sends wages soaring: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/b...
In light of today's Douthat discourse:
Sylvia Chi 齊思涵I can't let this go by without mentioning again that Douthat went to Hamden Hall Country Day School for high school, where tuition currently costs $53K/year, and he called it “working-class private school.” 🫠https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/ross-douthats-theories-of-persuasion