Sylvia Chi 齊思涵

Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated.

The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...

(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)

Aesthetic crimes against my mother tongue aside, it is incredibly awesome that the top 9 finishers in women's snowboard half pipe are all Asian. I wish this kind of representation existed when I was a kid!

Right, it's definitely not intuitive for English speakers. I think they're not being set up to succeed because no one at NBC cares if they mangle Chinese names.

On her third run, they're pronouncing it "Sai," which is closer. 🙄

Do professional sports broadcasters, like those calling the Olympics, consistently egregiously mispronounce athletes' names in any language more than Chinese?

Cai Xuetong's surname is not pronounced Kai, at all. It doesn't seem that hard.

It just means it's not the official version, which is the one that will be published in the Federal Register (as explained at the top of the PDF).

as you've said, so much climate action is way out of the control of the feds and isn't even billed as climate action

density
good buses
municipal waste management
green infrastructure
safe and sound local elections
city and county procurement
affordable electric bills
innumerable others

I've seen them keep up the norm of posting pre-publication versions in other rulemakings so far.

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I'm willing to give all the credit for this to the Dog Rates guy.

So far it's looking like the last, much-ballyhooed biggest day in deregulation, i.e. it is just announcing intentions that we all already knew.

Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel.

One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.

Hot Take on the Endangerment Repeal - Legal Planet EPA's Endangerment Finding repeal is a thinly veiled effort to overturn a 2007 Supreme Court case. It doesn't even try to contest the science.

A not small portion of the Trump administration's policy agenda rests on "the composition of the Supreme Court is different now" for its main justification. That alone should outrage any constitution-loving American.
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A) posting works b) still fuck your Ring.

Yeah, I'm not holding my breath but we'll look into it.

Attorney General Bonta Announces Investigation into Eaton Fire Emergency Response in West Altadena LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Bonta today formally announced the commencement of an investigation by the California Department of Justice (DOJ) related to the emergency response to the Eat...

California DOJ will launch an investigation into the emergency response during the 2025 Eaton Fire.

Our investigation will focus on potential violations of civil rights laws, including whether there was discrimination in the emergency response in West Altadena.

Him not having done the homework on his own beliefs outside of "white is good" is kinda funny to watch play out in real time as if he wasn't expecting this line of questioning to occur

Good news, you can take the money you aren't saving on gas to pay for your child's asthma

Elon Musk, famously credible on the matter of what constitutes anti-Asian ("especially Chinese") hate:

Pam Bondi was asked by Congress about DOJ investigations into "domestic terrorist organizations" yesterday and she refused to provide any information.

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FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door The visit suggests a possible FBI probe into Extinction Rebellion NYC as the Trump administration increases surveillance of activist groups.

SCOOP: An FBI counterterrorism agent spent weeks pursuing a nonviolent climate activist, and showed up at his door. The visit suggests a possible probe into the climate group as the Trump admin increases surveillance of activists, calls them domestic "terrorists."

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This is a very good open source resource on the variety of ways that DOGE damaged government:

This is impressive burrito-identification!

Some 🔥🔥🔥 from @spears.bsky.social on the endangerment finding arson:

"Climate leadership isn’t going to come from the demolished halls of the East Wing in Washington, D.C. It is going to come from local leaders who are committed to lowering their constituents’ bills."

As EPA Revokes Endangerment Finding, Environmental Justice Organizations Continue to Fight to Protect Communities From Climate Chaos & Hold EPA Accountable As EPA Revokes Endangerment Finding, Environmental Justice Organizations Continue to Fight to Protect Communities From Climate Chaos & Hold EPA Accountable

Here is @weact4ej.bsky.social 's response to the current's admirations efforts to ask us to ignore reality so that oil and gas's obscene profits and wealth can grow even larger at the expense of our health, homes, and lives.

Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.

Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

Pat Parenteau was my first ever professor of environmental law; he taught an intro class at Dartmouth our sophomore summer which IIRC @sueanderbois.bsky.social also took?

Everyone knew it was coming! It was in Project 2025!

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”

"Mr. Zeldin and other administration officials said the endangerment finding had been a drag on the economy. They argued that requiring the E.P.A. to tackle climate change harmed consumer choice by limiting the types of automobiles available to purchase."

And was it in fact a "drag on the economy"?