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Looking for nothing to do? Check out San Francisco is Dead, a new Bay Area events calendar compiled by the editors of McSweeney's.

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A farm worker harvesting flowers

The flowers you received for #ValentinesDay might have been picked by "Rio" who harvests flowers in Oxnard CA. She earns min wage and makes 8-12 bunches an hour to keep up with productivity requirements. She likes working in nurseries as it’s stable year round work. #WeFeedYou

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

"In response to criticisms she's heard about the hat being 'performative,' Mashaal, the shop owner, said the thousands of dollars that have gone toward supporting their community speaks for itself."

Map: Here’s who’s closed Friday for ‘ICE Out’ national strike Some S.F. businesses will close for national strike; some will provide, free coffee and other aid to strikers.

In San Francisco, at least 40 institutions and businesses have announced they will participate in the national strike on Friday in protest against ICE.

Here’s a map of where they are.

missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-i...

A Guide to the International Grocers of the Twin Cities - Racket The Twin Cities is home to over 40 international grocers, and they deserve your dollars, too.

Because these international grocers need your support now more than ever, especially during these times, here’s a guide to the international grocers of the Twin Cities that I wrote for @racketmn.com: racketmn.com/guide-intern...

Knut Hamsun Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supp...

There is a precedent for a person getting someone else's Nobel Prize. In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, gave his Nobel Prize in literature to Joseph Goebbels uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

One must constantly prepare for sudden beauty.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Just spoke with the owner, Dante, & learned there is a fundraising page. If you are not in a position to give, please consider sharing this widely. Let's blow through that preliminary # -- immediate access to cash gives options the fire would seem at first to destroy.

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Our winter open reading period for literary translations and new plays runs through Jan 12. We welcome volumes of poetry, collections of short fiction, and completed novels in translation and submissions of finished full-length plays (60-120 min. running time).
www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

We got a match! Every donation made to ZYZZYVA will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $5,000. Now through December 31st. If you’ve been thinking about supporting our work, now is a fantastic time.

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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.

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...

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

Digital portrait by Jen White-Johnson featuring a photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American woman with honey blonde hair. She is in a wheelchair and there is a tracheostomy at her neck connected to a ventilator. She is wearing a silky multicolored shirt and a bold red lip color. She is looking intently at the camera with the heat of a thousand suns. Behind her are red and purple flowers with a red circle in the background framing her face like a warm sun. The background of the portrait is purple.

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)

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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!

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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.

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...

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.

Federal immigration agents are coming to the Bay Area. Here’s a guide on how to protect yourself.

missionlocal.org/2025/10/immi...

What We Can Do About ICE ICE is in the Bay Area. And yes, we can all do something about it.

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.

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

Higher Education Reporter, National New York City, United States

🚨Come work with me at @propublica.org!
We are hiring a reporter to cover higher education — the best beat there is. 🏫

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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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.

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-...

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"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.

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...

"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."

city dwellers: for a story, what’s your favorite part of living in a city?

YEONSOO GO: 20-YEAR-OLD KOREAN AMERICAN PASTOR'S DAUGHTER AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY STUDENT WITH LEGAL VISA- ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

TAE HEUNG "WILL" KIM: KOREAN AMERICAN PH.D. STUDENT & MEDICAL RESEARCHER AT TEXAS A&M, LAWFUL PERMANENT U.S. RESIDENT - ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

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.

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.

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.”