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Silvia Secchi

@profsecchi.bsky.social

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Natural resource economist, geographer, meanderer, informed agitator, immigrant. Trans rights are human rights. 💧Dall’acqua salata a quella dolce e zozza💧 My views are my own and do not represent my employer. I do not enjoy having to state the obvious. .. more

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · Nov 7

Seems like a good time to remind ourselves that in 1931, when Mussolini forced academics to sign an oath of allegiance to the fascist regime, only twelve refused.

Academic freedom and fascism: A new book on the Italian professors who said NO in 1931

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (32) Earlier addressed in the Library333 series Inclusive searches & sources @FMG Library – with posts on the Academic Freedom Inde…

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5h

a young buck at sunset on the trail tonight…

a warm pale orange glow is in the sky above dry shrubs and grass at sunset. a young buck and his antlers cast a dark silhouette poking out from the foliage. (pacifica, california in october)

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 7h

Next time they make up some thing about offshore wind and whales, ask about this.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 13h

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 14h

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 8h

Equally sad, US big ag is pivoting towards heavily subsidized "Sustainable" Aviation Fuels as the way to continue overproducing corn and soybeans. They rely on subsidized dubious climate friendly practices scored with jerry-rigged metrics and CO2 pipelines to keep agro-extractivism alive here too.

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 11h

And absolutely terrible news for the Amazon, the Cerrado and climate change.

The Economist @economist.com · 11h

Having been burnt by tariffs twice, American farmers and Chinese buyers will probably seek to reduce their mutual dependence. That is a boon for soyabean farmers in Brazil

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 9h

The telecoupling of the kakistocracy. Behold the wonders of the 21st century.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13h

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

“America First.”

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 9h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 11h

And absolutely terrible news for the Amazon, the Cerrado and climate change.

The Economist @economist.com · 11h

Having been burnt by tariffs twice, American farmers and Chinese buyers will probably seek to reduce their mutual dependence. That is a boon for soyabean farmers in Brazil

American soya farmers are miserable. Brazil’s are ebullient

Donald Trump’s trade war has cemented Brazil’s place as the soyabean superpower

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The Economist @economist.com · 11h

Having been burnt by tariffs twice, American farmers and Chinese buyers will probably seek to reduce their mutual dependence. That is a boon for soyabean farmers in Brazil

American soya farmers are miserable. Brazil’s are ebullient

Donald Trump’s trade war has cemented Brazil’s place as the soyabean superpower

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13h

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

“America First.”

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 13h

I despise LinkedIn even more after learning this.

Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 1d

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 13h

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 14h

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I am naive but I am extremely disappointed by the level of servility towards the administration that I have been seeing by big environmental NGOs and their scientists. Yikes.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

I think bar associations really have a role to play in this revolting state of affairs. The arguments are in such blatant bad faith, the people making them should be shunned by their peers.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

I saw it - it does not look like they are rehiring most of them unfortunately. It shows that they are so incompetent they do not even know who they are firing.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

A feature, not a bug

Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 1d

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 1d

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 1d

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Philip Morris to provide free cases of cigarettes to area schools amid debates over effects of tobacco on health.

Microsoft to provide free Copilot tools for Washington state schools amid debate over AI’s role in learning

Microsoft Elevate Washington is a sweeping new initiative that will provide free access to AI-powered software and training for all 295 public school districts and 34 community and technical colleges ...

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Fred Willard talking about a dog show in Best of Show (2000) is Donald Trump or any of his surrogates talking about any subject of public importance in 2025. (Autism and Tylenol, war ravaged Portland, tariffs, Trump’s Nobel Prize, etc etc)
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Best in Show (7/11) Movie CLIP - Judging the Hounds (2000) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

It's 57% for Iowa, 40% is the national average. Sigh.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 1d

Incredible NYT headline and subhead where the writer has to remind you that this is a bad thing lol

Media literacy is being able to understand why that last part is included here, but not for any story about the US abandoning its clean energy initiatives.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

Illegally firing the CDC experts while he gets the latest COVID vaccine is really beyond the pale.
Marie Antoinette level of vibes.

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