J. Mijin Cha
@jmijin.bsky.social
Assist prof, env studies; Fellow, Climate Jobs Institute and @cplusc.bsky.social; Board, Greenpeace Fund; just transition; labor/climate. 🍉 #COYS 🇰🇷🇺🇸
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https://mijincha.com
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https://mijincha.com
I know a lot of advisors say this, but I really do have the best grad. Esaac spent the last year putting together our lab website and now it's live! justtransitionslab.com
Just Transitions Lab: Researching Environmental Justice and Energy Systems | Just Transitions Lab
In the Just Transitions Lab, we explore critical issues related to environmental justice, innovative energy systems, and effective public policy. Our academic research at UC Santa Cruz aims to develop...
justtransitionslab.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I know a lot of advisors say this, but I really do have the best grad. Esaac spent the last year putting together our lab website and now it's live! justtransitionslab.com
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The Israeli occupation army invaded a village of over 150 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and detained *literally every single person, man woman and child* for hours.
Border Police accused of detaining entire Bedouin hamlet for hours in blanket sweep
Residents of West Bank village say officers rounded up all 180 residents, including kids and elderly, during raid to search for weapons, in what would mark highly unusual action
www.timesofisrael.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The Israeli occupation army invaded a village of over 150 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and detained *literally every single person, man woman and child* for hours.
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In fashion, essentially anything can become a trend.
Once thought of as a purely practical layer worn by older women on kimjang day — the annual family marathon of making huge batches of kimchi — the kimjang vest has made an unlikely leap into the style spotlight.
www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
Once thought of as a purely practical layer worn by older women on kimjang day — the annual family marathon of making huge batches of kimchi — the kimjang vest has made an unlikely leap into the style spotlight.
www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
The unexpected rise of the ajumma vest
In fashion, essentially anything can become a trend. Once thought of as a purely practical layer worn by older women on kimjang day — the annual family marathon
www.koreaherald.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 AM
In fashion, essentially anything can become a trend.
Once thought of as a purely practical layer worn by older women on kimjang day — the annual family marathon of making huge batches of kimchi — the kimjang vest has made an unlikely leap into the style spotlight.
www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
Once thought of as a purely practical layer worn by older women on kimjang day — the annual family marathon of making huge batches of kimchi — the kimjang vest has made an unlikely leap into the style spotlight.
www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
This is rich coming from a man whose own marriage was illegal not that long ago.
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is rich coming from a man whose own marriage was illegal not that long ago.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
Happy Friday from me and Robyn
Robyn - Dopamine (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Robyn
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Happy Friday from me and Robyn
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BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so – over Johnny Cash lyrics.
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so – over Johnny Cash lyrics.
This Is dumb.
Ok apparently this is actually not widely known: Gov. Shapiro withdrew Pennsylvania from RGGI today as part of a deal to pass a now-4month overdue budget.
So.....did no one else notice that Pennsylvania just dropped RGGI?
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This Is dumb.
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Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
yikes! Fascism really does age you 😬
This is good reporting and all that but here's the thing I learned the other day: Bill Pulte, the 50-year-mortgage dude and the guy who keeps pulling the mortgage docs of Trump's enemies is only 37 years old.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats
FHFA’s acting inspector general handed the probe report to the U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
yikes! Fascism really does age you 😬
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Kathy Hochul could bring down bills and protect our future by building 15 gigawatts of public renewables.
Instead, she's raising bills to build Trump's fracked gas pipeline and a crypto mine.
Is this why?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
Instead, she's raising bills to build Trump's fracked gas pipeline and a crypto mine.
Is this why?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Kathy Hochul could bring down bills and protect our future by building 15 gigawatts of public renewables.
Instead, she's raising bills to build Trump's fracked gas pipeline and a crypto mine.
Is this why?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
Instead, she's raising bills to build Trump's fracked gas pipeline and a crypto mine.
Is this why?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
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New research out today with my colleague Jacob Udell on financial distress in the multifamily market. We focus on the impact on tenants, who have little say over their landlords’ financial decisions but bear the brunt of the consequences of this escalating crisis.
Check it out!
Check it out!
Financial distress in the multifamily market is on the rise in the United States: Multifamily loan delinquencies are at their highest rate in 10 years, having nearly doubled in the last year alone.
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New research out today with my colleague Jacob Udell on financial distress in the multifamily market. We focus on the impact on tenants, who have little say over their landlords’ financial decisions but bear the brunt of the consequences of this escalating crisis.
Check it out!
Check it out!
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Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.
7. Residential customers - aka you and me, aka voters - pay 28% more (16.5 c/kWh, 2024 average) than commercial customers (12.9 c/kWh) and 201% more than industrial (8.2 c/kWh). This trend is accelerating: Residential prices rose 27% from 2019-2023, vs. 21% for commercial and 19% for industrial.
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.
When he was working in cold, pouring rain, and felt ill, "The supervisor said I could go, but that everyone working in my family would need to turn in their work ID and find a new place to live...There was nothing I could do, except go back to work and just shut up."
Unions for everyone.
Unions for everyone.
This Labor Leader Is Still Organizing After ICE Detention, But From Mexico
Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino, a farmworker union organizer from Washington State, decided to return to his family’s village in Guerrero, where he continues the fight across the border.
hammerandhope.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
When he was working in cold, pouring rain, and felt ill, "The supervisor said I could go, but that everyone working in my family would need to turn in their work ID and find a new place to live...There was nothing I could do, except go back to work and just shut up."
Unions for everyone.
Unions for everyone.
There has to be accountability for all of this. All of it.
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
There has to be accountability for all of this. All of it.
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Soon, we'll oversee a budget of more than $100 billion — and every dollar will reflect our commitment to working New Yorkers and delivering universal childcare. Good thing some little New Yorkers gave me a counting lesson today!
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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"Why restart TMI-1 at massive public expense when Pennsylvania exports 30% of the energy we produce? Why .. put TMI at the front of the line for new interconnection when there are currently 268GWs of clean energy (95% solar and wind) waiting to be hooked up to the PJM grid?" #affordability
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"Why restart TMI-1 at massive public expense when Pennsylvania exports 30% of the energy we produce? Why .. put TMI at the front of the line for new interconnection when there are currently 268GWs of clean energy (95% solar and wind) waiting to be hooked up to the PJM grid?" #affordability
Imagine saying this out loud and not expecting any kind of blowback. As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, we need to bring back shame so ghouls like Kelly are banished for life for saying shit like this.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Imagine saying this out loud and not expecting any kind of blowback. As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, we need to bring back shame so ghouls like Kelly are banished for life for saying shit like this.
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RAISE YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
RAISE YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...
In this house, we don’t cross picket lines.
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In this house, we don’t cross picket lines.
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"On the first question, several jury members struggled to stifle laughter as Lairmore expanded on the hoagie’s alleged explosive properties. 'It was like, Oh, you poor baby,' the juror told me." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Deliberations
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
www.theatlantic.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"On the first question, several jury members struggled to stifle laughter as Lairmore expanded on the hoagie’s alleged explosive properties. 'It was like, Oh, you poor baby,' the juror told me." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
I genuinely believe in a just transition for everyone, but these mfers are really testing my commitment
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I genuinely believe in a just transition for everyone, but these mfers are really testing my commitment
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.