I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
01.02.2026 01:23 — 👍 16836 🔁 5011 💬 229 📌 205Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
22.01.2026 00:05 — 👍 15577 🔁 8602 💬 715 📌 1969Hey, people are permanently losing their eyesight at some of these protests and have been for some time. These people, the ones that have put their bodies on the line, are among the people who would benefit from your usage of alt-text when posting protest related imagery.
17.01.2026 03:37 — 👍 3266 🔁 1183 💬 14 📌 27
Most Spanish words come from Latin, but did you know there are 2 different types?
Words inherited from spoken Latin vs. words borrowed from written Latin during the Middle Ages and after.
Some words took both routes, creating doublets.
Here’s episode 3 of my 10-part doublet series.
Next: Italian.
Sending you a big hug, Ethan!
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Gullah-Geechee descendants on Sapelo Island may be facing a massive property tax increase that could open the doors for developers to turn the island into a vacation spot for the rich
A meeting for property owners to give feedback is scheduled for today
Check out my chapter in this if you’re so inclined. 🤓 Didn’t realize until today this was posted when the book first came out.
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Here’s the latest on the deadly shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island.
https://to.pbs.org/48Uk6nU
They even called their momma to ask about a step of the cooking process. So great.
13.12.2025 00:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For one of our class projects, a student made a video of themselves cooking caldo de pollo. Every step from the recipe to buying the ingredients to the actual cooking was included and connected to our course topics. It was glorious.
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The pianist, composer and arranger spent more than six decades turning El Gran Combo into one of the premier salsa institutions of Latin America and beyond. n.pr/4qeZn5p
08.12.2025 02:19 — 👍 245 🔁 54 💬 1 📌 6Guillermo del Toro did it again. Gorgeous work.
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Demand for Indigenous Latin American language interpreters has surged in Oregon. This group is helping meet it
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I learned about two projects that are supporting people to get food.
This one allows you to cover someone's groceries: findagrocerybuddy.com/become-a-don...
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
23.11.2025 22:11 — 👍 718 🔁 593 💬 2 📌 11one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
25.11.2025 16:15 — 👍 23061 🔁 6615 💬 249 📌 285
A Michigan appeals court ruled that the city of Detroit failed to follow *its own laws* about public oversight of surveillance tech. These laws are crucial bc "Automated license plate readers, facial recognition, body-worn cameras, drones, and the Real Time Crime Center are all active in the city."
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A video captured of Maria a Street Vendor reunited with her
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
it's so deeply rude to answer someone's question with the output from a chatbot, or even to reference prompting the chatbot. they asked a person for a reason. if they wanted to see what output the chatbot would barf out, they could get it themselves.
17.11.2025 22:12 — 👍 45 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 2I'm attending #LSA2026 online this year, AND they've let me put myself in charge of having virtual social opportunities, so if you want to socialize with me and other linguists at LSA (and I hope you do because I wanna hang out with linguists!) that's going to happen online too!
17.11.2025 00:13 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
Language development, linguistic input, and linguistic racism
An indictment of the field that I put my whole heart into
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I turned to my husband and said if this man doesn’t cuss her out this is not written well and when he did I was like yeah dude cus that’s the only real interaction she would get. 😅
16.11.2025 04:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Reposting this…for reasons.
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Alice Wong, a woman in a wheelchair with dark hair, poses in a pink and orange outfit and berry lipstick. A headline reads: "Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51." Photo via John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
15.11.2025 21:33 — 👍 4445 🔁 933 💬 105 📌 81Giving this another shot.
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NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
photo of Jaime Alanis
Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday.
We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
People who think every brown person they meet looks just like that one brown guy from CSI that they cannot name are supposed to be trusted to make meaningful distinctions about physical appearance.
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