@jonreinhardt.bsky.social
Professor of Applied Linguistics at U of Arizona; research and teach Game-based Language Learning, CALL, Critical Media Literacies, Grammar; into languages, history, maps, design, desert plants, wine, sci-fi fantasy, cats
Recently discovered Umberto Eco’s 1995 Essay on Ur-Fascism. Definitely worth a read, it’s the voice of the generation of anti-fascists no longer with us…
archive.org/details/umbe...
I stand with the penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands!
"Vienna, Austria is a good place to be dead."
3/30 returns @jonreinhardt.bsky.social and Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" to you: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
🙌🏼 I’m not sure who had the amazing idea to invite this constitutional lawyer to a senate hearing that intended to prove Biden colluded with Meta to censor conservatives, but she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!!
We can’t wait to see you at the 2025 CALICO conference this May!
🕊️Register by April 25 to get the early bird rate
🏨 Hotel rooms are filling fast—book ASAP! On-campus dorms are also available.
📅Check out the preliminary agenda & lodging details here: calico.org/calico-2025/. See you in San Diego!
at the same time, the Defense Dept continues to spend millions on FLE at places like the DLI and Flagship programs, but only the 'strategic languages' of Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, Farsi, and a few others, sometimes spending upwards of $1 million per student. If it really were about efficiency...
The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.
Every single day these fuckers are treacherous. Today it's Fulbright, the 78 year old program that brings international students and scholars here and sends us there, a form of diplomacy and goodwill building that makes the USA a good guy in the minds of millions. #StandForFulbright #Notmypresident
Both sides? Russian families? Who TF is this idiot and why TF are you letting her spread this Russian propaganda?
Someone is Putin’s bitch and it’s definitely not Zelenskyy. America is now weaker than it’s been since before WWII.
Of course Trump is trying to declare English the Official Language of the USA. England should say no.
when you realize you’re on the wrong side of history
The mentality that leads US Americans to answer “where are you from?” with a US state or city instead of “the USA” is the same that leads to thinking Canada would simply want to join the US, or that the EU is similar in structure to the US. They do not understand the concept of sovereignty.
So much for a new world order, George. Sorry about your party. bush41library.tamu.edu/archives/pub...
the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction
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So a Boston judge has stopped the freeze of NIH funds for the states that joined in the lawsuit. A sigh of relief for AZ and NC (Dem AGs!), but sadness for researchers in deep red states. How far are we all from being marched through the streets in dunce caps..
You do you buddy. I wish I could protest the Canadian Mining Corp that is poisoning our environment here in Arizona, and I'm sure they're kissing Trump's ass right now to overturn the lawsuits stopping them so far, but hey, that's not your problem, is it. Enjoy the strong and free life, eh.
Yeah well US academia is already under massive threat by MAGA so hitting the purse strings of our little organizations by our global academic colleagues is like an extra kick in the balls. Thanks.
No fckin shit. We all voted for Kamala. 78 million of us actually. You think academics don’t think about that every day? You think we aren’t working out asses off opposing everything they do?
Yeah well think about the organization you're denying registration fees to--many academic ones oppose and fight Trump, while bigger ones might be corporate, feeding into his machine
Hey International Academics thinking about boycotting conferences in the US: the only people you’re hurting are the academic organizations you’re not giving your money to. You’re actually helping Trump and the right wingers who want to destroy universities, not hurting them.
It’s not understandable. Trump and right wingers couldn’t care less if organizations like CALICO survive. The people he cares about make more per second than any academic visiting would spend in a week. It’s smug and self-righteous if you ask me.
The academic orgs and businesses like hotels and restaurants are the ones that suffer, not Trump. He couldn’t care less, and in fact would be happy if academic orgs go bankrupt or fold. The only thing you’re really helping by not going is your reputation with your US-bashing friends I guess.
The only way to fix this post-Trump will be to rewrite the Constitution to severely limit the powers of the Executive Branch. I doubt that will happen in my lifetime. How else?
he is nuts, and so is the idea--it's gotta be a distraction from Musk
According to Al-Jazeera just now, "Saudi Arabia said its support for the establishment of a Palestinian state is unwavering and it rejects any attempts to displace Palestinians from their land."
On any FB post I made where I named and criticized Trump, someone posted a laughing face, but their name doesn't come up. My posts are set to private/friends only. I've deleted them all, but yeah, this is where we are.
