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S5E11 I Just Want to be Heard- A Conversation with Sharon Deering Williford How language, identity, and patience shape our healing and humanity. In this deeply personal episode, Sharon Williford returns to the podcast nearly five years after her first appearance. Then, she was freshly navigating life after a massive stroke that left her with severe aphasia—a loss of language that profoundly impacted how she communicated and how others saw her. Now, years later, Sharon shares her ongoing journey: the challenges of expressing herself, the patience required to rebuild identity through language, and the surprising strength found in simply being heard.

S5E11 I Just Want to be Heard- A Conversation with Sharon Deering Williford

How language, identity, and patience shape our healing and humanity. In this deeply personal episode, Sharon Williford returns to the podcast nearly five years after her first appearance. Then, she was freshly navigating…

S5E10 Language is About People – A Conversation with Paul Frank “People don’t want to abandon who they are in order to have a better future. Language gives them options—and dignity—to be both rooted and reaching.” – Paul Frank In this powerful episode, Norah Jones is joined by Paul Frank, Associate Director for Language Solutions at SIL International. With more than four decades of experience in the field, Paul shares his journey from rural Mexico to the mountains of Colombia to international leadership roles supporting minority language communities.

S5E10 Language is About People – A Conversation with Paul Frank

“People don’t want to abandon who they are in order to have a better future. Language gives them options—and dignity—to be both rooted and reaching.” – Paul Frank In this powerful episode, Norah Jones is joined by Paul Frank,…

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Which is why the folks say, “At least he’s DOING something!” (Each time they do I visualize a wrecking ball smashing their house behind them as they are talking to the reporter. Yup, he’s doing something, all right. But you’re not gonna like it.)

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Nice to know (in a sad and pathetic way) that such Orwellian headlines are not just ours over here in the U.S.

Hoping to see William & Mary join the ivies and other Virginia institutions. We’re watching, President Rowe. Add our voices.

A post from Call to Activism (@CalltoActivism ) on X reads: "MAJOR BREAKING: Judge Boasberg has determined the Trump Administration’s willful disregard of their lawful court Order is sufficient grounds for criminal contempt." Below the text, there is an image of a person in a judge's robe standing in front of the U.S. District Court seal. To the right, a document excerpt from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is shown, titled "MEMORANDUM OPINION," detailing a court order from March 15, 2025, regarding the transfer of individuals in custody under the Alien Enemies Act, and finding the Trump administration in contempt for non-compliance.

The stakes are growing higher for our constitutional republic.

Bear in mind, Judge Wilkinson is a Reagan appointee who was repeatedly on SCOTUS shortlists. This is both an admonition and a dire warning.

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

Is that soooo……? Hmmmmmm. We’ll soon see.

Read carefully, part two.

Read carefully.

S5E9: The Soul of the Mangyan Ambahan Discover the cultural richness of the Mangyan people and the poetic beauty of Ambahan, an ancient tradition of sung poetry that shapes identity and community. This episode features voices from the Mangyan Heritage Center sharing stories of preservation, passion, and belonging.

S5E9: The Soul of the Mangyan Ambahan

Discover the cultural richness of the Mangyan people and the poetic beauty of Ambahan, an ancient tradition of sung poetry that shapes identity and community. This episode features voices from the Mangyan Heritage Center sharing stories of preservation,…

My take — while feeling frightened all along the way — is that I was born in this era, in this country, for this moment. I’d so much prefer to run away… But I’m here for this purpose, somehow, and will continue to seek to find it, and encourage others devastated now and into the future.

Where is our humanity?

Oh for goodness sake. This useless and dangerous posturing and bullying will collapse our country even more.

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This is Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) and a picture of his Senate contact.

He called a fired HHS worker a clown who probably deserved to be let go.

Jim seemed to be proud of his childish ignorance and insensitivity, but I guess he doesn’t want to hear about it.

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Read all the way through!

Almost!!! 🤣

oh, Canada 😍

This specific headline today led me to pause my subscription for two months as I decide whether to even continue it at all. I’m so done with headlines that sound like there has actually been any thought going into these daily insanities.

Nope. You’re good, Charlie.

Ooooh, languages are so uniquely hard for US folks…. Besides, apparently everyone is supposed to adjust to us, whatever we’re into for the moment… 🙄

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...

“The deportation flight was in the air over Mexico when chaos erupted in the back of the plane, the flight attendant recalled. A little girl had collapsed. She had a high fever and was taking ragged, frantic breaths. … The girl’s oxygen saturation level was 70% ….”

ICE using 'points system' to identify migrant gang members: What to know A form used by federal agents to determine Tren de Aragua membership was filed in court by the ACLU.

ICE is using a checklist, relying heavily on things like tattoos, to send people to a brutal prison in El Salvador.

Multiple people have been accused of alleged gang membership and deported without due process because of this unreliable system. We're taking legal action.

Please help, Senator. Please help and gather others who will help too. We feel helpless out here to address these monstrous crimes by OUR OWN GOVERNMENT.

ICE Cannot Bring Back Man Deported to El Salvador Prison in Error, Agency Says The Trump administration said the court doesn’t have the authority to order the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The Trump admin’s outrageous immigration overreaches result in situations like this one, where a protected resident & the father of an intellectually disabled American child has been mistakenly placed in a Salvadoran prison. This admin is recklessly & cruelly incompetent. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...