Sarah Taggart

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "I led the effort to build the IL Holocaust Museum. What I know is that in 53 days, Nazis tore down the constitutional republic in Germany in the 1930s. It doesn't take much. We're seeing pieces of that sort of authoritarian activity happening right now in this country."

Astonishing but true ….

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Mate! That wouldn't be up in the sky in the first place! No chance, no matter how long the elastic is on your catapult.

Actually, be reasonable, she'd have done a more tasteful job.

Hey, everyone in the UK who thinks 'it couldn't happen here'. Yes it could. And the time to start saying 'no thanks, not for me' is now. *

* See also electing a narcissist, racist, fascist...

And yesterday the fucking Arizona Supreme Court used an AI “reporter” to announce that a man’s death sentence was being upheld:

NEW: GOP Sen. John Cornyn says FBI Director Kash Patel has agreed to his request for FBI agents to help locate the Texas House Democrats who fled the state.

How is this even legal?

Wow! Projecting much? I think Nelson just decided to behave impeccably 😊

PS: You may have read this story already. The BBC ran a version of it yesterday

We shared our FOI docs with their reporter and press office.
Their response? To publish the story - our story - without even notifying us.

A £6bn public broadcaster selling out a tiny investigative newsletter. Nice. 😔

Mornin Des!

ICYMI from yesterday: more evidence that the UK news media is a racism factory, deliberately training the public to be more bigoted. This is the intended outcome of editorial policy at the behest of media owners and operators for political ends.

Robin Lakoff

My Berkeley colleagues & I are saddened by the death of our colleague Robin Lakoff. Her 1972 book Language & Women's Place created the modern field of language & gender. She also wrote articulately, passionately & impactfully about Latin linguistics (Abstract Syntax & Latin Complementation, 1968) 1/

Mornin Des!

Mornin Des!

Love this!

An illustration of a male greater spotted woodpecker, which has been labelled in Welsh.

The ebook cover, featuring illustrations of trees with a blue tit, robin and great tit. The text says: Adar yr Ardd, Suw Charman-Anderson, Llyfr Bach ar gyfer Dysgwyr.

"The use of simple - but not too simple - language is excellent for [Welsh] learners, and the extra word list provided by each bird comes in handy to expand your vocabulary. Would thoroughly recommend!"

Adar yr Ardd, my illustrated ebook, is just £1.99 from seidrpress.com #DysguCymraeg

Mornin Des!

Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’

Amazed it took 40 years to reach this conclusion. It was obvious in the 80s, if you bothered to look.

Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

When I was growing up, our neighbours were Bob and Bella Eames...and their house definitely didn't look like that! 😂

Mornin Des!

A periodic reminder.

The govt appointment of David Dinsmore as Comms advisor will add to the study considerably.

I'm a retired Eng Lang teacher, but I'd be all over this, for both exam & c/w, if I was still going.

Apart from anything else, Eng Lang study is the best way students develop critical thinking skills too.

Mornin Des!

To be honest, the words 'football' and 'misogynistic abuse' in the headline kind of made that inevitable 😀

The Victorian sportswomen who had to fight misogynistic abuse, just like the Lionesses Victorian women were supposed to be demure, uncompetitive creatures – but that didn’t stop many from playing and enjoying sport.

Some great resources here for studying language change, changing social attitudes and the representation of women's sport.
theconversation.com/the-victoria...

Mornin Des!

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