The Importance of Looking Inward at Lived Raciolinguistic Experiences This month we are publishing Autoethnographic Explorations of Lived Raciolinguistic Experiences Among Multilingual Scholars edited by Qianqian Zhang-Wu and Bridget Goodman. In this post the editors…

Why looking inward to move forward from raciolinguistic perspectives matters: channelviewpublications.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/t...

Still time to register and join us tomorrow in a conversation about researching multilingually texastech.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Coming tomorrow (Wed 3/12) to a Zoom near you)

A reminder that every arbitrary word ban can be fought by using a similar term. No DEI? Try EID or IED. No inclusion? Go with enclusion. The people who confuse transgender and transgenic surely won’t make the connection

FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY IS NOT ILLEGAL

Odesa is under massive attack by Russian deadly drones this hour. One of the UAVs has struck a busy civilian resort area.

We have to assume that whatever Dumpster Fire says is the reason for the current economic policy, it’s a lie. My fear is it’s a way to force the US to do business with Russia again to stay afloat.

USA should not be short staffing nor short funding the FAA and Traffic Controllers America is the wealthiest nation in the world. We can and should have a fully staffed flight control system and a fully funded FAA. A politic that would consider tax cuts for the wealthy so they can t...

Petition for staffing FAA and air traffic control sign.moveon.org/petitions/us...

Home Page | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies ASEEES Publications Slavic Review Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies is ASEEES’ chief publication and the leading scholarly journal in the field...

If anyone is interested in putting together a proposal for an education panel or roundtable on Central Asia for an in person presentation at the November conference in DC, please PM me this week (proposals are due March 1) aseees.org

I am all for sanctions but I am not sure how I feel about sanctions on survey participation. Maybe because there is possibly a monetary reward? 🧐

AAAL2025 schedule is officially online! Be sure to add our colloquium Saturday morning at 8:00 am to your calendar

Why DEI matters. And by DEI I mean Doing more to Eradicate Inequality. Doing better to Employ and Empower Individuals usually overlooked or just unseen. Dismantling English Ideologies that favor a single mythical standard. Help me keep this going…

YouTube video by WUSA9 "This seat is reserved to honor Rosa Parks"

DC metro honoring Rosa Parks’ birthday - story from local news youtu.be/j1TYGzTNrxA?...

School bus operator suspended after posting ‘No speaking Spanish’ sign Rohrer Bus, which contracted the bus operator in a rural Pennsylvania county, said the sign was up only during last Friday’s morning shift.

There are still school leaders standing up for Spanish speaking children. Higher ed leaders take note www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Timothy Snyder is a historian at Yale usually focused on Ukraine. He knows totalitarianism when he sees it

United Airlines and Chase Bank take a small step to encourage putting our money where our DEI mouths are - screenshot from my email

Berlin: 160,000 protest against CDU-AfD collaboration – DW – 02/02/2025 The rally in the German capital comes in the wake of the conservative CDU/CSU leaning on the support of the far-right AfD in parliament to push through a migration bill. Protesters chanted "Shame on y...

In case we need a reminder that Germany is still woke but could slip again - with the help of the top aide to America’s “president”. DW (Deutche Welle) is an international news source of Germany often shown on PBS www.dw.com/en/berlin-16...

#BlackHistoryMonth ☮️💙🌊🐕‍🦺

NPS.gov Homepage (U.S. National Park Service) The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage.

DoD may have shut their celebrations down but US National Park Service is still honoring and celebrating Black History month with educational materials for teachers and places to consider visiting - right from their landing page nps.gov

In case people are looking for a good news story this week

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Russia and North Korea are erasing history: Over 15 heritage sites destroyed in a single night as Putin’s forces launched North Korean ballistic missiles at Odesa on Friday.

Centuries of history — gone in seconds. The full victims count is still unknown.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal court BLOCKS Trump OMB order purporting to freeze federal spending. Stay will be in place until court can consider case at hearing next Monday.

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Judge pauses Trump's federal funding freeze as confusion and frustration spread A judge has ordered a pause on the Trump administration's efforts to suspend funding for federally awarded grants and other programs as chaos over the implementation of the plan spread.

A federal judge has issued a brief stay to Trump's order freezing federal spending. I'm wondering if this chaos is aimed at diluting media coverage of RFK's confirmation hearing tomorrow. Here's NPR's constantly updated story on the freeze: loom.ly/_OrVz5s

What Does ‘Researching Multilingually’ Mean in Practice and Theory? This month we published Researching Multilingually edited by Bridget Goodman and Brian Seilstad. In this post the editors touch on the struggles, failures and successes experienced by those researc…

New blog post from @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social Multilingual Matters channelviewpublications.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/w...

Education is a constitutional right

“Exchanged nuclear weapons for war” — Zelensky recalled a conversation with Trump about the Budapest Memorandum, under which Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal

“I think it was stupid, illogical, and irresponsible. I told him [Trump] that we exchanged it for nothing — for war.”

USAID halts all humanitarian projects in Ukraine. A sudden 90-day aid freeze ordered by President Trump leaves civilian programs on hold.

Zelensky says military aid remains unaffected — for now.

www.kyivpost.com/post/46089

Me too. Two books

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.