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How toddlers in Finland's 'language nests' are saving an endangered Sámi language Special nurseries are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of extinction.

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In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones: Indian writer Arundhati Roy's cult classic college film returns to spotlight Nearly 40 years on, the Booker prize-winning writer's debut campus satire is set to be screened in Berlin.

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JFC

AI trojan horse

New Directions in Trojan Horse Humour...
#HigherEd #EdcHat #AcademicSky #classics

Do it—we suck as a nation right now!

Stephen Colbert and the First Amendment As if CBS hasn’t drawn enough fire for tampering with 60 Minutes’ journalistic integrity, on Monday, Stephen Colbert shared that he was told by the network’s lawyers that he couldn’t have Texas Democr...

Brendan Carr, head of the FCC, wrote the chapter on it in Project 2025. It’s hard to know what’s worse: The administration’s efforts to intimidate journalists or CBS’s willingness to cave in. Read here to understand the issues: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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And those are the lucky prisoners. Many of the inmates—and remember, publicly released data shows that about 90% of these folks have *no violence in their history whatsoever*—will be sent to countries run by Trump's friends, where they will be caged and tortured purely for sport.

Here's a list of all the places Trump is building concentration camps to brutalize non-white men, women, and kids—including many in the US legally and some who are citizens.

Most will be sent to die in places they've never been to or to be tortured by Trump pals.

# = Prisoners.

“Late Show” Host Colbert Blasts Trump Admin After CBS Pulls Interview with Texas Democrat Talarico “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert is accusing the Trump administration and CBS of censorship after the network informed the “Late Show” that Colbert couldn’t air an interview with James Talarico, a Tex...

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More than 80 artists sign letter slamming Berlinale’s ‘silence’ on Gaza Festival caught in controversy after jury president Wim Wenders says filmmakers ‘have to stay out of politics’

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Trump abolished DEI and replaced it with unqualified and unfit white people throughout every area of the govt.

1) The next time you use your GPS to navigate through the city, you can thank this queen. Gladys Brown West (October 27, 1930 – January 17, 2026) was an American mathematician. She was known for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth,

#SheShed #Pinks #BlackHistoryMonth

Only days after rushing two month old Juan Nicolas to the hospital

ICE deported him-and his entire family

This is the inhumanity which defines Donald Trump and his government

One day-hopefully soon-this administration will be gone

But the stench of its atrocities will last for generations

I love puns in general. And imho these particular puns are brilliant.

Yes, it's clear that they didn't see eye to eye. They wouldn't.

210. The President's Lack of Power Over Elections President Trump keeps insisting that he can unilaterally change the rules for voting in the midterms. It's not just that he's *wrong*; it's that there's no mechanism through which he could even *try.*

President Trump keeps threatening to unilaterally impose rules (like voter ID requirements) on upcoming elections.

Today's "One First" explains why, whether as a matter of constitutional law, existing federal statutes, or simple, practical logistics, his (ominous) threats are ultimately empty ones:

Very interesting indeed -- I'm responding to the Wikipedia article about him, not the book, obviously I haven't seen the book. I notice that in 1918-19 Acharya worked with Mahendra Pratap, who was my friend and associate Rajendra Singh's grandfather!

Keir Starmer – how dare you speak about justice? A letter to Keir Starmer from a Harrods abuse survivor

Harrods is our own Epstein scandal.

This govt has blocked justice.

And the survivors are furious.

"This aged like milk." 🥛

YouTube video by The Wire Bangladesh will seek “cooperative” ties with India, protecting Hindu community is “foremost” duty

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No One Above: why we speak, why we build, why we won’t stop Survivors of Harrods abuse advocate to educate, overcome self-blame, protect future generations and ensure power is held to account

"Many people still think abuse looks like a stranger in a dark alley, a sudden act of violence, or something unmistakably criminal in the moment.

That assumption creates enormous blind spots – especially when exploitation happens slowly, inside workplaces..."

Shattered dreams: Why the battle for Sunderland’s glass centre has turned into a political flashpoint Custodian University of Sunderland says renovation costs of £45m are too high and building must be pulled down. Not without a fight, say locals, who believe they’re being taken for fools

Shattered dreams: Why the battle for Sunderland’s glass centre has turned into a political flashpoint

www.alternet.org 'Let me not mince words': DC insider blasts Kristi Noem in scathing open letter

'Let me not mince words': DC insider blasts Kristi Noem in scathing open letter

This.

James Jackson writes, on X (formerly Twitter), "Breaking: Indian writer Arundhati Roy has pulled out of the Berlinale, citing the "unconscionable statements made by members of the jury" saying that art should not be political. Her full statement 👇"

This is happening. On _our_ watch (I mean us parents, in all the countries that are under this kind of siege -- India and the U.S. are both under siege, and the U.S. is one of the countries I claim as mine, I did a lot of my growing up there).

Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...

NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal Judge Orders Return of Venezuelans Deported to Notorious Prison in El Salvador A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return to the United States from Venezuela of nearly 140 Venezuelan men who were sent to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison last Mar...

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Pay Attention MAGA Women.

These Detention Centers start out for black and brown people then Democrats then MAGA Women who don't stay in line are next. We are headed this way and then comes the ovens.