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they/them | MA TESOL/Applied Linguistics | Discourse & Sociophonetics | Cat Dad

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Our justice system is fucked in such a way that you should actually never cooperate with a US police interview as a suspect. If you're called in for police questioning, the only thing to do is demand an attorney and invoke your right to remain silent, even (especially!) if you're innocent.

15.11.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was a joke but that would actually be better than "password" lol

11.11.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Louvre tried to change its password to "password" but the Académie Française demanded "phrase secrète pour protéger un système informatique"

11.11.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

09.11.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 17622    πŸ” 4593    πŸ’¬ 137    πŸ“Œ 118

The Heritage Foundation, which is staffing the US presidential administration, has spent the past two weeks mainstreaming actual neo-Nazis into American public life, and much of the American Jewish establishment is panicking about a Muslim mayor of New York City.

08.11.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Oregonians, we need your help.

ICE activity is increasing in our communities. If you see something, report it to PIRC's hotline (1-888-622-1510) and get your phone out to record it.

23.10.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 534    πŸ” 339    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 13

See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue

21.10.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4189    πŸ” 1160    πŸ’¬ 151    πŸ“Œ 16

At least one of those "kids" is 40!

17.10.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

17.10.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11675    πŸ” 2486    πŸ’¬ 320    πŸ“Œ 103

DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for β€˜Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."

DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for β€˜Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."


Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.
By Matt Novak
Updated October 15, 2025

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels. By Matt Novak Updated October 15, 2025

started / going

15.10.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2709    πŸ” 911    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 26

You know what happens if you come at a giant frog

10.10.2025 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 205    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

The plague of frogs is gonna hit different for Pesach 5786

10.10.2025 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

21.09.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 34479    πŸ” 8732    πŸ’¬ 1063    πŸ“Œ 661
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ejectives

09.09.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

If a large portion of the organized American Jewish community really leans hard into "Holocaust memory only bears moral lessons for the treatment of Jews," I do not think they will ultimately like the way that will lead the rest of the country to relate to the Jewish community.

07.09.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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The White House is declaring war on campus DEI β€” except for Jews Singling out Jews on campus as the only specially protected minority group that receive DEI programs will not go well for us.

ICYMI: I wrote this past week about the Columbia University settlement with the federal government over "campus antisemitism," and how it ironically makes my job of teaching Jewish history to Jewish students harder. forward.com/opinion/7663...

05.09.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

If someone says "We need to support state violence towards trans people, it's for women's safety"

Would you say "Trans people are not a threat to women"?

Or "Women deserve to be unsafe"?

Both statements push back against the first, but one does damage to women by accepting dishonest framing

31.08.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of people on the right are manipulating concerns about misogyny and sexism to push extreme violence against the trans community. This does not mean misogyny and sexism are not very real problems.

This is a post about antisemitism.

31.08.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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This β€œexplicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

31.08.2025 05:30 β€” πŸ‘ 15811    πŸ” 3667    πŸ’¬ 624    πŸ“Œ 350

I agree with this thread but want to make another point. While antisemitism (real and fake) are discussed at length, a lot of this video is just not about (((us))). It is what I and others say we wantβ€”anti-genocide advocacy that is not single-mindedly obsessed with The Jews.

29.08.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Listen I'll back you on this one. I don't have a good halakhic reason I just miss una-don

28.08.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
An August 27, 2025 Truth Social post from Donald Trump says "George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America. We’re not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America any more, never giving it so much as a chance to β€œBREATHE,” and be FREE. Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country! That includes his Crazy, West Coast friends. Be careful, we’re watching you! Thank you for your attention to this matter!" At the time it was screengrabbed it has been "retruthed" 8,620 times and liked 35,400 times.

An August 27, 2025 Truth Social post from Donald Trump says "George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America. We’re not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America any more, never giving it so much as a chance to β€œBREATHE,” and be FREE. Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country! That includes his Crazy, West Coast friends. Be careful, we’re watching you! Thank you for your attention to this matter!" At the time it was screengrabbed it has been "retruthed" 8,620 times and liked 35,400 times.

The President is now calling for RICO charges against a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor.

For those unfamiliar, Soros conspiracies are an antisemitic dog whistle, invoking the age-old myth that wealthy Jewish people are scheming behind the scenes to control the world.

#Trump

27.08.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 7

So like a physical letter box

27.08.2025 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am truly sorry they did that to you, and I agree that rejecting Israel isn't a silver bullet vs antisemitism. If an antisemite wants to attack us, they're going to do it anyway. But I don't believe Israel makes me safer, eitherβ€”even if it did, the cost is too high. There must be a better way.

27.08.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it's sad that you dismiss an entire generation's experiences out of hand. We've all watched white supremacists shoot up and vandalize our synagogues, businesses, and homes. The President rewards and protects them for it. Antisemitism is still here. Othering instead of listening makes us weak

26.08.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

25.08.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 24957    πŸ” 6777    πŸ’¬ 871    πŸ“Œ 354

I used to think I was too online, and that gave me a mistakenly grim impression of the world, but now I think the opposite. It's people who are not online enough who don't realize that John McCain's party is well and truly dead and the online shitposters are fully running the Republican Party now.

26.08.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5

RTL language input in an otherwise LTR interface is a fucking nightmare, solidarity from a former translation company employee

26.08.2025 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campusβ€”making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

18.08.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7072    πŸ” 2953    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 102

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