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Forbidden word of the day: " Stereotypes". We all have stereotypes, boxes into which we separate each other, and by which we seem to decide a person's worth, but don't say it in a grant!

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Today's forbidden Grant word: "status". What's your status today?

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Forbidden word: "socioeconomic". It's an adjective, which, according to Oxford Online Dictionary, means: "relating to...the interaction of social and economic factors." Don't use this in a grant application.

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"Sociocultural" is the forbidden word for today. I had to do some research. This Wikipedia page explains the word better than I, but it relates to education, and the ways in which environment (social and cultural) impacts learning. It is quite interesting. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocu...

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Today's Forbidden phrase: "Social Justice". This is the idea that all people regardless of ethnicity, financial status, gender, or any other category by which we define people deserve equal justice. It is an idea at the core of our Democracy. It means that everyone deserves due process.

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Forbidden phrase of the day: "Sexual preferences". In grade school, I had a friend who was not allowed to go to sex education, nor did her parents teach it. Stopping talk about anything sexual is going back to the dark ages. We can't just shut down communication about these issues.

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Good morning. I'm pretty sure all those rednecks who suddenly supported Tesla will be reconsidering purchasing now... www.reuters.com/business/aut...

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Hands Off Eastern Sierra

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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

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#NoKings

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Today's Forbidden Phrase: "Sense of Belonging". I've reached a point where I think the AI that compiled this list was more bonkers than the administration. Don't use this phrase in a grant application or on government website. We don't want our children to feel a "sense of belonging".

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Forbidden word(s): racial, racial diversity, racial inequity, racial justice, racially and racism. I probably should have listed these with yesterday's word. Basically, don't talk about race in a grant or government website.

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Forbidden words: "race and ethnicity". How do you talk about people's race or their ethic heritage without using these terms? The logic fails me.

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Forbidden phrase: "Promoting diversity". Let's call it "Encouraging differentiation." It's almost the same. It's time to make a new code for the important things in society. It is good to encourage differentiation from parents. So now we encourage differentiation in society. Sameness is boring.

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open.substack.com/pub/robertre... "Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft have agreed to do millions of dollars worth of free legal work for Trump on causes he supports." Cowards all.

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Go Harvard!

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Yet another abduction of a student www.commondreams.org/news/mohsen-...

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Ok, time for another forbidden word. "Privileges". Oxford online dictionary definition states: "a special right... granted or available only to a particular person or group." We all have privileges. We will not be privileged to use this word for grants or government websites.

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April 12, 2025

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This is a stupid rant, but why when some place asks you to review would a person simply put stars and then not actually review the product. Stars without a review are worthless.

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Saw a fake post on Facebook supposedly by Mark Harmon. Thought I might check here to see if I could let him know hundreds of people were pretending to be him. Turns out same thing is happening here. Does Bluesky have any method to prevent people from imitating others?

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When mom lived in China she had to be careful who she spoke to and what she spoke about. In China people are encouraged to report on what their neighbors and coworkers do and say. That gave people "credit" and a way to move ip in society.

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The most disturbing possibility isn’t that millions have been brainwashed. It’s that they haven’t.

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Forbidden word: "prejudice". Oxford online definition: "make biased, harm ... that results ... from some [legal] action," or "a preconceived opinion not based on reason". Search websites or grants for these words is obscene, and won't eliminate the problem. The government is a head-in-sand ostrich.

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censorship? of other country's citizens? open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

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The Supreme Court said that Trump and this administration did not have the right to deport legal immigrants without due process and then today this absurd decision. www.commondreams.org/news/mahmoud...

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What's up with all the men who seem to follow only women here?

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Posted on Facebook but had to put it here. Back in the 90s Oshkosh made amazing clothing for boys that was not "sad beige clothing for sad beige kids". These were Sam's favorites. The elastic is still good 30 years later! #OshkoshBGosh

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SAVE Act information. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

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Donald Trump in a nutshell: doing everything he can to make the ultra-rich even richer. We need to find out if Trump's tariff chaos was used as cover for insider trading.

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For the first time, the man the KGB codenamed ‘the Inheritor’ tells his story: www.theguardian.com/news/20...

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Forbidden word - you've got to be kidding?! "Political". This is an adjective that is used to describe anything to do with politics or actions that politicians take. Is this a joke?

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I've discovered a new hobby, writing angry letters to my congressman who doesn't give a poo about CA.

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Here's a good one among the forbidden words: "Polarization". Definition Oxford Languages online: "division into two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs", and "restricting the vibrations of a transverse wave". It's scientific. How is this DEI?

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Today's Forbidden Word: "Multicultural". Online Oxford Languages Dictionary definition: "relating to...several cultural or ethnic groups within a society." My degree is in "multicultural education". So, we can't use a descriptive term that describes our culture accurately?

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