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IMPORTANT. Get the MMR vaccine if you haven't already. This is serious, often deadly.

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Read this important and engaging new book by @aliadastagir.bsky.social! Order now. I love the balance between reporting the harms inflicted and wrongs done, on the one hand, & the stories of resistance on the other. Also appreciate the toolkit at the end. Kudos Alia! (Link to her website below.)

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This helps put the bullying in perspective: Trump is weak and CAN'T actually function with Congress and the courts. Too dumb and too selfish. Overgrown baby. (Klein is more articulate than this post of mine!) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

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New BOOK, by the brilliant @michael-p-lynch.bsky.social on truth in politics & why we need truth for democracy. Insightful analysis and helpful forward-looking advice at the end. Destined to be classic, but URGENT reading now. PRE-ORDER, and it will arrive soon! bookshop.org/p/books/on-t...

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The Grievance Bullies Are in Power open.substack.com/pub/sperryt5...

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It's striking how SCOTUS could decide the TikTok ban in a few days but delayed and sat on the question of presidential immunity for months. The Court can move quickly when it wants to. When it came to ensuring Trump could be brought to trial for Jan. 6, it just didn't want to.

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Good night from ME.

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Really looking forward to this book! Kudos @aliadastagir.bsky.social !!!

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Quote of the Day: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social from her latest Atlantic article

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This is a great idea, imported from the UK. Democratic leadership, please Make It So!

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Hey @washingtonpost.com - remember when you had some journalistic integrity? Less than four years after this headline, you couldn't bring yourself to endorse this traitor's opponent.

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National Search Underway for Even One Person who Voted for Elon Musk open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

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We need independent journalists and public writing by scholars. Yes. open.substack.com/pub/sperryt5...

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This is very cool. The Linguistic Society of America uses this program, Sunflower Lanyards -- very promising. No image is coming up, but click the link! hdsunflower.com/us/

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Another important book from Michael Lynch— crucial for our situation.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Just looked at a Philosophy Starter Pack & am more fascinated by those of us omitted. Of course any such list is incomplete, but I wonder about the exclusions. (Trying to figure out how my followers doubled in 1 day, but it wasn’t from that!)

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Looking forward to reading this!

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I’m excited to be involved in this special session, Language, Conflict, & Peace, at the Linguistic Society of America in January. Linguist friends, join us!! web.cvent.com/event/40d941...

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If the prospect of the next 4 years fills you with dread, read this. Doesn’t minimize the impending damage, but will help you get to work, wisely.

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See the glass ceiling? Our extremely competent women got to 48% but the rest of the voters would rather have a psychopath, convicted felon, rapist, conman who can't string together a sentence much less a paragraph. Penises rule, Misogyny reigns. Welcome to Gilead, MAGAts.

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The USA had a chance to be better, but 71 million voters chose to align with hate & destruction. Whatever their motives, I don’t care — we know what their actions have unleashed on us all, especially on the most vulnerable among us. Stand up for Justice. No American Taliban. Stop the USA neoNazis.

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Now the ACLU is bragging about all the rights they defend. They defend Nazis, but do they defend women and people of color? NO. Read @Mary Anne Franks' book, FEARLESS SPEECH, esp. Ch 2 for a chilling account of how they set up Amber Heard. They don't rate your support, & won't protect YOUR rights.

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On this anniversary of Kristallnacht 1938, it's time to face facts about US extremists, who are Out of Control. THIS IS EVIL, and we need to denounce and fight back. See what the MAGAts are doing. This is only the beginning. We need them to slither back under their rocks. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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Good homework for what has happened and what's ahead. Great book, especially timely now. Core concepts of Resonances, Atunements, and Harmonization help explain how a lunatic's rants mobilized 30% of the eligible electorate. It's a Hustle. Worth your attention. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...?

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PLEASE WATCH & then SHARE. Thanks. youtu.be/OrZ6AmtnKIU?...

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End the Electoral College. EVERY VOTE SHOULD COUNT EQUALLY IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!! Hillary won the popular vote, but somehow DT won the EC, & imposed his death-mongering stupidity (e.g. saying to drink bleach😱). Eliminate the Electoral College! 1 citizen/1 vote, location shouldn't matter.

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This Thursday, at UConn, so come if you're nearby. Comments by the fabulous Manisha Sinha. events.uconn.edu/human-rights...

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Excellent new book on Dangerous Jokes, by Claire Horisk. Insightful, clear, and beautifully navigates some pretty treacherous social terrain. I'll be using it in my graduate Phil Language course in Sept, because it is THAT GOOD. Kudos to Horisk. www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Jo...

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Democracy under threat worldwide. This is terrible news from Senegal, a country with a strong democratic history. (No firewall, free article) www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/w...

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Colorado & Maine are just the begining. Other states should follow suit, honoring the US Constitution. Read this short piece by Tim Snyder (Yale historian). open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Heartbreaking recalcitrance, perhaps breaking down, but these folks have shown their utter callousness and should be voted out asap. wapo.st/3NCPH3K

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