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Which English? Which dialect? Which accent? And while at it, what to do with the loanwords?

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NEW: Dept. of Ed. launches anti-diversity snitch portal. Also: Moms for Liberty now speaking for the Department of Education

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I'm reposting this especially for the generation who was not yet of age in 2014 and might reasonably be wondering how we became so untethered from empirical reality.

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With #FakeNews, #AI, & polarized #SocialMedia platforms, sharing information has become increasingly complicated. Join us for the first of three panels on #ThinkingGlobally in 2025 to discuss this growing challenge & its implications for #GlobalRelations: https://buff.ly/4hF77sU

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Coming in November from @sunypress.bsky.social: PRIETA IS DREAMING by feminist writer, theorist, & icon Gloria Anzaldúa (!!)—a collection of 19 stories, 14 previously unpub’d. Huge thanks to @stuartbernstein.bsky.social & the incredible editors. Can’t wait to share this wonderful work w/ all of you!

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NEW - Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall Folks, I've been covering politics for a dozen years in Kansas and Missouri and this is probably the most intense, angry town hall I have ever seen www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

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Re-sharing this starter pack on women with expertise on #Russia's war against #Ukraine, with thanks to @vidajay.bsky.social for compiling it. Because it's more important than ever to listen to well-informed women on this topic. bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Zelenskyy says he would trade presidency for peace and NATO membership

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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"During the first Trump administration, many international students were already more reluctant to come to the US because of the president’s hostile rhetoric. With the return and rapid escalation of that rhetoric, international students are declining their admissions offers."

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"The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by Act of Congress, and supported by the people"

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this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am

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Call it a heist, call it a coup, but please stop calling it a constitutional crisis. Aside from being useless as an explainer to anyone who doesn't understand the legalities, it severely downplays the danger in what is happening.

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Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

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Now, Trump seems to be searching for ways to pay back his staunch supporters—no matter how grotesque the accusations against them.

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Washington Post refuses to run $115,000 ad titled ‘Fire Elon Musk’

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We have two job openings in the Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Non tenure-track, of interest for those who work in cultural studies or critical media, don't mind a full-time lecture schedule, and enjoy working with grad TAs. It's a three-year renewable post. Please circulate!

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Very Bolshevik.

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audible boos for the US National Anthem in Montreal before the USA-Canada 4 Nations Face-Off hockey game

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NEW from me today: The Radical Legal Theories That Could Fuel a Constitutional Crisis. Free gift link >> www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

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Amidst the chaos, the fantastic CAP LTER program at ASU is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Urban Social-Ecological Systems: apply.interfolio.com/163268

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Authoritarians ask Musk to turn over lists of USAID staff The prime minister of Slovakia asked Musk to share information about NGOs and reporters who worked there. In Russia, the state duma speaker said, if USAID is an enemy organization, Russia wants a list, "and we’ll hand it over to the FSB.”

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Do you know of a public data source that should be preserved? Use this form to help Georgetown's Massive Data Institute in their goal of preserving public data to maintain its accessibility and integrity for research advancement, science replication, and historic documentation.

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New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

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www.aaup.org/report/again...

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“Putin announced the establishment of a new government agency to help foreigners who share the Russian notion of traditional values to move and settle,” Irina Borogan & @andreisoldatov.bsky.social unveil Russia’s new ideological strategy.

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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong was forcibly removed from her office at the department, by security, after after she refused to comply with the illegal Trump order that fired her. Now that’s what you call resisting! 👏🏽👏🏽

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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

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Co-sponsored by Rep. Andy Biggs, who formally announced his candidacy for Governor yesterday at the AZ GOP state meeting and immediately got the backing of the Turning Point USA wing of the party.

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Inaugural Disinformation Summer Institute, June 3-6, 2025, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. The Institute will bring together early career researchers and senior experts to share concepts, techniques, history, and theories useful in studying disinformation. Applications due Jan 31st, 2025.

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"A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/07/a-polite-disagreement-bot-ring-is-flooding-bluesky-reply-guy-as-a-disservice/ #Bluesky #Bots #BlueskyBots

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“This is why I am continuously surprised and dismayed to see some faculty embrace uses of this technology that inevitably devalues their human labor.” We academic workers can be terribly naive. See the linked article👇

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This reminds me of all the conference presentations where people told me that the difference between the totalitarian Romania and the democratic US is a matter of degree not of kind

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It’s interesting when someone blocks you for saying this, as a comment to a post claiming Americans are not used to censorship. True, they are not. Not the kind my parents’ generation, for instance, experienced in Romania.

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The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, says Russia has learned how to influence elections through new technologies.

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JUST POSTED: The line dividing Trump family business interests & DJT's power is gone. Eric Trump in Abu Dhabi today celebrates his dad's move to unleash crypto, as the family helps launch (& profit) from a new crypto investment. With Ismaeel Naar/Yaffe-Bellany www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/u...

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