In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

if your accessibility tool cannot parse anything but the "generic American accent" (whatever that is) you haven't made an accessibility tool at all I fear

א פריילעכן פורים!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6HC...

NEW HAMPSHIRE RESIDENTS: send an email to your state reps opposing the newest anti-trans bills #NHPolitics It’s very easy to do here: secure.ngpvan.com/nlZmwzV6BEak...

IT’S OUR TIME. EVERYBODY CELEBRATE THE WEDDING THIS MOMENT CREATED www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

We are happy to announce that our fundraising page is live! When you make a donation during our presale period, you will be among the first to receive TPFA6 when it is released on March 15th. fund.nnaf.org/tpfa6 #tpfa6

That crossword puzzles were, a century ago, the big new popular thing that critics decided were the death knell for the culture, actually, shows that some things don't change all that much

For those of you (esp. Louisville-area folks regardless of UofL connections, or university-affiliated folks anywhere) who kindly expressed interest in this petition effort, here it is—I would warmly welcome your support.

@mixedlinguist.bsky.social I've got another company for you to yell at for using AI to do linguistic discrimination

I guarantee you in two years you're going to hear about Larry Summers working at some prestigious institution and if you say anything about it they will be like HASN'T HE BEEN PUNISHED ENOUGH??????

Looks like a massive win for Merrimack - and humanity - as it appears the human warehouse will not happen. #nhpolitics CC @wendyenthomas.bsky.social

Students are going to voluntarily give their campus login info to this thing, Tressie. This thing that I, who fancy myself a pretty top-notch portfolio sleuth, have been researching for two hours & can tell you next to nothing about who made it, who funds it, what other companies it integrates with.

CALL NOW Port City Air: 603-430-1111 GD Operations: 603-817-9411 Sen. Shaheen (DC): 202-224-2841 Demand humanity. Demand accountability. 2/5

This is the Alysa Liu performance everyone is talking about, and yes, you should watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrF...

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

As a NH primary voter who met Bailey Warren multiple times I cannot stress enough the importance of a Good Doggo and hope the Beshear campaign brings said Doggo up here

Bunch o' (socio) linguistics/language ideologies happening right here

well yeah fair enough

Today in "Life in New England", I used the snowshoes I checked out from the library to beat down a path through the foot+ of snow in the yard so that the oil delivery guys could get through

had a fun chat w/ @samcorbin.bsky.social about language change! she cut out i think fully 45 minutes where we just talked about Mean Girls (2004) but blessedly kept in the fun pronoun stuff

You love to see it. Incredible win, one for the ages. #GDTBATH

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. Avoiding English/Ling/Music courses (Majors/Minor)... Intermediate Jogging 19th Century Russian Literature Chekhov Political Philosophy The Medieval Church

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I wrote some reflections on what it feels like being Black in Maine during this ICE surge. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

If your favorite crossword runs the answer ELON with the clue “Inventor Musk,” tell them you don’t want to see that trash, any more than you would “Politico Heinrich” for HIMMLER. Shove that Overton window hard.

The DHS funding bill is effectively dead in the Senate.

Meanwhile in Minneapolis... ...some very cold, very determined NYC rabbis experiencing Minnesota winter for the first time. Cold can't stop us from answering the call to support Minneapolitans demand ICE OUT OF MINNEAPOLIS!

“What did we learn from the Holocaust? We have to act and we have to resist. If I’m not going to act and resist now, then I shouldn’t call myself a rabbi and I can’t be a proud Jew.” Beautiful.

Singing and praying in -22 degrees.

Rabbi Tamar Magill-Grimm is Senior Rabbi at Beth Jacob Congregation. Standing alongside her fellow Minnesota clergy, Rabbi Tamar announced that her congregation will take part in a statewide day of fasting and non-violent moral action to call for an immediate end to ICE’s operations in Minnesota.

If you live in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont save these numbers for the various ICE watch hotlines

Reposting with alt text for some good natured rivalry trolling

In every state we’ve studied, private schools demand deposits and fees well before ESA $ are available. Call it what it is: school choice with a cover charge, rationing access by who can pay up front.

OSU departments are prohibited from recruiting at many professional meetings, but ICE can come recruit on our campus?

You may also remember Lewiston as the site of a mass shooting at a Bowling alley in 2023. Here's a piece from my colleague Jaed Coffin with a portrait of Lewiston, post shooting, through the eyes of an immigrant family.

BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.

Hey everyone, We literally just added 100 more trans girl scouts to the trans girl scout cookie list. The list is bigger than it has ever been in EITM history. Go get some cookies and make a trans scout's day!

Woke up to more texts that ICE is in Portland, Maine. According to a message I received, they are expected to be here for a week. Stay safe, local friends.

If you don’t know, I am not sure I can fully describe the entire universe of losing a Torah — the spiritual injury, the communal injury, the stress and financial strain of acquiring a replacement for this extremely expensive and difficult-to-ensure holy ritual object…

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

My first experience with Princess Mononoke was watching it in Japanese, no subtitles, late at night at a sleep over with my friend and her attempting to tell me what was going on, based on her memory of her (Japanese) mom translating for her. I had zero idea what was going on, but I was hooked

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life