Join us to celebrate the launch of the UNESCO Chair on Rights Education among #Indigenous and Non-Dominant Language Communities! 📆 February 21, International Mother Language Day 🕔 5:00 pm Pacific (Vancouver) time 💻 On Zoom: bit.ly/IMLD2026

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

I love my beautiful city so much

If you use Discord, here's a chance to voice your opinion on if they should implement AI. I know where I stand, but also, swearing in surveys isn't really useful. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The everyday courage of normal people is breathtaking

Here is a (likely incomplete) list of apps that are enabling ICE to track your smartphone's location. Download, mirror, and reshare. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I love cross-species friendships

“Tell everyone on this train I love them” echoes in the mind, the last words of another person who stood up to a violent bully. The kindness, the heart, the sheer decency of the people who are murdered by the cruelest, the most hateful, the most cowardly wretches on earth

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

When things are going well

This is Christian Miranda Romano. He is a teenager and an American citizen. Last year he said his goal was, “In five to ten years, I want to be taking care of my mom and siblings”. Yesterday, he was working at a Target in Richfield, MN when ICE kidnapped him (link to video below).

THEY SHOT THEM IN A FUCKING HOSPITAL FUCKING PARKING LOT

ICE needs to be taken apart, brick by brick, and we need to salt the earth.

“I knew it was going to start here,” said a local resident, who gave the name Aaron D., fighting back tears. “This neighborhood is deeply integrated, it’s deeply diverse.” www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

Heading toward the White House

No more, no more.

Based on this report, the CPB/ICE had not provided ANY medical assistance to the people they had shot by the time Portland Police arrived on the scene. PPB had to call the paramedics too. Recall yesterday how CBP physically prevented medical professionals from trying to help Renee Nicole Good.

Federal forces have shot two people in southeast Portland.

Unverified information says that ICE has shot two people in SE Portland.

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

the front passenger's seat and glove compartment are filled with a little kid's stuffed animals. i am shaking with anger

surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.

This is live data and the Sudan one in particular is rapidly growing I’m so tired of all of this. These flowers are going to be a key measure of 2026 for me

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” ― Octavia Butler

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

The article weaves together the centuries-long history of oppression of Irish, the ongoing language revival movement, and the stories of Alexandra's own family's relationship to the language - all encapsulated in one day taking the train to Dublin.

What does language endangerment mean to the people experiencing it? Dr. Emmanuel Ngué Um reflects: "When languages, or language practices, are threatened, it is really a threat to human relationships: the ways of living and connecting that our ancestors developed and passed on to us."

The Endangered Language Project does great work supporting community language revival work, and they're almost halfway to their goal!

the archaic broken image placeholders and six empty attachments with no filetype are a pretty solid visual representation of what it’s like to interact with any US government body these days

one of my favorite high school holiday memories was the annual reading of The Shortest Day, it still gives me warmth in its simplicity anyways happy solstice as we dearly love our friends and hope for peace

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

Banned words list has real consequences. A Head Start program operated by a tribe on a Native American reservation was told not to prioritize tribal kids, in clear violation of Head Start Act. The program director also can’t do training on trauma-informed instruction, or to support kids with autism.

I genuinely do not understand why anyone in a decision-making role in academia would encourage use of these tools, unless they have a vested interest in the mass destruction of knowledge and thought. In which case, A+++ job taking the university down from the inside

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

I know so many great people who are doing so much. If you are isolated from people who are trying their best, I can understand feeling like no one's doing anything, but really, you just need to find the people who are trying and try with them — or maybe encourage some new folks to try alongside you.

This season, I am fundraising for a program called Ready to Revitalize: a unique course run through @e-l-p.bsky.social for grassroots #language champions around the world. It only costs $500 to sponsor a participant. Help us support language revitalization! #langsky givebutter.com/elp2025/chas...

I ❤️ international solidarity between Indigenous and minoritized communities

as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable

This #GivingTuesday, you can support grassroots language revitalization all around the world! Your donation will help launch 20 language revitalization projects, like the Ayöök textbooks developed by 2025 Ready to Revitalize member Delfina Reyes Chávez: givebutter.com/elp2025

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

Today’s rabbit hole: a mushroom found on 3+ continents which produces the exact same hallucinations regardless of cultural context, while also not containing any known psychoactive compounds

"how are we going to reach all these disaffected young men turning towards radical right-wing politics in america?"

In this giving season, when funding for Indigenous languages and cultures is being slashed worldwide, YOU can help build a world where all language communities thrive! Support Ready to Revitalize 2026 and help launch 20 grassroots language revitalization projects: givebutter.com/elp2025

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪