i'll give it to nyc this one time

raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

Fascism entails this constant capacity to shock. Things once taken for granted begin to fall apart. And yet we must continue to say: Free Mahmoud Khalil.

Anyone else going to SLA today 👀

Throwing out all the yogurt I just bought is gonna hurt

My power’s been out from 5:30pm, no sign of it coming back any time soon. Fun times in Pittsburgh!

Pleading for a world where the reaction to this is a return to standard operating paradigms which don't require a smartphone or an app.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

My neighborhood 😓

it’s official, #JDVanceKilledThePope

Whew, this conclusion from the Fourth Circuit: "We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."

i have the transphobic author's name muted but i hope if you still somehow think it's okay to watch her shows or read her books or go to her theme parks you reckon with the fact that she is using your money to personally fund the groups that lobbied hard for the transphobic uk supreme court ruling

trump’s reaction (or lack thereof) to the attempt on the lives of gov. shapiro and his family ON PASSOVER is why it’s journalism malpractice to credulously report ANYTHING he does as being in service of fighting antisemitism. jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.

New Yorkers, come out tomorrow!

Also belts for some reason

Pretty sure the NYT editorial team is full of ivy leaguers who are mad they got a C sometimes

If antisemitism and college students being offended by things pose serious threats to US foreign policy interests, (a) just what the fuck kind of mickey mouse foreign policy show are we running here; and (b) the next D president is going to have a lot of fun deporting "gender critical" students

well this is frightening

"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil" "Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs." Free this man immediately. apnews.com/article/mahm...

Friends it’s really easy to talk about how terrible someone is without: (1) playing to ableist tropes about how bad people must also be sick somehow in mind or body. or (2) Dehumanizing our enemies, who are sadly, terribly, deeply human. “He wants to kill millions of people” is enough.

should i stock up on lao gan ma

It’s actually a Jewish law to complain though

Passed my first comps paper 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately

reading an old interview of chelsea manning from early 2016 rn and it's astounding how well she nailed the current political climate in america nearly a full decade later.

The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.

I do very serious work

Does anyone know when nwav is this year/when the cfp happens?

Just a reminder that "Creoles are the simplest languages of the world" is not an established fact in creolistics but very much a controversial position. Maybe not a statement linguists should uncritically repeat in passing during a lecture on an unrelated topic.

West Bank settler extremists deserve to be seen as the Jewish equivalent of the KKK in the post-Reconstruction US South: Violent extremists acting officially independently of the state, but with tacit state support, knowing they will not be punished. If you reject that comparison, ask yourself why.

is ur child texting state secrets in a Signal chat? ily - I Leaked Yemen (attack details) smh - Secret Message Hahahaha tbh - Talkin 'Bout Houthis idk - I Doubt Korea (is in this signal chat) gtg - Gonna Text Goldberg

United States of Infomercials

the main concern is that with my genetic data the government can make a tiny clone of me that they can torture to get even more of my data

How do I learn to not hate editing

There’s distant bagpipe music. I think the Scottish are invading Pittsburgh

Putting an academic department is receivership literally allows the government to dictate what Columbia University professors are allowed to teach and research. It’s the textbook definition of fascist control over education and what people are allowed to know.

“You should say fewer not less” not sure if you know this but the inevitable heat death of the universe comes for all of us and you won’t be remembered

me before a sociolinguistics course: texting slang prevents people from learning proper english!! me after a sociolinguistics course: proper english prevents people from learning texting slang!!

it is imperative we send out our strongest, most experienced agents to infiltrate this kid's dorm and bully him immediately

Look at how El Salvador’s president Bukele describes the future these captives are facing in his pinned tweet.

The United States government under Trump by all accounts is shipping these people into indefinite involuntary servitude in El Salvador without even the pretense of any judicial process, much less duly convicting them of a crime. It’s an enslaving operation.

they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now

great day for me to be teaching implicature

the best part of teaching pragmatics is writing ridiculous situations