In Newar, saying "one-one fish" means each person got one fish. But "one-one letter is correct" means every letter is correct — no licensor needed. How does reduplication of one become every? New paper draft! #linguistics #semantics #fieldwork #reduplication #numerals eecoppock.info/SULAAAA-proc...

Somebody please stop me from spending my weekend giving a compositional analysis of this sentence.

Random realization: Black Friday should be a day when you only buy from Black-owned businesses.

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Nice intensional semantics joke

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University

ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today: www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

This is amazing.

As another round of extreme low temperatures sweeps parts of the U.S., people in dilapidated jails and prisons face an increased risk of illness and even death.

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

That’s strange! Hmm maybe it’s not an immigration agency

Links to fundraisers follow in the thread below. Please help the families who are, for a variety of reasons including race and immigration status, receiving less attention.

So it’s “we’re going to continue executing innocent people until we get those voter rolls” now

I'm proud to announce that I have reached Veggie Zero: the state of having eaten all of the vegetables that I bought

ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement. "I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish. Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature. Minneapolis, MN

Kavanaugh home invasions Kavanaugh kiddie detentions Kavanaugh pepper spray torture

Vice signaling!

It literally takes 30 minutes to get from “Airport” station to the airport in Boston.

Neil Myler and Romi Hill and I just finished our poster for the LSA in New Orleans. It's called "Voice-mismatch reciprocals in Indonesian as binary predicate conjunction." Come for the fun reduplication-looking-like thingies, stay for the binary conjunction analysis! #LSA2026

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

This is an Onion article right?

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

Welcome to the US! Just fill out these forms and show up at this place and this time and we’ll have a decision for you shortly thereafter. [Person shows up as told.] PSYCH! You’re going to torture prison right now!

In case anyone missed the memo on this

"[K]ids inside the car wash watched as their mother was taken away." "Workers were not allowed to go inside to retrieve their work permits or identification, and [ICE] made no effort to enter the facility to identify anyone they were arresting." #Massachusetts #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well

My god

Listen to the whole speech. This is history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ys...

Mid-semester release of "Invitation to Formal Semantics"! Fixes exercises in Chapter 4 (thx Adam Przepiórkowski) plus: - a how-to on type-checking in Chapter 5 by Lucas - a formally correct partial type theory in Chapter 9 (thx David Beaver, Edgar Onea, Ede Zimmermann) !! - fewer typos

I went to Nepal to do linguistic fieldwork and accidentally found myself in the middle of a revolution! Here's my little blog about it. sites.bu.edu/lislab/nepal...

This man left Costa Rica in Dec 2024 to look for work. He was in perfect health. Snatched by ICE on Dec 27, held for 8 months in Texas, and now dead. Picked up in perfect health, then deported back on an ambulance flight, and died shortly after his return. Something monstrous is going on.

📝 Sign below to support Professor Tom Alter of Texas State who was fired for speech he made in his capacity as a private citizen! ⬇️

Even corrections officers have described how the Cuyahoga County Jail’s conditions impact their physical and mental health. “Over the years, many officers said they have developed breathing problems from the air quality,” says Adam Chaloupka of the Ohio Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.

Because water for the population is just a Democrat issue. We have to do it Nepal-style, it’s the people vs the regime!

Here is the US Navy, comprised entirely of people who swore an oath to the US Constitution, building concentration camps to help Trump's fascist dictatorship ignore due process and the rule of law. The Navy is demolishing the Constitution instead of defending it against its enemies. Fuck you, Navy.

Omg. Same. DC food dispensaries are already low. My client discussion today was "they are taking our food stamps so we will steal and end up in jail. Same story different era".

Nuts to see the widespread media backpatting of Albanese after he ensures Aus critical minerals will be - Shipped to a country that'll use them for weapons and AI slop data centres instead of for the energy transition - Extracted in an env toxic way thanks to the deregulation promised in the deal

Family protest time in Evanston IL #nokingsday

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Hi from Nepal! I'm fine! It has been amazing to see, smell, hear and feel the revolution all around me. While sheltering, made this interactive map of the languages in Nepal. (Sorry it loads slowly.) A beautifully multi-lingual nation! #nepal lislab.shinyapps.io/LanguagesInN...

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Update from Nepal: Social media is shut down, including Facebook, IG, WhatsApp, and YouTube (!). TikTok and Viber still work. Officially it’s because these apps haven’t registered with the government. Local people are saying it’s to prevent political organizing prior to the election.

Today I met Dipak Tuladhar, who started a pre-school for Newar children in Kathmandu in 2003. After meeting with success, he has developed schools in other towns, and has been working with local leaders across Nepal to expand the concept to allow more kids to learn in their mother tongue.

Things that have gone in garbage trucks in sweeps in San Diego: - All bicycles regardless of condition. - Painstakingly reacquired ID documents. - Urns with human remains. - Tents with people in them.

Semantics teachers! The Fall 2025 version of "Invitation to Formal Semantics" is now available. It has major changes to Chapters 1-5 driven by new exercises and visualization of cases. Solutions to exercises soon available upon request. eecoppock.info/bootcamp/sem...