land | sea | sky | universe —— just another #beach #photo at #dusk

The X-Files “I want to believe” says a lot about the delusional realities we face in America. The fervor over QAnon conspiracies and casual acceptance of Epstein. The disinterest in Biden’s long-term policy gains in favor of Trump’s performative outrage. The belief in aliens over climate change. 1/2

It’s Saturday in America, which means it’s a great day for a No Kings ride 🚫👑🇺🇸🚲 Fueling up at the local coffee shop #dtsj #SanJose #NoKings #NoKingsinAmerica #bikesky

The American Golden Age has finally arrived at the Sunnyvale Caltrain station, too. Take a seat, you kings and queens. But #srsly 🚫👑🇺🇸 #nokings #please #free #bathroom #photo

Thinking about the next #mla? @modernlanguage.bsky.social Send us your abstract! #mla27 #mla2027 We welcome innovative, critical, and interdisciplinary perspectives on language, society, & pedagogy. LSL – Language and Society is now accepting abstracts for MLA 2026 (guaranteed sessions)

stop and grow —— #photo #streetphoto #treephoto in #red and #blue #SanJose

The first guidebook of its kind, this all-in-one resource explores the many services and resources provided by public libraries to close the digital divide and create more digitally inclusive communities. Read an excerpt: https://bit.ly/4trQGa9

We exist in the context of all in which we live and those in Minnesota that came before us 🥥🌴💙 #Minneapolis #StPaul #TwinCities #Minnesota

“Trickle-down economics is not a theory. It is theft.” — @jamestalarico.bsky.social

"Migration in the Americas: Crossing Linguistic and Cultural Borders" - in-person grad conference on February 26-27, held by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, Coral Gables. #AcademicSky

One of these people is a cunning and heartless Imperial Officer hellbent on imposing the Empire's evil agenda on the galaxy. The other is Andor's Dedra Meero, played by the incredibly talented and humane Denise Gough

These two stories are the same one story.

When I lived in New Haven I loved being part of the Run for Refugees on Super Bowl day. Fundraising for the race gives critical support to Connecticut's Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services as they support new arrivals through life's challenges. Pic here from 2018 w/ @blumenthal.senate.gov ✌🏻 1/2

Estás listo/a? Has aprendido español, como nos pidió Bad Bunny? Are you ready? Have you learned Spanish, like Bad Bunny asked us to? Here are some basic expressions that should at least get you to the halftime show... (1/2) ----- #Spanish #4MonthChallenge #SuperBowl #SB60 #SBLX #SuperBowlLX

In this American ice age, every abandoned shoe, every outstretched hand, every ‘cleared encampment’ carries whispers of voices absenced, disappeared, and silenced. We must do better by them, for them, with them #SanJose #missing #neighbors #photo #streetphoto

Today's great coinage from Jon Stewart: the phone as WMI = Weapon of Mass Illumination 📸📱📹 In the hands of Alex Pretti and those around him, the cellphone was infinitely more powerful than the gun. But whether its recordings are used to illuminate or to obscure has just as much to do with 1/2

Today's action: Contact the Deutsche Fußball Liga (German professional football league) to support DFL VP Oke Göttlich's statement about Germany boycotting the 2026 World Cup. The link below is to their contact form; I've written a sample message in a comment to this post. #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

a Silicon Valley sunset, 1/19/2026 --- #photo from the #GuadalupeRiver #bike #trail #SanJose

South Bay friends! What are you doing at 2pm tomorrow? Want to go for a walk together? #MakeFreeAVerbAgain and #FreeAmerica

Lakeside silhouettes of the reeds at Takatakiko — Chiba Prefecture, Japan — #photo of the #light so I don’t forget about the #beauty of the #everyday

Yesterday I visited Okinawa’s Kakazu Takadai Park (嘉数高台公園), a place where thousands of Japanese and American soldiers died in April 1945. There is still a “wall of bullet holes” (弾痕の塀), a reminder of the ferocity of the battles that killed 150,000 Okinawan civilians. #WWII #history is #alive 1/2

The “Donroe Doctrine” is not complicated, and it’s not new. Whatever passes for international relations under Trump is driven by the same impulse as immigration, criminal justice, trade, and pretty much everything else: Grab ‘em by the p*ssy 1/

The CfPs for LavLang32 at Edinburgh is now OPEN! A reminder of our stellar lineup: • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE) • Prof. Erez Levon (Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Dr. Eddie Ungless (UoE) Submit a paper here: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

REVEALED: Comprehensive map of current U.S. foreign policy (scroll for detailed view)

Moonrise over Tokyo, 1/5/2026. Somehow, the earth is still turning. #photo of #moon & #skyline = #moonline

Hej, Danmark! 🇩🇰 I happened to be in Tokyo’s Daikanyama neighborhood today, where I had the chance to greet the Danish embassy, just a few days after Denmark handed over the gavel of the EU Presidency to Cypress.

Literally NOBODY voted for this imperialist power grab. Congress, do your job! @lofgren.house.gov you represent me. What actions are you taking TODAY?

“tRump builds concentration camps for 80,000 innocent U.S. residents while showing off marble armrests for Kennedy Center” Do not treat his vanity projects as separate news items. The parades, the coins, the ballroom, the toy battleships—every wasteful indulgence to his insatiable ego… 1/2

I don't have much to add to this whole convo about radical left scum. But I would just offer: If you're going to make a left turn, don't just turn to the shallow left. Make it a turn to the √ ←

🎄🎁 🛷 Merry Christmas to my fellow scum and all the other wonderful humans in the

It’s two days before Christmas, which makes it a great day for a No Kings ride around town here in San Jose. We The People have just about made it through 2025, a year of enormous damage but also renewed hope. Do you still have your #NoKings signs, hats, shirts, spirit? Please share!

You know, just spending a relaxing Saturday as one does, chilling with cats, sipping a cup of coffee, and taking note of Donald Trump's name on Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs in March 1993, May 1994, & August 1995. #EpsteinFiles B. Flight Log Released in US v. Maxwell, 1.20-cr-00330 (SDNY 2020).pdf

The 4 volumes of Epstein files that were released today by DOJ amount to a total of 2.997 GB. So, in light of the FBI memo over the summer stating that there is "more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence," that leaves at least 297.003 GB still being hidden.

BREAKING: 1-page Executive Summary from Friday’s Epstein Files release published early. Now we know what the $65,800 Sharpie line item in the DOJ budget was for…

I’m trying to figure out what mad king this cool downtown art piece by San Jose high school student Zoey Crisan reminds me of. Standing with a crown on, making faces in front of a funhouse mirror, totally immersed in his own image, with his back turned on Ukraine and the rest of the world? Hmm…

Every word is a speech act. “Remigration” means ethnic cleansing, which itself means something far worse. “Narco-terrorist” is a verbal assault made up of two allegations that must be proven first. “Self-deportation” is a moronic oxymoron that tries to convince the vulnerable… 1/2

This is what you say in the face of tragedy.

Amidst so much chaos everywhere, I felt privileged and happy to have joined the Honolulu Marathon today. 31 years ago, after having disc surgery and giving up running, I never thought I would be among the 42,000 participants who ran, walked, and (like me) shuffled and staggered 26.2 miles 1/2

This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

I’m at the departure gates at SFO and, folks, not a SINGLE pull-up bar in sight 🙀 I’m beginning to think this administration isn’t serious about improving travel…

This Christmas, downsizing is patriotic. Instead of 37 dolls for your daughter, as Dear Leader said at his rally a few days ago, "2 or 3 is nice." And instead of that extravagant (=tariff$$$) dollhouse...choose a sensibly-sized #dollADU ---- *no AI used in this image, just oldschool photoshop

If commenting on comments on commenting on the decline of democracy in the US puts us on a "bad list," then sign me up too. #TheyreComingForYourWords

sp|it —— #shadows and #light, #reflections and #shadows make for a #fascinating #streetphoto tho not quite #urbanphotography taken in #dtsj #sanjose

Thank goodness someone is taking care of this

(in 1942) “The press was filled with stories of women making do without either men or cars; brave patriotic sacrifice was the theme, not suffering.” #treebybike sounds great for 2025, too. In fact, with a cargo bike, you could bring a tray of rooted saplings for the whole neighborhood 🎄🎄🎄

While Portland’s frogs stand strong against ICE, and executive branch fascists every day denigrate the dignity of Franklin the Turtle, the stray cats are doing some serious work on the streets of San Jose #feedthestrays #fightfascism #streetphoto of #stickers in the #linguisticlandscape

December is National Learn a Foreign* Language Month, which is great, because Bad Bunny gave us 4 months to learn Spanish back in October...y algunos de nosotros hemos quedado atrás. How's your Spanish going? --- *Bad Bunny would also remind us that Spanish isn't any more "foreign" than English

Along with its fantastic array of music, internet radio site @somafm.com has this public safety scanner feed from San Francisco. Although they point out that most police traffic has been encrypted in recent years, it does make me wonder if certain other agencies can be monitored too... ⛔️🧊

Today was Friday, which means it was a good day for another No Kings ride through the San Jose streets. #NoKings #Riding #Protest 🚲

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.