“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.

Next year's #LinguisticLandscape Workshop (June 4-6, @unioflimerick.bsky.social) call for papers announced around the theme of "Crisis". Researchers, practitioners, educators, artists, others working on language in public space, take a look! www.linguisticlandscape17.com #AcademicSky #cfp

After more than 40 years of riding bicycles, it’s an unsettling thrill and pleasure to learn how to balance again. Riding this #halfbike, which steers from the rear with its skateboard-like truck, I’ve slowly grown in confidence, even though it still throws me sometimes. Wanna try? #bikesky

Did you know that after the 1776 Declaration of Independence, later that same year in New York over 500 loyalists to the British Crown penned and signed a Declaration of DEPENDENCE? I didn’t know (or hadn’t remembered), and was struck watching Ep. 3 of Ken Burns’ fabulous “American Revolution” 1/

A walk under the afternoon sun setting early over the Pleasanton hills turns Black Friday green ——— #walking & #nature #photography instead of #BlackFriday #shopping #nonsense

"Any person who[...]shall expose to public view[...]any article[...]upon which shall have been[…]placed a representation of the flag[...]to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark, or distinguish the article or substance on which so placed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor" US Flag Code

Those of us in the U.S—call your reps today and remind them of a basic fact: we’re supposed to be on the side of democracy. Support Ukraine!!

"A voice with no hunger. No grief. No gossip. A voice that’s never bitten itself trying not to speak. "Real language stumbles. It hesitates. It remembers." - Maria B. Olujic on the hollowness of the words of ChatGPT and other machines, in this lovely @literaryhub.bsky.social essay

AI to reach the most customers, and AI to be the most customers. AI to find the best candidate, and AI to be the best candidate. AI to design the bus stop ad, AI to read it, and wouldn’t you know it, AI to drive the f*cking bus itself. Not much room for humans in San Francisco today

Since Republicans have such a hard time pronouncing the -ic in "Democratic," I made a simplified vocabulary list for them to navigate 10 other similarly challenging words: 1. arct 2. chaot 3. civ 4. ep (my personal fave) 5. iron 6. logist 7. lyr 8. pathet 9. psychot 10. sto #language #langsky

#WeAintBuyingIt #boycott

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

I teach at SJSU. Because of this, many of my students are scared to come to campus today. I just wrote to them saying please prioritize your own well-being first, and that there will be no negative repercussions for missing class tomorrow. I feel so angry and helpless. Who are we, America?

This is the way.

Thank you, Mary Bruce. Thank you, Jamal Khashoggi.

In a city with few iconic scenes, this one comes about as close as I’ve seen: the lovely Vida Abundante mural under the reflection of the Hotel De Anza neon sign in downtown San Jose — #DTSJ #SanJose #mural #night #photo

Today may have been the first time since arriving in 2018 that I felt Fall in downtown San José ——— #autumn #leaves #streetphoto on a #rainystreet by the VTA #lightrail with #puddles in #dtsj #hownice - iPhone #photo so maybe not real #photography

Nice lessons in British directness for mealy-mouthed, timid Americans in the media

This new book examines diverse aspects of advocacy for translanguaging as a legitimate educational practice. Download the Open Access PDF free on our website! buff.ly/5UaXS9W

Drain the flooded #Epstein ̷s̷w̷a̷m̷p̷ zone and this is all that remains

Absolutely love this essay by Ross Benjamin, which counters the instrumentalist view of language as a transparent conduit of meaning. I think there's even an argument for AI-translation-as-violence, in that it simply vaporizes the vibrant socio-semiotic spaces between languages. #AcademicSky

“So, there we were. A group of Black Americans confronted with all these dead white Americans…When they were alive, we couldn’t sit in the same room” - Jefferson Wiggins, 1st Sergeant, 960th Quartermaster Service Company: www.history.com/articles/bla... Black Liberators: blackliberators.nl/en/

How can you express “Stay Strong” in other languages? We owe it to our neighbors to keep those words on the street, and to keep ourselves standing with them. #StayStrong #SanJose #SanFrancisco #Oakland #Richmond #SanMateo #RedwoodCity #Fremont #Gilroy #BayArea #SouthBay #EastBay #NorthBay #noICE

The lesson from this little episode in authoritarian idiocy seems clear: A sandwich is not a pipe bomb, a hand grenade, or a Molotov cocktail, so DO NOT TRY TO EAT THOSE OTHER THINGS

Day 2 of our learning challenge: Amigos Auto Mall is one of many San Jose businesses with names that come from, or borrow from, languages beyond English. What does “amigos” say to the public that “Friends Auto Mall” might not? #signs #linguisticlandscape #spanish #español #languages #translation

“We take our oath to the Constitution; not to kings” - Governor-elect of New Jersey @mikiesherrill.bsky.social 🎉 The #NoKings flag is flying tonight in NJ, VA, NYC, Boston, PA, CA (go #Prop50!) & around the country. A well-deserved sigh of relief to all before tomorrow’s battles!

Is the "place" in "I learn in this place" the same as the "place" in "Find your place"? You don't really have to think about it, unless you're standing there, trying to translate it. ...which, I think, is one way for human language learners to put AI (...wait for it...) in its place.

Looking down helps me look up. —— #leaves #pavement and #shadows as #nature #closeup #photo #streetphoto