“No room at the Inn” is a biblical reference about immigrants (Jesus’ parents) being turned away. Not the government. Way to go, Hilton! The 3rd Amendment protects private entities from having to house the government.

Take it from a Filipino, even if you despise the current rulers of your country, you will live to regret the day the United States comes in to remove them

If you’re a person that celebrates Epiphany, remember that the magi engaged in righteous civil disobedience when they took another road home and didn’t snitch to Herod. The lesson is that the right thing is often the opposite of what elected leaders want you to do.

Reached out to the White House and the Pentagon to ask what they know about the death toll of their strikes in Venezuela. The White House referred us to the Pentagon. And the Pentagon referred us to the White House.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

If ever there were a time you might want a separate but equal branch of the United States government to run a check on the president, it would be now ….

“Those who advocate for international law may now find themselves appealing to a vanishing world order in which Venezuela is the latest burial in an already crowded graveyard.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Seriously debating whether to use the same dedication for my memoir...

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finally, we're living through precedented times

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

11 Jul 2025

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

will literally never forgive any of you that excused this, and used that bullshit 60k number for months. yall are fucking dead to me

Having a kinda productive first day of the new year unpacking nearly all the rest of our boxes after a month and a half of moving into this place. I can see why it can take some people several months or even years to completely unpack.

First draft of chapter finally submitted! 🎊 And before the new year begins!

Completely engrossed in Kuang’s “Babel”. This is my kind of story…

"Your annual linguistic anthropological reminder: ideas about grammatical correctness typically reveal much more about the anxieties and investments in hierarchy of those who propagate them than the language use of those they target." (Jonathan Rosa)

If you go to the suburbs of Houston and Sugarland, you will see thriving Indian communities that belong in a sitcom. But what happens when Republicans turn against not only illegal immigration but nonwhite LEGAL immigration? good @polgreen.bsky.social piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

Woot! I think I'm about ¾ done with my chapter writing and should be able to finish by EOD tomorrow. #HahWhatBreak

Lawyers for Mustapha Kharbouch’s legal team slammed people who spread rumors about him being the Brown shooter. "The past few days have been an unimaginable nightmare. I woke up on Tuesday morning to unfounded, vile, Islamophobic, and anti-Palestinian accusations being directed toward me online.

Fun fact some folks may not know about me given the usual topics I've been presenting on the past few years: I'm a formal linguist by training with great interest in cognitive lx. The first time I did research on Deaf Ed was when I was already in my doctoral program & working on my dissertation.

There are many books about #extinction, but this one is different. "Ghosts Behind Glass" is a brilliant reflection on the specimens of extinct species that @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social encountered on display in #museums around the world: what are the stories being told, and why are they important?

The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” * read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

Happy to (accidentally) find out that a course I've been teaching that I thought has become a biannual offering (in the once-every-couple-of-years sense) is being offered again Fall semester next year even though I just taught it this semester.

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

Goddamnit. Found out after a facial yesterday that my eyes are allergic to anything rubbed on eyelids or the area around them so Zyrtec-ing it until kingdom come.

My 5yo says the darnest things-- Me: Hey, ok so I'm flying away again to a conference end of Jan. for about 3-4 days. Be good, ok? 5yo: 😩 Me: But I'll be working so we can kinda earn more $$$, ok? 5yo: Then go away for 5 days! (1 of 2)

Finally finished grading last night. Now focusing on the chapter I'm writing that's due in three weeks.

Warm oceans seem to be turning even 'weak' cyclones into deadly rainmakers Even when storms are not especially strong in wind terms, the amount of rain they carry is increasing For every degree of global warming, atmosphere holds about 7% more moisture. phys.org/news/2025-12...

Israel is still throttling the aid supply to Gaza. And Britain is still supplying Israel with arms and maintaining normal diplomatic relations. The genocide continues, as does British complicity. 26 months and counting. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

Telling disabled people they're being rude for stating facts about the political situation is ableism disguised as respectability politics. Ive heard it said to me so many times this year that i have to tell you to take a moment to think about why youre being an asshole

Israel still won’t let international journalists into Gaza.

Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says

National Day of Mourning 2025 at Plymouth Rock.

Needing to teach one of our senior cats how to walk down the stairs is not on our moving homes bingo card.

Moving day tomorrow. Wish us luck!

If we invest in education the way we (involuntarily) do in “defence,” imagine what an amazing populace we’d have!

Soon making good my promise to delete my Instagram account and be rid of Meta for good. If you’re following me there and don’t see me anymore after this week, that’s what’s up.

We’re moving in 5 days to a duplex with easy access to the outside as opposed to our current apartment on the 3rd floor. Hoping I haven’t made the wrong decision and made it easier for 1CE to get me in the new place…

I will not be watching or reading any "analyses" about the Democratic party in D.C. I know all about them & their complicity. I'm not interested and I choose to reclaim my time and attention. There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).

My two year old has more courage when he dared to follow through with his threat to leave the house naked today if he can’t bring frozen waffles on the car.

Also, being blamed is temporary if they can deliver something they will be loved for. These fucking cowards apparently have no stomach for uncertainty or their own capacity to get anything done. Loser behavior through and through.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous