This is revolting

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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This makes my night. Some of the best (and most ridiculous) work I ever did is in that repo and now it’s not lost to time.

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4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

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Weird that his own state department who issued the visas doesn't know who they issued the visas to. Feel like they could start there.

Not calling for impeachment is telling people you believe he has not committed an impeachable offense.

Very helpful info!

They hate America, the constitution, and our democracy, and want a dictatorship instead. They’re not hiding it.

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I am sincerely moved by Sen. Van Hollen. Sometimes Members of Congress do stuff that is brave. I didn’t say this while he was there, but it kind of reminded me of Rep. Leo Ryan in 1978. We need more MOCs to show the same spine for their constituents. We do NOT accept our neighbors being disappeared

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Criminalization is at the heart of the things you oppose, so you should oppose that too.

This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first. Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

Why? They'll just ignore an adverse court orders

I know I could answer this on my own but are there any languages with systematic initial devoicing a la German final devoicing? #linguistics #phonology

@graysky.app is there a way to turn on dark mode in the app?

It's Nazi code word for Jews, you purposefully ignorant boob

What's your favorite font stack for a personal website?

It is so clear that the Dem leadership is fundamentally unequipped to handle this moment

Want to know what town this is (I have some suspicions)

How long til "chat" becomes a pronoun?

all the racists who spent the last eighty years inventing cute little “you can’t prove I meant it” workarounds to do nazi signs probably feel pretty silly now that it turns out you can just sieg heil in public

On a happier note, new paper alert! Recently revised a piece with collaborators @chirila.bsky.social, Sunny Ananthanarayan, and Sophie Pierson on the digital infrastructure for language documentation. Accepted pending revisions at Language. MS: blogs.ed.ac.uk/amaliaskilto...

Calling all linguists - what do you use to manage your data? Specifically interested in those doing work with speakers and elicitation. There was never a good solution when I was active What are people using now? What does your dream piece of software look like in this space? #linguistics

I’m so sick of people saying this shit, especially elected officials. He’s the president. Declaring himself a king after issuing an order just the day before that says he’s the final authority on all laws isn’t a goddamn distraction.

This is unprecedented. The Rising Tides agreement was just with the province, but adding federal recognition in is a big deal. This is the first time Aboriginal Title land has been negotiated, rather than litigated in Canada.

Is this a grammatical sentence? What does it mean?

We need a new senate minority leader. Chuck Schumer simply is not the right person for the job

this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

Relatable

once again, kathy hochul could literally oust him tonight. she has that legal right

i'm so fucking grateful to have been raised by a teacher who read to me every single night growing up and also let me read WHATEVER the fuck i wanted

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perfect storm of jackassery right here

Letitia James of New York and 11 other state attorneys general said that they would sue over a cost-cutting initiative that had given young aides to Elon Musk broad access to the federal government’s most fundamental computer systems.

Why are these people so fucking cruel

this is all so, so stupid

We haven’t known peace in 12 days.

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

great countries - to the extent there even is such a thing - don’t have departments whose whole purpose is to tear families apart. ICE should not exist.