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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 25/06/2025

raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 13/06/2025

Fascism entails this constant capacity to shock. Things once taken for granted begin to fall apart. And yet we must continue to say: Free Mahmoud Khalil.

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ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release Mahmoud Khalil

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Sara Rosenau @sararosenauling.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Anyone else going to SLA today 👀

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Sara Rosenau @sararosenauling.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Throwing out all the yogurt I just bought is gonna hurt

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Sara Rosenau @sararosenauling.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

My power’s been out from 5:30pm, no sign of it coming back any time soon. Fun times in Pittsburgh!

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Pleading for a world where the reaction to this is a return to standard operating paradigms which don't require a smartphone or an app.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17/04/2025

Whew, this conclusion from the Fourth Circuit: "We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."

It is, as we have noted, all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis, but it
may present an opportunity as well. We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe
our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American
ethos. This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the
best that is within us while there is still time.
In sum, and for the reasons foregoing, we deny the motion for the stay pending
appeal and the writ of mandamus in this case. It is so ordered.
For the Court
/s/ Nwamaka Anowi, Clerk

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

i have the transphobic author's name muted but i hope if you still somehow think it's okay to watch her shows or read her books or go to her theme parks you reckon with the fact that she is using your money to personally fund the groups that lobbied hard for the transphobic uk supreme court ruling

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

trump’s reaction (or lack thereof) to the attempt on the lives of gov. shapiro and his family ON PASSOVER is why it’s journalism malpractice to credulously report ANYTHING he does as being in service of fighting antisemitism. jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.

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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

New Yorkers, come out tomorrow!

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Sara Rosenau @sararosenauling.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Pretty sure the NYT editorial team is full of ivy leaguers who are mad they got a C sometimes

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 10/04/2025

If antisemitism and college students being offended by things pose serious threats to US foreign policy interests, (a) just what the fuck kind of mickey mouse foreign policy show are we running here; and (b) the next D president is going to have a lot of fun deporting "gender critical" students

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil" "Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs." Free this man immediately. apnews.com/article/mahm...

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Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs

The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.

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Dr Erika’s (spookily) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 10/04/2025

Friends it’s really easy to talk about how terrible someone is without: (1) playing to ableist tropes about how bad people must also be sick somehow in mind or body. or (2) Dehumanizing our enemies, who are sadly, terribly, deeply human. “He wants to kill millions of people” is enough.

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Sara Rosenau @sararosenauling.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

It’s actually a Jewish law to complain though

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Sara Rosenau @sararosenauling.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Passed my first comps paper 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Joshferatu Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately

scene from Porco Rosso; a man in a blue uniform sits next to an anthropomorphic pig in a trenchcoat, sunglasses, and hat; the pig is saying "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist."

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 27/03/2025

reading an old interview of chelsea manning from early 2016 rn and it's astounding how well she nailed the current political climate in america nearly a full decade later.

Unfortunately, I think that the biggest consequences of this tragedy won’t be clear until it is far, far too late. I think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in a new and bizarre kind of digital totalitarian state—one that looks and feels democratic on the surface, but has a fierce undercurrent of fear and technologically enforced fascism any time you step out of line. I really hope this isn’t the case, but it looks really bad right now, doesn’t it?

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.

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Sara Rosenau @sararosenauling.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Does anyone know when nwav is this year/when the cfp happens?

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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Just a reminder that "Creoles are the simplest languages of the world" is not an established fact in creolistics but very much a controversial position. Maybe not a statement linguists should uncritically repeat in passing during a lecture on an unrelated topic.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

West Bank settler extremists deserve to be seen as the Jewish equivalent of the KKK in the post-Reconstruction US South: Violent extremists acting officially independently of the state, but with tacit state support, knowing they will not be punished. If you reject that comparison, ask yourself why.

""A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.""

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Jessica Shortall @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

is ur child texting state secrets in a Signal chat? ily - I Leaked Yemen (attack details) smh - Secret Message Hahahaha tbh - Talkin 'Bout Houthis idk - I Doubt Korea (is in this signal chat) gtg - Gonna Text Goldberg

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

the main concern is that with my genetic data the government can make a tiny clone of me that they can torture to get even more of my data

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Sara Rosenau @sararosenauling.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

How do I learn to not hate editing

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Sara Rosenau @sararosenauling.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

There’s distant bagpipe music. I think the Scottish are invading Pittsburgh

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Putting an academic department is receivership literally allows the government to dictate what Columbia University professors are allowed to teach and research. It’s the textbook definition of fascist control over education and what people are allowed to know.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 19/03/2025

“You should say fewer not less” not sure if you know this but the inevitable heat death of the universe comes for all of us and you won’t be remembered

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

me before a sociolinguistics course: texting slang prevents people from learning proper english!! me after a sociolinguistics course: proper english prevents people from learning texting slang!!

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

it is imperative we send out our strongest, most experienced agents to infiltrate this kid's dorm and bully him immediately

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Look at how El Salvador’s president Bukele describes the future these captives are facing in his pinned tweet.

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Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).
The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us.
Over time, these actions, combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable. As of today, it costs $200 million per year.
On this occasion, the U.S. has also sent us 23 MS-13 members wanted by Salvadoran justice, including two ringleaders. One of them is a member of the criminal organization's highest structure.
This will help us finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS-13, including its former and new members, money,

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The United States government under Trump by all accounts is shipping these people into indefinite involuntary servitude in El Salvador without even the pretense of any judicial process, much less duly convicting them of a crime. It’s an enslaving operation.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18/03/2025

they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now

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Sara Rosenau @sararosenauling.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

great day for me to be teaching implicature

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Sara Rosenau @sararosenauling.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

the best part of teaching pragmatics is writing ridiculous situations

4. Which Gricean maxim does the following conversation violate?
x: Dude, you really shouldn’t pull all-nighters.
y: Yes, my liege. Henceforth I will retire at a reasonable time.

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