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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell

@xhunei.bsky.social
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Language teacher and radical advocate of change. Rebel without a pause. Husband and parent of bilingual kiddos. Artist, writer, musician.

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The Emmys @theemmys.tv · 16/03/2025
The #ChildrensEmmys Award for Outstanding Writing for a Preschool Animated Series goes to "Not a Mascot" | Molly of Denali (PBS Kids).
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Emmy’s are today at 8p PT. Let’s go Molly of Denali and Spirit Rangers! watch.theemmys.tv
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I made a thing! www.thegamecrafter.com/games/eesh%C...
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Eesháan!
Eesháan, wé aan adulḵáa tʼáa
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Laura Norton-Cruz, LMSW, CLC @lauritadianita.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This John Lewis quote — and the example of Civil Rights Movement participants, more broadly, feels especially needed right now.
A black quilt at the Civil Rights Memorial Museum embroidered with a John Lewis quote in white and red thread: “Freedom is not a state: It is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we must all take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.” A colorful quilt with John Lewis’ portrait and name
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My name is X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell. I work for the University of Alaska Southeast, and my pronouns are: DIVERSITY. EQUITY. INCLUSION.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
áa át déin • a lake lies there
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Their silencing must be our speaking. Words to encourage in our homes, institutions, and neighborhoods. Source: NYT
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The University of Alaska is in trouble folks. Based on these two documents, three words have been banned from public facing web pages and in many cases web pages containing these words have been deactivated. This is erasure, censorship, and the active banning of words without legal precedent.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Exquisite response by Georgetown Dean to interim USA Ed Martin On Martin's threat letter not to hire grads until Martin approves of law school curriculum: "The constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution."
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“Maybe some of the people who make fun of people for being woke are secretly jealous that those people seem to have something going for them, whether it be clarity of analysis, or solidarity ... or the ability to succeed in spite of systemic inequality,” - Davey Shlasko
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
everything is so shitty, read this story about a genuinely good man who saw he had an opportunity to save millions of lives and threw himself into doing so. the world is full of heroes like him.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
tlʼúnx̱u (noun) indifferent; mediocre | (something) mediocre, indifferent | tlʼúnx̱u yáx̱ yatee → itʼs mediocre, indifferent • tlʼúnx̱u yáx̱ sh tudinook → itʼs/theyʼre not up to par, indifferent, apathetic (JL)
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
If you think these are the only three words that will be banned, you’ve got another thing coming. Wish more people had a backbone.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
If you got AT&T in Juneau, we feel your pain and you can borrow my phone for a quick call.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Yées gaaw kax̱a.aaḵw bagel x̱asa.éeyi.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Are we like the USSR now or something? youtu.be/nS5_EQgbuLc?...
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The Beatles - Back In The U.S.S.R. (2018 Mix / Lyric Video)
YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“We have languages coming into our country. These are languages—it’s the craziest thing—they have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of. It’s a very horrible thing.” This is the dumbest stuff. Seriously stupid. Hél shantudaheen.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Both my mom and the New York Times think you should watch my stand-up special "Comfort Beyond God's Foresight" www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L9l...
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Ian Karmel | Comfort Beyond God's Foresight (Full Comedy Special)
YouTube video by 800 Pound Gorilla Media
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Was a little too rough with my dough, and it didn't rise all the way. It probably didn't help that I was singing 🎶 rise up! rise up! 🎶 from Hamilton. The dough said nah.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Anybody notice this? When the bullyboy prez decided to confront the Governor of Maine, Janet Mills, she said, “I’m complying with state and federal laws,” and he showed his narcissism with, “I am the federal law,” but switched to “we” after blurting “I’m …”
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Since Apartheid Child’s deadline approaches, here is my bullet list of accomplishments for last week: 1) baked a loaf of bread B) experimented with interchangeability of numbers and letters 3) made a list of five things 4) drank coffee with few resultant ring stains 5) made words in two languages
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I am committed to sharing the cookies I just baked, but have hereby banned the words “share,” “taste,” and “have.” To reiterate, I am and always will be committed to sharing what I consider mine and mine alone.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
According to you, do cats and dogs have four feet or two hands and two feet?
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
In November of last year, I gave a talk. youtu.be/NnJyjAV1V_o?...
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Lance Twitchell: Intergenerational Transmission: From Time Immemorial to Eternity
YouTube video by Indigenous Language Institute
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Check this out! We need some laughter right now. Great stuff @iankarmel.bsky.social !
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
fascism is harder to spell than to see these days. howʼd we get so gross and how did so many of you vote for this big olʼ scam?
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
To send a message to the Board of Regents, email ua-bor@alaska.edu. To speak with Board of Regents staff, call 907-450-8010.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Yeah, this is the one
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Please reply to this post with approx. 5 bullets of what yummy things you cooked this week and cc your manager. Failure to respond will be taken as a request for recipes.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
"Because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Wait. So a convicted felon is ... (checks notes) ... NOT a reliable leader?
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Remember when we had a constitution AND three branches of government. Those were good times. Future opening line for a novel about this era we find ourselves in: It was the best of times, it was the fascistest of times.
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Maddie @madrigal.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I’m watching Watership Down (1978) for the first time and realizing we just don’t scare kids with art like we used to.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I would hope that other buildings have signs that say astronomical men, English men, philosophical men, and musical men.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The Annual Oratory Showcase was today, and I mentioned Kaayistaan Marie Olson, who made the great journey recently. She was a housepost at the University of Alaska Southeast, and was at every convocation to give the welcoming address until her health prevented her from doing so.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I see your motion, and raise you a revolution.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
If you mess up one of the consonants when typing "to do so" then youʼre done for.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRhD...
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Marie and X'unei: A Conversation on Language (Full)
YouTube video by University of Alaska Southeast
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Good game, Canada! 🇨🇦 Sorry the bully who obtained 31.6% of registered voters is a tuḵx̱ʼé to you all on social media. Governance by outlandish declarations and tweets that could be written by gradeschool bully is so unpleasant. Iʼve always enjoyed the people I know in Canada, and the maple cookies.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Your outie can parallel park in less than 20 seconds. Your outie can roller-skate... with grace. Your outie pays all of his gas and electric bills within three business days. Your outie once captured a butterfly. Your outie does not live in a developing dictatorship led by a bullying potatohead.
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“Historical illiteracy” is the new word for “reality” I guess.
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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Federal employees & LGBTQ+ folks: Anchorage attorney Caitlin Shortell is taking consultations on certain adverse employment actions & estate planning for LGBTQ people in this “current situation.” Caitlinshortell@shortelllaw.com.
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Matt Acuña Buxton @matt.akmemo.com · 19/02/2025
Really good, clear-eyed reporting by the Empire on Begich’s sham of a town hall. #akleg www.juneauempire.com/news/this-is...
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‘This is no town hall. This is propaganda’; Begich takes heat at first virtual constituent forum | Juneau Empire
Congressman set to deliver his first joint address to the Alaska Legislature on Thursday.
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Joey Clift @joeytainment.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Tonight in Seattle!
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“Dear Colleague” is the new “Under His Eye.”
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X̱’unei Lance Twitchell @xhunei.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
If you’re cooking for the kids and some of their friends, just know that Costco sells a spicy marinara that is 99% identical and adjacent to the non-spicy marinara.
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