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  Every time I see one of these articles about how cracks are growing in #MAGA and in support for #Trump, it just sounds like wishful thinking. Just because you can find a handful of people who've changed their mind about him or a single poll where his already consistently low approval is slightly lower doesn't mean everything is suddenly going to become sane. It just feels like people trying really hard to be hopeful and nothing more. #GOP #Republicans #USpol #elections https://...

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  There's like a 0.0001% chance that #BrendanCarr gives a damn what any American other than #Trump thinks, but I sent in a public comment anyway. It only takes a minute, so I suggest others do, as well. #FCC #USpol #elections #midterms #AI https://apnews.com/article/fcc-political-robocalls-artificial-intelligence-ai-midterms-b97fb6e8d06704dc043556dba25de548

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  I guess it's fitting that #Trump would be handing out #science honors to #engineers and even #businesspeople rather than #scientists while cutting #funding for actual #scientificwork. (This isn't to say engineers aren't important, but it's no surprise that this admin has no idea what the difference is.) #research #USpol #NSF https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/10/08/trump-elon-musk-tech-leaders-science-awards/92151187007/

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  #Hegseth has such a dangerously warped conception of what it means to be a tough guy, let alone that the military should be the epitome of tough-guyness in the first place. This #execution is truly revolting, not only that it's happening but that it's being made public and that the guy making it public thinks caring about the executee's last request would be a sign of weakness of some sort. Just disgusting on all levels. #USpol #DoD #Trump https://apnews.com/article/for...

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  This is a blatant expression of #Whitenationalism by the #WhiteHouse. They would not be going after #OmarIlhan in this way if she wasn't who she is. (It's also insane that #JDVance is talking about this as if he's leading the #DOJ in this "investigation" and no one is batting an eyelash at how corrupt that is in itself.) #USpol #racism #midterms #elections https://apnews.com/article/ilhan-omar-home-searched-8e18c2aea948bd90f4d7a4eb32b9ec3a

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  The #academia ladder kinda feels like at each step you're told once again by those one step above you that you don't have the expertise yet to talk about such and such. Maybe it's allowed once you're emeritus from a full professorship?

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  Hm, seems you can add #RSS feeds to your #Mastodon feed using @birb@rss-parrot.net. Gonna try it out for a couple of the big #linguistics #journals in my field.

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  @amyfou @linguistics Interesting! Is this student (more or less) a native English speaker, too?

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  Discovered a new reason to get off #Github: I'm starting to received scam messages disguised as job offers. I'm definitely ready to move over to #Codeberg. #git

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  US Sanctions Zigzag: 1. [ Noun ] [ Verb Noun ] or 2. [ Noun Noun ] [ Verb ] For a sec, I was wondering what this company Zigzag had done. A lack of #titlecase would probably help some #headlines. #linguistics #syntax #orthography #NYT #US #sanctions #USpol

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  Why is #ColeAllen's #manifesto being described as anti-#Christian in the #media? He literally describes himself as a Christian in it and thanks his #church. Are we really just gonna parrot whatever characterization #Trump gives of this guy? #whitehousecorrespondentsdinner https://www.newsweek.com/cole-allen-manifesto-shooting-suspect-anti-trump-message-detailed-11880026

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  #ClarenceThomas seems to really hate #Black folks. #SCOTUS #votingrights

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  It's worth remembering just how far #US #politicians will go to protect the #profits of #capitalists and insulate those capitalists from repercussions even when that means letting them murder #workers for going on #strike as in the #Ludlowmassacre. #USpol #unions #striking #Colorado #CO #Ludlow #music #folkmusic #WoodyGuthrie https://woodyguthrie.bandcamp.com/track/ludlow-massacre-2

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  I'm shocked to see something in the news that legitimately makes me happy. #AndreTheGiant #wrestling #NorthCarolina #NC https://apnews.com/article/andre-giant-marker-north-carolina-50f72416176238154f5b652a833e814b

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  #Palantir's bizarre manifesto suggests to me that #AlexKarp is a deeply confused individual with entirely too much power.

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  Just a reminder (again) that #Obama already did what #Trump wants to do now with #Iran, and he did it without killing anyone, without threatening genocide, without upending the world economy, without alienating our allies, without strengthening #Russia, and without emboldening Iran. But Trump couldn't let a Black man's success stand, so here we are in a complete cluster fuck just so a #racist can try to take credit for something that was already done. #USpol

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  For #citations in lit reviews, #APA and #ASA styles both suggest past #tense whereas #Chicagostyle suggests present. Despite this, I can't recall ever seeing past tense used in any #academic #articles or #books, not even in the ASA's flagship #journal, #American #Sociological Review. Even when a standard is explicitly codified, it appears that those doing the codifying don't strictly adhere to it but are not criticized for these oversights. #writing #research #science #E...

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  It's bad enough that #boxing promoters have embraced #SaudiArabia's #sportswashing, and I understand why fighters who risk their lives would want more money for taking those risks, but even #Netflix is involved with facilitating their sportswashing. #FuryMakhmudov #sports #Saudi #MiddleEast

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  I have the hardest time reading W.E.B. Du Bois's name as [dubɔɪs] rather than [dybwa]. #sociology #dubois #French #linguistics #phonetics

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  Seems to me that people might be getting ahead of themselves with praising #Magyar's win over #Orbán. I mean, it's great that he's pro-#EU and anti-#Russia, but he was also part of Orbán's machine, ya know, like yesterday. A little patience before praise seems warranted. #Hungary

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  RE: https://h4.io/@joshisanonymous/116133824395357624 A good example of where Young's idea *was* put into practice is Alim's (2016) chapter on transracialization. His divergences from an academic writing style come mostly in the form of apical -ing, lexical choices, and some minor syntactic choices. Alim, H. S. (2016). Who’s Afraid of the Transracial Subject? Raciolinguistics and the Political Project of Transracialization. In H. S. Alim, J. R. Rickford, & A. F. Ball (E...

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  Pretty amazing cover from back in 1968. #Daredevil #Marvel #comics #DrDoom #DocDoom #DoctorDoom