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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups

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The Awards Committee is pleased to announce @slanehart.bsky.social as the 2025 Mentoring Award Recipient. Sonja’s career is defined by mentoring scholars, particularly women and linguists of color, through formal, semi-formal, and informal channels. #LSAAWARDS #Langsky

This is the book cover for Drs. H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman's Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

A6 4/5: Dr. Alim and Dr. Smitherman’s Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. is such a FUN and salient sociolinguistic read!

This is the cover for Dr. April Baker-Bell's Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy which features an illustration of a small Black child whose mouth is being covered by a much larger hand, silencing them.

This is the cover for Dr. Geneva Smitherman's Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America. The cover features ordinary Black folks, some adults and some children. Two of the children are playing a clapping game together.

A6 5/5: Of course, read Dr. April Baker-Bell’s work on Anti-Black Linguistic Racism. But also read Dr. Smitherman’s classic 1977 Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America, which Dr. Baker-Bell draws and builds upon heavily in her 2020 monograph.

A6 3/5: This text synthesizes major debates (creolist/Anglicist origins) and also emphasizes that Black Language isn’t a monolith but differs based on gender, region, class, community!

This is the cover of Dr. Sonja Lanehart's text Language in African American Communities.

A6 2/5: I really love Dr. Lanehart’s Language in African American Communities. It’s probably the text I would use as a great overview with students or pre-service/in-service teachers with its multimodal resources/references.

The art of the deal:

1. Make wild demands

2. Get nothing

3. Declare victory

Ok this one took me out

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Okay they’re still voting on stuff. The Gaetz report is supposed to be released once voting is finished. Also, right on for passing the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act.

Pretty wild that Elon’s debut as president elect was to strip funding for pediatric cancer research from the spending bill, only to watch the Senate have to pass it as a standalone bill. His first move was to fuck over kids with cancer.

Those pesky democrats tricked us into helping people.

The key takeaway is that the world’s richest man got what he wanted; stripped our cancer funding for kids, killed reforms to bring down drugs prices and caps on investment in China. Trump on the other hand demanded a debt ceiling raise and got nothing.

We are going to hear a lot over the next couple of years about how, despite controlling the White House, House, and Senate, Republicans just aren't able to get anything done because of Democrats

Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad.

I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

How Each House Member Voted on the Bills to Avoid a Government Shutdown The House passed a measure to fund the federal government for a few months, extend the farm bill and provide new disaster aid.

The House on Friday passed a measure that funds the federal government through mid-March, temporarily extends farm programs and provides new disaster aid. The bill must be passed by the Senate and signed by President Biden before midnight to avoid a shutdown. Here's how each House member voted.

“We confess that we are in bondage to sin and from our sin we cannot free ourselves. We have sinned against you in thought, word and deed in what we have done and in what we have left undone.”

Bro I don’t know how you go to church but I been starting my Sundays with this for 42 years…

Thanks to Marlyse Baptista and the Linguistic Society of America staff for pulling this event together so quickly. Another reason to be at the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.

"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death

R.I.P. 💔

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Jack Smith Moves to Dismiss Charges Against Trump in 2020 Election Case The special counsel asked a federal judge in Washington to dismiss the indictment that had charged Donald J. Trump with plotting to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.

Breaking News: Jack Smith, the special counsel, has moved to dismiss the indictment charging Donald Trump with plotting to subvert the 2020 election.

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Breaking News: Jack Smith, the special counsel, asked a judge to dismiss the classified documents case against Donald Trump, minutes after a similar request on the Jan. 6 case.

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