Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

My holiday read 🥰

Very engaging discussion of the linguistic evolution and typological relations shared between Standard Arabic and Scottish Gaelic.

I will be putting out a substack discussing this so if your interested definitely consider checking it out! :)

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"In reality, modern socialism often looks less like Soviet central planning and more like a robust safety net combined with democratic governance."

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This mornings tea read :)

The Literary Times magazine is a great platform to finding up and coming writers.

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Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#History

Ah yes finals... Working on my paper comparing the representation of moral ambiguity and heroic masculinity within two of my favorite texts from this term. Alexander Pushkin's Queen of Spades and Damir Karakaš's Celebrations.

Good luck to everyone out there giving that final push for the year!

Currently reading Celebrations by Damir Karakaš.

Cannot recommend enough. Paired with aeon.co article on the lure of fascism.

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