I’m so jealous. I almost took a “living Latin” course before the program was shut down. In high school I took Japanese (there was a Japanese company that purchased a factory in our tiny southern town).

Same. I had a friend once comment that he was surprised I was taking a French class, and not something more interesting/obscure. I duly showed him all my research into tutoring for Gaelic and the Cayuga language.

ME TOO

For what it’s worth, I started following you and ultimately subscribed to your fantastic newsletter because of the brouhaha. ❤️

Note: we were *very* far away and left when the wind shifted in our direction. The gas cloud is extremely toxic!

To groups like ICE/police this is a feature not a bug.

I get that, I really do. But I grew up in a part of the country where unauthorized paramilitary groups flourished, and I think it’s important to both recognize and fight back against state sponsored violence *as well as* the fact that these groups often aim to infiltrate “official” organizations.

That may be true but there were also guys there wearing patches with white supremacist-associated iconography. And my point about anyone being able to buy badges and patches online still stands - how many of them were actually employed by the agencies they were claiming to represent?

Like literally anyone can buy tactical gear online. Patches too.

At this point if I see a guy in tactical gear of any kind my first thought is white supremacist paramilitary, and “official” patches are so easy to obtain online that it doesn’t matter to me if they’ve got them.

❤️ to you, I’m so sorry.

I do but I haven’t posted any here. I need to get on that.