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Academic translators who do it for walking around money, what are your rates?
Professional translators, what are yours and do you feel that me doing this because I have another source of income undercuts your work?
Professional translators, what are yours and do you feel that me doing this because I have another source of income undercuts your work?
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Academic translators who do it for walking around money, what are your rates?
Professional translators, what are yours and do you feel that me doing this because I have another source of income undercuts your work?
Professional translators, what are yours and do you feel that me doing this because I have another source of income undercuts your work?
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Every ranking member of a House or Senate committee should be doing exactly this.
NEW: If Republicans won’t conduct oversight of Trump’s unconstitutional and cruel immigration policies that kidnap and disappear immigrants of all statuses, I will.
Today’s Shadow Hearing will focus on how his actions are destroying U.S. families and communities.
Today’s Shadow Hearing will focus on how his actions are destroying U.S. families and communities.
September 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Every ranking member of a House or Senate committee should be doing exactly this.
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No man, this is what happened stop lying
June 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
No man, this is what happened stop lying
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Sometimes I do feel like messaging is a lot simpler than people make it out to be.
McGovern: "You are literally taking food off kids' plates to buy Elon Musk another yacht. I guess he's getting a good return on his campaign donations ... this is not policy. This is theft."
May 21, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Sometimes I do feel like messaging is a lot simpler than people make it out to be.
Good thing he can't read, or we'd be opening Angel Island back up as well.
May 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Good thing he can't read, or we'd be opening Angel Island back up as well.
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PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
bookshop.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
I don't know why Elon Musk is sitting in on Pentagon briefings. If he wants to know about war contingencies for China he can just head on into the shitter at Mar-a-lago like everyone else with a guest pass.
March 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I don't know why Elon Musk is sitting in on Pentagon briefings. If he wants to know about war contingencies for China he can just head on into the shitter at Mar-a-lago like everyone else with a guest pass.
Two part panel on "Projecting the Future Across Asia"
asianstudies.confex.com/asianstudies...
Come see us!
#AAS2025
asianstudies.confex.com/asianstudies...
Come see us!
#AAS2025
March 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Two part panel on "Projecting the Future Across Asia"
asianstudies.confex.com/asianstudies...
Come see us!
#AAS2025
asianstudies.confex.com/asianstudies...
Come see us!
#AAS2025
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A questionable method for grading midterms more quickly:
a) grade one midterm
b) count stack of midterms
c) count stack of midterms, this time from the bottom
d) repeat steps a-c 3 times, then take a well-deserved break
a) grade one midterm
b) count stack of midterms
c) count stack of midterms, this time from the bottom
d) repeat steps a-c 3 times, then take a well-deserved break
March 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A questionable method for grading midterms more quickly:
a) grade one midterm
b) count stack of midterms
c) count stack of midterms, this time from the bottom
d) repeat steps a-c 3 times, then take a well-deserved break
a) grade one midterm
b) count stack of midterms
c) count stack of midterms, this time from the bottom
d) repeat steps a-c 3 times, then take a well-deserved break
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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I know it's only February, but I'm sure ready for 2020 to be over.
February 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I know it's only February, but I'm sure ready for 2020 to be over.
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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
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Turnabout is fair play.
February 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Turnabout is fair play.
CFP MLA 2026 Guaranteed Panel:
"The Afterlives of Protest: Representations of Protest in the Sinophone World"
MLA Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Executive Committee seeks submissions for a guaranteed panel for MLA 2026 in Toronto.
"The Afterlives of Protest: Representations of Protest in the Sinophone World"
MLA Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Executive Committee seeks submissions for a guaranteed panel for MLA 2026 in Toronto.
February 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
CFP MLA 2026 Guaranteed Panel:
"The Afterlives of Protest: Representations of Protest in the Sinophone World"
MLA Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Executive Committee seeks submissions for a guaranteed panel for MLA 2026 in Toronto.
"The Afterlives of Protest: Representations of Protest in the Sinophone World"
MLA Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Executive Committee seeks submissions for a guaranteed panel for MLA 2026 in Toronto.
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Masha Gessen offers up a typology of all the different ways that people "obey in advance":
1. responsibility for others
2. To serve a "higher purpose"
3. The pragmatism of picking and choosing one's battles
4. The "if-I-don’t-do-it-someone-else-will argument"
5. The zeitgeist argument
1. responsibility for others
2. To serve a "higher purpose"
3. The pragmatism of picking and choosing one's battles
4. The "if-I-don’t-do-it-someone-else-will argument"
5. The zeitgeist argument
In which there are many reasons to obey and one not to. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey
The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Masha Gessen offers up a typology of all the different ways that people "obey in advance":
1. responsibility for others
2. To serve a "higher purpose"
3. The pragmatism of picking and choosing one's battles
4. The "if-I-don’t-do-it-someone-else-will argument"
5. The zeitgeist argument
1. responsibility for others
2. To serve a "higher purpose"
3. The pragmatism of picking and choosing one's battles
4. The "if-I-don’t-do-it-someone-else-will argument"
5. The zeitgeist argument
Educators, how many weeks did it take you to go from "if you type it, you'll use Chat-GPT, so I'm having you answer reading questions in class," to "your hand-written answer is the result of studying a Chat-GPT summary of the text, not the actual text"?
February 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Educators, how many weeks did it take you to go from "if you type it, you'll use Chat-GPT, so I'm having you answer reading questions in class," to "your hand-written answer is the result of studying a Chat-GPT summary of the text, not the actual text"?
I guess worse things from The Simpsons have come true, but all the same, does everything from The Simpsons have to come true?
January 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I guess worse things from The Simpsons have come true, but all the same, does everything from The Simpsons have to come true?
The MLA Forum for Modern and Contemporary Chinese invites self-nominations for executive committee candidates. Committee members serve a five-year term, beginning at the MLA Annual Convention in 2026, and must retain MLA membership and regularly attend the MLA Convention during this period.
January 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The MLA Forum for Modern and Contemporary Chinese invites self-nominations for executive committee candidates. Committee members serve a five-year term, beginning at the MLA Annual Convention in 2026, and must retain MLA membership and regularly attend the MLA Convention during this period.
Suddenly wanting to learn the ins and outs of topping off someone's jail kitty so they have all the ramen, cigarettes, and toothpaste they could possibly need while they are inside.
December 10, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Suddenly wanting to learn the ins and outs of topping off someone's jail kitty so they have all the ramen, cigarettes, and toothpaste they could possibly need while they are inside.
Man, Trump really does have a head start on his incoming term.
November 27, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Man, Trump really does have a head start on his incoming term.
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Must be a pretty good telenovela to be watching it at full volume on the toilet in Withers Hall. I'd ask the guy, but that would have felt weird.
November 22, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Must be a pretty good telenovela to be watching it at full volume on the toilet in Withers Hall. I'd ask the guy, but that would have felt weird.