Vaughn
@theforestwizard.bsky.social
Hindi + Urdu, Language Pedagogy
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The IRS announced that churches and other houses of worship are now allowed to endorse political candidates to their congregations, effectively carving out an exemption to the longstanding ban on political activity by tax-exempt nonprofits.
July 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The IRS announced that churches and other houses of worship are now allowed to endorse political candidates to their congregations, effectively carving out an exemption to the longstanding ban on political activity by tax-exempt nonprofits.
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Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview.
Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.
Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.
July 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview.
Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.
Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.
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People's faith in the resilience of American democracy is maybe our biggest vulnerability.
June 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
People's faith in the resilience of American democracy is maybe our biggest vulnerability.
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just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.
June 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.
My hot take is that the ppl who say they are not disabled by their autism have likely gone their whole lives having the preponderance of their support needs met and therefore don't feel unduly limited in their lives.
"I'm not disabled by my autism" and "autism is not a disability" are not equally valid statements. The first is a personal sentiment about one's own experience. The second is a blanket, and incorrect statement about autism as a whole. (1)
June 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
My hot take is that the ppl who say they are not disabled by their autism have likely gone their whole lives having the preponderance of their support needs met and therefore don't feel unduly limited in their lives.
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Hard to argue with that.
June 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Hard to argue with that.
Visited the lovely Imambarra today!
June 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Visited the lovely Imambarra today!
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Everything we’re dealing with now is fallout from decades’ worth of mistakes that have been compounded because the people who made them have hung onto power and hidden their crimes.
God help us. What a truly awful moment and we’re all stuck here against our will.
God help us. What a truly awful moment and we’re all stuck here against our will.
June 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Everything we’re dealing with now is fallout from decades’ worth of mistakes that have been compounded because the people who made them have hung onto power and hidden their crimes.
God help us. What a truly awful moment and we’re all stuck here against our will.
God help us. What a truly awful moment and we’re all stuck here against our will.
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This isn't all of the story, but a surprisingly big part of the "fear" of Mamdani isn't actually that he'll institute full communism, it's that people's friends-and-influence groups will be demoted from their positions of authority
June 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This isn't all of the story, but a surprisingly big part of the "fear" of Mamdani isn't actually that he'll institute full communism, it's that people's friends-and-influence groups will be demoted from their positions of authority
Trying out new looks while I'm here!
June 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Trying out new looks while I'm here!
Today, in my personal Urdu tutor at the institute, for listening practice, my teacher selected a lovely talk by @ranasafvi.bsky.social regarding the book, Awadh Symphony, which has now been added to my reading list!
June 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Today, in my personal Urdu tutor at the institute, for listening practice, my teacher selected a lovely talk by @ranasafvi.bsky.social regarding the book, Awadh Symphony, which has now been added to my reading list!
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Two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, State Senator John Hoffman and State Representative Melissa Hortman, were shot in their own homes overnight.
June 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, State Senator John Hoffman and State Representative Melissa Hortman, were shot in their own homes overnight.
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The Kool-Aid Man is often depicted with a smaller pitcher of Kool-Aid: himself.
This recursive image invites a layered semiotic reading destabilizing the boundaries between subject and object, container and contained, body and commodity, to highlight a profound paradox in capitalist symbolism of
This recursive image invites a layered semiotic reading destabilizing the boundaries between subject and object, container and contained, body and commodity, to highlight a profound paradox in capitalist symbolism of
June 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Kool-Aid Man is often depicted with a smaller pitcher of Kool-Aid: himself.
This recursive image invites a layered semiotic reading destabilizing the boundaries between subject and object, container and contained, body and commodity, to highlight a profound paradox in capitalist symbolism of
This recursive image invites a layered semiotic reading destabilizing the boundaries between subject and object, container and contained, body and commodity, to highlight a profound paradox in capitalist symbolism of
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One problem with lots of the legal advice about resisting ICE going around: they don't care about the law.
Private space, they don't care.
No warrant, they don't care.
They'll kidnap you and if the mistake is egregious, they won't care.
Private space, they don't care.
No warrant, they don't care.
They'll kidnap you and if the mistake is egregious, they won't care.
June 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
One problem with lots of the legal advice about resisting ICE going around: they don't care about the law.
Private space, they don't care.
No warrant, they don't care.
They'll kidnap you and if the mistake is egregious, they won't care.
Private space, they don't care.
No warrant, they don't care.
They'll kidnap you and if the mistake is egregious, they won't care.
When we say that ableism is interwoven with all systems of oppression, we mean it!
Yesterday I was reading an article about the food "aid" sites in Gaza. None of the food is gluten free, dairy free, or low fodmap. And for the people who will scoff, Gaza has high rates of autoimmune GI diseases like Celiac, Crohn's, and Ulcerative Colitis.
That means this "aid" will kill them.
That means this "aid" will kill them.
June 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
When we say that ableism is interwoven with all systems of oppression, we mean it!
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She has short bowel syndrome, and only the U.S. offers the treatment that keeps her alive. But her family’s humanitarian parole was suddenly revoked.
Now, two months later, DHS has reversed course.
Now, two months later, DHS has reversed course.
After outcry, 4-year-old girl can stay in U.S. for lifesaving care
After a medically fragile child’s parole was abruptly revoked, her family was left undocumented and terrified. Two months later, DHS reversed course.
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June 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
She has short bowel syndrome, and only the U.S. offers the treatment that keeps her alive. But her family’s humanitarian parole was suddenly revoked.
Now, two months later, DHS has reversed course.
Now, two months later, DHS has reversed course.
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When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.
June 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.
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Reminder: jury nullification won't be in your jury instructions and is not something you're allowed to talk about in court. If you bring up jury nullification during jury selection, you WILL be thrown off the jury.
Want to nullify? Just vote to acquit. That's all nullification is: a vote to acquit.
Want to nullify? Just vote to acquit. That's all nullification is: a vote to acquit.
It’s a great time to talk to your family and friends about jury nullification 👍
June 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Reminder: jury nullification won't be in your jury instructions and is not something you're allowed to talk about in court. If you bring up jury nullification during jury selection, you WILL be thrown off the jury.
Want to nullify? Just vote to acquit. That's all nullification is: a vote to acquit.
Want to nullify? Just vote to acquit. That's all nullification is: a vote to acquit.
It's good to be back in Dilli!
June 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
It's good to be back in Dilli!
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I just want people to recognize that we've spent years watching escalation in terms of state and law enforcement violence and so, right now, things are escalating in a hurry and it's not being entirely recognized even as it gets worse and worse almost by the hour.
June 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I just want people to recognize that we've spent years watching escalation in terms of state and law enforcement violence and so, right now, things are escalating in a hurry and it's not being entirely recognized even as it gets worse and worse almost by the hour.
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my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
www.newyorker.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.
I'm so angry.
I'm so angry.
June 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.
I'm so angry.
I'm so angry.