I’m pissed off. Ask yourself why, thousands of Puerto Ricans with no potable water to drink for more than a week was not major news here on the mainland?
The MSM doesn’t give a flying f*ck about PR, and neither does the Orange dude occupying the White House.
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
The fact that so many people think celebrating the end of slavery in the US is “DEI” is actually clarifying of what they mean when they use DEI. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...
#CaribbeanMatters: ‘Hurricane Trump’ is wreaking havoc on Puerto Rico
While folks on the U.S. mainland are reeling from the impact of deranged oval office mandates, executive orders, and policies, Puerto Rico is also hurting at the hands of President Donald Trump.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Just learned I spooked the American Cochlear Implant Alliance so much with my Lancet commentary they called it out in their January newsletter. I can receive no higher compliment so you can find the Lancet paper here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 1/2
The new French trains are gawgeous. The new Amtrak line is also very very pretty. People in the US do not use Amtrak enough.
So. My partner and I just adopted a brother sister bonded cat pair.
Am I superstitious and geeky that I had a reaction when the vet informed us that their recorded names were Telperion and Laurelin?
Probably ;)
A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
#skybrary #skybrarians #booksky
I’ll bring some more
I think the temperatures and political climate might be even hotter this summer
You may regret this phrasing.
Poisoning Americans to make a dollar in profit. Enjoy your sewage everyone!
I’m seeing lots of What Will Happen Chicken Little questions. Makes me wonder which organizations are US Deaf organizations collaborating with to ensure protections for language rights? Americans Against Language Barriers released a statement.
This is a subskeet of like 6 essays I've read recently but "I'm angry the author wrote about different kinds of experiences and ideas instead of writing a book that reflects my exact feelings and preferences and beliefs back to me" isn't really an interesting critique.
I completely feel this post
That’s a new fun extreme… reminds me of an old movie. “Whatever it is, I’m against it!” Groucho Marx was wise
I feel that’s manipulation of people though. It impacts kids too. We need regulation and people dedicated to journalistic principles to change that.
I think this is an important point. News WOULDA been decent information, once. In the last 10-maybe 15-years it hasn’t been. It’s been confusing to find truth. Some don’t have great stamina for this stuff and now their neural pathways just won’t. Do. It. They got a simpler guide.
Algorithms have encouraged our natural bias in this area. Half of what we see should reflect opposing opinions but for the last ten years algorithms have fed us what we wanted to hear and we no longer understand how to live in a nation of different opinions. We’re “hurt” by it when it is natural.
I think that’s a dangerous assumption. I don’t think there’s a whole group of uncurious people. I think disinformation wouldn’t be so successful if people weren’t seeking answers. We just assume that answers right for us must be answers right for all. So do those on the other side of the divide.
Allison Winters is one journalist: pagosadailypost.com/2025/02/20/a...
What’s happening right now to US Farms who have been denied grant money? Any reporters covering their situations?
CELEBRATING BLACK EXCELLENCE: My cousin, Dr. Shirley Jeanne Allen, was the first Black Deaf woman in the US to earn a doctoral degree.
www.dailymoth.com/blog/black-d...
Matt Maxey killed this.
Here’s his business: deafinitelydope.org
Has anyone done an analysis of Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show through the lens of the 13 principles of BLM? I’d love to read it.
You mean there might be a reason for regulations?
Denise Oliver Velez is and has been one of the best reporters at Daily Kos dropping history and knowledge on a daily basis. Enjoy. Happy Black History Month.
I quote Robertson Davies in response: “It’s a class thing,” said Wilson Tinney... “Dog must be loving and beloved, but not a social equal. Certainly not a superior... That wouldn’t do at all.”
People are perpetual suckers for ‘free’ stuff which escalates into toweringly expensive programs either in terms of cash or advertising.
Nice writeup!
Thank you for continuing this work. It has become a mainstay of my work in Deaf education.
Autonomy goes to the core of what is happening now in the US in Deaf education. I fear too many are learning what Tarra called “The habit of full dependence” in 1878.
