Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist): The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
I finally finished reading "Kingdom of Characters" by Jing Tsu. What a journey for the modern version of the Chinese language! Politics, personalities, engineering, linguistics, computer coding and so much more. :-) bookshop.org/p/books/lang...
26.12.2025 03:08
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MoCo Honk Report (Yom Kippur edition): 23 minutes, 152 honks, including one massive VHC! Also, a fist bump and a guy who walked by telling me he's been thinking he should do the same thing and "what you're doing is fantastic." @jamieraskin.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @jatucker.bsky.social
03.10.2025 00:32
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Also, normally one or two people take a photo of me. But today I counted at least 6 people taking my photo. Special props to my neighbors Sarah, Dahna and Sam for the walk-by honk and high 5s. :-) @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov
05.06.2025 21:55
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Honk Report Thurs pm: 25 mins, 191 honks, 4 VHCs, one of them capped off by a super loud shave-and-a-haircut from a giant truck with a Maryland logo.
05.06.2025 21:55
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Calling on engaged civil society to meet this moment defending our democracy… each in our own way, reach out to neighbors, find one thing you can do this week— who can make a poster and put it in your window, facing the street, sharing your support for democracy? What will your poster say?
24.03.2025 21:08
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More on changing public opinion
A podcast episode gets into what's possible
Great metaphor. "If Murphy’s statement is a bracing shot of whiskey, recent statements by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are dixie cups of watered-down water-flavored LaCroix." smotus.substack.com/p/more-on-ch...
12.03.2025 16:20
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12.03.2025 14:54
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Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor’s response to interim US Attorney Ed Martin’s letter calling the school’s curriculum “unacceptable.” Bravo.
06.03.2025 21:05
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Just batshit insane that four 'justices' who thought Biden lacked authority to cancel student debt think Trump has authority to renege on lawfully contracted work already performed
05.03.2025 14:52
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That’s right. 🇺🇦
04.03.2025 00:52
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That's right! Come on by for Fed Fridays - have a cup of joe on us. We'll get through this. You can sign up for our newsletter chock full of other free events and goings-on at peoplesbooktakoma.com
21.02.2025 20:31
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CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
It is absolutely unacceptable for the Trump administration to purge the CDC of important scientific data that matters to millions of people. I refuse to let ideologues stomp out evidence-based objective research—we all need to speak out. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
02.02.2025 00:56
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Free for an Open Government chat?
Hi colleagues in the open government world.
My calendar recently "freed up" this Friday, February 7, 2025 at 1pm Eastern. I thought it would be a great time to get folks together from the wider open ...
My calendar recently "freed up" this Fri, Feb. 7 at 1pm ET. Seems like a great time to have an impromptu chat with others in #opengov about how things are going.
Would love to catch up with anyone I haven't seen in a while or meet new people in the community.
RSVP: forms.gle/XVoiLy2SFfjX...
02.02.2025 01:48
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The Eagles are in the Superbowl so I'm drawing my sweat stained old eagles hat every day until the big game. #eagles #philadelphiaeagles #flyeaglesfly #superbowl
02.02.2025 01:53
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USAIDStopWork
www.usaidstopwork.com
01.02.2025 00:50
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Law School Now Requires Students To Get Artificial Intelligence Certification
Likely the first of many.
Case Western Law seems to be the first one to do this. Will this be the new way-of-the-law-school-world? (And more importantly, are there any legal English implications for this? :-)
abovethelaw.com/2025/01/law-...
24.01.2025 13:13
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Day 57 large-scale, continuous; day 87 overall. Theatres disobedience rally marches to the main protest site, Rustaveli. We have two demands:
New, free and fair elections;
The release of the regime prisoners.
#GeorgiaProtests
23.01.2025 17:15
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Recommend any actions necessary to protect the American people from the actions of foreign nationals who have undermined or seek to undermine the fundamental constitutional rights of the American people, including, but not limited to, our Citizens’ rights to freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion protected by the First Amendment, who preach or call for sectarian violence, the overthrow or replacement of the culture on which our constitutional Republic stands, or who provide aid, advocacy, or support for foreign terrorists;
This is very much the language they used in Hungary and Russia to go after people, universities, and nonprofit organizations with a hint of foreign connection.
Note the language "replacement of the culture." Yep, that's aimed at Muslims and Jews.
from this EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
21.01.2025 03:34
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That was definitely a Nazi salute.
21.01.2025 00:51
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Wow.
17.01.2025 17:18
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Not to mention checks and balances.
17.01.2025 17:17
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Also frustrating from a legal English perspective bc now I’m going to have to re-work how I teach the three branches of government.
17.01.2025 17:09
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