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On the Language of Global Politics
Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
Kremlin Responds to Zelensky’s “Unhinged” Christmas address
Goodbye to Language: The Year in Trumpspeak
Woke — Weaponized language
It’s Not Where the Cookie Crumbles: Memoir as a Process of Enlightenment, Emancipation and Reclaiming Innocence
Western elites fear a ‘globalised intifada’ because they are its targets, not Jews
Nonprofits Purge Websites of Diversity Language in Futile Attempt to Appease MAGA Inquisitors
One word sums up climate politics in 2025: Greenlash
Murder on the High Seas?
The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.
🔰 NeoBASIC Language: Transpiler to C++ (and others)
Marks on the Calendar: Two Years into Eradication of a People, “So Move on”!
Open and Shut
‘My mana reignited’: Attendees leave world’s largest Indigenous education conference feeling inspired
Cuba’s Internationalist Legacy in Africa — Part I: Doctors of Liberation
World’s largest indigenous education conference kicks off in Auckland
The climate paradox of having a dog
Are we all living in Florida now? The rise of ‘don’t say climate’ politics.
Bóthar
Chatbot Dystopia: The Quick March of AI Sycophancy
Video of singer using colourful language against govt in front of UP CM Adityanath & Ravi Kishan is doctored
Why Democrats aren’t talking about climate change much anymore
Why Democrats aren’t talking about climate change much anymore
The strategy behind Trump’s climate catchphrase, the ‘Green New Scam’
Coattails
The Go Paradox: Why Fewer Features Create a Better Language for Senior Developers
Cubits: The Language of the Universe #QuantumComputing #Physics #sshq
‘Bangladeshi language’ row: Amit Malviya’s arguments uninformed, logically flawed & factually incorrect
English in the Trenches
‘People have stopped using it’: Culture secretary warns of complacency over Cook Islands Māori
The Paranoia of Officialdom: Age Verification and Using the Internet in Australia
Debunking Israeli Propaganda in Times of Genocide
Oh, Darn, the Ultimate Victims Have Cornered the Market on Nazism
Answering Questions from the Public
Donegal to Galway to Clare
Gleann Cholm Cille
Language of Domination — First Contact and Tiokasin Ghosthorse’s Intuitive Language
The Entire History of English in 22 Minutes
Why the federal government is making climate data disappear
Louisiana is the latest state to greenwash gas
‘Our Hands Are Loud’: Documentary Creates a New Visual Language to Tell a Trailblazer’s Story
Progressive Comradeship During the Trump Times
Nothing to Say, Ma
Nothing to Say, Ma
Irish odyssey
Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time
Language Row: News outlets take down stories on Amit Shah’s controversial English remark
Directive to Iran: Retaliation Bad; De-Escalation Good
How one South American country has held on to its Indigenous language
New Zealand’s foreign policy stance on Palestine lacks transparency
Ngugi wa Thiong’o: The Death of a Radical Writer and Novelist
Ahh, Little Red Barns Don’t Exist Anymore, Israel Was Never a Democracy, and Neither US the Shining City on the Hill
Title VI Invoked to Curb Pro-Palestinian Language in Higher Ed
A life of service: celebrating the career of Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban
UltraViolet Action Denounces Inclusion of “Nonprofit killer” Language in MAGA Reconciliation Package
House Committee Adds Language to Budget Legislation That Would Give Trump Unchecked Powers to Crush Dissent
NZ celebrates Rotuman as part of Pacific Language Week series
Language as Liberation: One Man’s Mission to Teach ASL in Prison
The National Weather Service is once again translating life-saving alerts. What happened?
RFA announces mass layoffs, shutdown of major language services
Finding the Spectacular in the Society of the Spectacle
Maura Finkelstein on Academic Freedom, Jewish, Zionism, and Palestine
Peppa Pig in Tibetan language to preserve Tibet’s culture | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
Peppa Pig, children’s animated series, now in Tibetan language
At the Lost and Found
Millions of Americans don’t speak English. Now they won’t be warned before weather disasters.
Are There Trump Internment Camps for Political Opponents in America’s Future?
Netizens demand China reinstate Tibetan language use in schools
The USDA is unfreezing clean energy money — but ‘inviting’ grant recipients to remove DEI and climate language
Companies used to tout their climate plans. Under Trump, they’ve gone quiet.
Singer-songwriter Neko Case on observing how language affects our past, present and future
CIA Code
The climate movement is talking about carbon all wrong, a new book argues
How New Zealand is venturing down the road of political upheaval
In Trump’s new purge of climate language, even ‘resilience’ isn’t safe
Scientists remove “DEI” language out of research proposals
Forget about your carbon footprint. Try ‘climatemaxxing.’
The meaning of “AI”
Unsaid
Indo-Fijian ‘listen to us’ plea to NZ over Pacific ethnicity classification
Trump’s Night at the Garden: Racist Campaign Rally Adopts Language of Fascism and Violence
Cringeworthy Words in the Battle of Ideas
Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump’s Dehumanizing Rhetoric Is Adopting Franco’s Language of Fascism and Violence
Mismatch
Unlock 100s of Microservices in 5 Easy Steps with Spring Cloud Config & Kotlin!
Al Gore thought stopping climate change would be hard. But not this hard.
The Great Data Debate: Is It ‘Data Is’ or ‘Data Are’?
UN honors translators for aiding dialogue, information flows across language barriers
Gaza: Israeli Attacks Devastate Lives of Children with Disabilities (Arabic Sign Language)
Unlock 2x Faster Async Programming with Java Futures
Master Canceling: 5 Proven Ways to Abort Coroutines Fast
How the Hugely Acclaimed Shōgun TV Series Makes Translation Interesting
Kamala Harris is making climate action patriotic. It just might work.
What price?
Corporate Globalist Lingo
The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom
Research shows that what you call climate change doesn’t matter much
Elusive Language: What Is Terrorism Really?
Most Americans don’t know the country’s biggest climate law helps the climate
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