UPDATE: The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Warning for the Palisades burn scar area in effect until noon today. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning in that area is also in effect until 9:30AM, with 60 mph wind gusts expected.
"Once you start teaching loyalty instead of critical thinking, you stop creating scholars & you start creating followers. That's not the America we signed up for."
They never came easily to me either but I'm doing better than expected
I resisted Spanish with every fiber of my being - early traumatic worksheet in 1st grade. Most kids has parents to help. Mine knew French and German. We didn't even have a dictionary....
I'm actually starting to think linguistics would have been fascinating to study in college and I'm thinking a broad range of languages will give me some insight
Japanese has some words adopted from other languages and we might know who introduced what
Japanese is hard with three alphabets and then you have to know how to spell them in English which is it'sown challenge. In college we skipped that part, our instructors didn't speak English.
Russian is my next language to add. It's getting a bit crazy but my brain isn't too confused...
Unfortunately it seems the people of this country have forgotten what Elon Musk and his DOGE incels did to our country this past winter and spring. Our personal data that they hacked from all those agencies they corrupted then will now be used against us by this fascist regime!
The State Department said that it has revoked the visas of foreign nationals who had spoken out against Charlie Kirk. Senior officials within the department said they would move to deny or rescind visas for individuals who had criticized Kirk, this is a direct violations of the First Amendment.
grateful portland has risen to the challenge so far in peacefully protesting the ICE facility and that nationally we're all cheering on the frogs but I think it's important to make sure everyone is aware that the ICE goons aren't exactly being peaceful in return
sheet’ka kwaan stands with and supports you during your time of need
tonight, at our indigenous day celebration, we put a blanket down for your communities and gathered donations that will be sent to assist with disaster recovery
My brother was as narcissistic as Trump is and my dad was a rageaholic - I still spend my time justifying and defending even though I tell myself to stop!!!
