Rebecca Shapiro
@rebeccashapiro.bsky.social
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Mieskeit; Historical Lexicography & the Emoluments Clause (CUP '25); lexicographer; linguist; Edgeworth; #18thc; #CUNY; #NJ; down the shore; serial commas
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drreznicek.bsky.social
Really excited to see these proofs for @lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of Studies in the Novel on Disease and Disability in the Novel
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Waves in lexicographer and sociolinguist 👋🏼
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adamrothman.bsky.social
One guest, a retired major general, was asked about Hegseth's dismissal of the rules of engagement. He answered: "The words the president and secretary of defense are those of potential war criminals."
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But which one wouldn't he go to???
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@psc-cuny.org and @jfrejnyc.bsky.social are critically important
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I'm at a CUNY training for Immigration Court observers; about 15 out of 28 participants are Jewish. Don't underestimate us.
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Except maybe Canadians! America wouldn't let my bubbe in so she became from Quebec ...
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Except maybe Canadians! America wouldn't let my bubbe in so she became from Quebec ...
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
He is the speaker of the House. Johnson can gavel the House in anytime he pleases. That's kind of the point of being speaker.
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RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants
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tmwillia.bsky.social
Sending y’all a virtual pastrami on rye because there’s no decent deli in DFW. Sigh, I miss home.
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My last meat meal was pastrami on rye in Asbury Park ... I'll take a potato knish tho!
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bestonetx.bsky.social
No one understand better than American Jews why immigration is everything.
rebeccashapiro.bsky.social
I'm at a CUNY training for Immigration Court observers; about 15 out of 28 participants are Jewish. Don't underestimate us.
rebeccashapiro.bsky.social
They make good pizza and then come to NYC and make good pizza
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Nothing untoward here that a man would be criticized for.
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I can see so many men answering just like this and being just fucking fine.
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tmwillia.bsky.social
You are a mensch! You all are!