Wil
@waringwil.bsky.social
they/them | MA TESOL/Applied Linguistics | Discourse & Sociophonetics | Cat Dad
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
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Because it'll probably get cut, I wanted to post this footnote here for posterity
December 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Because it'll probably get cut, I wanted to post this footnote here for posterity
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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NEWS: Trump prepares crackdown on leftist networks under guise of “domestic terrorism”
FBI is compiling lists of people to investigate based on “anti-American,” “anti-Christian,” “gender,” & “immigration” views.
In other words, the First Amendment is being incinerated.
FBI is compiling lists of people to investigate based on “anti-American,” “anti-Christian,” “gender,” & “immigration” views.
In other words, the First Amendment is being incinerated.
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
NEWS: Trump prepares crackdown on leftist networks under guise of “domestic terrorism”
FBI is compiling lists of people to investigate based on “anti-American,” “anti-Christian,” “gender,” & “immigration” views.
In other words, the First Amendment is being incinerated.
FBI is compiling lists of people to investigate based on “anti-American,” “anti-Christian,” “gender,” & “immigration” views.
In other words, the First Amendment is being incinerated.
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もうお仕事終わりましたか？の圧
(終わってませんね…)
(終わってませんね…)
December 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
もうお仕事終わりましたか？の圧
(終わってませんね…)
(終わってませんね…)
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Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R".
stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/
Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)
The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.
stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/
Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)
The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.
Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R
stefanocoretta.github.io
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R".
stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/
Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)
The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.
stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/
Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)
The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
The Louvre tried to change its password to "password" but the Académie Française demanded "phrase secrète pour protéger un système informatique"
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Louvre tried to change its password to "password" but the Académie Française demanded "phrase secrète pour protéger un système informatique"
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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The Heritage Foundation, which is staffing the US presidential administration, has spent the past two weeks mainstreaming actual neo-Nazis into American public life, and much of the American Jewish establishment is panicking about a Muslim mayor of New York City.
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The Heritage Foundation, which is staffing the US presidential administration, has spent the past two weeks mainstreaming actual neo-Nazis into American public life, and much of the American Jewish establishment is panicking about a Muslim mayor of New York City.
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Oregonians, we need your help.
ICE activity is increasing in our communities. If you see something, report it to PIRC's hotline (1-888-622-1510) and get your phone out to record it.
ICE activity is increasing in our communities. If you see something, report it to PIRC's hotline (1-888-622-1510) and get your phone out to record it.
October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Oregonians, we need your help.
ICE activity is increasing in our communities. If you see something, report it to PIRC's hotline (1-888-622-1510) and get your phone out to record it.
ICE activity is increasing in our communities. If you see something, report it to PIRC's hotline (1-888-622-1510) and get your phone out to record it.
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See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue
Mike Johnson: "Suddenly now, they've somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they've imagined, and so they feign outrage."
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue
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this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press
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You know what happens if you come at a giant frog
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
You know what happens if you come at a giant frog
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Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"
September 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"
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If a large portion of the organized American Jewish community really leans hard into "Holocaust memory only bears moral lessons for the treatment of Jews," I do not think they will ultimately like the way that will lead the rest of the country to relate to the Jewish community.
The Los Angeles Holocaust Museum made a social media post with a graphic reading: "'Never again' can't only mean never again for Jews."
After a backlash from some voices online, they retracted the post and apologized.
After a backlash from some voices online, they retracted the post and apologized.
September 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If a large portion of the organized American Jewish community really leans hard into "Holocaust memory only bears moral lessons for the treatment of Jews," I do not think they will ultimately like the way that will lead the rest of the country to relate to the Jewish community.
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ICYMI: I wrote this past week about the Columbia University settlement with the federal government over "campus antisemitism," and how it ironically makes my job of teaching Jewish history to Jewish students harder. forward.com/opinion/7663...
The White House is declaring war on campus DEI — except for Jews
Singling out Jews on campus as the only specially protected minority group that receive DEI programs will not go well for us.
forward.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
ICYMI: I wrote this past week about the Columbia University settlement with the federal government over "campus antisemitism," and how it ironically makes my job of teaching Jewish history to Jewish students harder. forward.com/opinion/7663...
If someone says "We need to support state violence towards trans people, it's for women's safety"
Would you say "Trans people are not a threat to women"?
Or "Women deserve to be unsafe"?
Both statements push back against the first, but one does damage to women by accepting dishonest framing
Would you say "Trans people are not a threat to women"?
Or "Women deserve to be unsafe"?
Both statements push back against the first, but one does damage to women by accepting dishonest framing
A lot of people on the right are manipulating concerns about misogyny and sexism to push extreme violence against the trans community. This does not mean misogyny and sexism are not very real problems.
This is a post about antisemitism.
This is a post about antisemitism.
August 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If someone says "We need to support state violence towards trans people, it's for women's safety"
Would you say "Trans people are not a threat to women"?
Or "Women deserve to be unsafe"?
Both statements push back against the first, but one does damage to women by accepting dishonest framing
Would you say "Trans people are not a threat to women"?
Or "Women deserve to be unsafe"?
Both statements push back against the first, but one does damage to women by accepting dishonest framing
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A lot of people on the right are manipulating concerns about misogyny and sexism to push extreme violence against the trans community. This does not mean misogyny and sexism are not very real problems.
This is a post about antisemitism.
This is a post about antisemitism.
August 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A lot of people on the right are manipulating concerns about misogyny and sexism to push extreme violence against the trans community. This does not mean misogyny and sexism are not very real problems.
This is a post about antisemitism.
This is a post about antisemitism.