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🛖Duende🛖 (@panduendito) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I do not see a point in calling Spanish a colonizer language when in reference to people who were victims to said colonization and are existing in a time where speaking Spanish is dangerous because discriminating against them has been made more legal.

Soph 𓅃 (@auroralchorus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Considering how "noticing" has entered everybody's lexicon, the amount of antisemitic terminology that people have unknowingly adopted is terrifying

Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Google book search is...over. In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear. Good news for fascists, though.

Google book search is...over.  In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear. 

Good news for fascists, though.
Ariana Jasmine (@arianajasmine__) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A deaf, Latin, 18-year-old high schooler named Anthony Paredes was chased down and assaulted by Homeland Security for a "failure to hear or follow commands." Yes, he did not listen because HE IS DEAF. The crowd tried to scream that to the agents, but they did not care. They

daza¡ ୧ ⋅ 🇵🇸 (@dazaichu_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I bring a certain "stop using slurs derogatorily because it isn't reclaiming if you're using it as a slur and that is just as bad as if you were to say it whilst not being a part of the group the slur is aimed at" to the everywhere function that people really, really don't like.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 (@longtimehistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ICE violently detain a deaf teenager—accuse him of "not listening" to their orders. "They thought I was stupid—but NO!" he told rally. "They shrugged at me, they didn't care because I'm deaf." Agents did not provide sign language interpreter—then denied him access to bathroom.

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Puerto Rican partially deaf performer Celimar Rivera Cosme is readying to make history at the Super Bowl on Sunday. Read more: abcnews.link/pUSvg4b

Puerto Rican partially deaf performer Celimar Rivera Cosme is readying to make history at the Super Bowl on Sunday. 
 
Read more: abcnews.link/pUSvg4b
Bee+ (@beeplus_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Gabourey Sidibe said she knew her husband, Brandon Frankel, was the right guy when he told her she could use her "normal voice" around him "Right before I met him is when I directed my first episode of Empire. And I was going to New York for some press and stuff, and he watched

Gabourey Sidibe said she knew her husband, Brandon Frankel, was the right guy when he told her she could use her "normal voice" around him

"Right before I met him is when I directed my first episode of Empire. And I was going to New York for some press and stuff, and he watched
Rosita Mamacita🌹 (@rozycupcakes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The US Native languages were those of Algonquian, Iroquoian, Siouan, and Muskogean families. The first European language spoken in what is now the United States was Spanish, introduced by explorers like Ponce de León in 1513. Anyways. Happy Bad Bumny weekend!!!

The US Native languages were those of Algonquian, Iroquoian, Siouan, and Muskogean  families.   

The first European language spoken in what is now the United States was Spanish, introduced by explorers like Ponce de León in 1513.

Anyways. Happy Bad Bumny weekend!!!
gina (@___izzymaria) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mind you, refusing to make music in english, refusing to speak a “proper spanish” is indeed ANTI colonial. Bad Bunny might not be the pinnacle of anti colonialism, but one thing y’all won’t do is try to tell a Puerto Rican what anti or pro colonialism IS.

BPD1NFUS3DG1RL #1 nicole defender (@cut3stc0rps33) 's Twitter Profile Photo

there's thing called a DIALECT!! WOW! you know how there's people with heavy southern and british accents? would you call them disabled for just having an accent? Our spanish is fast paced and full of slang and we are looked down on because of it. i'm so sick of this.

Guilherme Sacco (@guilhermesacco) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Instagram sugeriu pra mim um post de uma página da Sérvia sobre o Jokic ser o segundo com mais triplos duplos da história da NBA e eles "traduzem" todos os nomes dos americanos e essa talvez seja a imagem mais incrível que eu já vi. LEBRON DZEJMS

Instagram sugeriu pra mim um post de uma página da Sérvia sobre o Jokic ser o segundo com mais triplos duplos da história da NBA e eles "traduzem" todos os nomes dos americanos e essa talvez seja a imagem mais incrível que eu já vi.

LEBRON DZEJMS
Gillian Branstetter (@gbbranstetter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I always find this annoying because I know reporters clean up quotes all the time so when they make the conscious decision to include "umms" and pauses it's very clearly editorializing

Omar | عُمَرْ (@omarhamd_p) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Soon, we will open the first library and cultural gathering space in Gaza. The Palestinian version of the Revolutionary Road.✌🏻🇵🇸

Soon, we will open the first library and cultural gathering space in Gaza.

The Palestinian version of the Revolutionary Road.✌🏻🇵🇸
HOUND !! — that one hyuluka freak (@strayhoundzz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

i recently discovered how deep the "internet slang is just stolen aave" thing went and ive been slowly working things out of my vocabulary, and its actually been a really good exercize in thinking more about the words i choose and expanding my wordbank. highly recommend

Reading Rainbow (@readingrainbow) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy birthday to the one who made us fall in love with reading.📚🌈 “Tight Times” was the very first episode of Reading Rainbow to ever air. Thank you, LeVar, for inspiring generations of readers. 💙