Sad. A professor of Spanish (and Jewish and Native American) descent is getting Spanish citizenship after UC Boulder required him to prove his citizenship (at ICE’s behest). His family’s been in the territory that became the US for at least 200 years longer than the Drumpfs have been. https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-09/a-university-professor-of-spanish-descent-in-the-days-of-ice-a-foreigner-in-his-own-country.html

@nprofile1q... Haircut day today. No exciting new Northern NM Spanish for me, but we did have a nice discussion of farolito vs. luminaria, and how my great aunt the (Polish) Catholic nun knew about luminaria, but by way of the Latin not Spanish, and not as “landing lights for baby jeebus,” as I put it, and maybe got a funny cut in the back of my hair by cracking up my barber. ’Tis the season, I guess.