Not just unsurprising, but utterly predictable.
“Trump administration says sign language services ‘intrude’ on Trump’s ability to control his image”
apnews.com/article/american-si…
Though he has a point — having an ASL interpreter could make it look like he cares about, well anything other than himself. That’s not his brand.
About fucking time.
“Judge orders White House to use American Sign Language interpreters at briefings”
npr.org/2025/11/05/nx-s1-55991…
Sadly, does not include VP briefings. White House is supposed to update court on progress by end of week. Curious how it will jerk court around.
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Disability advocates are suing after the Trump White House abruptly stopped including sign language interpreters at press briefings and other events.Shaun Heasley (Disability Scoop)
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I think it's really cool that Black American Sign Language is in some ways more conservative than the kind of #ASL you learn at Gallaudet University.
Other ASL varieties use a lot of handshapes influenced by English spelling. But black ASL has kept more of the original handshapes, because black #deaf schools didn't get hit so hard by the oralist reformers who made war on ASL.
You can see BASL in action at csdhh.org/black-asl
So, Rekka and I devised hand gestures for each one of the #uxn operations.
In includes a hexadecimal finger-counting scheme, and bitwise gestures, that we hope will be useful for anyone familiarizing themselves with binary.
The system uses a few existing #asl gestures, and purposefully creates new gestures to disambiguate others.
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal_re…
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