Two things: in my e-mail, the list of the members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the 2026 class, including two linguists and two scholars of LGBTQ+ matters (I might have missed others); then through the USPS, the information booklet for this June’s California direct primary elections, with its massive list of candidates for governor (61 of them).
AmAcad. The linguists are brought to you by the letter A:
— Adele Goldberg (elected in Psychological Science), from Princeton
— Alice Harris (elected in Literature and Language Sciences), emerita at UMass Amherst
The Q+ scholars are even more varied:
— George Chauncey (elected in History), from Columbia (the author, most notably of the history Gay New York)
— Don Kulick (honorary membership in Anthropology and Archaeology), at Uppsala, Sweden (notable for his work on language and sexuality)
California officials. For governor, the 61 primary candidates include 12 running as Republicans, 23 as Democrats (though Democrat Eric Swalwell has already dropped out). The top two vote-getters in the primary (whatever their party affiliation) will run against one another in the general election. This could conceivably be the two Republicans whose names happen to appear at the top of the R list (Rafael Hernandez and Steve Hilton).
We will also be casting primary votes for a huge list of other state offices: US representative, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, controller, treasurer, attorney general, insurance commissioner, state assembly, judge of superior court, superintendent of public instruction, and more.
Eek.
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