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Nelson Flores
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Professor researching race and language in education
Check out my book:
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 19d
"He essentially said, 'I’m not going to hide who I am to make you comfortable.' In doing so Mamdani delivered a raciolinguistic reality check that refuses the idea that politicians of color need to translate themselves into whiteness to be viable."

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Zohran Mamdani Just Gave American Politics a Raciolinguistic Reality Check
Zohran Mamdani just won the New York City mayoral race, and it’s a big deal for reasons that will no doubt be dissected for years to come. But what really stands out to me is how this moment shifts…
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 6h
Those of us in educational linguistics are familiar with how the research consensus on the benefits of bilingual education have been attacked as promotion “racial ideology.”

The same has happened with gender affirming care which has strong research support and is attacked as “gender ideology.”
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10h
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 6h
Yes and at the same time the problems we are seeing with AI have their foundations in the move away from public libraries as the primary information retrieval system to a for-profit company that has monetized knowledge
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 7h
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 7h
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Reposted by Erin O’Donnell, Nelson Flores, Karen O’Leary

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10h
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2d
The Trump/Mamdani bromance provides even more evidence that the neoliberal political order is collapsing in the face of populism. It also shows the two paths that this populism can take—one that seeks to push us back to the 1950s and the other that seeks to push us to a more egalitarian future.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 5d
Unless the Dems are willing to hold their own members accountable if/when the Epstein files are released in the same way that they hope to hold Trump and the GOP accountable this will just become another partisan pissing match that once again victimizes the survivors
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 6d
Hakeem Jeffries defends the congresswoman who texted Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing, saying she "is not accused of violating any House rule, any law, any statute."

Reposted by Nelson Flores

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 6d
Hakeem Jeffries defends the congresswoman who texted Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing, saying she "is not accused of violating any House rule, any law, any statute."

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 8d
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 8d
One of the sexual predators at the heart of these files has literally become president of the United States twice but sure that era is clearly gone
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 8d
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
david.noll.org David Noll @david.noll.org · 8d
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 8d
GOP presidential hopeful are going to divide into the Trump loyalists like Vance and Rubio who will likely be caught up in having to explain their role in the Epstein cover-up and the anti-Trump wing like MTG who believe in the same fascist policies but don’t want to be connected to this scandal
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 8d
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
david.noll.org David Noll @david.noll.org · 8d
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York The disgraced financier’s recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 9d
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
www.cnn.com

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 9d
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
www.nytimes.com

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 10d
What the Epstein files clearly shows is that both political parties have been captured by massively wealthy elites who smugly email each other about raping young girls while insisting it is progressives who are elitists for doing “woke” things like acknowledging that trans people exist.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 10d
This has to be satire, right? Lol

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 10d
We are literally in an episode of Black Mirror

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NBC10 Philadelphia @nbcphiladelphia.com · 10d
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 11d
Forget all the other posers: Only @thedailyshow.com's Troy Iwata understands the spirit of Bluesky in these troubling times.
Epstein-Trump Saga Gets 20K Pages Longer & Megyn Kelly Splits Hairs on Pedophilia | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtu.be

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11d
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
A photo of Texas A&M University’s logo

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 11d
And yet somehow we have let Christian nationalists take over the country
conradhackett.bsky.social Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 11d
More US adults identify with no religion (29%) than with the Catholic Church (19%) or evangelical Protestant denominations (23%).
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Chart shows the religious distribution of US adults.

Reposted by Kai Arzheimer, Juan Cole, Nelson Flores

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 11d
More US adults identify with no religion (29%) than with the Catholic Church (19%) or evangelical Protestant denominations (23%).
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Chart shows the religious distribution of US adults.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 12d
One of the reasons the Dems have been such an ineffective opposition party is that most of them are part of the same elite networks as Trump and his entourage
johncluverius.bsky.social John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12d
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 12d
It is so ironic that QAnon was actually right about the existence of an elite sex cabal but also supported giving it more power in the belief that one of its ringleaders becoming president would somehow stop it
sarahwood.bsky.social Sarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 12d
🚨 Doesn't get much clearer than this:

"Republicans are running a pedophile protection program." -Leader Jeffries

And there you have it.

#StopJohnsonsEpsteinCoverup

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 12d
I really don’t get it. If the threat of eliminating the filibuster means that nobody uses it anymore to force bipartisan compromise then hasn’t the filibuster already essentially been eliminated?
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12d
I think this helpfully confirms the notion that the end of the filibuster was a big motivator for the eight Dems.
blakeprof.bsky.social Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 12d
Heaven forbid the Republicans get rid of the filibuster…

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 12d
Essentially the court is saying that schools can do nothing to ensure that students respect one another. Also apparently pronouns can be biological now

apnews.com/article/ohio...
“Our society continues to debate whether biological pronouns are appropriate or offensive — just as it continues to debate many other issues surrounding transgender rights,” Circuit Judge Eric Murphy wrote for the majority. “The school district may not skew this debate by forcing one side to change the way it conveys its message or by compelling it to express a different view.”

Reposted by Mark Rice, Nelson Flores, Stuart Shapiro

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12d
I think this helpfully confirms the notion that the end of the filibuster was a big motivator for the eight Dems.
blakeprof.bsky.social Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 12d
Heaven forbid the Republicans get rid of the filibuster…

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 12d
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Reposted by Nelson Flores

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Sarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 12d
🚨 Doesn't get much clearer than this:

"Republicans are running a pedophile protection program." -Leader Jeffries

And there you have it.

#StopJohnsonsEpsteinCoverup

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 12d
I know this is not breaking news to anybody on here but we are about to get a trove of documents that prove that our federal government bureaucracy has been taken over by sexual predator appointed by a president who is also a sexual predator
audrelawdamercy.bsky.social Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12d
I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey