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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2h

In my latest blog post I explore the relationship between the backlash against Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl, threats to cut Title III funding and the growth of ICE as the secret police of the federal government. Check it out!

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The World We’re Fighting For Sounds Like Bad Bunny Singing in Spanish at the Super Bowl

For many of us, Bad Bunny’s selection to perform at the next Super Bowl was a moment of joy. A global artist singing in Spanish on one of the biggest stages in the world feels like an affirmation o…

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 16h

So according to SCOTUS it would seem that states have the right to ban gender affirmative care that professional organizations support but do not have the right to ban conversion therapy that professional organizations condemn. Professional expertise literally has no legitimacy anymore.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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Jim McKinley @jimmckinley.bsky.social · 1d

Open Access! Our study shows how structured, identity-focused peer feedback can help doctoral L2 writers refine their authorial voice, build rhetorical confidence, and resist the homogenising effects of GenAI-assisted prose. Watch this space. More to come from this project! doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

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Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social · 1d

It is the honor of my lifetime to share that @universitypress.cambridge.org will publish the @lingsocam.bsky.social's new Journal of Black Language & Culture. www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

JBLAC fosters a transdisciplinary conversation on Black language & culture through a global, diasporic lens.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2d

What this case shows is that for many immigrants a pathway to legalization is essentially impossible providing incentives to lie as a survival strategy. These lies can then take on a life of their own. A more sensible immigration policy could have prevented this.

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The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 2d

Oh crap, it's back at #1 in movies again today on Netflix too. That's awesome!

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2d

A foundational assumption of the capitalist logic shaping US social policy is that something needs to be a problem to justify people getting support. This means human services professionals have to pathologize their clients. Just imagine if we lived in a world where people just got what they needed.

Ms. Respex @respexy.bsky.social · 3d

This is a great jumping-off point for something that I think a lot of people don't understand when we talk about adding certain things to the DSM or ICD.

A post from Ashley Annestedt, LCSW reading "Therapists, help me out. What's the ICD code for: Nothing is clinically 'wrong,' patient is experiencing basic human emotions due to racism, sexism, homophobia, removal of rights, and a pandemic?"

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2d

Puerto Rican swag and unassuming I don’t give a fuck attitude is unmatched by anyone in the world 🥰

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Bad Bunny responds to his Super Bowl critics in Spanish, and then English: “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 3d

As a millennial I will say that the idea that your career is your life is toxic and will never lead you to feel a peace

Fortune @fortune.com · 3d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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abbyreisman.bsky.social @abbyreisman.bsky.social · 3d

Agreed! Penn must not capitulate!

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 3d

Taking Trump’s loyalty oath would be a profound betrayal of students, staff, faculty, the public, higher education, & our shared democracy. We urge schools not to capitulate & not to negotiate but to unite now in defense of democracy and higher ed.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 3d

The strongest allies are not always in your face. Often they are quietly working behind the scenes with little to no recognition.

The test of a true ally is not only what people say and do when everybody is looking but also what they say and do with few people looking.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 4d

Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!

We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!

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Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5d

To put it more bluntly: Everything people were afraid the National Guard would do is what ICE and other federal agencies are doing right now

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5d

I do think national media need to be focusing more on what ICE is doing, especially in Chicago, where people are being dragged from their beds. I'm not downplaying the National Guard deployments, but ICE is actively terrorizing communities. That's the spear tip of fascism right now.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 5d

Once again we see that for MAGA every accusation is an admission of guilt

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 5d

SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social

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MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · 5d

Members of the Penn community: please sign this actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...

Just Say No to Trump's Compact for Academic Extortion

Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania was one of nine targets of the Trump Administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Through it, Trump asks once again for universitie...

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 5d

This was literally the plot of M3GAN

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 6d

Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 5d

This does hit hard

It is why using the word “internment camp” for Japanese-descended people in WWII is just a bad euphemism to cover the atrocity

And it is yet another parallel from the fascism of Germany to the US today

Due process is for EVERY PERSON in the United States without exception

Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 5d

Reviewing my WWII lecture & this hits different this year:
The US Holocaust museum argues that “what distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison... is that it functions outside of the judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.” 🗃️

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 5d

My kids go to Spanish dual-language schools in DCPS with wonderful teachers, and this will hurt DC kids.

DCPS promised them green cards. Now, these international teachers have nowhere to turn.

More than 200 teachers may soon have to leave the country because of what they say are broken promises from the city's school system.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed both because it serves to normalize shit that shouldn’t be normalized and fails to invite people into the struggle who are genuinely surprised by the shit.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

Please don't ask me if I am surprised when I am angry about shit. It's not helpful, and it's really annoying.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 5d

"...a concession to threats will simply embolden the Trump administration to come back for more...Penn’s Latin motto, Leges Sine Moribus Vanae, is usually translated to 'Laws Without Morals are Useless.' It is time to put that principle into practice."

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 5d

Grateful to @aaup-penn.bsky.social speaking out against the Trump administration’s latest attempt to recruit Penn and other universities to sign on to a government takeover of higher education in exchange for a favored status in receiving federal grants.

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Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 5d

They truly believe that if they can control the media, education, science, health, and the military, they'll control it all and stamp out dissent.

If they read US history, they'd know we've been here before... and it led to mass movements and social change that shook this country and the world.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 5d

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:

"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...

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abbyreisman.bsky.social @abbyreisman.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed! Penn MUST NOT CAVE IN TO THIS THREAT!

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 5d

Grateful to @aaup-penn.bsky.social speaking out against the Trump administration’s latest attempt to recruit Penn and other universities to sign on to a government takeover of higher education in exchange for a favored status in receiving federal grants.

aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 5d

Grateful to @aaup-penn.bsky.social speaking out against the Trump administration’s latest attempt to recruit Penn and other universities to sign on to a government takeover of higher education in exchange for a favored status in receiving federal grants.

aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...

aaup-penn.org

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