Adrian H. Huerta, PhD

Adrian H. Huerta, PhD

@adrianhuertaphd.bsky.social

Tenured faculty member @ USC - studying: boys/men of color; educational inequalities; gang-involved populations; violence prevention. PhD from @UCLA. Aspen Fellow. 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 he/him

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Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

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AI will be the end of us, one way or the other.

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3 months ago

Damn, how does a person eat healthy now?

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Farmworker asking for prayers as immigration stops their bus and systematically starts detaining them on their way to work. Happened this morning near the town of Ave Maria, Florida.

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4 months ago

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.

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4 months ago

50-year mortgage? Seriously, is this a joke?

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Child care worker detained by ICE inside a Chicago day care as children watched Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.

📍 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐎, 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐎𝐈𝐒:

A child-care worker at a preschool on Chicago’s North Side was detained by federal immigration agents as children were being dropped off — despite having a valid work permit and no criminal history. #AbuseofPowerWatch

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Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

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Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. 
People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. 
As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. 
Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. 
Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

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😳 😮 🫢 this is embarrassing 😳 😮 🫢

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This is fucking amazing

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Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

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Did you know some California students are getting into college without even applying?

It's called direct admissions.

EdSource reporter Michael Burke explains.

Learn more: bit.ly/4nnBfLX

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Indiana Gov. Mike Braun calls a special session to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Braun has called a special session and directed state lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional districts.

BREAKING: Indiana Gov. Mike Braun calls a special session to redraw congressional districts, expanding Trump’s push to add GOP seats.

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A Hawaiian princess bequeathed her inheritance to her people. The schools they set up are being sued — Guardian US Lawsuit against Kamehameha schools by Students for Fair Admissions, a neoconservative non-profit, alleges discrimination against non-Hawaiians

apple.news/AmdrRLBpIQkW...: Students for Fair Admissions vs HI Kamehameha schools

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Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...

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Congratulations to @akezar.bsky.social, who was selected as a 2025 ASHE Fellow. This class of professionals will be honored at #ASHE2025.

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@julieposselt.bsky.social, @adrianhuertaphd.bsky.social, @royeljohnsonphd.bsky.social, @zcorwin.bsky.social, @uscrossier.bsky.social

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This aerial picture taken on October 18, 2025 shows protesters holding a US national flag during the "No Kings" national day of protest on Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California.(Photo by Laure Andrillon / AFP) (Photo by LAURE ANDRILLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Love my city! ❤️🌉❤️
#sanfrancisco #nokings #YesOn50
📸: Photo by Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty Images

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I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

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No fascist no ice sign with a luchador drop kicking an ICE agent.

We got the Lucha contingency out here

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This is not a minor issue: it’s a serious threat to democracy. We’re rapidly transitioning into a world where, as long as you support the president, you can be above the law; if you’re in the opposition, you have a target on your back. Opposition can’t survive under these conditions.

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White House says it will halt $11B in projects in Democratic-led cities — including S.F. A top Trump administration official said the White House would be “immediately pausing” more than $11 billion in projects in cities led by Democrats, including San Francisco.

A top Trump administration official said the White House would be “immediately pausing” more than $11 billion in projects in cities led by Democrats, including San Francisco.

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#NY03

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White House to Meet with Universities Regarding Compact The scheduled meeting follows increasingly forceful pushback to the wide-ranging proposal.

BREAKING: The White House has confirmed it's called the 5 institutions who haven't signed its compact to a meeting this afternoon. Insiders tell us it's "an effort to regain momentum by threatening institutions to sign" @knottkatherine.bsky.social has the scoop www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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NEW - White House spokesperson responds: “As long as they are not begging for federal funding, universities are free to implement any lawful policies they would like. However, the notion that universities should benefit from taxpayer money without responsibilities in return is terribly misguided.”

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"How Academic Freedom Will Make American Higher Education Great Again" Webinar Set for October 28th at 12 pm PT Bill Tierney, University Professor Emeritus at the USC Rossier School of Education, will speak about the roots of academic freedom in the 20th century, discuss its strengths and weaknesses, and put fo...

From a #higher GOAT: academic freedom during the #maga movement #academicSky #webinar #free

pullias.usc.edu/how-academic...

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JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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What We Know About the Deal Between Israel and Hamas

If Trump helped with the release of prisoners and hostages there, maybe he could release the political prisoners held illegally in US concentration camps.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/w...

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