Nelson Flores

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.

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.”

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...

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.

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

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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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

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.

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

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

Agreed! Penn must not capitulate!

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

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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

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

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...

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

This was literally the plot of M3GAN

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

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.

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

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.

"...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."

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.

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...

Agreed! Penn MUST NOT CAVE IN TO THIS THREAT!

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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This point right here is so important. Efforts to ban so-called “gender ideology” in universities will require professors to lie to students in ways that make them less prepared to engage in research, which is literally our job.

Collin Kaepernick kneels at a football game to bring attention to police brutality.

MAGA: How dare he bring politics into our football games!

DHS announces they will conduct immigrant raids at the Super Bowl.

MAGA: Sounds good to me.

First they came for pro-Palestinian activists. And I actively applauded it because I was pro-genocide.

Then they defended nazi salutes. And I excused it because I was pro-genocide.

Then they came for me but by then my reputation had been completely destroyed because I was pro-genocide.

FAFO

I think we're in WOTY territory here, ling types

This is EXCELLENT.

1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome.

2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

What is happening at New College of Florida is a microcosm of what the GOP is doing to this country—massive spending to profit themselves while imposing their political agenda and then discarding the institutions they have destroyed without a second thought