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Derek A. Houston, PhD

@dahouston.bsky.social
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Criticalism + Quantification. P-20 Ed Finance, Equity, & Access. Intercollegiate Athletics. Posts are my own. ΩΨΦ #FIETTS

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Is A.I. Going to Murder Us? Blacksplained By Professor Safiya Noble, Ph.D.
Does artificial intelligence pose a bigger threat than capitalism, white supremacy or authoritarianism? According to this UCLA professor and author, we might not have to choose.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/09/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

In 1882, 10,000 workers marched up Broadway in the first-ever Labor Day parade. Led by democratic socialists and organized by New York’s unions, they rallied the movement that went on to win us weekends, safety standards, overtime pay, a minimum wage, and social security.

None of those victories were guaranteed. And none are permanent.

We created the first-in-the-nation Office of Worker Power to put the full weight of City Hall behind the people who keep New York running. On Labor Day, we honor the workers who came before us by fighting for the workers who come next.

Happy Labor Day, New York. The future of worker power is ours to build. Learn more at nyc.gov/workerpower.
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LarryLegend @bwtrainer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
if someone tells you you don't need a union, you 100% need a union
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Back to school. ❤️
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
As @jpygold.bsky.social pointed out this is an academic freedom issue as it was done contra faculty consensus. Also, strange that none of the folks jumping to protect a eugenicist organized a letter complaining about this.
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Ericka (Wiggins) Weathers @erickaweathers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hi ed policy folks! Anyone able to review AERA proposals for Division L (Educational Policy and Politics), Section 1 (Governance, Politics, and Legal Issues)? We need 3 or 4 more non-student reviewers. The ask is to review ~10 proposals each. You can DM me if interested. Thanks & please share!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I regret to inform you that these traditional college courses in AI are indistinguishable from the classrooms I sat in at for-profit colleges 15 years ago. Centralized curriculum & branding, technological control, “virtual” libraries, & bureaucratic alienation of labor.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
None of this shit is worth our lives.
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Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"The union says it’s stopping because Tesla bought out every one of its striking members" We don't hate Tesla enough electrek.co/2026/08/13/t...
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Tesla defeats Sweden's IF Metall union after 1,021-day strike
IF Metall is ending its Tesla strike after 1,021 days, the longest in modern Swedish history, saying Tesla bought out every striking worker.
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’ve gone on at length about this, and am working with the many, many others behind the scenes, but if you are alumnae (yes I fempluralized) or simply an admirer of the program, and you care about the future of the program, you might send your notes to the provost’s office. The general idea is that
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It's only "activism" if it comes from the left. If you're on the right, & you have the proper Ivy League business card, you can not only get away with it w/o being called an "activist," but also get lauded as a Covid expert in the national media &/or win elite book awards: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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victoria @vashetc.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026
Right now I am conducting a research study to elucidate some of this experience. Some preliminary findings were shared earlier this year youtu.be/Eiyk6R1PC6U You can learn more/participate at restandmecfs.com if you have ME/CFS or are a provider or researcher who has worked with people who have ME
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When Rest Isn't Resistance Presentation
YouTube video by V. Ashley
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I Remember, Hope you do….
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victoria @vashetc.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
Hey folks, I'm a researcher with ME/CFS & I am sharing an opportunity to participate in a research study. The study is open to people with ME/CFS, medical or healthcare providers, and researchers who have had at least one patient/person with ME/CFS. Visit restandmecfs.com for more!
flyer says IRB number 26-6. Questions? Email study co-pi Victoria: empwrtc@protonmail.com.

Are you a researcher or medical provider working with peopel who have ME/CFS? Participate in a patient-led research study! 

TO participate you must be: over the age of 18 AND be a current healthcare provider or researcher who has worked with at least one person with ME/CFS

Learn more at www.restandmecfs.com

The Cal Poly Pomona IRB has reviewed and approved for conduct this research involving human subjects under protocol IRB 26-6.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
In the midst of a couple of humanitarian and economic disasters, I‘m reminded that we were told voting for a bigot was the logical outcome of “economic anxiety.”
U.S. Stocks Have Their Biggest Drop Since Start of Iran War
The S&P 500 tumbled 1.7 percent on Thursday and oil prices continued rising as investors fret about when the war would end.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
When they start putting Trump’s signature on paper money I will be cashless or pay exclusively in coins…
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Free healthcare is saving children’s lives in Togo. A large trial has cut the risk of death before age five by 29% by combining door-to-door visits with free healthcare and better funded rural health centres. Gavi buff.ly/cjVSfFk #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Community-driven care cuts risk of child deaths in Togo by nearly a third
For just US$ 10 a year per person, an integrated primary health care approach led by community health workers has proven to be highly effective at saving lives.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🗣️In my new @statnews.com op-ed as a Public Voices Fellow on tech in the public interest with The OpEd Project, I write about how AI’s push into health care and its rapid adoption, without rigorous testing or patient and community involvement in decision-making, is deepening a crisis of trust.
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The AI push in health care is deepening medicine’s trust crisis
Health care’s adoption of AI should move at the speed of trust, not investment, writes Oni Blackstock.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 23/03/2026
Apart from being simply right on a moral and ethical level, Ms. Rachel is a content creator par excellence in the digital era/Trump era—for both children and adults—when we seem obsessed with ~ influencing ~ but rarely talk about the people who are really the fuck doing it right.
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Ms. Rachel Says ‘I Am Political’ as She Fights to Close ICE Facility in Texas That’s Detaining Children: ‘It’s Political to Believe Every Child Is Equal’
Ms. Rachel is fighting to close the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where ICE is detaining children and their parents.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
We must lift the US oil blockade on Cuba. This is economic warfare designed to suffocate an island. Food is spoiling. Water supply is compromised. Healthcare services are disrupted. End the blockade now. Grateful to all those helping deliver humanitarian aid!
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Tons of aid flows into Cuba as humanitarian convoy arrives on the struggling island
Some 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations have started arriving in Cuba as part of a solidarity caravan transporting some 20 tons of humanitarian aid as the island grapples with a sev...
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Born Sinner @antwheels1.blacksky.app · 22/03/2026
The United States and Israel truly a cancer to the ENTIRE world
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“The goal of this project is nothing less than the erasure of the scholarly and institutional gains made by Black studies over the last 60 years.”
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This is not conservatism. This is authoritarianism.
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Well past the danger zone you guys www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...
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F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over War Coverage
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Coffee, straight out of my nose.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 03/03/2026
Writing is thinking.
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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This paragraph, by Carole McGranahan, encapsulates my main beef with LLMs and writing. “Writing is a commitment to people”, says Jason DeLeon, quoted by McGranahan. Why, then, are we so eager to outsource this commitment to a piece of software?
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It is completely reasonable to email your dean and/or Provost to ask what is being done at your university to stop this from happening to your students
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026
Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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Donate to Support for James Van Der Beek's Family, organized by Jason K
James Van Der Beek was a beloved husband, father, and friend who touched the lives of … Jason K needs your support for Support for James Van Der Beek's Family
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a normal person (amfam roof innocent, free her) @oilcantim.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
jesus this is absolutely horrifying
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/
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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This news is just beyond wonderful.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/02/2026
HELP FOR SOMEONE KIDNAPPED BY ICE! Oliver Aguillon is the nephew of one of my mom's friends, and his family is raising funds to help fight for his freedom. Please consider making a donation! If you can't, hit repost and/or share with comrades by email/text. Thank you!
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Donate to Help Oliver Aguillon Fight ICE Detention, organized by Norma Herrera
My husband, Oliver Hilario Aguillon, has recently been detained by ICE, and our… Norma Herrera needs your support for Help Oliver Aguillon Fight ICE Detention
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Cool workshop in DC in June for higher ed policy academics with less than 10 years of research experience. Deadline to apply is March 1. www.peer-center.org/research/sum...
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APPLY NOW: PEER Center Summer Scholars Program — PEER Center
June 3-5, 2026 | Apply by March 1 The Postsecondary Education & Economics Research (PEER) Center invites early- and mid-career academics conducting higher education policy research to apply to pa...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
“There is no conceivable degree of institutional incompetence sufficient to explain the scale, consistency, and persistence of the failures that occurred —particularly where the sole task ordered by the Court and repeatedly emphasized by DOJ was simple: redact known victim names before publication,”
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 31/01/2026
They literally just sat around and watched this baby die. There can be no civilized society as long as cops exists. This is just barbaric and cruel for no reason.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/01/2026
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
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Derek A. Houston, PhD @dahouston.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
As someone that starts most 'work' writing by hand, I can tell that it has been a while since I've picked up a pen. Kinda like my recovery and learning how to walk again, I guess training my hands to have more endurance will be a process. Here's to making waves one word at a time.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year. These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.* So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds. Read, & check out our maps:
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In Criminal Justice Elections This Year, ICE Contracts Are on the Hot Seat - Bolts
With roughly 2,400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff this year, Bolts reviews the map and early hotspots that will shape criminal punishment and law enforcement practices.
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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/01/2026
As clergy pray, arrests begin
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Happy MLK day, gang! Martin was a Democratic Socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, thought white moderates were the bane of Black existence, and died on a trip to support a sanitation workers' strike! Beware his sanitized and sanded-down edit!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Good morning 🥁
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