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Matthew R. Deroo

@deroomat.bsky.social
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Ph.D. Languaging and Literacies. Immigration. Musings on my interdisciplinary academic life, pop culture, and politics. 双语 who loves travel (views my own)

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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 28m
Some days, doing your job in academia just means showing up for a two hour meeting- and realizing the energy it takes to engage is a days worth of labor
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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 1h
Stares in university reimbursement process frustration
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 7h
Thoughtful synthesis of current thinking around how #GenAI can affect several aspects of adolescent development including relationships, identity and well-being, and autonomy and achievement. Excellent recommendations for future research, design, and policy. doi.org/10.1177/1745...
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Coming of Age With Generative Artificial Intelligence: The High Stakes of Automating Adolescent Development - Anne J. Maheux, Chelly Maes, 2026
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming the context in which adolescents develop, presenting both opportunities and risks. Adolescenc...
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 7h
Want to talk about LIVE LAUGH LOVE with friends? Here’s a book club discussion guide that might be helpful: share.google/b5Ym5rfCcmqO...
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Live Laugh Love Book Club Discussion Guide - Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Media kit for Kristin Kobes Du Mez including bio, headshot, and book cover images. Author of Jesus and John Wayne and Live Laugh Love.
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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 19h
A1: my repertoire includes variations of English and Mandarin Chinese. But across the day, I also engage in contemplative and reflective, language, video game, language, embarrassingly, road, rage, language, and so forth. #literacies .
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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 20h
Until they are punished- they will continue to act with impunity
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 21h
How debased - these guys would take off all their clothes to be naked with their emperor king
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Alpha School's "software is just techwashing for [Christopher Rufo and his coalition's] dream of teacherlessness and totalitarian surveillance of students and schools. That’s what they really want to hyperscale," writes @mattseybold.bsky.social.
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All Our Kids Will Go To Alpha School
On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Elect a convicted felon, you get a criminal government.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please read this essay which brilliantly explores the tension between Silicon Valley & the health of our democracy. Consent is kryptonite to tech’s aspirations for efficiency, but is not unimportant to our humanity.🕊️ We’re in the midst of an existential battle, but it has ∅ to do with rogue agents.
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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Imagine living in a rich country that doesn't want highly educated people and blames their employment opportunities on being over educated instead of creating jobs based on highly specialized knowledge. This is such wild propaganda.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In this week's @civicsoftech.bsky.social, we hear from Central Texas high school students in the Digital Civics Club. "As digital technologies have evolved alongside our club, we have built collective identities: as resistors to AI and protestors of the perpetuation of hateful ideologies online."
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What Young People Get Out of Digital Civic Education — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Library Community: We’re building a CoT community for those involved with or interested in libraries. Andrea Baer is leading this effort and if you’re interested...
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
also worth noting that Trump's first Department of Education intentionally weakened Title IX protections to make college even better for rapists. unfortunately, Biden's admin didn't fully undo the damage.
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Mike Locksey vs a Head of Lettuce @convolutedname.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Low-propensity voters coming out to save Trump" has historically never been in a midterm and yet it gets treated increasingly as a given, while historically he always has been an incredibly disliked incumbent.
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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We could have nice(r) things if so much of this country was not captured by the monied elite who want to protect their own revenue streams. High speed rail, electric cars, less pollution and on an on.....
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Commissioner praised Clay, Escambia, & Nassau for taking "parent" concerns seriously, but their challenges are tied to 2 individuals and the special interest group behind the censorship expansion bill. They are not at all representative of the concerns or wishes of actual public school parents.
DIGGING INTO THE FLDOE'S 25/26 CENSORSHIP LIST42% of 25/26 reported removals & restrictions occurred in Clay County

Overall, 46% occurred in Clay County since reporting started for the 22/23 SY.The top 3 districts accounting for 83% of the state's 25/26 list:
Clay: 261
Escambia: 150
Nassau: 1021272* Unique titles have appeared on the state's lists since 22/23

82.55% of these titles have been removed or restricted in Clay County

*The state has a lot of errors in its titles like missing "The” or "A" at the start of a title, so the number might be slightly off. We tried to catch them all.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good piece on this new variety of American fascist preacher. To my mind, there’s not much that’s original about these guys. This is just old school Christian Identity doctrine ca. 1940-1990s rebranded—the stuff Wesley Swift or Richard Butler were preaching. religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Academic citations are considered by many as a political act. I find it curious that a recent revise and resubmit reviewer asked for the addition of scholars to a literature review--all of them men.
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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Retcon to a billion
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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I will vote by mail and I will also be annoyed that the ballots were left on a turret at the front gate of the house and not in my mailbox where they belonged.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just find it kind of baffling how many people seem to forget that they were managing to do their jobs and live and accomplish things just fine three years ago or whatever when they couldn't ask the chatbot to do those things for them
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The 2026 #AERABrownLecture, to be delivered by Daniel Solórzano, will examine what is means to be admitted but not equal. Save the date for the lecture on November 5 at 6pm ET - registration for the livestream will open soon! www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...
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2026 Brown Lecture to Examine What It Means to Be Admitted but Not Equal—Registration Opens Soon
2026 Brown Lecture to Examine What It Means to Be Admitted but Not Equal—Registration Opens Soon
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The state of New York is suing Polymarket, claiming the company operates an illegal gambling platform in violation of state gambling laws.
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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Babylon, Patient Zero, Pink Cloud > Cleveland! (For having found her true love, most of the Travis inspired songs leave me with a lot of questions)
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it's past time for judges to hold DOJ lawyers in contempt we have take back the rule of law in this country and it starts with consequences
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fun fact: the U.S. House can sue a sitting president with a simple majority vote. If the Democrats retake the chamber, they should do more than just "investigate" Trump's corruption. They should sue him in federal court for the illegal ballroom, Qatari jet, and more.
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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's kind of wild that the president started his own TV station and banned media from covering the white house and there's no coverage of this literally dictator move. Every authoritarian fights w the media, bans them, and then starts their own propaganda TV network.
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am so so so tired of this awful presidency.
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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's not a decline; it's a deliberate dismantling, defunding, and political disruption of higher ed over several decades. www.npr.org/2026/09/23/n...
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Education: The Decline of American Higher Education on the World Stage : 1A
For decades, U.S. colleges and universities have been regarded as among the best in the world. From the Ivy League to state research institutions, thousands of students and professors from around the ...
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Democrats still think they are living in the 1990s and that what people want is for the partisan bickering to cease. We are actually living in the 2020s and the people want treason to be prosecuted
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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The treason is projection
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 23/09/2026
Colleges Adopted ‘Systemic Suppression’ of Protesters, New Investigation Shows Drawing on records, media reports and surveys, the @aclu.org and Amnesty International USA break down how colleges have “disproportionately” violated the rights of pro-Palestinian students. bit.ly/4AuMBp1
A photograph of an officer in riot gear arresting a protester in the pro-Palestinian campus encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My op-ed is out in USA Today www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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DEI initiatives didn't cost companies. Just the opposite. | Opinion
Firms that kept DEI, whether due to executive decisions or shareholder pressure, performed as well in the stock market as those that rolled it back.
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Matthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
National security would be much better without a convicted felon running our country
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is no defeating fascism without a broad, anti-corruption crusade
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OK, internet. You know what to do. Remind everyone that Donalds was all in on Trump all the time.
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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror] @nintendoamericax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Taking the scenic route because it’s the first day of fall! 🍂 Enjoy a stroll in The Legend of #Zelda: #TearsOfTheKingdom.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 21/09/2026
‘FORGOTTEN ISLAND’ is one of DreamWorks’ finest animated films to date, telling a beautifully rich story about friendship and knowing when to let someone go. Find out more in our review... discussingfilm.net/2026/09/20/f...
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'Forgotten Island' Review - One of DreamWorks' Finest to Date
Directors Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado continue to raise the bar for DreamWorks Animation with their beautiful film Forgotten Island.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Jen aka Grantifa 🐸 @grantifa9.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The entire Trump administration should be in prison for what they’ve done to our country.
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HSRW101 @hsrw101.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Like many people who grew up in the late 80s and early 90s, this was the game I was exposed to that clicked with me since then. Or in this case, two games in one.
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SMB Mario: Classic 8-bit Gameplay
ALT: SMB Mario: Classic 8-bit Gameplay
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