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Eliana Castro, Ph.D. 🇩🇴 @drelianacastro.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I'm so excited to be presenting this work in progress today at 2:45 in Room 204B at the Convention Center for #CUFA2025!

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Eliana Castro, Ph.D. 🇩🇴 @drelianacastro.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The National Council for the Social Studies and its College and University Faculty Assembly are having their annual meeting in D.C. this week. I'm looking forward to hearing about what my colleagues have been up to in the past year! @socialstudies.org @cufancss.bsky.social @cufasocforum.bsky.social

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Eliana Castro, Ph.D. 🇩🇴 @drelianacastro.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

KEY POINT: "Successful authoritarian governments cultivate authoritarian cultures. Key to that project is the rejection of accountability, the embrace of impunity and the demand that ordinary people stand ready to be scrutinized by the state for any reason it deems necessary." The double standard!!!

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Opinion | ICE Will See You Now

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 06/06/2025

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

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Christopher Martell @chrismartell.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Someday your grandchildren will ask you, "What did you do during the Trump presidency?" Now is the time to do all of those things to resist, so they will be proud of you. www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/20...

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7 Ways to Rise Up Against Trumpism 2.0

Grassroots movements, legal organizations, and nonprofits are leading the opposition.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/05/2025

What is happening is unquestionably the biggest corruption scandal in American history. His acceptance of a luxury plane from Qatar, his extensive ties to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Azerbaijan, his repeated promotion of shady crypto as a means of buying direct access to him.

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America Has Never Seen a President This Corrupt

Trump’s brazen use of the White House to advance his family businesses should be one of the biggest scandals in the country’s history.

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Eliana Castro, Ph.D. 🇩🇴 @drelianacastro.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Being an AfroLatina scholar of history/social studies education is no joke. I need four of me. #aera2025

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Eliana Castro, Ph.D. 🇩🇴 @drelianacastro.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In this piece, I discuss how 5 teens read the racial silences in their schooling and interpret the racial experiences. I explore instructional supports to help students articulate the more complex and enduring understandings of structural/ institutional racism to foster critical racial consciousness

Journal article on white paper with black text.
Title of article: The Wisdom of Youth: Reconsidering Secondary Students' Racial Literacies
Author: Eliana Castro
Affiliation: The University of Vermont

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Eliana Castro, Ph.D. 🇩🇴 @drelianacastro.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

American activists are being doxxed at home, and people in need of "humanitarian" aid abroad will be left to fend for themselves. Every single move is inhumane and destructive. So many people are going to die.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

".. An individual product could pass between the U.S. and Mexico between four and eight times, said Tom Fullerton, an economics professor at the University of Texas .. A tariff would .. substantially increase the cost of the final product .." @texastribune.org www.texastribune.org/2024/11/26/d...

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Donald Trump’s tariffs on Mexico could devastate border region, Texas economists warn

The president-elect said he intends to levy a 25% tariff on goods imported from Mexico and Canada until drugs and undocumented migrants stop crossing the border.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Police-related deaths remains a topic of discussion this week as two more Indigenous people died after being shot by police just two days apart in Manitoba, making the national count 13 in total since the end of August.

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Eliana Castro, Ph.D. 🇩🇴 @drelianacastro.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The @cufasocforum.bsky.social session is also featuring the Providence Student Union. Thank you, PSU; we love the work you do with Rhode Island youth?

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Eliana Castro, Ph.D. 🇩🇴 @drelianacastro.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We're so fortunate to be joined by the Coalition for Anti-Racism in Education's advocacy for diverse and inclusive history education in the state of Massachusetts! @cufasocforum.bsky.social

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cufasocforum.bsky.social @cufasocforum.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

👋 Hi, there! The CUFA Scholars of Color Forum is now on Bluesky! We hope you're enjoying Day 2 of the #CUFA2024 Conference. Thank you to everyone who turned out for the SoC Forum session and business meeting!

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

So where does that leave us? Well... we mention #MDPI because they come by it honestly. They were outliers in every metric, and by wide wide margins. All this growth is unsustainable. What's more, it's on the backs of volunteer work by scientists, while for-profit journals take in APCs. 🧵 8/n

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Eliana Castro, Ph.D. 🇩🇴 @drelianacastro.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We need more Jeff Jarvises. This is not normal and should NEVER be normalized.

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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Pay attention to Oklahoma. Bibles in classrooms isn't the big story. The same legal teams behind the seeding of Dobbs are driving a case to create religious schools fully funded by the public & they've already petitioned the Supreme Court. Understandably, everyone was focused on the election.

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Eliana Castro, Ph.D. 🇩🇴 @drelianacastro.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Today, @ankhithakurta.bsky.social asked me for a fun party idea, and well into my explanation, I realized what I was describing was a history lesson. I'm an incorrigible nerd 🤓

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cufancss.bsky.social @cufancss.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

CUFA is on BlueSky. Get ready for the #CUFA2024 Conference in Boston this week!

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Eliana Castro, Ph.D. 🇩🇴 @drelianacastro.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

👋🏾 I'm a Dominican kid from Lawrence, MA. Did some school, taught some babies, asked some questions, and I get to call it research. I'm interested in how BIPOC, esp AfroLatinx youth, learn about race/racism in & out of school. History/social studies is my focus area, but yay interdisciplinarity!

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Someone's tracking how many Project 2025 authors he's appointing to the administration, right? Because this is at least three in 24 hours

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

trump will be the next reagan in the sense that in 30 years every time you notice some horrible defect in society you'll do some quick research and trace it back to trump

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

🦋 New to BlueSky? 🧪 Interested in science? 👀 Wanna find posts by scientists in specific fields? 📃 Here’s a list of +220 science-related feeds and their associated hashtags. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

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BlueSky Science-Related Feeds

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Here is @perrybaconjr.bsky.social spelling out the case against the landslide / “mandate” narrative:

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Y'all know I'm going to fight. I'm going to build with communities of resistance and refusal. You'll hear from me about that, trust. But today I want to share another hot tip for survival in dark times: plan for joy. 1/x

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

the leopards are already preparing their feast

Results have already started. This is from an
american woman today: My husband works for a
small manufacturing company and here in
southwestern PA that means most employees are
Trump voters. When the president of the company
sat them down today to tell them their annual
Christmas bonus would not come this year because
they now need to purchase at least a years worth of
products prior to January 21 st due to the proposed
tariffs, they did not understand. My husband said that
their president had to explain what a tariff is and how
it will directly hurt their company. They all thought the
foreign company paid the tariff. This is the level of
ignorance voting against their own interests here in
PA, where we failed American women and children
last night

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

I noticed that Vanity Fair ran their own Amy Chua story last Friday, and I just want to re-up the one we ran two weeks ago that goes deeper into Chua’s ideological mentorship that shaped Vance into the white ethnonationalist views. theemancipator.org/2024/10/23/t...

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The Tiger Cub

Yale professor Amy Chua’s White supremacist apologia shaped J.D. Vance’s xenophobic politics and sugarcoated nationalism.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 28/04/2024

Preppers' Paltrow: How Alex Jones' profits from his wellness products. "The documentary makes clear that Jones & his org. used the Sandy Hook hoax theory as rocket fuel for transforming Infowars into a 9- & possibly 10-figure wellness brand, a Goop for preppers..." Sociology 🛟 lawsky

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How Supplements Supercharged Alex Jones’s Hateful Conspiracies

Dan Reed’s documentary “The Truth vs. Alex Jones” on HBO shows a man obsessed with selling branded health and virility treatments.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 26/03/2024

The global challenge of how to regulate AI... Great read of the complexities and stakeholders... policysky sociology polisky lawsky 📈

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

New w/my amazing students: Inoculation discourages consumption of news from unreliable sources, but fails to neutralize misinfo sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/files/... Key findings: -Inoculation warning re: fake experts reduces misinfo exposure -But no measurable reduction in misinfo effect on beliefs

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

I sincerely do not think people understand the liberation women DO have is so new. We could only open bank accounts in 1974 without a male co signer. Some of the people passing anti-woman legislation were alive when we couldn't have bank accounts and they liked it better that way.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 15/03/2024

So far this year, at least five state legislatures have passed bills seeking to curtail diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education. This year’s batch may seep more into the classroom. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky #DEI bit.ly/3TaKz8Q

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Civil rights groups push back against wave of anti-DEI bills

So far this year, at least five state legislatures have passed bills seeking to curtail diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education. This year’s batch may seep more into the classroom.

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emi 🌷🌹🍉 @emilomatosis.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

friendly reminder that we non binary/genderqueer folks are trans and valid in the same way a binary trans person is regardless of any social or medical transition, trans folks dont owe cis people anything and non binary/genderqueer folks dont owe androgyny to anyone at all

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Mark Waid Should Be Working Instead @markwaid.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Congress, why are you banning TikTok when Microsoft Teams is RIGHT THERE

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Adam (human animal)🍉 @forcolumb.us · 14/03/2024

The illegal occupying regime has murdered over 40,000 and forcibly displaced over 2 million Palestinians since October 7, 2023.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Day 160
THE ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP
7 October - 14 March 2024
Killed * 40,042
14,861 Children 9,273 Women 36,330 Civilians
Displaced 2,000,000
Destroyed/damaged press headquarters 175
Injured 74,400
Journalists killed 134
Completely destroyed homes 112,000
Partially destroyed homes 256,100
Damaged mosques 634
Damaged churches 3
Heritage sites 200
Damaged schools 438
Healthcare professionals 771
331 Killed 440 Injured
Civil defense workers 197
42 Killed 155 Injured
Destroyed industrial facilities 2,131
Healthcare facilities 285
28 Hospital 192 Ambulances 65 Clinics
Detainees/Forcibly disappeared3,320
* The killed number includes those presumed dead under the rubble

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 08/03/2024

GIVING TEACHERS RAISES YES #SOTU (The Biden admin should look at what we're doing here in Michigan - Governor Whitmer is enabling those of us who run cert programs to give student teachers stipends AND get them serving as building subs while we work closely with them as mentors. Make it national!)

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NPR @npr.org · 08/03/2024

Read President Biden's 2024 State of the Union speech as prepared for delivery.

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Read President Biden's 2024 State of the Union address

Read President Biden's 2024 State of the Union speech as prepared for delivery.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 08/03/2024

Well, I disagree with Biden on a whole lot of things, but (with the exception of "illegals" and Gaza), this was one hell of a State of the Union address. I wasn't expecting it at all. Hats off to the speechwriters. Y'all put your FOOT in this one. #SOTU

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 27/02/2024

We wouldn't need as many inhalers and EpiPens if corporations and governments took air quality and pollution seriously.

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