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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I hope the UT students are fighting for their right to learn about gender and race. Their voices carry the most weight.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 18/10/2025

Yes, and let's also remember #YourSlipIsShowing, the Black women activists who predicted all of this first and received no credit. "Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color... If only more people had paid attention."

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Years Ago, Black Feminists Worked Together to Unmask Twitter Trolls Posing as Women of Color. If Only More People Paid Attention.

The fake accounts had handles like @NayNayCantStop, @LatrineWatts, and @CisHate, and bios like “Queer + black + angry.”

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AAUP @aaup.org · 17/10/2025

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

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“Don’t Surrender”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/10/2025

Remember when i said we're living in the scariest parts of a Gibson novel thanks to a bunch of dudes who misunderstand Gibson's novels? Well now I want to discuss the verified govt accounts spewing rightwing propaganda— possibly via a bot-run troll farm— & why you should block them for your safety.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A lot of y’all are not arguing about whether or not violence, in and of itself, is right or wrong, you’re arguing about when YOU believe the violence is justified. Y’all love violence. You soak in it like bath water. And while water comes in different forms, some you may dislike, it’s still water.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities. Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/06/2025

A lot of people don’t really understand what this means but no matter where I live I will always be ride or die for the place and people that made me

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Some of the most chilling 2 minutes you've ever seen. Look at what's being said, openly, on one of the most popular TV channels in Israel. History is happening in front of our eyes. Don't look away. Please help share this widely. Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Unfortunately, I actually did have them calling for a White Supremacist International on my bingo card.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"We are willing to sacrifice these people's rights" is not a compelling campaign slogan (and it's already taken by the people we are supposed to oppose). You do not defeat fascists by becoming them.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Me, a former New Yorker, looking at this from my country home..

That infamous meme of Hillary looking at her phone

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This is trivial but the way the Trump administration communicates basically everything is incredibly rudimentary. It’s written like none of them have any formal education and they want that for everyone. Sigh

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 29/05/2025

For the second year in a row, college graduation season is being marked by student activism in solidarity with Palestine, and consequent backlash.

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Students Are Protesting For Palestine — And Being Punished — At Graduations

“There was just never any point where I was not going to say something,” one punished student told their student paper.

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The USA is barely recognizable after 4 months; if you think you can sit on the sidelines and it will be handed back to you in four years you are out of your mind.

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Yasmiyn Irizarry @dryasmiyn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The weather is so bad it looks like we are under attack in #AustinTX

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Yasmiyn Irizarry @dryasmiyn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The weather is so bad it looks like we are under attack in #AustinTX

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

If you want to understand what’s going on in the United States today, and why everything seems so vindictive, deliberately cruel, and inhumane, read Carol Anderson’s “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide”

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International Sociological Association (ISA) @isa-sociology.org · 21/05/2025

The International Sociological Association (ISA) has been concerned for some time and condemned the acts of violence that have occurred in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Yasmiyn Irizarry @dryasmiyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

My first GRA (now a prof at Depaul) bought me this shirt in 2019 because I would always tell my students numbers are tools not truth. It was quite literally my stats mantra. I say it so often that my research team adopted it as our lab motto. #Numbers4Justice #QuantCrit #CiteBlackWomen

Photo of the Numbers 4 Justice research team. 12 team members standing outside in blue shirts with the lab name.

Numbers 4 Justuce team photo. Everyone is facing away from the camera and pointing to the back of their shirt at our motto, Numbers are tools, not truth.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

They keep saying the quiet part out loud and still there are “reasonable” colleagues, not to mention the whackos, who will do the whole “wellll” frown thing if you call it a genocide.

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Yasmiyn Irizarry @dryasmiyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This slide and section of the book is based on an exchange Castillo and I had on Twitter. I am one of the "advocates" who called her in bc of how her Brookings article dismissed Afro-Latinos' concerns re antiblack erasure. I have also published extensively on the topic. Guess who was not cited?

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Yasmiyn Irizarry @dryasmiyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Just found the slide where Castillo and Strunk use my motto to summarize someone else's QuantCrit Framework. Guess who is no where to be found in their presentation?

Slide from presentation by Castillo and Strunk. Slide reads
Anti-Racist Framework: QuanCrit, QuantCrit attempts to take the lessons and insights of CRT and apply them to
understanding and using quantitative material
• Examine how numbers are used to disguise systemic racism in education, and protect
the racist status quo, white supremacy
• Provides us with a framework that will guide our research and policy making decisions
• “Numbers are no more obvious, neutral, and factual than any other form of data.
Statistics are socially constructed in exactly the same way that interview data are
constructed”
• Summarize: Numbers are tools not truth

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Yasmiyn Irizarry @dryasmiyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

"Numbers are tools not truth" is the motto for my lab. I literally branded it. Yet I am not cited in the book being promoted with my tagline. On a subject I have been published on since 2011. #CitationalJustice is #QuantCrit #EduSky #StatsSky #AcademicSky #Blackademics #CiteBlackWomen

Smiling woman with short curly hair wearing a black T-shirt with the words "Numbers are tools, not truth." Another woman peaks out from behind her.

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Yasmiyn Irizarry @dryasmiyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Here are some of the articles I have coauthored: Lowe, Jr., R. H., & Irizarry, Y. (2025). Becoming (Non)-White by U.S. Standards: White Latino Recategorization in the 2020 Census Race Question. Population Research and Policy Review 44(10). www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Becoming (Non)-White by U.S. Standards: Recategorization in the 2020 Census Race Question | Request PDF

Request PDF | Becoming (Non)-White by U.S. Standards: Recategorization in the 2020 Census Race Question | The present study explores categorical shifts in the White Latino population in the U.S. Censu...

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Good research design requires careful thought and not just checking boxes, but this list can cue such thinking. I noted the authors' recognition of the need to incorporate QuantCrit. Wish that had been done here. See @carltonfong.bsky.social & Irizarry for a good intro: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Screenshot of article published in Contemporary Educational Psychology titled "Too quant to crit? Advancing QuantCrit methodologies in educational psychology."

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I resigned because of a profound breakdown in governance, transparency, and accountability at the NSF—issues I felt obligated to bring to public attention.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/05/2025

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

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Yasmiyn Irizarry @dryasmiyn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I PhinisheD 14 years ago and still have nightmares like this.

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Shelby Rivers @ashelbyrivers.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

And we’ve seen prohibitions (e.g., TikTok) on personal devices like phones that are used for state business, here at Texas public universities.

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Yasmiyn Irizarry @dryasmiyn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Trump is out here tariffing the best part of Netflix.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This kind of thinking mystifies me, because yes, we could have had Kamala Harris AND we would STILL have had the fascist broligarch hordes rushing the gates. We would have been teetering on the edge of civic and civil destruction during her entire presidency. I wish people understood this clearly.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Conservatives can’t hack based on intellect or skill so they need hand outs to compete.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I have stopped doing the voices of Gaza series so that we can get Sanaa and the others on the list funded. Please help her or if you have a little extra to spare one of the other folks in my pinned post!!

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Ana Visneski @oceanbound.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I have gotten confirmation from sources inside the Coast Guard that this is in fact true and happened in Key West. ICE went into military housing and took the spouse of a USCG member who is currently out to sea.

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 21/04/2025

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

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NSF Award Search: Award # 2240343 - Constructing Credible Knowledge and Expertise in Air Pollution Regulation and Monitoring: The Problem of Quantification Lock

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Wild— Mohsen Mahdawi asked Columbia to publicly admit what they did privately: that he & other students were not "threatening"—and that he in fact *confronted* an antisemitic disruptor. They ignored him. Weeks later, the Trump admin cited Columbia's own unretracted lie to justify arresting Mohsen.

The State Department cited "threatening rhetoric and intimidation" to target Mahdawi, without elaborating. The same phrasing was cited by Columbia, when it suspended the school's Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine chapters, after a November 2023 rally.
At said rally, there was indeed an antisemitic disruptor - who Mahdawi himself confronted.
Columbia privately walked back the characterization - but has refused to do so publicly. It has since been cited in Congress, in reference to campus antisemitism warranting crackdowns.
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Mahdawi raised the issue in his emails to administrators. In one email, dated Feb. 16, 2025, he recounted a meeting when one of the recipient officials "acknowledged" that Mahdawi had denounced the antisemitic disruptor. He asked Columbia to issue a statement clarifying facts about the incident. While administrators replied, responding to other points Mahdawi brought up, they did not address the request to publicly clarify the truth. Mahdawi followed up again.
"What makes this specific incident different from the ones the university has publicly disclosed? This was an event that took place on campus while the gates were closed, involved students, and involved the presence of Public Safety and the NYPD. What criteria determine whether an incident warrants a public response?"
The administrators did not respond.
Mahdawi followed up again weeks later, one day after Khalil's arrest. No response.
Two months later, the Trump administration detained Mahdawi.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

It is not a “DEI” rollback it is the resegregation of American universities. Headline writers could at least be honest about this.

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Yasmiyn Irizarry @dryasmiyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I was doing race work long before any granting agency deemed it as "worthy" of funding. The money helps but is not necessary to advance justice work and can sometimes hinder it. If you havent, it's time to consider your commitments beyond capital.

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 20/04/2025

On Easter Sunday, we celebrate joy, hope, and our faith in renewal — even through the darkest of times. To all those celebrating today, our family wishes you a happy Easter.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her family celebrate Easter 2025.

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