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Dr. Noreen Naseem Rodríguez

@nrdz.bsky.social
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motherscholar, teacher educator, co-author of Social Studies for a Better World and Teaching Asian America in Elementary Classrooms

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Texas A&M president resigns amid uproar over professor’s gender identity lesson www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Texas A&M president resigns following controversy over professor’s lesson
Mark A. Welsh III resigned as president of Texas A&M University in a stunning fallout after a viral “whistleblower” video that raised questions about a professor’s teaching on gender...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2025
These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
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Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)
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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Teachers' punishment for social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death prompts free speech debate
More than three dozen professors, teachers and school staffers have left or been removed over allegations they made disparaging or mocking comments about Charlie Kirk.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/09/2025
it's officially broken
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
the hand is way too big, but otherwise? brilliant.
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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This is staggering. Dismantling the right wing propaganda machine is imo one of the biggest and most vital obstacles to the future of this country.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Support independent media, now more than ever. Not just news and politics, but film, TV, fashion and other cultural criticism and commentary, from podcasts to apps to good old-fashioned web sites. Pay for it. Turn your adblocker off so they can keep the lights on. Share it.
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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Government officials do not get to decide that your rights have become inconvenient or problematic. They are your rights. They are not privileges provided by the government and revocable at will.
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The story is not what Kimmel said but what others won’t say now for fear of state retribution. Authoritarian countries thrive on self censorship.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.
Matter of Jonathan Javier YAJURE HURTADO, Respondent
Decided September 5, 2025
U.S. Department of Justice
Executive Office for Immigration Review
Board of Immigration Appeals
Based on the plain language of section 235(b)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A) (2018), Immigration Judges lack authority to hear bond
requests or to grant bond to aliens who are present in the United States without admission.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
THE ICE AGENTS ARE WEARING FUCKING NAZI STAHLHELMS WHAT THE FUCK COME ON, YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 22/08/2025
80% of workers said they view corporate CEOs as overpaid, and nearly 70% said they do not believe their own company’s CEO could do the job they do for even one week, writes @sarahanderson.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/low-...
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Meet 100 CEOs Getting Filthy Rich at Their Workers’ Expense | Common Dreams
CEOs of the 100 S&P 500 firms with the lowest median wages, a group we’ve dubbed the “Low-Wage 100,” have enjoyed skyrocketing pay over the past six years.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The "president" is out of his mind.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/08/2025
Confederate statues are “history” but a rainbow crosswalk dedicated to victims of a mass shooting is “political.”
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Resister @chrissmithmuso.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Transl, Rule of Law: Fuck you, Donnie. You're not a king.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump admin and FL from bringing new detainees into “Alligator Alcatraz” and to dismantle some aspects of the facility as current detainees are moved out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Given the overt attempts to erase certain histories from public spaces...well, I hope people are taking steps to preserve their local knowledge. You can write books that are not for public consumption, that chronicle your specific family or village history. You can keep your own archives.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/08/2025
Trump has declared war on free minds and free education in order to erase more than a half-century of scholarship and replace it with official triumphal narratives rooted in a brand of pickled patriotism designed to force the past to serve the present. trib.al/6bfjkJM
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What if History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance?
We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
People thought I was overreacting when I said Trump’s list of “banned” words meant epidemiology was itself defacto being banned. But this week U Michigan announced they aren’t even accepting applications for the 2026 epi PhD admissions cycle. www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...
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UMich cancels doctoral epidemiology program admissions for 2026
The University of Michigan School of Public Health will not admit a 2025-2026 admissions cycle cohort to its PhD in Epidemiologic Sciences program.
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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
ICE agents chased a family into their home, tried to kick the door in, and forced them to barricade inside. Then, one agent dangled their house keys in front of their Ring camera. Incredibly disturbing to watch these agents’ unhinged behavior and the psychological terror they’re inflicting.
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Dr. Noreen Naseem Rodríguez @nrdz.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Are you a public school teacher? Would you like one of these planners? I'll give them away to the first two teachers who message me!
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Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Also that gay men with AIDS “should be tatooed … on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.”
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 09/08/2025
Karen Henderson is the longest-serving Republican appointee on the D.C. Circuit. She’s deeply conservative but not Trumpy. In ordering the Trump administration to restore a congressionally mandated database of federal spending, she strongly suggests the president is engaging in king-like behavior.
Screenshot of opinion by Judge Karen Henderson:

KAREN LECRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge, statement respecting the denial of a stay pending appeal:

“Throughout the 1600s, the Stuart monarchs engaged in a titanic struggle with Parliament regarding who would reign supreme over the public purse. That struggle was marked by civil war, regicide and a new wellspring of liberty in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
By the end of the upheaval, Parliament emerged supreme in matters of taxation and spending. Our Constitution followed suit, granting the Congress plenary control over the public fisc.

Recently, the Executive has once again locked horns in a struggle for control over the purse strings. Across a slew of cases, recipients of congressional funding have challenged the President's ability to unilaterally freeze or "impound" spending.' Today's case is but the latest chapter in the ongoing saga.”
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
There’s an anti-data pattern from the Trump administration. No other president has been so destructive. This will make it hard for future ones to reconstruct and build expert teams and equipment, in this case a very expensive satellite and instruments.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/08/2025
Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison. He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him.
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Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT
Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released…
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Columbia and Brown, by settling, have encouraged this tactic. Authoritarians are emboldened by capitulation, and they won't stop until the cost outweighs the benefits.
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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
He is a town councilman. And he was set on fire.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This is not sustainable. www.tiktok.com/@brutamerica...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this guy was rejected from jobs because his online persona is "rage filled racist asshole" and a simple google search would have compelled even the most jaded anti-woke faculty member to admit they didn't want him as a colleague for 20 years.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
And importantly, he won the case in a landmark SCOTUS ruling that marked the start of the long erosion of affirmative action programs. One mediocre white guy's self-delusion has brought generations of lasting damage.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Allan Bakke applied to eleven different medical schools and was rejected by all eleven, but one of those eleven schools (UC Davis) had racial quotas so he sued them, insisting that racial quotas were the only thing that prevented him from getting a spot there.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/07/2025
We can’t even get everyone to read the syllabus 😭
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/07/2025
Narrator: Congress was only serious about authoritarianism.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
So…not antisemitism.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
But the parents are so lost they don’t even realize that it’s not the classes that changed your kid, it was separation from YOU. No gender studies, sociology, or history class could ever accomplish what three months of not having to live with your bullies will do.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A lot of older adults forced a war on universities because that’s where their kids realized their parents were evil.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22/07/2025
“If the universities—or in this case a university press—are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Kristi Noem lied about this multiple times in press conferences & TV appearances. This confirms the 3 day delay was solely caused by her. It’s an absurdity that the person who leaves govt is this man & not her stupid, incompetent cosplaying ass traveling with her (alleged) lover.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
These corrupt, incompetent idiots are going to kill a lot of us wapo.st/4lWdVEE
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EPA eliminates its scientific research arm
The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 percent.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/07/2025
BREAKING: Trump's Supreme Court just greenlit his plans to gut the Department of Education. Every kid in America deserves access to a good public education.
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Supreme Court Clears the Way for Trump’s Cuts to the Education Department
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“The 57-year-old, who was from the town of Huajúmbaro in Michoacán, Mexico, is the first known person to die during the Trump administration’s enhanced immigration enforcement operations in southern California.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Farm worker who died after California Ice raid was ‘hardworking and innocent’, family says
Jaime Alanís, 57, died a day after falling off a greenhouse roof during an immigration raid of a cannabis farm
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A Mile. A Minute. @amileaminute.com · 14/07/2025
Fauja Singh, the popular runner who gained notoriety for taking up marathoning well into his advanced years, died on Monday in a road accident in Beyas village in the Punjab state in India.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Assault on the entire concept of expert advice continues.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/07/2025
"We don’t make enough money to put up with this." Last year, US K-12 schools opened short 55,000 teachers. Between book bans and political attacks on schools and educators, it's looking like this year's shortages will be even more dire, especially in red states. newrepublic.com/article/1967...
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American Teachers in Red States Are Walking Away for Good
The predictable consequences of the right wing’s war on public schools are being felt as educators leave their communities—and their profession.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/07/2025
And how much are teachers making? The median pay nationally for pre-K-12 teachers is ~$63K/yr--well below the ~$80K/yr median for college educated workers as a whole. And the situation is even more dire in some states, especially red states, where median salaries are as low as $50K/yr.
Figure showing median salaries for elementary education teachers by state. Figure showing median teacher salaries by grade level and special or general education
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 13/07/2025
FOLKS. We are getting urgent food + supplies to newly displaced families TODAY. They have nowhere to go. The other families in the circle are watching tanks getting closer. We're devastated, but we keep trying...our fear is nothing compared to what our friends are experiencing. 1725/2500
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/07/2025
At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.
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Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 10/07/2025
danez smith IM GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE
i'm going back to Minnesota where sadness makes sense

○ California, don't you know the sun is only a god
if you learn to starve for her? i'm over the ocean

i stood at its lip, dressed in down, praying for snow,
i know i'm strange, too much light makes me nervous

at least in this land where the trees always bear green.
i know something that doesn't die can't be beautiful.

have you ever stood on a frozen lake, California?
the sun above you, the Snow & stalled sea—a field of mirror

all demanding to be the sun, everything around you
is light & it's gorgeous & if you stay too long it will kill you.

it's so sad, you know? you're the only warm thing for miles
the only thing that can't shine.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
BREAKING: Senator Alex Padilla is calling for ICE agents to be unmasked. Who agrees?
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