Andrés Pérez-Rojas, PhD
@aperezrojas.bsky.social
Counseling psychologist. UMD alumnus. Associate Professor at IU Bloomington. Culture, politics, therapy, nerdiness. Views my own. He/Him/El 🇻🇪🇪🇸🇺🇸
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🚨New pub alert! Introducing the Kaleidoscope Model of Cultural Humility. In this paper, we explored how therapists-in-training practice cultural humility with clients in jail.
Read and download here: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
Here's a breakdown of key points:
Read and download here: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
Here's a breakdown of key points:
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The Heritage Foundation wrote Project 2025, which helped motivate many federal policy changes in the last year. Here is their follow-up document, which will definitely get traction at the Department of Education and in red states.
Themes for Higher Education Reform
Higher education in America is in a state of crisis.
www.heritage.org
January 28, 2026 at 9:50 PM
The Heritage Foundation wrote Project 2025, which helped motivate many federal policy changes in the last year. Here is their follow-up document, which will definitely get traction at the Department of Education and in red states.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Sen Tillis just went off on Noem in what looked like a hallway scrum. Said in no uncertain terms that she should be canned.
January 27, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Sen Tillis just went off on Noem in what looked like a hallway scrum. Said in no uncertain terms that she should be canned.
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‘The state has moved from telling us what we cannot teach to telling us exactly what we can…giving our students a really impoverished version of the discipline,’ Katie Rainwater
‘[Students] will be getting a sociology text, a sociology course without a soul…It is a sanitized version,’ Matt Marr
‘[Students] will be getting a sociology text, a sociology course without a soul…It is a sanitized version,’ Matt Marr
Florida escalates its battle on sociology with new curriculum, textbook. Professors push back
In a dramatic escalation of a years-long battle over sociology in Florida colleges and universities, FIU faculty allege that new state mandates for an Introduction to Sociology course amount to an att...
www.wlrn.org
January 27, 2026 at 11:35 AM
‘The state has moved from telling us what we cannot teach to telling us exactly what we can…giving our students a really impoverished version of the discipline,’ Katie Rainwater
‘[Students] will be getting a sociology text, a sociology course without a soul…It is a sanitized version,’ Matt Marr
‘[Students] will be getting a sociology text, a sociology course without a soul…It is a sanitized version,’ Matt Marr
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As the Department of Education prepares for negotiated rulemaking on accreditation, I'm watching two things: who gets selected as negotiators and how closely ED's initial proposal looks to the proposed higher ed compact or legislation that is stuck in Congress.
Education Dept. Eyes Rewrite of Accreditation Rules
ED officials have said for months that they want to tackle the regulations governing accreditors. A Monday announcement offers more specifics on their agenda.
www.insidehighered.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:57 AM
As the Department of Education prepares for negotiated rulemaking on accreditation, I'm watching two things: who gets selected as negotiators and how closely ED's initial proposal looks to the proposed higher ed compact or legislation that is stuck in Congress.
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I personally don't tell people who have been fighting their hearts out daily for weeks not to celebrate wins of any size. I certainly don't do that when I've been nowhere near the place where the fight has been happening and have done little more than make some donations from miles away.
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 AM
I personally don't tell people who have been fighting their hearts out daily for weeks not to celebrate wins of any size. I certainly don't do that when I've been nowhere near the place where the fight has been happening and have done little more than make some donations from miles away.
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thought a bit about abolishing ICE, Democratic caution, and how this time the institutional change is probably the easy part
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/change-see...
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/change-see...
Change seems impossible until it doesn't
The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis yesterday feels like a significant turning point in what was already an awful and authoritarian situation.
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:27 PM
thought a bit about abolishing ICE, Democratic caution, and how this time the institutional change is probably the easy part
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/change-see...
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/change-see...
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It's that time of the year again.
January 24, 2026 at 3:21 PM
It's that time of the year again.
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Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?
More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House.
🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
January 24, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?
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There are 4 top races in the Wisconsin state Senate. Democrats need 3 of the 4 to win a majority. One of the Republicans just announced his retirement.
open.substack.com/pub/charlesa...
open.substack.com/pub/charlesa...
January 23, 2026 at 4:18 AM
There are 4 top races in the Wisconsin state Senate. Democrats need 3 of the 4 to win a majority. One of the Republicans just announced his retirement.
open.substack.com/pub/charlesa...
open.substack.com/pub/charlesa...
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Of course, there's no mention of the 200+ degree programs she cut or consolidated to help pay for this historic football win (by tripling the football budget).
January 22, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Of course, there's no mention of the 200+ degree programs she cut or consolidated to help pay for this historic football win (by tripling the football budget).
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Re the February Dear Colleagues letter that threatened funding for schools & universities over DEI-related efforts:
‘[Ed Dept]…moved to dismiss its appeal. It leaves in place a federal judge’s August decision finding that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment & federal procedural rules.’
‘[Ed Dept]…moved to dismiss its appeal. It leaves in place a federal judge’s August decision finding that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment & federal procedural rules.’
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges
The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colle...
apnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Re the February Dear Colleagues letter that threatened funding for schools & universities over DEI-related efforts:
‘[Ed Dept]…moved to dismiss its appeal. It leaves in place a federal judge’s August decision finding that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment & federal procedural rules.’
‘[Ed Dept]…moved to dismiss its appeal. It leaves in place a federal judge’s August decision finding that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment & federal procedural rules.’
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No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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so you should just know, if Indiana can win a national title, there's no reason for you to not have hope about...well, everything and anything
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 AM
so you should just know, if Indiana can win a national title, there's no reason for you to not have hope about...well, everything and anything
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I can’t believe they did it
January 20, 2026 at 4:18 AM
I can’t believe they did it
Miami seems to have cracked the code
January 20, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Miami seems to have cracked the code
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An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:59 PM
An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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A special issue of the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management will examine the financing of higher education. I'm an co-editor of this issue.
Abstracts due 8 June 2026. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Abstracts due 8 June 2026. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Financing higher education – institutional and student perspectives
Financing higher education, institutional and student perspectives
think.taylorandfrancis.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:50 AM
A special issue of the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management will examine the financing of higher education. I'm an co-editor of this issue.
Abstracts due 8 June 2026. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Abstracts due 8 June 2026. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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“Trump administration officials had been in discussions with Venezuela's hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello months before the U.S. operation to seize President Nicolas Maduro, and have been in communication with him since then.”
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Exclusive: US talks with hardline Venezuelan minister Cabello began months before raid
While Delcy Rodríguez has been seen by the U.S. as the linchpin for Trump's strategy for post-Maduro Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello is widely believed to have the power to keep those plans on track or up...
www.reuters.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:12 PM
“Trump administration officials had been in discussions with Venezuela's hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello months before the U.S. operation to seize President Nicolas Maduro, and have been in communication with him since then.”
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...