Leslie D. Gonzales, she/ella, Professsor of Higher Education
@dralesliedgonzales.bsky.social
I am just a Chicana rancher doing my best to make the professoriate a place where we can thrive.
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I talked with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about protest, why large “awareness-raising” events will not defeat Trump, and the kind of actions and formations we need in these times.
Awareness Protests Won’t Threaten the Richest, Most Well-Armed People on Earth
“Making durable changes isn’t always about the raw numbers,” says Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
truthout.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I talked with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about protest, why large “awareness-raising” events will not defeat Trump, and the kind of actions and formations we need in these times.
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These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
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For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
March 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
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And if you can’t get anyone on the phone, send an email to your senators. 👇
March 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
And if you can’t get anyone on the phone, send an email to your senators. 👇
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I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
March 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
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Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.
That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)
That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)
February 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.
That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)
That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)
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How is the Trump administration impacting higher ed, and how can academics best respond?
This Thursday the Future Trends Forum proudly hosts Ted Mitchell, ACE president, to discuss:
georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This Thursday the Future Trends Forum proudly hosts Ted Mitchell, ACE president, to discuss:
georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
February 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
How is the Trump administration impacting higher ed, and how can academics best respond?
This Thursday the Future Trends Forum proudly hosts Ted Mitchell, ACE president, to discuss:
georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This Thursday the Future Trends Forum proudly hosts Ted Mitchell, ACE president, to discuss:
georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.
www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams
Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....
www.commondreams.org
February 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.
www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
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An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation
Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.
www.insidehighered.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds.
We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.
We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.
February 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds.
We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.
We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.
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I want to salute the Governor of Maine Janet Mills who, in that room with a raging Trump and silent complicitors, stood her ground and said, “see you in court!”
Maine residents, show your support for your Gov for standing up for your independence.
Maine residents, show your support for your Gov for standing up for your independence.
“We are the federal law.”
TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here?
JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here
TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply?
JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law
T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all
JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here
TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply?
JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law
T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all
February 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I want to salute the Governor of Maine Janet Mills who, in that room with a raging Trump and silent complicitors, stood her ground and said, “see you in court!”
Maine residents, show your support for your Gov for standing up for your independence.
Maine residents, show your support for your Gov for standing up for your independence.
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I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.
February 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.
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NEWS: Federal judge blocks parts of two of Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders, finding that some provisions violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutionally vague.
* preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Plaintiffs, who have easily established their standing to bring this case and irreparable harm, have shown they are likely to prove the Termination and Enforcement Threat Provisions are unconstitutionally vague on their face.
But it is not just the vagueness of the Challenged Provisions that renders them
unconstitutional. There is a label for government action that seeks to "deter ... principles," J21 Order § 4(b)(iii), that the government disagrees with: "restrictlion]" of
"expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content." Reed v.
Town of Gilbert, 576 U.S. 155, 163 (2015). And the most "blatant" and "egregious form of content discrimination" is viewpoint discrimination. Id. at 168-69. The Certification and Enforcement Threat Provisions squarely, unconstitutionally, "abridgel] the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend. I.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiajsania5b4autc37hef2rgzapikhjfn5jrfsn34jcvek5rculypy@jpeg)
February 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
NEWS: Federal judge blocks parts of two of Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders, finding that some provisions violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutionally vague.
* preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
* opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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“What part of diversity, equity, and inclusion do you have a problem with?”
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
www.science.org
February 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
“What part of diversity, equity, and inclusion do you have a problem with?”
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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DON’T MEMORY HOLE ELON MUSK’S NAZI SALUTE
It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology
Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi
This should be repeated in articles, regularly
It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology
Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi
This should be repeated in articles, regularly
February 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
DON’T MEMORY HOLE ELON MUSK’S NAZI SALUTE
It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology
Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi
This should be repeated in articles, regularly
It’s been 4 weeks and 1 day since Elon Musk loudly vocalized his support for Nazi ideology
Everything that has happened since has happened with the guidance of an open Nazi
This should be repeated in articles, regularly
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Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview.
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
Hitting Pause on the ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter
The Department of Education is overstepping its bounds and infringing on constitutional rights.
www.chronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview.
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
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2 upcoming virtual book talks. I have a lot on my mind right now (as we all do) and I have some things to share. Please spread the word and sign up.
Mon 2/24, 4 p.m. PST lnkd.in/gBRpyGRP
Thur 3/13, 6 p.m. EST www.eventbrite.com/e/asian-amer...
Mon 2/24, 4 p.m. PST lnkd.in/gBRpyGRP
Thur 3/13, 6 p.m. EST www.eventbrite.com/e/asian-amer...
Asian American is Not a Color: A Virtual Book Talk with Dr. OiYan Poon
Join Dr. OiYan Poon for a compelling conversation that challenges assumptions and redefines solidarity.
www.eventbrite.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
2 upcoming virtual book talks. I have a lot on my mind right now (as we all do) and I have some things to share. Please spread the word and sign up.
Mon 2/24, 4 p.m. PST lnkd.in/gBRpyGRP
Thur 3/13, 6 p.m. EST www.eventbrite.com/e/asian-amer...
Mon 2/24, 4 p.m. PST lnkd.in/gBRpyGRP
Thur 3/13, 6 p.m. EST www.eventbrite.com/e/asian-amer...
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February 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
survey to help Higher Education Labor United get information and mobilize public statements, press conferences, and other public actions to fight current funding freezes and support of biomedical research
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THIS MORNING: The Senate is voting on Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for Director of National Intelligence. Trump’s Putin apologist has no real experience to oversee our intelligence community. Contact your senators now!
Call: indivisible.org/resource/urg...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/oppose-...
Call: indivisible.org/resource/urg...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/oppose-...
February 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
THIS MORNING: The Senate is voting on Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for Director of National Intelligence. Trump’s Putin apologist has no real experience to oversee our intelligence community. Contact your senators now!
Call: indivisible.org/resource/urg...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/oppose-...
Call: indivisible.org/resource/urg...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/oppose-...
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hell yeah middle schoolers
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout
The civil disobedience by dozens of middle-schoolers — and some adults — was aimed at the Trump administration’s rollback of DEI initiatives.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
hell yeah middle schoolers
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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CFPB - closed
USAID - closed
Medicaid - under attack
NIH cancer funding - frozen
Department of Education - under attack
But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today?
SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk
USAID - closed
Medicaid - under attack
NIH cancer funding - frozen
Department of Education - under attack
But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today?
SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk
February 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
CFPB - closed
USAID - closed
Medicaid - under attack
NIH cancer funding - frozen
Department of Education - under attack
But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today?
SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk
USAID - closed
Medicaid - under attack
NIH cancer funding - frozen
Department of Education - under attack
But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today?
SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk
Important read.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Important read.
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Reposted by Leslie D. Gonzales, she/ella, Professsor of Higher Education
It goes without saying, but if you see the need to access any data about American education from the federal government, you should go download it now. Like stop reading this post and do it immediately.
February 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
It goes without saying, but if you see the need to access any data about American education from the federal government, you should go download it now. Like stop reading this post and do it immediately.