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Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Julian Vasquez Heilig @professorjvh.bsky.social · Feb 22
Attached the @democracynow.org show from yesterday. Was a little nervous at first but gained momentum.

Here's the topic: “Will Universities Surrender or Resist?"

Please share if able.

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"Will Universities Surrender or Resist?" Scholar Slams Trump's Threat to Defund Universities
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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When the Dutch Become America’s Conscience About Black Veterans cloakinginequity.com/2025/11/12/w...
When the Dutch Become America’s Conscience About Black Veterans
In the Netherlands this week, a quiet act of erasure exposed a loud truth about America. When two panels honoring Black World War II veterans disappeared from the Netherlands American Cemetery in M…
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November 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates lost their 2025 elections!
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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We've Entered the Whipsaw World cloakinginequity.com/2025/11/07/w...
We’ve Entered the Whipsaw World
We have entered the whipsaw world. What does that mean? It means that once Project 2025 is fully enacted—an agenda designed to consolidate federal control, politicize civil service, and remake educ…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The Falling Leaves: When to Banish the Past and When to Make Peace with It cloakinginequity.com/2025/11/03/t...
The Falling Leaves: When to Banish the Past and When to Make Peace with It
Forgiveness is one of humanity’s oldest moral instincts. Philosophers, teachers, and communities across time have recognized it as a release, a way to set down the weight of anger and disappointmen…
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November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Julius Caesar: "Sometimes You Get Outmaneuvered Badly" cloakinginequity.com/2025/11/02/j... @joyannreid.bsky.social
Julius Caesar: “Sometimes You Get Outmaneuvered Badly”
Julius Caesar knew power better than anyone of his time. He crossed the Rubicon, reshaped the Republic, and stood at the height of Roman glory surrounded by men who once called him friend. Yet, on …
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November 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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What Will Our Era Be Called? Naming the Age of American Reckoning cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/30/w... @marcelias.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social @keithboykin.bsky.social @joyannreid.bsky.social
What Will Our Era Be Called? Naming the Age of American Reckoning
History always gives names to moments that once felt impossible to define. We talk about the Roaring Twenties, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Great Depression as if they wer…
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October 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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The Unsung Architects of Greatness cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/29/t...
The Unsung Architects of Greatness
I was watching a TED Talk by Kevin Rutherford recently when his story about LeBron James stopped me in my tracks. Rutherford reminded the audience that LeBron didn’t win championships in Miami unti…
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October 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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No Kings in Our Schools: What Texas Teaches the Nation About Right Wing Power and Public Education cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/27/n...
No Kings in Our Schools: What Texas Teaches the Nation About Right Wing Power and Public Education
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has forcibly taken over Fort Worth ISD. In October 2025, the Texas Education Agency officially booted Fort Worth’s democratically elected school board and replaced it wit…
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October 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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The NY Times published an editorial citing Susan Collin as "a moderate Republican." Collins is a reliable vote for Trump's agenda, has voted against democracy at every turn and supported extremist judges.

This is why people are abandoning legacy media--even while enjoying games, puzzles & recipes.
October 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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😕

We are all paying for this vanity project
October 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Rebellion!: Americans Are Refusing to Cross Redlines cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/20/t... @marcelias.bsky.social @keithboykin.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social @carolburris.bsky.social @bertisdowns.bsky.social @joyannreid.bsky.social
Rebellion!: Americans Are Refusing to Cross Redlines
Donald Trump wants to send troops to Oregon, California, and Illinois to quell an imaginary rebellion that he claims gives him legal justification to deploy the military on American soil. Speaking …
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October 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Sunlight on the Shadows: What a Leaked GOP Chat Reveals about the Party's Future cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/18/s... @adamkinzinger.substack.com @marcelias.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social
Sunlight on the Shadows: What a Leaked GOP Chat Reveals about the Party’s Future
For seven months, in a private Telegram chat, Young Republican party officials and activists from New York to Arizona exchanged racist, homophobic, and antisemitic messages so vile they could have …
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Working with Crazy Geniuses cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/14/w...
Working with Crazy Geniuses
If you have ever worked with someone like Doc Brown from Back to the Future, you already know the thrill and exhaustion that comes with proximity to brilliance. The brilliant, unpredictable mi…
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October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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The Uppity Minority: What 's Learned After Refusing to Play the Game cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/13/t...
The Uppity Minority: What ‘s Learned After Refusing to Play the Game
A university president I respect recently recommended that I revisit Derrick Bell’s book Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester. The timing could not have been more precise. The …
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October 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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The American Model That Shaped the World’s Worst Crimes cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/12/a...
The American Model That Shaped the World’s Worst Crimes
A viral social-media post recently struck a deep chord with me: “If you’re flabbergasted that we are ‘turning into Nazi Germany,’ perhaps it’s worth remembering that the Nazis based many of their p…
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October 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Plenary Authority: Why a LIVE TV Pregnant Pause Was the Point cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/10/p...
Plenary Authority: Why a LIVE TV Pregnant Pause Was the Point
When White House Advisor Stephen Miller sat across from the CNN interviewer in October 2025, his delivery was measured, his words chosen with precision. As he spoke about presidential powers, he be…
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🎙️ Perkins Podcast: The Not-So-Subtle Costs of Change Leadership @thejosevilson.com @marcelias.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social @levarburton.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social @markhamillofficial.bsky.social cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/08/%...
🎙️ Perkins Podcast: The Not-So-Subtle Costs of Change Leadership
Change in leadership sounds inspiring—until you live it. Behind every policy win, reform effort, or equity initiative lies a personal story of risk, resistance, and resilience. This week, I joined …
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2026 Best Colleges: Students Are Not Bumper Stickers cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/07/2...
2026 Best Colleges: Students Are Not Bumper Stickers
Every fall, new waves of university rankings hit the headlines. Media outlets trumpet which institutions rose, which fell, and which managed to hold on to coveted spots at the top. Parents share th…
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October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Joseph Fishkin, Professor of Law at UCLA Law, offers this incisive and thorough analysis of the Trump administration's so-called compact with higher education.
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Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
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AI Code Red: Why We Must Evolve Education cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/05/a...
AI Code Red: Why We Must Evolve Education
When I read the Poets & Quants article “We Expected More: Stanford GSB Students Call for Higher Teaching Standards,” I felt a familiar mix of agreement and urgency. Students at one of the world…
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Bad Bunny, the Super Bowl, and Why People are Really Nervous
The Super Bowl has always been more than football. It is a ritual, a spectacle, a national performance. It’s where America tells the world who it thinks it is, and who it wants to be. Which is why …
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Trump’s New "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" Isn’t American at All—It’s Chinese @warren.senate.gov @marcelias.bsky.social @lpchavez.bsky.social @network4pubed.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/02/t...
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When the White House unveiled the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” the announcement came cloaked in patriotic rhetoric about restoring standards, promoting fairness, and prote…
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Quantico Wasn’t a Meeting, It Was a Warning cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/01/q...
Quantico Wasn’t a Meeting, It Was a Warning
History has a way of whispering warnings to us if we are willing to listen. Patterns repeat themselves across continents and decades, and those who pay attention can see when old power plays are be…
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History’s Lesson for Us Today: Moments for Courage Come and Go Quickly
I was a history major as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, and history has taught me this: courage rarely gives advance notice. It does not arrive with a calendar appointment or a war…
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The Debate about Charlie Kirk Being Taken Out of Context cloakinginequity.com/2025/09/29/t...
The Debate about Charlie Kirk Being Taken Out of Context
When Charlie Kirk sparred with Cenk Uygur in front of a live audience in 2018, the clash went viral. Kirk called Uygur out in a way that electrified his supporters but immediately drew backlash fro…
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