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Nelson Flores
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Professor researching race and language in education
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So who is going to get fired for this massive mistake?
An Axios headline that falsely claimed “Trump-backed Jack Ciattarelli wins New Jersey govenor’s race”
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Please note that it is Mamdani’s opponents who are running horribly racist ads that are putting all Muslim New Yorkers at risk but somehow it is Mamdani who is polarizing New York with his message of improving the quality of life of all New Yorkers.
A Politico headline with an image of Zohran Mamdani and a headline that reads Zohran Mamdani’s meteoric candidacy is deeply polarizing New York
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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This rationale provided by George Mason University demanding the removal of a video posted in solidarity with Palestinians is wild in so many ways but most notably in the claim that connecting the struggle of indigenous people around the world is anti-Semitic.

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The students removed the video, but requested an explanation of how it violated university policy. An analysis provided by GMU in response cited a reference to Israel as a “genocidal Zionist state”, which the university claimed implied “all Jews and Israelis” are “genocidal Zionists”. The university also claimed the “belly of the beast” phrase – a reference to the students being based in the US – was an antisemitic nod to Israel’s and Jews’ “control” over other countries. It further claimed that the use of the phrase “Turtle Island” was an attempt “to tie the struggle of indigenous peoples on these continents with those in the Middle East”, therefore presenting Israel as a colonizer, and that the call for a “full liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea” was a call for the “eradication of Jews in Israel”.
October 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Immigrants are welcome in this democracy but #NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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People looking back at this time of history in the future will no doubt applaud the bravery of GOP senators who consistently expressed mild anxiety about Trump’s fascist takeover of our government
A headline that reads”GOP senators increasingly anxious about Trump’s aggressive use of National Guard”
October 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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This point right here is so important. Efforts to ban so-called “gender ideology” in universities will require professors to lie to students in ways that make them less prepared to engage in research, which is literally our job.
Students often ask: What do we do when the data we analyze records only binary sex (male/female)? How do we interpret patterns in such simplified data? I have a choice. I can lie and teach that sex is a simple binary, or I can explain the biological reality of intersex people before discussing the limitations of binary data and quantitative methods. I always choose the latter. Students leave class with a biology lesson alongside stronger statistical understanding — better prepared to collect and understand data, exactly what the class aims to achieve.
October 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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The Texas Tech president is like “faculty all have a First Amendment right to agree with everything the Trump administration says about the world.”
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“While recognizing the First Amendment rights of employees in their personal capacity, faculty must comply with these laws in the instruction of students, within the course and scope of their employment,” Mitchell wrote in a memo that landed in faculty’s email inboxes on Friday
September 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Progressives: Providing trigger warnings for sensitive topics may provide students with the opportunity to emotionally prepare to discuss them.

MAGA: Snowflakes!

Also MAGA: Give us trigger warnings
letting us know which classes might challenge our political views so that we can avoid taking them.
“Landers said she reached out to the student who confronted McCoul, who told her to contact Welsh. She sent the president an email that night, sharing that the content McCoul was teaching was not what Landers had signed up for. Landers said Welsh called her the next morning and agreed with her, saying that students should “know what they’re signing up for in a class that they’re paying for.”
September 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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This is one of those moments that @theonion.com could probably not even imagine
A headline for a Huffington Post article titled “Vance Acknowledges Immigrants—Not ICE Agents—were killed that includes a quote from VP Vance that says “Look, just because we don’t support illegal aliens, we don’t want them to be executed by violent assassins engaged in political violence.”
September 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I have long been a critic of BICS and CALP but is probably the worst depiction of it I have seen. The biggest problem is the assumption that art is less cognitively demanding than science. But even if you buy that “calling someone on the phone” could be to talk to them about a science experiment.
A graphic entitled Cummins’ Quadrants that has an x axis from more context to more abstract and a y-axis from cognitively undemanding to cognitively demanding.
September 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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I can think of some more precise and accurate term than “populist” to describe this message

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But Trump has long made crime, especially when committed by young Black men, a central part of his populist message, dating back to his time as a high-profile real estate developer in New York City. He has also regularly portrayed urban communities like Washington, D.C. in bleak, often apocalyptic terms.
August 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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The Washington Post is really offering insightful commentary about our current political moment 🙃
A Washington Post headline that reads “It’s rude to ask if somebody is taking Ozempic. Here’s why. You’re curious, sure. But it’s still not acceptable to ask if someone is taking a GLP-1 inhibitor
August 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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These mofos said the same thing about Roe v. Wade and yet here we are. The gaslighting continues.
A headline for an opinion piece in USA Today by Dace Potas that reads “Supreme Court isn’t poised to end gay marriage, despite the media’s fearmondering “The general public has a poor understanding of how the Supreme Court, and the judicial branch in general, actually works. The court is not a partisan machine that takes cases based on the whims of the Republican Party, but rather a process-oriented institution that is very restrained.”
August 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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This is the stage I am at in my thinking on AI in education. How do we change our teaching to ensure that students are engaged in critical thinking about the topics we are exploring knowing they can upload course materials into AI and have it write an essay for them?

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This is forcing teachers to rethink evaluation methods. Traditional assessment approaches based on written assignments must now be reconsidered to accurately gauge whether students genuinely understand concepts, develop skills, and engage in creative thinking, Luisa González-Reiche, an expert in pedagogy and philosophy, told Rest of World.
August 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The irony of this district using singular they in response to a teacher being fired for inadvertently not complying with a transphobic educational policy is not lost on me

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"While the state has chosen to allow this individual to retain their certification under probation, I believe it is appropriate that the full term of that probation be completed before any consideration of employment," he said in an emailed statement to Florida Today.”
August 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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These institutions continue to gaslight us into believing that they continue to be committed to creating an inclusive community for all of their students even after signing agreements that literally mandate that they do the opposite.

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In an emailed statement to The Advocate, Brown Vice President for News and Strategic Campus Communications Brian Clark said the agreement “does not address Brown’s ability to continue to implement gender-inclusive measures on campus.” Clark noted that Brown will continue offering gender-inclusive housing and restrooms and allow students to specify pronouns and chosen names in university systems. “Brown remains fully committed to serving the needs of all students and community members in a manner consistent with our long-established policy of nondiscrimination,” he added.
August 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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They are literally trying to make it illegal to consider any lived experience in evaluation an applicant. You literally might no longer be able to ask applicants about their life.
Other examples of “potentially unlawful proxies” include requirements that job applicants “demonstrate ‘cultural competence,’ ‘lived experience,’ or ‘cross-cultural skills’” or narratives about how the applicant has overcome obstacles, Attorney General Pamela Bondi wrote.
July 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The faculty senate passing a resolution supporting their president can only be understood as engaging in an issue of political contention if we accept the Trump administration premise that any speech opposing it should be banned on campus. Either you support fascism or you don’t. It is that simple.
”While FIRE would prefer governing bodies such as faculty senates remain neutral on issues of political contention,” she said, “the federal government’s actions represent the latest in a pattern of shakedowns against colleges and universities that will certainly chill faculty speech.”
July 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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It is crazy how the NYT and the liberal elite of the Democratic Party are simply shrugging their shoulders and pretending like the government extorting money from institutions of higher education simply to show it has power over them is business as usual.
“They didn’t admit wrongdoing — it’s a classic settlement,” said Donna E. Shalala, who was the health secretary under President Bill Clinton and led four schools, including the University of Miami and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “You don’t admit wrongdoing, and you preserve your right to continue as an institution.” Mr. Trump, Dr. Shalala said, had a long record of “transactional” bargaining with powerful institutions. “The details are less important than getting the deal and getting the win,” she said. “So if you know that when you go into a negotiation that it’s less ideological than it is getting a win, then you can get a win on both sides.”
July 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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A picture of Oprah with a microphone yelling often used as a meme that reads “Trump trying to distract from Epstein. You go to jail! You go to jail! Everybody goes to jail!”
July 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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In case you had any doubts that this line of questioning is racist, one of the trolls condemning the answer incorrectly identified Mahmoud Khalil as Zohran Mamdani. Brown men are interchangeable to them especially when they speak truth to power.
A headline that says “Mahmoud Khalil Repeatedly Refuses to Condemn Hamas on CNN” with a response that reads “Schorr is a clown & troll but Mamdani may’ve jumped the shark. There was no 10/6 killing of 260 Palestinians; 10/7 was a surprise attack because there wasn’t any other fight. As for civilians, he should watch the video of Hamas & IJ hunting civilians as a 1st” the image then cuts off for lack of space
July 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I love how the spokesperson for a GOP anti-immigrant Mexican-American congressman who lied about his family history to make it seem like his grandfather came to the US legally and had no criminal record unlike those he thinks should be deported now blames that lie on his deceitful Hispanic culture.
“In Hispanic culture, immigrating the ‘right way’ generally means working hard, contributing to their community, and not causing problems — not necessarily that something is 100% perfectly legal,” Bomar wrote in an email.
July 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Unsurprisingly there is also a huge ethnoracial gap here with almost half of Hispanic respondents worried about they or someone close to them being deported.
A chart titles “Across racial and ethnic groups, concern about deportation has increased from March to June 2025” that shows an increase from 42%-47% for Hispanics, 19%-29% for English-Speaking Asians, 19%-26% for Black respondents and 12%-15% for white respondents
July 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Apparently Man and LGBTQ+ are mutually exclusive and it is the job of us LGBTQ+ friends to fix men
Barack Obama Explains Why Every Man Needs LGBTQ+ Friends While speaking on his wife Michelle Obama’s podcast, Barack opened up about the importance of raising “emotionally intelligent, competent men.”
July 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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I am happy to announce that Volume 39 of the Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, the doctoral student run journal that I am the faculty sponsor of is hot off the presses with 5 excellent articles. Check it out here:

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A list of the 5 articles included in this issue: Cultural and Linguistic Assets-Based Approaches: Disputing (and Transmuting) Deficit Perspectives Lupita Barrientos My Sociolinguistic Autoethnography: A Multilingual Perspective on Belonging and Identity in Italian Higher Education Valeria Di Mauro Training In-Service Teachers on How to Apply Evidence-Based Online Engagement Framework to Materials Design Iryna Kozlova, Tori Choi, and Lusha Li Difficulties experienced by Spanish-speaking Latinx mothers implementing a home-based English literacy program Jancarlos Montoya-Mejia
July 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM