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Nelson Flores
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Professor researching race and language in education
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4h
Patty, a woman observer in Minneapolis, was abducted from a car by federal agents today. She was released and talked about her experience in custody.

An agent said, "You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead."

🙏🏼 @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 5h
Early 2025: Trump admin tries to illegally shut down the CFPB, the newest member of the Federal Reserve system. Jay Powell says nothing.

Summer 2025: Trump admin tries to illegally fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook. Powell says nothing.

2026: Trump admin comes for Powell. He finally finds his voice.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 17h
Trump’s issue is not with an authoritarian government murdering its own people but with any government that pose a threat to his personal economic interests and those of his friends
alfiekohn.bsky.social Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 18h
Does the Trump regime's attempt to blame Renee Good for being murdered by an ICE agent sound familiar? snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
The thousands of extrajudicial killings in Maduro’s Venezuela were carried out by organized death squads. These actions were described as defensive. The Maduro regime claimed that the people they murdered were resisting government authority, and that the men who pulled the trigger had been provoked by those whom they murdered. Minneapolis has just witnessed an extrajudicial killing, at the hands of ICE, which looks more and more like a presidential paramilitary organization. The action was, horribly, excused by the president, the vice-president, and the director of homeland security, using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s Venezuelan regime. The victim was resisting government authority, they said. The man who pulled the trigger had been provoked, they said. It was not the killer who was a terrorist. It was the mom who had just dropped off one of her six-year-old at school.

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 18h
Does the Trump regime's attempt to blame Renee Good for being murdered by an ICE agent sound familiar? snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
The thousands of extrajudicial killings in Maduro’s Venezuela were carried out by organized death squads. These actions were described as defensive. The Maduro regime claimed that the people they murdered were resisting government authority, and that the men who pulled the trigger had been provoked by those whom they murdered. Minneapolis has just witnessed an extrajudicial killing, at the hands of ICE, which looks more and more like a presidential paramilitary organization. The action was, horribly, excused by the president, the vice-president, and the director of homeland security, using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s Venezuelan regime. The victim was resisting government authority, they said. The man who pulled the trigger had been provoked, they said. It was not the killer who was a terrorist. It was the mom who had just dropped off one of her six-year-old at school.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 20h
Good Move, Denmark 🇩🇰 👏🏻

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d
Also, by their own standards, the cops protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 should have opened fire all over.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d
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morewretchthansage.bsky.social Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 1d
"The Philosophy professor at A&M has decided to comply with instructions to replace the readings from Plato... with the New York Times article about how he had to replace the readings from Plato" — David Paternostro
A screengrab showing the exchange between Dr. Peterson and Dr. Sweet.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d
Twitter successfully branding itself as a public square has led people to believe that commodifying our personal information is necessary for democracy. If anything, it is actually an existential threat to our democracy.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d
If this happened at my university I would literally not be able to teach my own research in core courses in my program

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve talked about “internal colonies” of the US, but I never thought the phrase might describe the entire state of MN: but cutting off food is really some colonial-level collective punishment
Trump Administration Freezes Food Stamps in Minnesota The move was part of a broader effort to to freeze social services to some Democratic-led states amid a fraud investigation in Minnesota.

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d
Texas A&M University System serves 175,000 students annually across 12 institutions. Across all of them, core courses will no longer mention race, gender or LGBTQ content starting this semester.

www.statesman.com/news/educati...
Free speech concerns as A&M drops race, gender modules from core classes
Texas A&M University System serves 175,000 students annually across 12 institutions. Across all of them, core courses will no longer mention race, gender or LGBTQ content starting this semester.
www.statesman.com

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1d
WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 1d
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 1d
In a deadly start to the year, ICE announced the agency’s THIRD detention death of 2026 late Friday night. People are dying in detention at a rate of one every three days right now.

open.substack.com/pub/detentio...
3 Deaths in ICE Custody in the 1st Week of 2026
ICE dumps another unlawfully detained in-custody death notification on Friday evening
open.substack.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.

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Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.

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Rod McMillan @morewretchthansage.bsky.social · 1d
"The Philosophy professor at A&M has decided to comply with instructions to replace the readings from Plato... with the New York Times article about how he had to replace the readings from Plato" — David Paternostro
A screengrab showing the exchange between Dr. Peterson and Dr. Sweet.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you."

That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2d
Many are raising concerns that the settlement only includes 4 months pay to the end of his contract. I still think getting Clemson to admit wrongdoing is a huge win but also think this points to the existential threat that the increasingly contingent nature of academic positions poses to democracy.
nelsonlflores.bsky.social Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2d
We love to see universities caving to right wing hysteria both literally and figuratively paying the price for it
solomonmissouri.bsky.social Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d
The lawsuits have been plentiful as well as the settlements
wach.com/news/local/f...

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2d
We love to see universities caving to right wing hysteria both literally and figuratively paying the price for it

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2d
Don’t-tread-on-me by *checks notes* empowering federal agents to shoot unarmed people in the face with impunity
cingraham.bsky.social Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d
ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed an unarmed civilian, flew a don't-tread-on-me Gadsden flag at his house, per the Daily Mail.
One neighbor at Ross's 10-house cul-de-sac told the Daily Mail that until recently Ross had been flying pro-Trump flags and a 'Don't Tread On Me' Gadsden Flag, an emblem of the Make America Great Again movement. On Thursday afternoon there was no sign of Ross, his wife, or the flags. 'I think he's in the military. He has a military license plate,' one neighbor said. 'He had a don't tread on me flag, and Trump/Vance stickers up during the election. 'The wife is polite, very nice, very outgoing, while he's very reserved. They have a couple of kids.'

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d
ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed an unarmed civilian, flew a don't-tread-on-me Gadsden flag at his house, per the Daily Mail.
One neighbor at Ross's 10-house cul-de-sac told the Daily Mail that until recently Ross had been flying pro-Trump flags and a 'Don't Tread On Me' Gadsden Flag, an emblem of the Make America Great Again movement. On Thursday afternoon there was no sign of Ross, his wife, or the flags. 'I think he's in the military. He has a military license plate,' one neighbor said. 'He had a don't tread on me flag, and Trump/Vance stickers up during the election. 'The wife is polite, very nice, very outgoing, while he's very reserved. They have a couple of kids.'

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Dorie @doriec.bsky.social · 3d
Some people who love to fly the “don’t tread on me” flag really like to celebrate when the government quite literally treads on its own citizens.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 3d
Cue the Dem strategist who will suggest that the Dem response should be to insist that ICE agents are shooting people in the face as a distraction from the price of eggs

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 3d
I am not a community organizer but it seems to me that the first step in mobilizing people around a specific issue is to help them to realize how it impacts them. ICE agents will shoot you in the face even if you are a US citizen seems like a good place to bring new people into the resistance to me.
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4d
i have to mute replies to this post. i was a noncitizen for most of my life and i can understand feeling triggered by the repeat references to renee good's citizenship status.

but people attacking me for being insufficiently woke on immigration is, well, triggering a lot of repressed anxiety 🤷🏻‍♀️
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4d
i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 3d
We've been asked to share a call for submissions to a panel on: "In-Group Queer Languages Beyond the West"

Info here: 1drv.ms/b/c/bdb880df...

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 4d
Although a white woman was killed, remember that ICE was in Minneapolis because a MAGA agitator stirred up racist myths about Black immigrants committing fraud and Trump latched on to it to appease his base and distract from his failures as president. Structural racism means violence for everyone.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4d
i have to mute replies to this post. i was a noncitizen for most of my life and i can understand feeling triggered by the repeat references to renee good's citizenship status.

but people attacking me for being insufficiently woke on immigration is, well, triggering a lot of repressed anxiety 🤷🏻‍♀️
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4d
i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 4d
This. A government agency who is able to kill anybody with impunity is able to kill any of us with impunity
uhactually.bsky.social karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 4d
Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4d
i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

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Christina Belanger, Ph.D @belaforams.bsky.social · 4d
“…an intro. sociology course on race and ethnicity was canceled, a comm. course on religion and the arts was renumbered and stripped of core curriculum credit, and a philosophy prof. was told to remove Plato readings and other material related to race and gender from a core course or be reassigned.”
Texas A&M restrictions on race, gender could affect 200 courses
With the semester set to begin next week, professors have been directed to alter courses, and some classes have been removed or reassigned from the core curriculum at the College Station campus.
www.texastribune.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d
Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.”

So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?