Robert Cotto Jr.
@robertcottojr.bsky.social
Educator, Scholar, Dad | Black Puerto Rican + Indigenous Peruvian | Ph.D. | My posts are just me. Reposts are not endorsement.
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Solid piece by @blackwomanteacher.bsky.social, doing the work, lays out connections that can inform this timely webinar. Hope folks attend, read her piece: futureschools.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Solid piece by @blackwomanteacher.bsky.social, doing the work, lays out connections that can inform this timely webinar. Hope folks attend, read her piece: futureschools.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
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one of the crueler cases of #AdministrativeBurden I’ve heard in a long time...
and also a good example of how much easier it is to cause harm once these essential services have been “paused."
this is abominable.
www.newsweek.com/snap-benefit...
and also a good example of how much easier it is to cause harm once these essential services have been “paused."
this is abominable.
www.newsweek.com/snap-benefit...
SNAP benefits update: Trump admin says ‘everyone’ will have to reapply
Agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins told Newsmax on Thursday the plan is to “have everyone reapply for their benefits."
www.newsweek.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
one of the crueler cases of #AdministrativeBurden I’ve heard in a long time...
and also a good example of how much easier it is to cause harm once these essential services have been “paused."
this is abominable.
www.newsweek.com/snap-benefit...
and also a good example of how much easier it is to cause harm once these essential services have been “paused."
this is abominable.
www.newsweek.com/snap-benefit...
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Also: not anywhere is there any independent assessment of SNAP fraud alleged here by a spokesperson to be “rampant."
the article has descriptions of how it “can” occur, quotes claims about how many deceased people were receiving benefits.
whatever happened to “get both sides of the story”?
the article has descriptions of how it “can” occur, quotes claims about how many deceased people were receiving benefits.
whatever happened to “get both sides of the story”?
one of the crueler cases of #AdministrativeBurden I’ve heard in a long time...
and also a good example of how much easier it is to cause harm once these essential services have been “paused."
this is abominable.
www.newsweek.com/snap-benefit...
and also a good example of how much easier it is to cause harm once these essential services have been “paused."
this is abominable.
www.newsweek.com/snap-benefit...
SNAP benefits update: Trump admin says ‘everyone’ will have to reapply
Agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins told Newsmax on Thursday the plan is to “have everyone reapply for their benefits."
www.newsweek.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Also: not anywhere is there any independent assessment of SNAP fraud alleged here by a spokesperson to be “rampant."
the article has descriptions of how it “can” occur, quotes claims about how many deceased people were receiving benefits.
whatever happened to “get both sides of the story”?
the article has descriptions of how it “can” occur, quotes claims about how many deceased people were receiving benefits.
whatever happened to “get both sides of the story”?
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Possible difficult flu season ahead. Time to make sure that you're up to date on all applicable vaccinations. Be sure to discuss any questions with your healthcare provider.
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A rough flu season may be taking shape
Plus updates on measles, infant botulism, the question grab bag and good news.
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Possible difficult flu season ahead. Time to make sure that you're up to date on all applicable vaccinations. Be sure to discuss any questions with your healthcare provider.
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
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Disaster imperialism in full effect in Jamaica according to family there who tell me there is now a strong US military presence under the guise of aid including military planes, drones and helicopters.
Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Disaster imperialism in full effect in Jamaica according to family there who tell me there is now a strong US military presence under the guise of aid including military planes, drones and helicopters.
Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
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I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.
F that!
F that!
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.
F that!
F that!
California’s new filing marks the second time the state has asked a federal court to block Trump’s Los Angeles deployment, which the president initiated through an early June memo in response to protests against his aggressive immigration raids throughout the city.
California Again Asks Court to Block Trump’s ‘Never-Ending’ Military Occupation of Los Angeles
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1969: The second Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam attracts more than 500,000 demonstrators, making it one of the largest protests in U.S. history. The aim was to pressure the Nixon administration to withdraw U.S. military forces from the conflict. /1
Today in history, 1969: The second Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam attracts more than 500,000 demonstrators, making it one of the largest protests in U.S. history. The aim was to pressure the Nixon administration to withdraw U.S. military forces from the conflict. /1
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1969: The second Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam attracts more than 500,000 demonstrators, making it one of the largest protests in U.S. history. The aim was to pressure the Nixon administration to withdraw U.S. military forces from the conflict. /1
Today in history, 1969: The second Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam attracts more than 500,000 demonstrators, making it one of the largest protests in U.S. history. The aim was to pressure the Nixon administration to withdraw U.S. military forces from the conflict. /1
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Alice Wong taught me so much through her writing and her fight and her way of being in the world.
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Alice Wong taught me so much through her writing and her fight and her way of being in the world.
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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Just an incalculable loss from which we won’t soon recover.
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Just an incalculable loss from which we won’t soon recover.
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
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Without the paywall: www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Without the paywall: www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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“With immigration agents under intense pressure to deport thousands of people each day, Ms. Lopez was pushed through the system swiftly and was deported within four days of the factory raid.
As a result, Jorge is now cared for by two siblings who are barely adults themselves.”
As a result, Jorge is now cared for by two siblings who are barely adults themselves.”
She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“With immigration agents under intense pressure to deport thousands of people each day, Ms. Lopez was pushed through the system swiftly and was deported within four days of the factory raid.
As a result, Jorge is now cared for by two siblings who are barely adults themselves.”
As a result, Jorge is now cared for by two siblings who are barely adults themselves.”
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Also, I want to note that a White Democrat saying the party "got sucked into a conversation about identity" while the Right is attempting/succeeding in a White nationalist project in full view of everyone is fairly emblematic of why things seem so bleak in the US right now
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Also, I want to note that a White Democrat saying the party "got sucked into a conversation about identity" while the Right is attempting/succeeding in a White nationalist project in full view of everyone is fairly emblematic of why things seem so bleak in the US right now
I'm reading the "housing growth" bill passed in a special session without public hearing. There are key aspects of neoliberal deregulation of land redevelopment similar to charter school concept. Here is a buried "priority housing development zone." This isn't about housing or affordability. (p. 37)
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm reading the "housing growth" bill passed in a special session without public hearing. There are key aspects of neoliberal deregulation of land redevelopment similar to charter school concept. Here is a buried "priority housing development zone." This isn't about housing or affordability. (p. 37)
People still use the flawed term "learning loss"?
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
People still use the flawed term "learning loss"?
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NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
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Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
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Changing state law on land redevelopment with questionable methods and impact with no public hearing?
ctmirror.org/2025/11/14/c...
ctmirror.org/2025/11/14/c...
Housing bill gets final approval from CT Senate in special session
Housing has long been a politically charged issue in Connecticut and one of the issues that most divides Republicans and Democrats.
ctmirror.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Changing state law on land redevelopment with questionable methods and impact with no public hearing?
ctmirror.org/2025/11/14/c...
ctmirror.org/2025/11/14/c...
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A new lawsuit describes horrific conditions, including severe medical neglect, at ICE's California City Detention Facility.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A new lawsuit describes horrific conditions, including severe medical neglect, at ICE's California City Detention Facility.
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