Nelson Flores
@nelsonlflores.bsky.social
Professor researching race and language in education
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Zohran Mamdani Just Gave American Politics a Raciolinguistic Reality Check
Zohran Mamdani just won the New York City mayoral race, and it’s a big deal for reasons that will no doubt be dissected for years to come. But what really stands out to me is how this moment shifts…
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"He essentially said, 'I’m not going to hide who I am to make you comfortable.' In doing so Mamdani delivered a raciolinguistic reality check that refuses the idea that politicians of color need to translate themselves into whiteness to be viable."
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I am talking about K-12 urban schools where kids are drilled in 5 paragraph essays to increase test scores so that their schools don’t close down. Unfortunately, students are not encourage to develop writing voices unless they are privileged and/or possibly in college (though not even then often)
I wonder what schools he's speaking of though? During all the years I taught college composition, it was always about helping students discover and find confidence in their own voice. Every other teacher in my department would've said the same.
It is kind of ironic that schools have spent so many years trying to convince students that academic writing should be completely devoid of any personal voice and are now in a state of crisis trying to deal with students using generative AI to write assignments that completely take away their voice.
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I am talking about K-12 urban schools where kids are drilled in 5 paragraph essays to increase test scores so that their schools don’t close down. Unfortunately, students are not encourage to develop writing voices unless they are privileged and/or possibly in college (though not even then often)
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OMG YES THIS if there is a theme in my writing assignments it is write something that lets me hear your voice
It is kind of ironic that schools have spent so many years trying to convince students that academic writing should be completely devoid of any personal voice and are now in a state of crisis trying to deal with students using generative AI to write assignments that completely take away their voice.
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
OMG YES THIS if there is a theme in my writing assignments it is write something that lets me hear your voice
It is kind of ironic that schools have spent so many years trying to convince students that academic writing should be completely devoid of any personal voice and are now in a state of crisis trying to deal with students using generative AI to write assignments that completely take away their voice.
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It is kind of ironic that schools have spent so many years trying to convince students that academic writing should be completely devoid of any personal voice and are now in a state of crisis trying to deal with students using generative AI to write assignments that completely take away their voice.
I have always found comments like listen to x marginalized group at best condescending and at worse dehumanizing because the comments often presuppose that x marginalized group all believe the same thing erasing the complexities and contradictions that shape any community’s views.
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I have always found comments like listen to x marginalized group at best condescending and at worse dehumanizing because the comments often presuppose that x marginalized group all believe the same thing erasing the complexities and contradictions that shape any community’s views.
Those of us in educational linguistics are familiar with how the research consensus on the benefits of bilingual education have been attacked as promotion “racial ideology.”
The same has happened with gender affirming care which has strong research support and is attacked as “gender ideology.”
The same has happened with gender affirming care which has strong research support and is attacked as “gender ideology.”
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Those of us in educational linguistics are familiar with how the research consensus on the benefits of bilingual education have been attacked as promotion “racial ideology.”
The same has happened with gender affirming care which has strong research support and is attacked as “gender ideology.”
The same has happened with gender affirming care which has strong research support and is attacked as “gender ideology.”
Yes and at the same time the problems we are seeing with AI have their foundations in the move away from public libraries as the primary information retrieval system to a for-profit company that has monetized knowledge
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Yes and at the same time the problems we are seeing with AI have their foundations in the move away from public libraries as the primary information retrieval system to a for-profit company that has monetized knowledge
The Trump/Mamdani bromance provides even more evidence that the neoliberal political order is collapsing in the face of populism. It also shows the two paths that this populism can take—one that seeks to push us back to the 1950s and the other that seeks to push us to a more egalitarian future.
November 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Trump/Mamdani bromance provides even more evidence that the neoliberal political order is collapsing in the face of populism. It also shows the two paths that this populism can take—one that seeks to push us back to the 1950s and the other that seeks to push us to a more egalitarian future.
Unless the Dems are willing to hold their own members accountable if/when the Epstein files are released in the same way that they hope to hold Trump and the GOP accountable this will just become another partisan pissing match that once again victimizes the survivors
Hakeem Jeffries defends the congresswoman who texted Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing, saying she "is not accused of violating any House rule, any law, any statute."
November 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Unless the Dems are willing to hold their own members accountable if/when the Epstein files are released in the same way that they hope to hold Trump and the GOP accountable this will just become another partisan pissing match that once again victimizes the survivors
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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i remain shocked at just how badly elite higher ed admins have stewarded universities. these presidents and chancellors and provosts, supposedly accomplished people, have collectively overseen a staggering nationwide collapse in every respect.
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
i remain shocked at just how badly elite higher ed admins have stewarded universities. these presidents and chancellors and provosts, supposedly accomplished people, have collectively overseen a staggering nationwide collapse in every respect.
One of the sexual predators at the heart of these files has literally become president of the United States twice but sure that era is clearly gone
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
One of the sexual predators at the heart of these files has literally become president of the United States twice but sure that era is clearly gone
GOP presidential hopeful are going to divide into the Trump loyalists like Vance and Rubio who will likely be caught up in having to explain their role in the Epstein cover-up and the anti-Trump wing like MTG who believe in the same fascist policies but don’t want to be connected to this scandal
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
GOP presidential hopeful are going to divide into the Trump loyalists like Vance and Rubio who will likely be caught up in having to explain their role in the Epstein cover-up and the anti-Trump wing like MTG who believe in the same fascist policies but don’t want to be connected to this scandal
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Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
What the Epstein files clearly shows is that both political parties have been captured by massively wealthy elites who smugly email each other about raping young girls while insisting it is progressives who are elitists for doing “woke” things like acknowledging that trans people exist.
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
What the Epstein files clearly shows is that both political parties have been captured by massively wealthy elites who smugly email each other about raping young girls while insisting it is progressives who are elitists for doing “woke” things like acknowledging that trans people exist.
We are literally in an episode of Black Mirror
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
We are literally in an episode of Black Mirror
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Forget all the other posers: Only @thedailyshow.com's Troy Iwata understands the spirit of Bluesky in these troubling times.
Epstein-Trump Saga Gets 20K Pages Longer & Megyn Kelly Splits Hairs on Pedophilia | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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November 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Forget all the other posers: Only @thedailyshow.com's Troy Iwata understands the spirit of Bluesky in these troubling times.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
And yet somehow we have let Christian nationalists take over the country
More US adults identify with no religion (29%) than with the Catholic Church (19%) or evangelical Protestant denominations (23%).
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
And yet somehow we have let Christian nationalists take over the country
One of the reasons the Dems have been such an ineffective opposition party is that most of them are part of the same elite networks as Trump and his entourage
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
One of the reasons the Dems have been such an ineffective opposition party is that most of them are part of the same elite networks as Trump and his entourage
It is so ironic that QAnon was actually right about the existence of an elite sex cabal but also supported giving it more power in the belief that one of its ringleaders becoming president would somehow stop it
🚨 Doesn't get much clearer than this:
"Republicans are running a pedophile protection program." -Leader Jeffries
And there you have it.
#StopJohnsonsEpsteinCoverup
"Republicans are running a pedophile protection program." -Leader Jeffries
And there you have it.
#StopJohnsonsEpsteinCoverup
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It is so ironic that QAnon was actually right about the existence of an elite sex cabal but also supported giving it more power in the belief that one of its ringleaders becoming president would somehow stop it
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Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
I really don’t get it. If the threat of eliminating the filibuster means that nobody uses it anymore to force bipartisan compromise then hasn’t the filibuster already essentially been eliminated?
I think this helpfully confirms the notion that the end of the filibuster was a big motivator for the eight Dems.
Heaven forbid the Republicans get rid of the filibuster…
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I really don’t get it. If the threat of eliminating the filibuster means that nobody uses it anymore to force bipartisan compromise then hasn’t the filibuster already essentially been eliminated?
Essentially the court is saying that schools can do nothing to ensure that students respect one another. Also apparently pronouns can be biological now
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apnews.com/article/ohio...
November 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Essentially the court is saying that schools can do nothing to ensure that students respect one another. Also apparently pronouns can be biological now
apnews.com/article/ohio...
apnews.com/article/ohio...
I know this is not breaking news to anybody on here but we are about to get a trove of documents that prove that our federal government bureaucracy has been taken over by sexual predator appointed by a president who is also a sexual predator
I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I know this is not breaking news to anybody on here but we are about to get a trove of documents that prove that our federal government bureaucracy has been taken over by sexual predator appointed by a president who is also a sexual predator