making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

It is so funny how those trying to dismiss Mamdani’s win are insisting “of course the Democrat won in New York City” which somehow overlooks the fact that 2 of the last 4 mayors were Republicans (Giuliani) or Republicans who later became Independents (Bloomberg)

In my latest blog post I contrast @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social rhetorical style with @barackobama.bsky.social style suggesting a shift in how politicians of color position themselves that offers a possible new path of resistance to Trump’s fascism educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...

‘He didn’t ask for permission to center his community—he started with his community at the center and asked the rest of us to meet him there.’ Important message to a world that only allows for difference as long as it fits in reasonably smoothly.

"Mamdani has recognized the ways that the white listening subject hears racialized speakers as different not because of their words, but because of who they are. The difference isn’t in the speech but rather in the perceptions of the listener."

✊🏽 Gotta get down with the brown!

In my latest blog post I contrast @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social rhetorical style with @barackobama.bsky.social style suggesting a shift in how politicians of color position themselves that offers a possible new path of resistance to Trump’s fascism educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...

Centering his minoritised identity is "a radical move in a political culture that expects minoritised candidates to constantly reassure majority audiences." The author makes an interesting comparison to Obama, who attempted to downplay his difference to appease white Americans.👇

"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." educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...

"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." educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...

"You cannot defeat Trump’s racist populism without redirecting voters’ anger toward the true source of their suffering: the corporations and billionaires that bankroll both parties—and Democratic leaders like Schumer and Jeffries refuse to do that."

So who is going to get fired for this massive mistake?

The two major future directions that Dems have are reflected in the NYC mayoral election: (1) they could develop a populist attack from the Left like Mamdani or (2) they could cozy themselves up to fascists in the name of public safety

Right. Federal funds are not Trump’s personal bank account that he can just spend however he wants. It is OUR money and we may need to remind him of that

In case you were wondering why so-called centrists are so ineffective in resisting Trump it is because deep down they want us to listen to him

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

Trump is literally trying to extort New Yorkers to vote for his preferred mayoral candidate by keeping their taxpayer money from them as if it were his own personal bank account and the media is just talking about it as it it is business as usual.

Cuomo is a textbook case of how white dudes, regardless of their initial political affiliation will always revert to racism and misogyny when POC and/or women threaten their hold on power

We live in times when a NYC city mayoral candidate is being demonized for daring to run on a platform of making housing more affordable while POTUS is proposing to create literal concentration camps

A major political problem in the US is that white people are the primary beneficiaries of the government social safety net but are convinced that they receive no government support.

The federal government weaponizing Medicare and Medicaid to impose a political agenda divorced from science is a threat to all of us

The fact that anybody can just casually donated more money than maybe people will make their entire working life to try to sway an election away from a candidate whose sole platform is about affordability is precisely why are democracy is so broken apple.news/ARHuCw3N-SwK...

It is truly ironic that efforts to challenge deficit perspectives have led advocates to shift from “English learner” to “multilingual learner” in ways that assume they are referring to the same exact population thereby erasing the multilingualism of the many multilingual students who are not ELs.

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.

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. apple.news/Ayg8CfrxOR2a...

“Our work examines how language mediates access to power and educational opportunities—work that necessarily challenges hierarchies sustaining linguistic inequality and racial, cultural, & economic exclusion in education. This is…the kind of scholarship authoritarian projects seek to suppress.”

That awkward moment when a woman who herself acknowledges that she has relevant expertise to review a manuscript also questions how it could possibly be true that a journal would solicit the expertise of somebody with a vagina

Remember when many of us argued that the biological essentialism being used to attack trans people would end up being used to target cis people as well? Here is yet another example of that. apple.news/A2xRp9CTxS6i...

But also as a Latino I would also refer to my father’s cousin as my aunt so what is the Mega host even talking about lol

In my latest blog post I delve into the implication of Trump's Compact on the field of educational linguistics--and it is not pretty. Why Trump’s Compact Poses an Existential Threat to Educational Linguistics educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/w...

In my latest blog post I delve into the implication of Trump's Compact on the field of educational linguistics--and it is not pretty. Why Trump’s Compact Poses an Existential Threat to Educational Linguistics educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/w...

It’s quite impressive how Mamdani has pulled almost every Dem into his coalition, not him into theirs. He keeps the door open for everyone but true enemies (Adams, Cuomo) & rather than try to extort a Hochul into a promise, he just puts her onstage & lets the popular will confront her. Amazing.

Saying that someone doesn’t deserve to be a senator isn’t canceling them, that is the public opinion candidates are subject to in a democracy.

There are elements among both the right and the left that use the term “wokeness” as a weapon against anybody who would like straight white men to be held accountable for the harm they have inflicted on marginalized communities.

I think about this a lot.

Thank you, Chicago.

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

“A party that doesn’t talk like them”=a party with Black people in it “And doesn’t like the way they talk”=calls out racism

This is the part we need to continue to emphasize. Cuomo’s cynical ploy to mobilize Islamophobia to win an election is going to inflict real harm on Muslims around the country including those in the city he is campaigning to lead.

This reminds me of the part in the Handmaid’s Tale where the major ideological architect of the christian fascist patriarchy got her finger cut off for sassing the men she had helped get into power

1.) Mamdani is running for NYC mayor and will literally have no influence on US foreign policy 2.) His basic stance on foreign policy is that ethnoracial states should not exist

Trump’s invasion of a US city is literally sending it back to a Covid style lockdown and pivot back to remote learning

Next he will claim Muslims are eating non-Muslim New Yorkers cats. Meanwhile, Jeffries will still refuse to endorse Mamdani for supposedly being anti-Semitic while having nothing to say about this blatant Islamophobia.

For years the right has tried to convince us that the free speech of conservative professors are under attack when peers critique their shoddy research and students call out their lies. Now that the government is literally attacking speech it doesn’t like they are silent. apple.news/Ajs_gX4XiR0K...

The only thing that many people on Bluesky might be more obsessed with than complaining about than twitter is how bad NYT coverage is on the issue of the day.

We need a term comparable to raciolinguistic ideologies that points to the ways that the same behavior is perceived very different based on gender identity by the cis perceiving subject

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence” when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

I actually think they have realized it and either don’t care or believe this shit themselves

It us very telling that Libs of TikTok attack a teacher for making a factual statement related to how fascism always attacks teachers. It is almost as if they are telling on themselves apple.news/AMhfTXwNKTlO...