Recently in class we were learning about Funds of Knowledge and discussing cultural connections in learning. We used Lotería as an example of cultural knowledge and tradition. A few days later, one of my students surprised me by sending this: “El Maestro.”

Woke up to this notice from the NSF regarding a proposal that I was a part of.

🚨 LAST CALL to Register! Join us for the 4th Annual STEPs Summit at UNO! 🎓✨ 📅 March 28-29 | 📍 UNO MBSC 🔥 Keynote: NE State Senator Dunixi Guereca FREE event for future & current educators! 📌 Register NOW: forms.office.com/r/8Gk7m48PHt #STEPsSummit #FutureTeachers

UNO is listed as “under investigation for allegedly engaging in race-exclusionary practices in their graduate programs”

Trump Administration Opens Investigations At More Than 50 Universities In Anti-DEI Campaign

“Students must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.

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Musk’s cronies take scholarships from future educators in Nebraska

A once-celebrated UNL program is the latest victim of federal spending cuts

The national effort to cut federal funding has trickled down to some University of Nebraska-Lincoln programs. The future of one program focused on recruiting and retaining teachers is now up in the ai...

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4th Annual Future Teachers of Color Summit 2025! Join us at UNO on March 28-29 for a FREE event for teacher candidates & high school students! Keynotes, networking, & more! Please share Register by March 10 → forms.office.com/r/8Gk7m48PHt #FutureTeachersOfColor #DiversityInEducation

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Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

The Office of Personnel Management (federal government HR) appears to have been taken over by Musk minions and are attempting get rid of anyone who doesn’t fall in line with their agenda. All federal employees received this email. Literally a move from the fascist playbook.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2y ago

It looks like it's been posted on the OPM website. You can read it in full here:

Do not obey in advance!

AAUP@aaup.org · 2y ago

As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education. 🧵 www.aaup.org/news/against...

What are all the teachers who claimed to “love” and “care” for their immigrant students going to do when the students they supposedly “love” stop showing up because they’ve been detained or deported? What if ICE shows up at their school and pulls those students from their classrooms?

Welcome to the next four years. Republicans do horribly rightwing things to hurt people and move the Overton window even further right, while rightwing Democrats say 'Hey, can you let us join in and do it in a bipartisan fashion'. Kill me now.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2y ago

13 Democratic senators, led by Mark Kelly, write a letter asking John Thune and Republicans to work with them on an immigration bill instead of doing it on party lines through reconciliation. Full 👇

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Trump calling his efforts “manifest destiny” is no accident. It is meant to evoke memories of the violent removal of Indigenous peoples and Mexicans from their lands. His planned mass deportations are part of this plan.

Leonard Peltier is free! www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bi...

Joe Biden Frees Leonard Peltier

The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.

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GoFundMe links for Latino Wildfire Survivors via Latinx Therapy: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #EatonFire

2025 Latino LA Wildfire Survivors GFM via Latinx Therapy

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Just finished Promises of Gold by José Olivarez, and wow—what a collection. His poetry hit hard, exploring love, grief, and generational trauma, while calling out systems like capitalism. It’s raw, real, and deeply relatable. Highly recommend the audiobook, especially with José reading it himself.

There is nothing wrong with trying to find a social media platform that connects you with people who share similar values to you. This is not a desire for an echo chamber. It is desire for a community.

Lesson plan on deportations from the Zinn Ed Project www.zinnedproject.org/materials/de...

Deportations on Trial: Mexican Americans During the Great Depression

Students analyze who is to blame for the illegal mass deportations of Mexican Americans and immigrants during the Great Depression.

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Join us in Omaha this coming summer for the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference. The Call for Proposals is open. ptoweb.org/gatherings/c...

I can tell you about getting sick because my mother was anti vaxx though. Whooping cough at 12 that stuck around for 6 months and stopped me from doing things I loved. Getting mumps and being really sick on vacation. Dad got it from us too, and was scarily sick. None of that was necessary.

Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD@kmpanthagani.bsky.social · 2y ago

I would love to tell you about the times vaccines prevented me from getting sick, but every time it happens, I don’t notice. I just keep feeling well. Neither do you. Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.

A starter pack on Ethnic Studies Professors. Hit me up to add you to the pack.

Want to join of a community of Latinx/a/o Scholars broadly throughout academia? Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! Shout out to @larrylafountain.bsky.social for bringing us together! go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr

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Thanks for sharing more names to this starter pack. There are now 123 or so scholars who work on Latina/o/x studies included in this list. Please share and also send also send more recommendations of folks to include! ¡Entre más mejor! go.bsky.app/Rmi3sGW

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Starter pack of scholars whose work looks critically at schooling & efforts to interrupt the social reproduction of inequality through education in transformative ways (U.S. & global) - updated w/ requests (sorry if I missed your request - inundated with notifications today) go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ

We are almost at capacity in this starter pack! Everyone now left to be added will be added to Education Scholars Part II! If I didn’t add you to first one & you want to be added reply to to post! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/H3QkVDR