Christopher Martell
@chriscmartell
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Teacher Educator & Researcher, Associate Professor of Social Studies Ed @UMassBoston; BPS Parent; Author of https://t.co/tgQllxAy4B; Editor of https://t.co/aijZWiE1bH
Dorchester, Boston
Joined August 2013
My main social media site is Bluesky. Let's follow each other there! https://t.co/7VqlgGzWoA I cross-post to Twitter/Threads for those of you still there (no longer spend time scrolling, replying, or liking things; no need to generate more revenue for those terrible oligarchs).
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This is ridiculous. 🤦‍♂️ (Also, I proudly work at an MSI.)
insidehighered.com
The decision comes after the Department of Education asked the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel to review the legality of a number of programs they said used racial “quotas.”
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This. All of this. Many of us were Cassandras and they let a Trojan horse into the presidency (twice!). We are very very close to ending up like Troy.
newrepublic.com
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
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Historian here. Not only is much of this wall wildly historically inaccurate, but it is just plain petty.
nytimes.com
The White House unveiled plaques near the Oval Office that describe U.S. presidents with varying levels of accuracy, depending on President Trump’s opinion of them.
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Attempts to ban DEI programs are unjust, anti-democratic, and un-American; teachers should approach it as such. My latest post. #sschat
https://t.co/YyOksFNjew
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If only we had a way to stop the spread of measles? (Parents, please vaccinate your children-not only for them, but for those who cannot be vaccinated; vaccines are proven to be safe and effective).
theatlantic.com
Most cases are mild, obscuring the disease’s worst outcomes.
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Glad that a large majority of Americans understand that racial profiling, kidnapping people, and a government run by white Christian nationalists is a bad thing. But, we have so much more work to do (especially in the coming years) to save U.S. democracy.
newrepublic.com
As this week’s brutal GOP election losses show Latinos shifting hard against Trump and the GOP, the author of a piece on Trump’s agenda of ethnic persecution explains why naked bigotry is also...
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This is long overdue! Boston's voc-tech school should have a building that is a national model to match the students and teachers there.
bostonglobe.com
Boston is likely to get hundreds of millions of dollars from the state for what could be the most expensive school project in Massachusetts history.
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Related, Boston voters overwhelmingly support a return to an elected school committee (the mayor has blocked). We're the only municipality in Massachusetts without one, which allows decisions like these to be made without accountability to the community.
wbur.org
Although Boston in 2021 voted overwhelmingly to restore an elected school committee, signs of a slowdown have frustrated some advocates and city council members, who say they will continue to push...
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Boston Public Schools has decided to close several schools. If you are a BPS parent, teacher, or community member, consider signing this Boston Education Justice Alliance letter asking for transparency and more input from the affected school communities.
docs.google.com
Use this form to sign on in support of BEJA's statement re: the BPS plan to close and/or merge several schools , with a viote scheduled at Boston School Committee on 12/17/2025. Statement available...
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Whenever I see an ICE ad on social media, I report it as "illegal product or services."
pbs.org
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforcement.
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This is just more evidence that Trump and has admistration has obviously violated international law. And, like any other country, the ICC must eventually prosecute them.
reuters.com
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump...
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Similar to the GOP's obsession with restoring Confederate statues and other monuments to racism. Narratives matter. They tell us who were are as a nation. In this case, erase the Black freedom struggle and replace it with white Christian nationalism.
time.com
The move to restore Confederate names to memorials and military bases implicitly honors a perilous style of governance.
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"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." -James Baldwin
washingtonpost.com
Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”
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The Democratic Party (and frankly our democracy) will go extinct if they do not start talking about economic fairness.
theguardian.com
RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats – and Gaza stance did not help
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Meanwhile, the Secretary of State thinks a font is too woke (because it is better for people with accessibility issues)... 🤦‍♂️
nytimes.com
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.
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