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Professor Emerita, University of Texas-San Antonio. Author of Sentipensante Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation.

San Antonio, TX
Joined June 2011
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
Last week ICE agents used restraints while detaining an eight year-old child when he showed up for a scheduled immigration appointment. There is no excuse for traumatizing a child and taking him away from his community and his classmates. ICE's brutal enforcement tactics have to stop. My colleagues and I are demanding answers on why he was detained and with such cruelty.
I'm calling for answers alongside the San Diego delegation and Senators Padilla and Schiff after an eight-year-old from Fay Elementary was taken into federal custody at an immigration check-in last week. Video footage appears to show the use of restraints on the child. This is INEXCUSABLE. No child should have to endure this kind of terror and trauma. He should be with his classmates and his community, NOT detained.
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
RFK Jr.’s worst nightmare… not just one, but two Democratic doctors in the senate 💅🏾
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
COLLINS: What do you say to those 11 Democrats who didn't show up to vote tonight? EL-SAYED: You should show up and do your job.
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
Quite the welcome to Washington for incoming Members of Congress.   The message couldn't be clearer: Americans are calling for an end to ICE's cruel and reckless tactics.
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
The new Republican House Minority Leader, Jim Jordan has never sponsored a bill that has been passed into law during his 20 years in Congress. This makes him one of the least effective members in Congress today.
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
Absolutely unacceptable that 11 House Dems just *missed* the vote to proceed with the impeachment of Pete Hegseth. What’s the point of being a Rep if you’re not gonna be there for stuff like this?
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No one can live on $7.25 an hour. First bill on my desk come January? Raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage.
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
Listen to this. And then listen again. And again. Until you get it.
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Republican Senator Joni Ernst just HAMMERED Pete Hegseth for deceiving Donald Trump. MAGA is completely fracturing in front of our eyes. Let’s go.
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
Lauren Boebert did a lot of terrible things as a member of Congress but at the top of that list is throwing away a pin honoring a victim of the Uvalde, school shooting seconds after she got it.
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
Please pray for Jacion. He’s ten, struck by a pickup truck at a crosswalk and thrown several feet. He has a fractured skull, broken femur, broken pelvis and is still in serious condition. God mends what the impact shatters. He is able! He is bigger! Thank you.
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
He is right. Time to face facts. End the parasitic behavior. Serve the American people
Listen to this. And then listen again. And again. Until you get it.
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
BREAKING: NO MERCY! Rep. Robert Garcia, incoming House Oversight Chairman, reveals a list of MAGA crooks that he's going to target — and it's a doozy. They can run, but they can't hide now... "On Susie Wiles, there's been a lot over the last several days questioning whether or not there was a pay-for-play, whether she was lobbying on behalf of special interest groups while acting as chief of staff," said a reporter. "Do you plan to investigate Susie Wiles and call her before the committee in the new majority?" "We're already looking at Susie Wiles," Garcia said bluntly. "First, let's go back to the Epstein investigation. You have Susie Wiles in the Situation Room with the Vice President, JD Vance, talking about Ghislaine Maxwell, trying to exonerate Donald Trump! Strategizing about how to continue the White House cover-up. And so we've already been looking at Susie Wiles. With all of this new information that's come out, it is incredibly serious." Wiles was, by all accounts, the true hidden power inside the Trump White House this term. She avoided public appearances and kept a low profile while pulling the strings inside the most corrupt, fascist administration in American history. The pay-for-play scandal has picked up steam since Wiles departed her role and was replaced by white nationalist Stephen Miller. She's accused of selling access to the Trump White House while simultaneously serving corporate interests in return for political donations. Her former firm, Ballard Partners, raked in a jaw-dropping $186 million in lobbying revenue during Trump's second term. That alone is worthy of a deep, well-funded investigation. On top of that, a former RFK Jr. adviser has claimed that Wiles blocked crucial healthcare reforms because the Republican Party wanted to keep raking in donations from sugar companies. At the same time, she was the core power nexus inside the White House. She likely had a broad awareness of all of the crimes and graft flowing through the Oval Office, even the schemes that she didn't have a direct hand in. If we can uncover criminal behavior on her part, it's possible we could flip her to expose all of the dirty laundry. "And so it's not just going to be Oversight, but I think you're going to see some action from some other committees, particularly as it relates to any sort of conversations that the former chief of staff was having around donors and money in exchange for policy choices," predicted Garcia. "I think it's very serious." "So just because you're no longer in the administration, whether your name is Susie Wiles, whether it's Kimberly Guilfoyle, whether it is Corey Lewandowski, whether it is Kristi Noem, you are being investigated, and there needs to be accountability in that space," he added. This is why we voted blue. Democrats have subpoena power come January and you can be damn sure we're going to use it. Accountability has come to Washington and soon MAGA will be coming to a prison near you! Please ❤️ and share if you support Garcia's efforts!
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
New digs.
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Q: Do you plan to investigate Susie Wiles? Garcia: We are already looking at Susie Wiles. Just because you’re no longer in the administration, whether your name is Susie Wiles, whether it’s Kimberly Guilfoyle, whether it’s Corey Lewandowski, whether it’s Kristi Noem, you are being investigated.
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THIS IS WHEN WE KNEW JAMES TALARICO WAS A SUPERSTAR. I just can't get enough of him — a gem for the Dems. Soft-spoken, surgical, and he doesn't let one lie get by him. Will Cain tried a gotcha on Fox News about gerrymandering. Talarico asked how many Republicans voted to ban it — Cain started scrambling, uh, uh, because the answer is ZERO. The Massachusetts map he cried about? Signed by a REPUBLICAN governor. Then the kill shot: if your policies are so popular, why do you have to redraw the maps? It's like changing the rules at halftime. Cain cut the interview short and blamed it on cable TV. He was getting destroyed and couldn't handle it anymore. Fox News, take note — Buttigieg, Raskin, Ossoff and Talarico destroy your talking points every single time. EVERYBODY KNOWS IT
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
NEW: A bill has been filed to deliver $1,500 checks to every Texas household, fulfilling Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa’s campaign proposal. The funds would come from the state’s $27 Billion Rainy Day Fund to put money in Texans’ pockets by the end of next year.
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There's gonna be a lot of people who weren't tapped into how bad Texas had gotten surprised by all the positive changes being made
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Governor-Elect Gina Hinojosa to stop private prisons from detaning children in Texas.
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Laura I Rendon retweeted
I’ve been saying it for a long time: Hegseth is the most unqualified Secretary of Defense this country has ever seen. He has screwed up at every turn and it’s making you less safe. He needs to go.
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Republicans didn’t have to choose between corrupting our government and making life more expensive for everybody. They did both, and we’re going to undo both.
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