Nutty professor who once threatened Post reporter with machete runs ‘speakeasy’ tattoo parlor — inking communist-inspired art

The deranged ex-CUNY professor who once held a machete to a Post reporter’s neck is now running a “speakeasy tattoo parlor” where she inks communist-inspired body art on her radical customers. Shellyne Rodriguez, 46, who was fired from Hunter College in 2023 shortly after being filmed menacing Post reporter Reuven Fenton with a machete and threatening to “chop him up,” has found a new calling as a tattoo artist. The Instagram for the business, called Comrade Comadre, bills it as a “speakeasy tattoo parlor and community library.” The account is filled with images of radical tattoo designs — including Soviet-inspired...