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Carlos Cuéllar
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Political scientist turned assessment professional in higher ed. @UTRGV // views are my own!
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drewlandry.substack.com
I won’t forget what happened on #January6 and hope you won’t either.

open.substack.com/pub/drewland...
Remembering January 6 - The Outsider
My take on the fifth anniversary of the attack on the Capitol
open.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.

It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
January 3, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
I saw an academic unironically suggest that instead of assessing students’ understanding and competence through their writing of essays, arguments etc., we can assess the “quality” of their prompts, and I feel us slipping further and further into dystopia.
December 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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briankspears.bsky.social
I think the malicious compliance way to address this is to write everything in the syllabus in boilerplate language, quoting from official university documents where possible, and providing nothing but bland descriptions of the course content next to a potential reading list.
December 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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murshedz.bsky.social
Really appreciate @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social using his platform and also the power of the office he is going to inherit to put pressure on FIFA re crazy ticket prices. NYC has a big role here.

Would like to see similar moves from @mayor.lacity.gov, SF, Seattle and other mayors as well.
Mamdani post on X "A $60 "supporter ticket" for 1.6% of seats isn't enough. Not when FIFA just set the highest ticket prices in World Cup history. Thousands spoke up demanding that this be a tournament that New Yorkers can afford. Here's what we actually need: end dynamic pricing, cap resale prices, and set aside 15% of tickets for local fans at a discount. The beautiful game must be for everyone."
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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grudgie.bsky.social
This sums up Trump as well as anyone ever has
emilynussbaum.bsky.social Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 24d
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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normative.bsky.social
Obviously Trump’s comments were utterly vile. But it is a very strange set of moral values that allows one to cheerlead lawless thuggery, brutal punishment without process, constant lies, and outright murder—then blanch at cruel remarks about a director.
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
carloscuellar.bsky.social
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dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Nov 26
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
United States Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is seen wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and tan shoes. He's shaking hands with someone in a black outfit. A close up of his shoes show weird stitching on the side. They look like they're the first shoes ever made in history.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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robertkelchen.com
The Secretary of Education just appointed five new members to the powerful National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI)--the organization that approves accreditors. Expect NACIQI to play a major role over the next several years.

www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
Robert Eitel is the president of the Defense of Freedom Institute. He previously served as Deputy General Counsel at the Department in the George W. Bush Administration and served as a Senior Counselor at the Department in the first Trump Administration. Eitel also held the role of the Department’s regulatory reform officer and was involved in several efforts concerning Title IX and the Higher Education Act. Joshua Figueira is the Deputy General Counsel and Managing Director of the Office of Compliance, Risk, and Legal Affairs at Brigham Young University - Idaho. Previously, he clerked at the U.S. District Court for the district of Utah and was an associate at a Utah law firm, specifically working in the First Amendment and Religious Organizations Practice Group. Dr. Jay Greene is a Senior Research Fellow for the Center of Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation. His research focuses on the effects of education on character formation and civic values; he also has covered a wide range of topics, from private school choice programs to the effects field trips have on students. Before he came to Heritage, Dr. Greene founded, and served as the Chair of, the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Steven Taylor is a policy director and Senior Fellow in Economic Mobility at Stand Together Trust. There, he works to educate policymakers on reforms that empower individuals to develop and leverage their skills to pursue meaningful careers and contribute to society. Dr. Taylor previously worked at the American Council on Education and founded ED2WORK®. In 2024, Governor Youngkin appointed Taylor to a four-year term on the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Commonwealth’s coordinating agency for higher education. Emilee Reynolds is currently a student at Western Carolina University (WCU)...
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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jasonkirk.fyi
Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 21
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
carloscuellar.bsky.social
Thanks!
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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jshelat1.bsky.social
Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you

wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
Generic Syllabus Maker
wcaleb.rice.edu
July 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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lilymasonphd.bsky.social
Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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pomurray.bsky.social
Breaking News! MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the practices of the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/b...
MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe
MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know.”
September 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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dcinbox.bsky.social
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
September 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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jamellebouie.net
have to say that i liked this one quite a bit
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 10
wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america
Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Liberals say the Supreme Court had destroyed our democracy. They're wrong—it has destroyed our Republic.
September 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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schaller67.bsky.social
Trump-loving, socialism-hating farmers demand socialist bailouts.

You can’t make this shit up.
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Sep 6
FAFO -
Hundreds of Arkansas farmers are begging for a bailout since Trumps tariffs and policies have destroyed their business
September 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
carloscuellar.bsky.social
I can’t imagine having to demonstrate compliance with a “viewpoint diversity” standard.
September 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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andrew-whitehead.bsky.social
The NY Times says this administration considers diversity "taboo."

A healthy democracy includes a robust appreciation f/ diversity & widespread civic participation.

Research from the last 10+ years shows Christian nationalism threatens democracy in at least 3 ways:

kettering.org/how-christia...
How Christian Nationalism Weakens Democracy and What Can Be Done about It
Social scientific research provides evidence of how Christian nationalism and, by extension, initiatives like Project 2025 pose a threat to any pluralistic, democratic society.
kettering.org
August 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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darinself.com
Its pretty stark to watch mass media focus the gerrymandering conflict on California -- despite it being in reaction to Texas.

California is seeking voter approval, while Texas is coercing Democrats to provide a quorum.

But California is the problem here.
August 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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electproject.bsky.social
A short history of mail balloting 🧵
August 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM