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Dave Mazella

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ok, got it, fine. eighteenth-century scholar baking away in Heatstroke, TX. none of the opinions expressed here, good or bad, should be ascribed to my employer, whoever that may be. let's see how this goes.

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · Mar 3

I'm going to use bluesky as a sketchpad, to get thoughts down on the current state of the game in higher ed. I'm going to list some things that put us here, and try provisionally to offer ways out (not solutions).

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 41m

Oh ok I’ll add toleration of fraud as another thing that’s supercharged everything dangerous in US History

Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 44m

So is joy

Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 48m

Jim Crow is one obvious source for this, since one definition of racism is “lies you can tell about people without social cost.”

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 53m

Republican lying has a long history but the acceptance of police & prosecutorial lying about crime has been just as destructive

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 17h

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 17h

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

i’d day this nails the South as well

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 22h

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 1h

It’s interesting ie depressing how isolated MTG is from Republicans who will all be facing the same electoral math

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 3h

Here is why MTG is for extending the enhanced premium tax credits (EPTCs) for ACA marketplace plans.

In her district, GA14

there are 78,000 on ACA plans
74,000 receiving subsidies
the average increase in premiums would be 85%
for a 60-yr-old on a silver plan: 246%
www.kff.org/affordable-c...

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 2h

“Their strategy is to play divide and conquer, rewarding friends and brutally punishing opponents. They win when society cracks, creating a self-enforcing set of expectations, in which everyone shuts up and complies because everyone expects everyone else to shut up and comply, too.” - excellent

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 1h

Spotted my future in the wild! #spookyseason

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1h

No university that signs the compact will be a university, in the accepted sense, anymore. They will be mere Trump Institutes, teaching only what subjects Trump doesn't bar them from teaching -- and only until he does. Signing is an abdication of responsibility and an act of great moral cowardice.

Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience

Guest Columnist Benjamin Nathans urges Penn’s leadership to resist the White House’s demands in its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

www.thedp.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 1h

Mermaids can’t dance the Charleston

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10h

Guy filming himself poorly on his own phone: I think the first thing we’re showing is how we’ve mastered all technology

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 10h

Don’t forget 4) segregation academy

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 12h

Joseph Cornell, American artist and film maker, and one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage.

Untitled (Tamara Toumanova), ca. 1940
(collage with tempera on paperboard)

#JosephCornell #Surrealism #Collage

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 11h

Confirmed

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 23h

It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 11h

What they don’t know is that it’s Clint Eastwood in the frog suit

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 3d

ah another day at the piece of shit factory

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 11h

His printout would be a flat black line

Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 11h

it would be nice

Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 11h

thanks!

Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 11h

Please let us know when!

Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 11h

Needed this

Lady Wildfire @ladywildfella.bsky.social · 13h

Timeline cleanse...
If you've never heard elephants sing
youtube.com/shorts/eukHg...

When they start Singing 😭❤️‍🩹 Merci @pairidaizaofficial pour l’accueil 🫶

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 12h

McGrath, Allred, all the Tx governor candidates since Beto, these have been expensive mistakes

Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 12h

Are you coming to UH or Rice?

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 15h

Can’t wait to celebrate Kim Hall’s new book!!

ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 1d

And join us for the virtual launch on October 30th at 6:30pm with luminaries Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan!!! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...

The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura

bcrw.barnard.edu

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