Dave Mazella

Re-Upping this announcement for a Faux Faculty Senate Happy Hour this Thursday at Mimo's. Details attached.

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

More like WHY the hell is SharePoint

Also out, there's more po-faced surreal drama from Jason, the Wes Anderson of comics. Death In Trieste (Fantagraphics) is another tour of European locations and cultural mash-ups taking in the likes of David Bowie and Rasputin.

Reflections on Flower Bouquet in the Polished Mirror 品花寶鑑 (1849) | kmichaelwilson Get more from kmichaelwilson on Patreon

though Flower Bouquet in the Polished Mirror 品花寶鑑 (1849) is not, as is sometimes claimed, an "ancient gay encyclopedia," it is one of the greatest queer novels of the nineteenth century, and it still does not have an English-language wikipedia entry

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Texas once feared a phantom federal occupation. Now Gov. Abbott’s troops are helping carry it out under Trump. And Houston may be next, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board. bit.ly/48Q3D5C

A screaming head modeled in wax, surrounded by demons and stylized flames

Good morning!

[Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, A Soul in Hell, 1670-1700, Wax, 11.5 cm x 10 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)]

Behind the scenes image from one of the Hellraiser movies showing Clive Barker in street clothes holding the Lament Configuration and surrounded by the cenobites in costume

when you have that one friend who didn't pick up a subculture with everyone else but you're still cool

This is lovely. "...hustlers and prettyboys; rakehells and wastrels; idlers and spongers; serving boys and confidence men, all packed together like scales on a fish."

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico.

Higher Ed Sounds Off on Proposed Compact

The sector has overwhelmingly panned Trump’s plan to give preferential treatment to universities that commit to his policies. So have some conservative leaders. https://bit.ly/3KXjF3F

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Excellent analysis of what the US Supreme Court has done and might do. Are they providing the appearance of normal law in order to disguise the authoritarianism driving the executive branch? That's the logic of the dual state.

The collective action that thee nine universities need to take is to unequivocally reject the compact.

Danielle Allen, who is a wonderful and thoughtful person, seems to be imagining possibilities for good faith negotiations here that plainly do not exist. The government does not share her goal.

college prof here: the mechanics of news publishing are fascinating to students who've never thought about where it comes from and who produces it. Personal stories, anecdotes, very recent examples of failure generally work well with this audience.

Large conversation piece of grand tourists (the asses of the title) in a ballroom hung with green silk wallpaper and portraits. Chequeboard marble floor in brown, white and black. Patch has depicted himself at the right, brandishing his palette and brush, astride a life-sized sculpture of a golden ass. In the foreground, a dog plays on the edge of collection of silver and silver gilt vessels placed on the marble floor. The picture is in the reading room at the Lewis Walpole.

Thomas Patch, The Golden Asses (1761), Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, Conn. #c18th #c18 #18thc

It's cool that being totally full of shit can now make you as rich as you used to only get by militarily conquering half a continent.

If Dems win in 2026, we need hearings to publicize the abuses by federal law enforcement. Then pass a bill creating a path to sue for those abuses. Trump will veto it. Let him. Let the public see these videos & hear from victims, & then learn there's no way to hold the abusive officers accountable.

The Crisis in Uniform: The Danger of Presidential Immunity for the U.S. Military Military personnel are increasingly aware that they may be asked to prioritize loyalty to an individual over their rights and responsibilities

Maj. Gen. Steven Lepper (Ret.) & leading military justice expert Gene Fidell:

“Every military leader… must understand that the law is still the law, even if the Court is willing to exempt the president from its consequences.”

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#JAG #MilitaryJustice

YouTube video by GrabMore David Bowie's lost 1973 Top of the Pops performance of The Jean Genie

October 6, 1972

David Bowie recorded “The Jean Genie” at New York City’s RCA Studios. The energetic track became the lead single from his 1973 album, Aladdin Sane.

#ClassicRock
#RockNRoll
#ClassicVinyl
#MusicSky

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this is likely to be true of every consultant hired right now, and is especially true of how federal ED is operating too

This guy is bonkers but a 3 way race might be good for Dems

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

This Abbott guy sucks, man

"All universities have to do now is do nothing—no accepting the compact, no counter-offers, nothing—and the government will be left with no more power to coerce and control the First Amendment-protected activities of major American universities than it has today." balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Goddamn, this is great. The part at the end — you’ll know it when you see it — made me laugh so hard that I startled the dogs.

They are called writers

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

oh wow, agentic AI is a lot closer to real usability than I've ever seen before

Hope y’all know that if Trump ever sends the National Guard to Baltimore, I’ll be bringing my crab suit to the function 🦀

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon