Estelle R. Jorgensen

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · 24d

From Inside Higher Ed:

Indiana Censors Newspaper, Fires Adviser

Indiana University officials demanded a student newspaper not print news in its homecoming edition, then fired an adviser who objected to censorship demands.

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Indiana Censors Newspaper, Fires Adviser

Indiana University officials demanded a student newspaper not print news in its homecoming edition, then fired an adviser who objected to censorship demands.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Opinion | Trump Is Ruling by Willful Blindness

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Aug 18

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The decline in long-form reading and thinking is already manifest in doctoral programs where students no longer read “whole books” and extended arguments. This author portrays a “post rational age” and its dire consequences for societies already in evidence.

Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Aug 7

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o... Good to know that some professors and their students are resisting the uncritical use of AI and keeping the “humane” in the humanities.

Opinion | These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Jun 14

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS! National Day of Mobilization Hyannis” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

NO KINGS! National Day of Mobilization Hyannis · Mobilize

We the people say NO KINGS! National, peaceful day of defiance We are the many, they are the few. Date: Saturday, June 14th Time: 4:00PM-5:30PM Location: Hyannis Airport Rotary (details about parki...

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · May 3

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Where is the great anti-Trump protest song?

Once a staple of pop music, protest songs are harder to find these days. But political statements aren’t

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Apr 15

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u.... A crucial move on behalf of academic freedom that should stiffen the spine of educational institutions.

Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump Is ‘of Momentous Significance’

But a fight with the nation’s oldest, richest and most elite university is a battle that President Trump and his powerful aide, Stephen Miller, want to have.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Apr 2

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o... A chilling picture of the current US regime.

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.

Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Mar 30

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My plan for the next four years

Podcast 95 - "Life is good once you master the art of Deletion."

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Mar 17

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u... The lawlessness of the Trump administration continues.

Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Mar 8

Multistate lawsuit seeks to reverse Trump admin purge of federal workers - The Washington Post The cruelty and chaos engendered by mass layoffs, firings, and terminations from the federal workforce is now being resisted by state attorneys general. This is a welcome development.

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Mar 1

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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Mar 1

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/a... Christian Tetzlaff’s principled decision to oppose Trump’s policies by canceling his US concerts highlights the tragedy unfolding in the country and the relative “quietness” of cultural subversion in the country.

The Violinist Christian Tetzlaff’s Tactic to Oppose Trump’s Agenda: Cancel Concerts

Christian Tetzlaff said he was disturbed by the president’s embrace of Russia and other policies. “There seems to be a quietness or denial about what’s going on,” he said.

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Secretoriginz @secretoriginz.bsky.social · Feb 26

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 25

It is almost subversive now to insist that one’s teaching and learning constitutes a “technology-free” and entirely human process. Music offers the possibility of a wonderful break from the constant technology and allows people to interact entirely personally with voices and acoustic instruments.

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 23

Ifill’s observation is important. Four star heads of the Coast Guard, Army, and Navy—two women and a black man regarded as DEI hires were fired and an unqualified retired three star general was nominated as Chair of the Joint Chiefs. A shameful politicization of the armed forces leadership.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Feb 22

A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 16

Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
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Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy

Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 14

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o... Beyond Trump’s desire to control the arts, is his dismissal of the importance of academic scholarship and federal influence in education more broadly.

Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts

The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 13

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How not to describe the Trump presidency

Friends,

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 13

Tragic to think of past European allies needing to make a statement in defense against Trump and Putin.

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 11

sarasotaorchestra.prospect2.com/index.php?ac.... A new music center built specifically for acoustic instruments is being planned for the Sarasota Orchestra, thanks to a generous gift of $60 million USD. This center will serve musical and educational needs in Sarasota and West Coast Florida.

Music Center Update: February 2025

We're celebrating a...

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 10

open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... This comedic post illustrates the problem for the Kennedy Center and the nation.

Trump Names Himself Principal Ballerina of Kennedy Center Ballet

Trump took to Truth Social to announce a purge of the company's ballerinas.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 9

The notion of Trump chairing the board of the Kennedy Center is preposterous and should be strenuously opposed by the board, musicians and artists, and the public. The mind boggles at the thought of POTUS opining on anything artistic from the depths of his ignorance.

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 8

Masha Gessen marshals five powerful arguments that lead people to obey in advance, and one even more powerful argument not to obey. The choice for musicians and educators today who are lovers of liberty needs to be “not to obey” and to subvert or oppose.

Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 8

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Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey

The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 7

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... The inhumanity and illegality of this American coup is shameful. Musk and his minions (and their enablers) are destroying the country, its government, its security, and its reputation.

The Dictatorship of the Engineer

The right claims to loathe technocracy—but it has empowered Elon Musk to remake the government.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 6

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International music education journal published by Jacobs School of Music and IU Press changes editorship - Indiana University Press

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – After more than three decades, the editorship of the Philosophy of Music Education Review, the premier refereed

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 5

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The notion of “state capture” describes how oligarchy is working in the US, much as a hostile takeover in the corporate world.

Opinion | Musk? Trump? Who Exactly Is Running the Federal Government?

What should be an uncomplicated question yields a complicated answer.

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Estelle R. Jorgensen @ejorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 5

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Timothy Snyder is an important voice illumining our American notion of tyranny and reminding us that it is happening here.

Decapitation Strike

Preserving America from Trump's Appointments

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